YIBS 1998-1999 Annual Report

V. SPONSORED PROGRAMS AND SEMINARS

A. Society for Conservation Biology Seminar Series

February 25, 1999 – Dr. Chris Raxworthy, Professor of Ecology, University of Kansas – Herpetological diversity and conservation in Madagascar

April 2, 1999 – Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant, Professors of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University – Biological Conservation in the Galapagos

April 15, 1999 – Dr. Daniel Simberloff, Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee at Knoxille – Charactger release in the small Indian mongoose, and ecological villain

 

April 22, 1999 – Dr. David Ehrenfeld, Professor of Ecology and Natural Resources, Cook College, Rutgers University – War and Peace and Conservation Biology

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B. Invasive Species Conference

February 27, 1999 – Greater New England Symposium on the Ecology of Invasive Species - at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

 

Presentations, posters, and discussion of current scientific research on invasive animals and plants of the New England region.

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C: Global Change Policy Project

Support of the following list of activities and publications for the Global Change Policy Project, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy:

Meyerson, F.A.B., Population and Climate Change Policy, book chapter in Schneider, S., A. Rosencranz, edsl, A Climate Policy Primer

Meyerson, F.A.B., Global Population Growth and the Future: Why the U.S. Should Care, Congressional Briefing, 2200 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., March 9, 1999. (with John Haaga, Ph.D., Population Reference Bureau, sponsored by the office of Congressman Tom Campbell)

Meyerson, F.A.B., Population and Global Warming Policy Options, Population-Environment Forum, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, D.C., January 25, 1999. (with Stuart Gaffin, Ph.D., Environmental Defense Fund, and Robert Engelman, Population Action International)

 

On May 19-23, 1999, Fredrick Meyerson represented the Project and Center at the Brazil-US Aspen Global Forum on Carbon Emission Reductions, the third in a series of meetings of representatives of 40 key United States and Brazilian governmental, NGO and academic entities, including the United States State Department, EPA, UNDP, WRI, EDF, Enron, General Motors, Toyota, Champion, and parallel Brazilian organizations.

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VI. COURSES

Studies in the Environment 199a/F&ES 199a, Introduction to Environmental Studies

Studies in the Environment 205bg/EEB 155b/MCDB 150bg, Global Problems of Population Growth

Studies in the Environment 286b/MCDB 255b, Functioning of Plants in Agriculture and Ecosystems

Studies in the Environment 466b, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Managing Earth and Its Resources

Studies in the Environment 469a, Senior Research Project and Colloquium

VII. MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY COUNCIL

Karl K. Turekian
Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

D. Allan Bromley
Dean of Engineering

Richard Burger
Director and Curator, Peabody Museum of Natural History
Professor, Department of Anthropology

Menachem Elimelech
Professor, Environmental and Chemical Engineering

Mary Helen Goldsmith
Chair, Studies in the Environment
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Pierre Hohenberg
Deputy Provost, Science and Technology

Michael Merson
Dean, Public Health
Chair and Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

L. Nicholas Ornston
Director, Center for Biological Transformation
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Jeffrey Powell
Chair, Program in Organismal Biology
Professor and DUS, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Gustav Ranis
Director, Center for International and Area Studies
Professor, International Economics

Danny Rye
Chair, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Oswald Schmitz
Director, Center for Computational Ecology
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Ronald Smith
Director, Center for Earth Observation
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

William Smith
Acting Dean, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Michael Snyder
Chair, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

J. Rimas Vaisnys
Professor, Electrical Engineering

Elisabeth Vrba
Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Günter Wagner
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Robert Wyman
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

VIII. MEMBERS OF THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD

Edward P. Bass, Chair
Fort Worth, Texas

Edward A. Adelberg
New Haven, Connecticut

Frances Beinecke
New York, New York

John Bermingham
Denver, Colorado

Wallace Broecker (Appointed in May, 1999)
Palisades, New York

Coleman P. Burke
New York, New York

William J. Cronon
Madison, Wisconsin

Duane Dickson
Danbury, Connecticut

Strachan Donnelley
Garrison, New York

Michael J. Donoghue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

W. Daniel Hillis
Glendale, California

A. Donald Hudson
Marion, Massachusetts

Thomas E. Lovejoy
Washington, D.C.

George G. Montgomery, Jr.
San Francisco, California

Michael J. Novacek
New York, New York

Nicholas Pappas
Wilmington, Delaware

William K. Reilly
San Francisco, California

Ralph C. Schmidt
New York, New York

Nelson S. Talbott
Cleveland, Ohio