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Fall '01

Brian Connor
U.S. Department of Energy
Acting Director, Philadelphia Regional Office
Title: Research, Development, and Deployment: U.S. Clean Energy Technologies

Barbara Sexton
Executive Deputy Secretary for Policy and Communications
PA Department of Environmental Protection
Title: Growing Greener: The Power of Positive Change

Gilman D. Veith
U.S. EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
Title:Science and Sustainable Practice

Celestial Catastrophies in Human Prehistory
Penn Co-sponsors: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Center for Ancient Studies
Title: Celestial Catastrophes in Human Prehistory

Bill Belanger
U.S. EPA, Air Protection Division
Title: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! The Radon Issue

Carol Collier
Executive Director, Delaware River Basin Commission
Title: Goal-Based Watershed Management: Strategies for Managing Water Resources across Boundaries

Bill Marrazzo
President, WHYY
Title: Performance Beyond Benchmarks: Trends in the Nation's Water Industry

Joseph Minott
Clean Air Council
Title: Environmental Issues and Electric Generation Restructuring

Kenneth Foster
University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Title: The Precautionary Principle: Commonsense or the Devil's Handiwork?

Scott Cassel
Product Stewardship Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Title: Moving Mountains: Shifting Responsibility for Managing Consumer Products



Academic Year '00-'01

Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Information Regulation: Does Anyone Pay Attention?

Izak Maitin
N.J. Department of Environmental Protection
Anthony Kahaly
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Title: Managing Data Electronically: The Future for Environmental Management

John C. Dernback
School of Law, Widener University
Title: Sustainable Development: What it is and Why it Matters

John Randolph
Schuylkill River Development Council
Title: Update on the Tidal Schuylkill Master Plan

Delia Oppo
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title: Millennial Scale Climate Variability in the North Atlantic

Thomas R. Stauffer
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Title: Qaddhafi's Man-Made River: The Environmental-Economic Analysis

Philip Rea
Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Plant Vacuoles as Intracellular Landfills: Detoxification by Sequestration

W. John Smith
Departments of Biology and Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Improving the Accuracy of Bird Censuses

Explosive Volcanism in Human History: Environmental Crises- Past and Future?
Co-Sponsored with the the Center for Ancient Studies and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Title: Explosive Volcanism in Human History: Environmental Crises

James R. Spotila
School of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Policy , Drexel University
Title: Greening of the Green: The Army and the Desert Tortoise

Cindy Lee Van Dover
Department of Biology, College of William & Mary
Title: Extreme Biodiversity: Species Richness at Deep-Sea Hot Spots (Hydrothermal Vents)

Laela Sayigh
Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Title: Current Issues Affecting Marine Mammal Conservation

Special Panel on Water Management Co-Sponsored with the Department of Systems Engineering
Walter A. Lyon, Chair
Department of Systems Engineering

Susan K. Lior
Philadelphia Deputy Water Commissioner for
Information Science and Technology Water and Infrastructure

Carol Collier
Delaware River Basin Commission Water, Governance, Boundaries and Politics

Robert Traver
Villanova University, Water and Land
Title: Special Panel on Water Management

Howard Neukrug
Philadelphia Water Department
Title: Re-engineering Philadelphia's Urban Watersheds: Clean Water, Green City

Eric W. Orts
Environmental Management Program Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Environmental Contracts in Social Theory

Kyle Zieba & Theresa Martella
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III Chesapeake Bay Program
Title: Trends & Solutions to Unsustainable Land Use Practices In the Mid Atlantic Region

Clinton J. Andrews
Edward J. Bloustein School, Rutgers University
Title: What We've Learned from Comparative Risk Projects

Henry Darwin Rogers (lecture) Tullis C. Onstott
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Title: Life in the Extreme Environment of the Deep Subsurface

Rob Van der Voo
2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored with The Franklin Institute and The Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Title: The Dynamic Earth and its history of continental collisions and break-ups



Academic Year '99-'00

Walter Lyon
University of Pennsylvania Former Pennsylvania Water Pollution Control Administrator
Title: American Water Institutions: Accomplishments and Obsolescence - Are We Ready for the Next Millennium?

Ed Grusheski
Philadelphia Water Department, Public Affairs Division
Title: Urban Watershed Education on the Schuylkill: The Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center

Cully Hession
Patrick Center for Environmental Research, The Academy of Natural Sciences
Title: Urban Runoff Effects on Stream Morphology and Aquatic Habitat

Flooding the Black Sea; Noah and Early Agriculture?
Co-sponsors: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Center for Ancient Studies
Title: Flooding the Black Sea: Noah and Early Agriculture?

Rosina Bierbaum
Office of Science & Technology Policy, Washington, D.C.
Title: Preparing for an Uncertain Future: Laying the Groundwork for Decisions on Climate Change Adaptation

Michael Rampino
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York University
Title: Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?

Denise Breitburg
The Academy of Natural Sciences, Estuarine Research Center
Title: From Ecology to Economics: Incorporating Ecological Complexity to Understand Effects of Multiple Stressors on a Coastal System

Kelman Wieder
Villanova University, Department of Biology
Title: How Important are Boreal Peatlands to Past, Present, andFuture Global Carbon Cycling?

Paul Freeman
International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses
Co-sponsor: Public Policy and Management Department, Wharton School
Title: Managing Natural Catastrophe Risk in Developing Countries

Rosemary Sokas
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Title: Who's on First? When is Secondary Prevention Primary?

Andrew King
Stern School of Business, New York University
Co-sponsor: Public Policy and Management Department, Wharton School
Title: Industry Self Regulation without Sanctions: The Chemical Industry's Responsible Care Program

Lawrence M. Schell
Departments of Anthropology and Epidemiology, State Univ of New York at Albany
Title: Toxicants and Child Development: PCBs and Lead

Seema Arora
Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
Co-sponsor: Wharton Environmental Management Program
Title: Green and Competitive: Evidence on Environmental and Stock Market Performance

Ellen K. Silbergeld
Program for Human Health and the Environment, University of Maryland
Title: Mercury & Malaria: Interactions between an immunotoxic metal and host resistance to infectious disease

Thomas Bott
Stroud Water Resource Center
Title: Microbial Food Web and Transfer of Toxicants in Sediment Communities

Clark L. Erickson
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Natural Environment of the Bolivian Amazon: An Archaeological Perspective

Roger Latham
Department of Biology, Swarthmore College
Title: Restoration Ecology of Serpentine Grasslands: Saving Rare Ecosystems that are disappearing from LACK of Disturbance

Michael Balick
Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden
Title: Ancient Wisdom & Modern Medicine: The Search for New Therapies in the Tropical Rain Forest

HENRY DARWIN ROGERS LECTURE - Kirk Johnson
Denver Museum of Natural History
Co-sponsor: Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Title: Monkey Puzzles and Parking Lots: Reconstructing the Dinosaur Landscape

Eville Gorham
Dept. of Ecology, Evolution/Behavior, University of Minnesota
Co-sponsor: The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Title: Scientific Understanding of Ecosystem Acidification from the 18th to the 20th Century

IMPACT CRATERS IN EARTH HISTORY: Environmental Crisis - Past and Future?
University Museum
Co-sponsors: Center for Ancient Studies, Institute for Environmental Studies, and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Title: Green and Competitive: Evidence on Environmental and Stock Market Performance