Bass Connections at the Nicholas School Orientation
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Kyle Bradbury, Wendy Walker
Rebuilding Disturbed Landscapes: Landform Evolution Modelling at Annual to Millennial Time Scales
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, September 05, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Greg Hancock - Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
The Jevons Paradox: Why increasing the energy efficiency of the economy is accelerating global climate change
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, September 12, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tim Garrett - Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah
14th Annual Neuse Riverkeeper Sprint Triathlon
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Marine Lab
Saturday, September 13, 2014
10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Duke University Marine Lab Info Session & Meet deep-sea biologist, Dr. Cindy Van Dover
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Marine Lab
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
See description
Panel on Emerging Environmental Policy Issues in China
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events, Provost's Office, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Friday, September 19, 2014
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Weathering, fractures, and water: Geophysics in the Critical Zone
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, September 19, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Steve Holbrook, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyoming
Marsh Equilibrium Theory: The biogeophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks that maintain the ecosystem in a bounded steady state
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
10:00 am - 11:00 am
James Morris
Evaluation of preindustrial to present-day black carbon and its albedo forcing in ACCMIP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project)
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, September 26, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Yunha Lee, Visiting Scholar, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Duke University
Environmental Economics and Christian Ethics
Thursday, October 02, 2014
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
Gendered knowledge in community based adaptation: Illustrations from Tanzania
Friday, October 03, 2014
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Dr. E. Edna Wangui
Representing the United States in International Negotiations
Friday, October 17, 2014
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Phil Duffy
The Secret Gardener: Emergent Biogeomorphic Patterns in Tidal Environments
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, October 17, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Marco Marani, Professor, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Duke University
America's Dirty Secret: Living Amongst Raw Sewage
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Friday, October 24, 2014
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Catherine Coleman Flowers
New Fossil Discoveries From the Panama Canal: Evidence for Mammalian Dispersal Across the Central American Seaway in the early Miocene
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, October 24, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jonathan Bloch, Professor, University of Florida
Book Discussion/Signing
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Thursday, October 30, 2014
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Carolyn Finney, UC-Berkeley
Tackling Temporal Tradeoffs in Energy Efficiency
Friday, October 31, 2014
10:00 am - 11:30 am
David Hardisty
Understanding Population in human-environment relationships: science shaped by world views or evidence
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, October 31, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Billie Turner, Professor of Environment and Society, Arizona State University
Marine Conservation Summer Institute
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Marine Lab
Thursday, November 06, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A theory for polar amplification from a general circulation perspective
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, November 14, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sukyong Lee, Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University
African Conflicts: The Environmental Dimensions
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Bass Connections, Bass Connections-Energy, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Monday, November 17, 2014
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Mike Cowing
Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models: Mechanisms and Constraints
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, November 21, 2014
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Minghua Zhang, Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
On the two phases of global warming hiatus
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, January 09, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ka-Kit Tung
The Cenozoic topographic and climatic evolution of the western United States - complete with caveats
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, January 23, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Page Chamberlain
Microbes, carbon, and climate change along the river-ocean continuum of the Amazon
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, January 30, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Patricia Yager
Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Friday, January 30, 2015
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
See description
The Nature Cure: What do we know about the health benefits of urban green space?
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
10:00 am - 11:20 am
David Schwartz, Ph.D., Environmental Psychologist
Amazonian Garden Cities: Archaeologies of the Brazilian Future
Sponsor(s):
Humanities Labs@FHI, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Thursday, February 05, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Michael Heckenberger
Amazonian Garden Cities: Archaeologies of the Brazilian Future
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Thursday, February 05, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Michael Heckenberger
What are climate models good for?
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, February 06, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Gavin Schmidt
DukeENVENT Networking Event
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Landscapes on the edge: Why the threshold of sediment motion is everything, and defining it is impossible
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, February 27, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Doug Jerolmack
POSTPONED to 3/2: Spring 2015 Seminar Series: Kate Neville
Monday, March 02, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
American Catch -- The Fight for Our Local Seafood
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Monday, March 02, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Paul Greenberg, James Beard Award winning bestseller Four Fish and American Catch
Laws that Learn: Adaptive Regulation of Pharmaceuticals
Sponsor(s):
Law School, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Friday, March 06, 2015
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Applications of the WRF-Hydro modeling system for multi-scale water cycle predictions from small catchments to the CONUS
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, March 20, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
David Gochis
KEDGE Conservation 2nd Annual Goat Roast & Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC), and Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Saturday, March 21, 2015
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Off-campus
Meet the Author - Wallace J Nichols
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Sunday, March 22, 2015
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Wallace J Nichols
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