webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events

The Transformation of Chile

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michelle Bachelet - President of Chile) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800

President Michelle Bachelet will discuss the current challenges Chile faces and what the new Chile-California agreement means for her country.

Moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken

Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Addressing Global Hunger & Poverty through Agricultural Development

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

An expert panel and public forum that will address the critical issues of agricultural development in Africa and South Asia will discuss the challenges and opportunities to improve the lives of smallholder farmers and their families. Presented by The College of Natural Resources and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

California's natural resources, economy, demographics and political system have made it a unique laboratory for environmental policy over the past half century. As a result, California has often led both the nation and the world in recognizing environmental challenges, and in fashioning creative and effective solutions to them.

This conference will bring together leading environmental policymakers, scholars and legal practitioners to address California's current and future role at the forefront of environmental law and policy development. In the process, speakers will map for conference attendees California?s environmental policy agenda for the coming decades. That agenda, in turn, has broad ramifications, inasmuch as California's environmental dilemmas are a microcosm of those faced nationally and globally. The environmental solutions California devises to those problems will doubtless prove influential far beyond our borders.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Welcome & Keynote

The Potential and Limitations of Litigation in Furthering Climate Change Policy

Lunch Keynote - Jared Huffman

Ocean Resources: New Opportunities, New Threats

The Green Chemistry Revolution: A new Paradigm for Reducing and Managing Hazardous Wastes

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - From California to the World

Friday, April 11, 2008

Opening Speaker - Dr. Steven Chu

California's Regulatory Response to Climate Change - Implementing AB 32

Integrating Land Use and Transportation Policy in California

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Closing Remarks

California Colloquium on Water - Heather Cooley

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Heather Cooley) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Desalination, With a Grain of Salt: A California Perspective

Heather Cooley: Senior Researcher, Pacific Institute.

Summary: Long considered the Holy Grail of water supply, desalination offers the potential of an unlimited source of fresh water purified from the vast oceans of salt water that surround us. The public, politicians, and water managers continue to hope that cost-effective and environmentally safe ocean desalination will come to the rescue of water-short regions.

Interest in desalination has been especially high in California, where rapidly growing populations, inadequate regulation of the water supply/land-use nexus, and ecosystem degradation from existing water supply sources have forced a rethinking of water policies and management. In the past five years, public and private entities have put forward more than 20 proposals for large desalination facilities along the California coast. Project proponents point to statewide water-supply constraints, the reliability advantages of ""drought-proof"" supply, the water quality improvements offered by desalinated water, and the benefits of local control. Along with the proposals, however, has come a growing public debate about high economic and energy costs, environmental and social impacts, and consequences for coastal development policies. This presentation discusses the advantages and disadvantages of seawater desalination within the context of California.

More information about this series is available at the Water Resources Center Archives' California Colloquium on Water website.

Alternative Energy and the Americas

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Stanford R. Ovshinsky) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Stanford R. Ovshinsky has been called "the modern world's most important energy visionary." His career has combined path-breaking scientific work, the creation of new industries and a deep commitment to "make a better world." His work on energy and the environment has particular significance for the Americas.

Ovshinsky developed a new class of disordered or amorphous materials in an area of physics now called "Ovonics." He translated these scientific advances into non-polluting approaches to producing and storing energy from thin film solar technology that is mass produced to hydrogen fuel cells and storage devices. The nickel metal hydride batteries he developed currently power most hybrid cars.

Stan Ovshinsky holds about 350 U.S. patents and has authored more than 275 scientific papers in fields as diverse as neurophysiology and amorphous semiconductors. He has won innumerable honors including the 2005 Innovation Award for Energy and the Environment from the Economist magazine.

He and his late wife, Iris, were named Heroes of Chemistry 2000 by the American Chemical Society for "advances in electrochemical, energy storage and energy generation, including the development of Ovonic nickel metal hydride (NIMH) rechargeable batteries, regenerative fuel cells, solid hydrogen storage system and amorphous silicon photovoltaics" and for having "made significant and lasting contributions to global human welfare."

Stan Ovshinsky is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

California Colloquium on Water - Barton Thompson

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Barton Thompson) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Protecting Watershed Services Through Law, Regulation and Markets

Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson: Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Summary: Among the most valuable of ecosystem services are those related to watersheds, including water quality and flow regulation. New York City's decision in the 1990s to invest in watershed protection in the Catskills and Delaware water basins has led many to believe or hope that markets and public policies focused on the value of these services can increase conservation of key watershed lands. A survey completed two years ago, however, showed little effort by most water suppliers in California to protect their watersheds. In some regions of the nation, water suppliers are even selling off watershed lands or managing the land in a way that might undermine water quality. This presentation will look at what efforts private and public entities are currently taking place (or not taking place) to protect these "watershed services," what the potential is (and obstacles are) to protecting watersheds through their services, and what public policies the government could pursue to promote greater protection of watershed services and thus the watersheds that provide them. This examination of watershed services will also offer insights into the opportunities provided by the broader concept of ecosystem services.

More information a bout this series is available at the Water Resources Center Archives' California Colloquium on Water website.

2008 UC Berkeley Energy Symposium - Leadership at the Nexus of Science, Policy & Business

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Presented by the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative

The second annual UC Berkeley Energy Symposium - "Leadership at the Nexus of Science, Policy & Business" - brings together leaders in energy from both the public and private sectors to discuss the innovative science, technology, and requisite public policies that will shape the future of energy in the United States and across the globe.

The symposium highlights clean energy innovations emerging from several segments of the UC Berkeley community including: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Haas School of Business; Energy and Resources Group; UC Energy Institute; Boalt Hall School of Law; College of Engineering; College of Chemistry; Goldman School of Public Policy; Institute of Transportation Studies; College of Natural Resources; and Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.

Agenda

Welcoming Remarks & Keynote

Breakout Session 1: Carbon Capture & Sequestration: A Viable Alternative?

Breakout Session 2: Transportation Sector Solutions

Breakout Session 3: The Future of Nuclear Power in the US

Breakout Session 4: Carbon Neutral Technologies at Berkeley Ready to be Commercialized

Afternoon Keynote

Breakout Session 5: Advances in Green Building & Green Development

Breakout Session 6: Can Fossils Evolve? A Discussion about Alternative Energy from an Oil and Gas Perspective

Breakout Session 7: The Influence of Policy & Law on Technical Innovation

Breakout Session 8: Global Dimensions of Sustainable Energy

Plenary Panel & Closing Remarks

Energy Trends & Technologies: Regent's Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Steven Koonin) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Steven Koonin, Chief Scientist for BP & Professor of Physics, Caltech

The world's demand for energy will grow by some 60% in the next 25 years. Satisfying that demand in an economical and environmentally acceptable manner is one of the most significant challenges facing society. New technologies will play a central role in meeting this challenge, albeit conditioned by the economic, social, and political contexts in which they are developed and deployed. The presentation will focus on the major forces shaping the World's energy future and the technologies required to respond to them.

California Colloquium on Water - Randy Poole

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Randy Poole) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Leading the Way: A Look at the Sonoma County North American Climate Initiative

Randy Poole, General Manager/Chief Engineer, Sonoma County Water Agency

Abstract: Why is North America lagging in implementation of climate-protecting technologies and what can be done to actually bring solid, permanent reductions in North American CO2 emissions? Part of the answer is that textbook solutions are at this time unproven. North America needs to prove that technology for energy efficiency, renewable power, biofuels, hybrid drive systems and carbon sequestration can reduce emissions, and that these technologies offer economic benefits and that they will find acceptance, even support, from the public. The North American Climate Initiative, as led by the Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA), would provide the needed proof of concept by establishing one or more regional demonstration projects with the United States or Canada where the technologies would be tested. The programs would implement technological solutions, identify those that are viable and would monitor and document emissions reductions. Demonstration projects would provide the package of technologies that could be replicated rapidly nationwide, even globally to achieve climate protection goals well ahead of the 2020 targets set before us. Water supply, treatment, distribution and disposal are integral to the program. Water-related activities consume 19% of California's electric power and 30% of its natural gas. Water policy decisions such as recycling, conservation, desalination have direct impacts on carbon emissions. This lecture will provide an overview the program and how, if implemented, it would allow SCWA to supply water produced with zero carbon emissions by 2015.

More information about this series is available at the Water Resources Center Archives' California Colloquium on Water website.

Berkeley China Initiative: China's Environment

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Berkeley China Initiative) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800

China's Environment: What do we know and how do we know it?

Day One
1. Opening Remarks & Keynote Address (54:49)
2. Panel I: Getting the Data Out - Institutions, Media, and Government Policy (1:50:36)
3. Panel II: Tracing Invisible Threats: Disease and the Environment (1:33:34)
4. Panel III: Cycles, Predictions, and Policy: Issues of Local and Global Air Pollutants (1:35:12)
5. Keynote Address: Jan Hamrin (45:04)

Day Two
6. Panel IV: The Green Market (1:30:50)
7. Panel V: When Abundance Becomes Scares: Managing China's Water Supply (1:26:59)
8. Keynote Address: Pollution Map and China's Green Choice (1:11:19)
9. Panel VI: Sustaining Development: Inhabiting Urban and Rural Space (1:44:52)
10. Final Keynote: Environmental Journalism in China - The View from Beijing (1:08:00)

Organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, UC Berkeley.
Funded by the Luce Foundation.

December 7-8, 2007
For more information, go to http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2007.12.07w.html

Public Lands & Climate Change Symposium

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Part 1

Welcome and Overview
Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, University of California, Berkeley Law School

Purpose and Expectations
Ruth Coleman, Director, California State Parks

Climate Change and Impacts to California Habitat and Wildlife
Marc Hoshovsky, Senior Environmental Scientist, Department of Fish and Game

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Strategy for Climate Change
Will Travis, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Part 2

Planning Wetland Restoration and Acquisition as Sea Level Rises and Coastal Erosion Accelerates
Sam Schuchat, Executive Officer, State Coastal Conservancy

Part 3

Clean Energy Strategies for Environmental Sustainability
Daniel M. Kammen, Professor, Energy and Resources Group, Director, Public Policy, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Relationship Between Evolutionary Hotspots and Climate Change in California
Craig Moritz, PhD, Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Professor, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Protecting and Managing Valley Oak in the Face of Climate Change
Victoria Sork, Chair and Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Part 4

Range Modeling, Forest Restoration and Risk Management at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County
Lydia Ries, PhD, Research Scientist, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Wells, PhD, Superintendent, Colorado Desert, California State Parks

Designing Landscape Reserves in Light of Climate Change
Michael White, PhD, Conservation Biology Institute

Part 5

Future Changes in Conservation and Resource Management and Keeping Up with Climate Change Research
Rebecca Shaw, PhD, Chief of Science and Planning, The Nature Conservancy
Donald Neubacher, Superintendent, Point Reyes National Seashore, National Park Service
Susan Hackwood, PhD, Executive Director, California Council of Science and Technology

Moving Forward
Ruth Coleman, Director, California State Parks
Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, University of California, Berkeley Law School
Michael R. Eaton, Executive Director, Resources Legacy Fund

Albright Lecture in Conservation

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Marc L. Kesselman - USDA) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Judging Forestry: Courts, the Constitution, Competence, and Conservation

Marc L. Kesselman, counsel to the USDA, speaks about the role of the courts in managing our national forests, the interconnectedness of local litigation and global conservation.

This is the annual Albright Lecture in Conservation.

The Death of Environmentalism

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michael Pollan - Moderator) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800

In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger sparked a firestorm of controversy with their essay "The Death of Environmentalism." In it, they argued that the politics used to help reduce acid rain and smog would not work to diminish global warming. Environmentalism must die, they said, so that something new can be born.

Journalism professor Michael Pollan talks to the authors about their new book, Break Through -- a conversation about how best to address the threat of global warming and the larger failure of American liberalism to reinvent itself.

Sponsored by The Knight Program in Science & Environmental Journalism

Oil, Gas, and Global Warming: Youth Confronting America's Petroleum Addiction

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Three student activists, all of whom recently received the 2007 Brower Youth Award (which honors six young people in North America annually for their outstanding work in conservation, preservation, or restoration of the natural environment and communities), will speak and answer questions in a panel/Q&A format around the issues of the oil and energy crisis, global warming, and destructive petroleum-related pollution.

The panelists will include Jon Warnow (from Burlington, VT, a developer and organizer of the Step It Up! and National Day of Climate Action campaigns), Q'orianka Kilcher (from Santa Monica, CA, a filmmaker who has directed attention toward the invasive policies of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation in Peru and the company's effect on indigenous peoples there), and Erica Fernandez (from Oxnard, CA, an activist who has organized protests and mobilizations against the plans of BHP Billiton to build a pipeline through low-income neighborhoods in Ventura County). UC Berkeley student Rachel Barge, a BYA recipient, will moderate the event.

Sponsors: ASUC Sustainability Team, Free Speech Movement Caf� Educational Programs

Creating Forest Sector Solutions for the New Bioeconomy

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Dr. Ian de la Roche) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

S.J. Hall Lectureship in Industrial Forestry

This lecture will address issues around global depletion of non-renewable resources, climate change and the future role that lignocellulose, particularly forests, will play in providing goods and services that are renewable and leave a much softer environmental foot print. It will also highlight some of the exciting new technologies that will not only help transform the forest products sector, but also provide considerable benefits to society.

Dr. Ian de la Roche is President and CEO of FPInnovations, Canada. Formed in 2006 it is the world's largest private forestry and forest products research institute.

BERC First Annual Lecture: Michael Walsh of the Chicago Climate Exchange

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michael Walsh) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Dr. Michael Walsh, Executive Vice President of the Chicago Climate Exchange, spoke at the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) First Annual Lecture.

Dr. Michael Walsh spoke on the subject of how markets can be used to solve environmental problems and, simultaneously, create wealth. His remarks focused on the concept of emissions trading and the work of the Chicago Climate Exchange to reduce the air pollutants that contribute to global warming and acid rain. In addition to his role at the Chicago Climate Exchange, Dr. Walsh also serves on the Board of Directors of the Montreal Climate Exchange. Dr. Walsh has served as a Senior Economist with the Chicago Board of Trade where he directed their efforts to develop exchange-based environmental markets. He has also been involved with both domestic and international governmental activities on emissions trading, testifying before the U.S. Congress as well as speaking at a number of United Nations climate conferences.

The Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) is an active, student-led organization whose mission is to connect and develop the UC Berkeley energy and resource community. The group acts as a bridge between the many schools, programs, and labs at the University, including the Boalt Hall School of Law, College of Chemistry, College of Engineering, College of Natural Resources, Energy & Resources Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, Haas School of Business, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, UC Energy Institute, and others. To foster productive applications of university research and technology, BERC forges connections with the larger energy and cleantech cluster growing in the Bay Area and beyond.

For more information
Email us at berc@haas.berkeley.edu,
or visit the website: http://berc.berkeley.edu.

Agriculture for Development: Implications for Latin America?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Alain de Janvry) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

With 75 percent of world poverty concentrated in rural areas, the forthcoming World Development Report "Agriculture for Development" argues that the role of agriculture as an instrument for development has been badly underused by governments and donors, with high social and environmental costs. Does this apply to Latin America ? The region is highly urbanized, new developments in production and marketing threaten the competitiveness of smallholders and agricultural labor markets have been poorly remunerative. The model followed has often been rapid growth in commercial farming with poverty mitigated through cash transfers. Can Latin America do better? The authors of the report argue that it can.

Alain de Janvry is Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.

A Celebration of the Life of Nathaniel Gerhart

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0800

A memorial service and celebration of the life of Nathaniel Gerhart, held at the University of California, Berkeley, September 23, 2007, in the Faculty Club. Speakers included family members, students, housemates, and faculty during Nathaniel's time as a grad student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, in the Division of Society and Environment.

Lawson Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Andy Michael) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Parkfield 2004: Lessons from the Best-Recorded Earthquake in History

Andy Michael, US Geological Survey

Obtaining high-quality measurements close to a large earthquake is not easy: one has to be in the right place at the right time with the right instruments. Such a convergence happened, for the first time, when the September 28, 2004, magnitude 6, Parkfield, California, earthquake occurred on the San Andreas fault in the middle of a dense and diverse network of instruments designed by the scientists of the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Experiment to record what occurred before, during, and after this event. The resulting data reveal aspects of the earthquake process never before seen. These data, when combined with data from a sequence of at least 6 earlier Parkfield earthquakes dating back to 1857, provide important lessons about earthquake processes, prediction, and the hazards assessments that underlie important policies such as building codes.

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Lester R. Brown) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

The Berkeley Institute of the Environment announces its first annual Distinguished Lecture, featuring Lester R. Brown.

Mr. Brown has been called "one of the planet's most important thinkers" and a "guru of the environmental movement." He is founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, and author or co-author of 50 books related to the environment.

Conservation: From the Farm to the Front Office

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Wyoming Governor James Geringer) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Conservation: From the Farm to the Front Office - Sustainability with a Sense of Place

James Geringer was Governor of Wyoming from 1994 to January 2003. He modernized economic planning to extensively include technology and changed how natural resource agencies work together on the state, federal and local level. He joined Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in the summer of 2003 as Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies, focused on how senior elected and corporate officials can enable productivity through technology.

The U.S. Supreme Court Confronts Global Warming: Deconstructing Massachusetts v. USEPA

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Multiple) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Join a panel of distinguished scholars and expert environmental lawyers for a panel discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court's April 2, 2007, decision in the groundbreaking climate change case, Massachusetts, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In Massachusetts, a divided Supreme Court held that California, 11 other states and the nation's major environmental organizations have legal standing to bring this case; that USEPA has the authority under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change; and that USEPA has failed to adequately justify its reasons for declining to do so.

This program will analyze the Court's decision in Massachusetts; explore its effect on other, important climate change litigation pending in California and throughout the nation; and examine the larger impact of the Massachusetts decision on the current legal, scientific, policy and political debate over global warming.

The Panel:
- Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law; and Faculty Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Anne Joseph O'Connell, Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Ken Alex, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice
- Theodore Boutrous, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
- Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (Moderator)

For more information on this event, please see the Boalt Hall Department website.

The Economics of Climate Change

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Stern, Nicholas) — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Thank you for your interest in this event. An archive of the live event will be available for on-demand viewing within two business days. Please check back here for updates.

The Economics of Climate Change: Is tackling climate change a pro-growth strategy for California?" - a talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, is hosting the lecture, which is free and open to the public.

Stern will explain how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars. He will also address investment in low carbon energy sources, issues of international competition and the importance of China and other emerging economies.

Food Fight: A Teach-in On the 2007 Farm Bill

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Michael Pollan moderates a panel discussion of the 2007 farm bill, now being debated, with guests Dan Imhoff, the author of Food Fight: A Citizen's Guide to the Farm Bill; George Naylor, Iowa corn farmer and president of the National Family Farms Coalition; Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley school system, and other leaders in the effort to reform federal agricultural policies.

Every five years or so, the President signs an obscure piece of legislation that determines what happens on a couple of hundred million acres of private land in America, what sort of food Americans eat (and how much it costs) and, directly as a result, the health of our population. The American food system is a game played according to a precise set of rules that are written by Congress, typically with virtually no input from anyone beyond a handful of farm-state legislators. Nothing could do more to reform the American food system --an by doing so improve the condition of America's environment and public health-- than if the rest of us were to start paying attention to the farm bill.

Faculty Forum on the Energy Biosciences Institute

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

The February 1st announcement that BP had selected UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab to share in a $500 million research grant to create an Energy Biosciences Institute has raised a number of important issues and many questions. Therefore, the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate has scheduled a faculty forum to provide an opportunity to have an open discussion about the Institute and its implications for the campus. The Division has invited a panel of distinguished faculty to speak about academic freedom, shared governance, and corporate responsibility, as well as the specifics of the scientific issues in the venture. A question-and-answer and open-discussion period will follow.

Click Here to view the handout from the event: How Academic Freedom and Academic Principles are Preserved in Sponsored Research Agreements with Industry (PDF format).
Click Here for a list of the panelists and their biographies (PDF format).

Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

What the Energy Biosciences Institute means for UC Berkeley

On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.

In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing series of webcasts about campus issues, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau delves into the details of the university's winning proposal and emerging plans for a new Energy Biosciences Institute.

Part one: The chancellor is joined by two people who played a significant role in crafting the proposal: Vice Chancellor for Research Beth Burnside and Dan Kammen, a professor in the campus's Energy Resources Group (ERG). They discuss their goals for the institute's research endeavors, its potential impact on graduate and undergraduate education, and the proposal's intellectual property provisions.

Part two: Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, joins Birgeneau to review the scientific challenges the new institute will confront, the role and importance of public-private partnerships in addressing the energy crisis and climate change, and the roots of Chu's passionate commitment to developing renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy.

The Past, Present, and Future of Food

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Pollan, Michael) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Please Note: This video contains graphic imagery which may not be suitable to viewers under the age of 18. Viewer discretion is advised.

Whole Foods Market is the largest organic and natural retailer in the world. The co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey will offer a multimedia presentation of the past, present, and future of food. John Mackey will then join Michael Pollan in conversation, continuing in person the exchange of views the two have been conducting since the publication of Pollan's 2006 book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma."

Their correspondence, which has explored such issues as organic and local food, animal agriculture, and the role of Whole Foods, is available at www.wholefoods.com/blogs/jm/ and www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=80.

Global Warming: A Time to Act (Cap & Trade Conference)

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein) — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0800

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein describes her legislative program to combat climate change and responds to questions. Senator Dianne Feinstein is introduced by Boalt Hall School of Law Dean Christopher Edley at the "Cap and Trade as a Tool for Climate Change Policy" conference.

Leading practitioners and academic experts from the US, Europe, China and India debated key legal, economic, and technology issues associated with "cap and trade" as a policy tool for California, the US and the international community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Conference documents and presentations archive is located at: www.ccelp.berkeley.edu/capandtrade.

The conference was sponsored by: CCELP-Boalt Hall School of Law, CEPP-Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and the American Society for International Law, International Environmental Law Interest Group. The Office of the Chancellor, UC Berkeley, co-sponsored Senator Feinstein's keynote address.

Discover Cal - UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Spring 2007 Lecture Series
Northern California Kickoff Event

UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

Speakers for this Lecture
- Steven Chu, Physics, 1997
- Donald A. Glaser, Physics, 1960
- Yuan T. Lee, Chemistry, 1986
- Daniel L. McFadden, Economics, 2000
- George F. Smoot, Physics, 2006
- Charles H. Townes, Physics, 1964

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Janine Benyus) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

The College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley Presents

Janine Benyus
Author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature"

- Biomimics related to Energy and other industries
- Opportunities in the rapidly growing Biomimics field
- Green Chemistry as part of Biomimicry

Co-Sponsored by:
- Clean Tech Venture Network
- Greenbiz
- The Helios Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
- The Berkeley Energy & Resource Collaborative (BERC)
- The Horace M. Albright Lectureship in Conservation

Globalism: Report from the Front Lines of Oil and Global Warming

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ben Namakin) — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Ben Namakin, an environmental educator from Micronesia, runs The Green Road, a mobile environmental awareness program focusing on upland watershed, mangroves, coral reefs, and waste and pollution. Using photography and film footage to talk about his experiences, Namakin will address global warming, environmental racism, and the influence of oil companies on political decision-making. He will particularly focus on how these consequences affect the cultures and lifestyles of Pacific Islanders. In raising awareness about the threatened way of life for these people, the event will illuminate the relationship between our lifestyles and their effects on the global community as well as establish a setting open to conceptualizing solutions.

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Can We Save California's Delta?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Raymond B. Seed) — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

College of Engineering Homecoming Weekend

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Can we save California's Delta?

Raymond B. Seed, Professor of GeoEngineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

The catastrophic flooding of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina was the single most costly failure of an engineered system in history. It was also a social and cultural tragedy of unprecedented peacetime proportions for the United States.

After the disaster, a team of leading experts from across the country examined the engineering and organizational issues that led to the failure of the levees. Their findings have direct and timely implications for California, the state currently facing the greatest risk of catastrophic flooding from levee failure.

Professor Ray Seed co-chairs the joint State-Federal Technical Advisory Committee for assessment of levee-related risk for the State of California. Professor Seed also led the post-Katrina investigation, and will present his team's analysis of what went wrong and how we in California can learn from these mistakes.

Website for the College of Engineering Homecoming Weekend.

Ricardo Lagos & David Bonior: Trade, Development and the Americas

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ricardo Lagos, David Bonior) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Trade, Development and the Americas

A conversation with:
Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile, 2000-2006; Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, Fall 2006
David Bonior, Professor of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University; Member of Congress 1977-2003; House Democratic Whip 1991-2002

Moderated by:
Harley Shaiken, Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Geography and Education

East Asia in Transition: Comprehensive Security in the Pacific Rim

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0800

East Asia in Transition: Comprehensive Security in the Pacific Rim

with introductory remarks by:
T.J. Pempel, UC Berkeley
Robert Scalapino, UC Berkeley

Panel 1: "Finding Multilateral Solutions to New and Enduring Problems"

Chair: TJ Pempel, UC Berkeley

Panelists:

Susan Shirk, UC San Diego
Track II Diplomacy in Northeast Asia
David Shambaugh, George Washington University
China and Multilateralism in Asia
Mely Caballero-Anthony, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Singapore
East Asian Multilateral Problems and Solutions

Panel 2: "Ensuring IT and Network Security"

Chair: Darren Zook, UC Berkeley

Panelists:

Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford University [via teleconference]
The Relationship between Security and Censorship
Laurie Freeman, UC Santa Barbara
Information Technology and Democracy in East Asia
Peter Cowhey, UC San Diego
Technology and Long-term Security in the Pacific Rim

Panel 3: "Preventing and Managing Environmental Crises"

Chair: Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley

Panelists:

Miranda Schreurs, University of Maryland
Environmental Security Dynamics in Northeast Asia
Vinya Sysamouth, International Rivers Network
China's Hydropower Development and Its Impact on Downstream Countries
Daniela Salaverry, Pacific Environment
The Russian Far East, China, and Korea: Trans-boundary Problem Solving by Grassroots Environmental Groups

Concluding Remarks

Visit the IEAS website for complete program information on this event.

China U.S. Climate Conference

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (various) — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

8:30 AM

Opening Session: The University, Scientific Research, and Climate Change

Running Time: 1 hour, 22 minutes
This panel will highlight the mutual vulnerability of China and the U.S. to climate change, and the indispensable role of scientific research in understanding the problem and developing solutions.

9:45 AM

What's at Risk? Climate Model Predictions and Physical and Biological Impacts

Running Time: 1 hour, 17 minutes
This panel of climate scientists will describe the state of scientific knowledge regarding changes in the global climate system, the role of humans in causing these changes, and the likely impacts on earth's ecosystems.

11:15 AM

What's at Risk? Economic, Social and Political Impacts and Adaptation Costs

Running Time: 1 hour, 51 minutes
This panel of ecologists, economists, and insurers will examine the economic and social risks of climate change, the vast differences in the vulnerability of different nations and social groups to those risks, and the scale of investment needed to adapt to climate change as its impacts increase.

1:45 PM

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Use

Running Time: 1 hour, 5 minutes
This panel will discuss the pivotal role of energy use as a source of greenhouse gases, and what strategies will be required if the U.S. and China are to greatly reduce emissions, especially from coal-fired power plants, while maintaining strong economies.

3:15 PM

What Must Be Done? Emission Limits, Ethics, and the Right to Development

Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes
This panel will address the strategic and ethical issues that underlie the international climate policy debate, and the implications of prioritizing the right of poor countries to economic development.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

8:30 AM

Policies, Measures, and Strategies

Running Time: 1 hour, 53 minutes
This panel of economists and policy experts will address the policy options available for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon taxes, emissions trading, R&D investment, and technology transfer, and the political challenges of domestic implementation of international agreements.

10:30 AM

Innovation: Promising Technologies

Running Time: 1 hour, 13 minutes
This panel will argue the merits of a wide range of emerging technologies for reducing CO2 emissions from energy use, including energy efficiency, renewable energy, and nuclear power, and their prospects in China and the U.S.

11:45 AM

Business Perspectives on Climate Change

Running Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Speakers from oil, high-technology, and venture capital firms will discuss the ways in which businesses perceive and respond to the climate challenge, and how government policy and market signals must interact to provide the enormous investment in clean energy required in the decades ahead, especially in developing countries such as China.

2:00 PM

Sustainable Cities and States: Action at the Sub-National Level

Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes
This panel of state officials, scholars, and NGO representatives will look at the example of states and municipalities that have made bold moves to promote sustainable energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even when their national governments have been reluctant to do so.

3:45 PM

The Media, Public Information, and Climate Change

Running Time: 1 hour, 7 minutes
This panel will discuss the challenges facing scientists, politicians and the media in communicating to the public the complex facts about the climate crisis, and facilitating a national discussion about the problem and its solutions.

5:00 PM

Closing Session

Running Time: 9 minutes
This final session will highlight some key messages from the conference and the prospects for continuing collaboration on climate change research between U.C. Berkeley and other stakeholders in China and the U.S.

Jane Goodall: The Bixby Symposium on Population and Conservation

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Goodall, Jane) — Sat, 06 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800

The Bixby Symposium on Population and Conservation, an afternoon conference on the trends and impacts of population growth and family planning efforts in developing countries. One issue that will be examined is the relationship between family planning, population and conservation.

One of the world's leading primatologists, Jane Goodall has dedicated her life to speaking out about threats facing chimpanzees and other environmental crises. She is an advocate of people taking personal responsibility for the environment through lifestyle choices and activism.

For more information please visit the Jane Goodall Institute (www.janegoodall.org).

Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Introduction and Opening Remarks
William W. Nazzaroff
-Chair, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
-Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Robert J. Birgeneau
-Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley

Session One
John Holdren
-Director, The Woods Hole Research Center, Harvard University
-Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director, Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
-Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
-President, American Association for the Advancement of Science

NRDC ENERGY TEAM:
Sheryl Carter, Director, Western Energy Programs
Devra Bachrach Wang, Director, California Energy Programs
Audrey Chang, Staff Scientist

Session Two
Mark Levine
-Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, LBNL
-Group Leader, China Energy Group, LBNL
-Founder and board member, Bejing Energy Efficiency Center

Ashok Gadgil
-Senior Staff Scientist and Group Leader, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, LBNL
-Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

Session Three
Robert Socolow
-Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University
-Professor, Princeton University

Steve Chu
-Lab Director, LBNL
-1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Session Four
Stephen Schneider
-Co-Director, Center for Environmental Science and Policy at the Stanford Institute for International Studies
-Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University
-Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

Henry Kelly
-President, Federation of American Scientists

Session Five
Joseph Romm
-Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
-Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Closing Remarks - Art Rosenfeld

The Omnivore's Dilemma

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Pollan, Michael) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Running time: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Knight Professor of Journalism Michael Pollan, discusses his new book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," with Davia Nelson of NPR's The Kitchen Sisters and co-author of "Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes & More".

What should we have for dinner? According to Michael Pollan the answer may determine our survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves?

The omnivore's dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What's at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.

Bancroft at One Hundred: Bancroft Centennial Symposium

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (various) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Friday, February 10, 2006

8:30 AM	Welcome
	Running Time: 5 minutes Paul Grey, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley

9:45 AM	Mexico
	Running Time: 49 minutes William B. Taylor, UC Berkeley, Chair Jessica Delgado, UC Berkeley Rachel Chico, UC Berkeley Sean McEnroe, UC Berkeley

11:00 AM	Nineteenth-century California
	Running Time: 38 minutes J.S. Holiday, Chair Susan Lee Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Miroslava Ch�vez-Garc�a, UC Davis

1:15 PM	Twentieth-century California
	Running Time: 36 minutes Joyce Mao, UC Berkeley William Deverell, University of Southern California

2:20 PM	Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri
	Running Time: 35 minutes Todd Hickey, UC Berkeley, Chair Brian Muhs, University of Leiden

3:45 PM	Biotechnology and the Biological Revolution
	Running Time: 56 minutes David Farrell, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Sally Hughes, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Daniel Kevles, Yale University

4:45 PM	Mark Twain and His Era
	Running Time: 25 minutes Robert Hirst, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University

Saturday, February 11, 2006

9:00 AM	Artistic and Literary Perceptions of California
	Running Time: 1 hour, 5 minutes Jack von Euw, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Isabel Breskin, UC Berkeley Michelle Morton, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Margaretta Lovell, UC Berkeley

10:30 AM	The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
	Running Time: 16 minutes Theresa Salazar, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Philip Fradkin, environmental historian

1:00 PM	Big Science and Big Bridges
	Running Time: 25 minutes John Heilbron, UC Berkeley

2:15 PM	Modern Literary Manuscripts
	Running Time: 53 minutes Tony Bliss, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Kathleen Cleaver, Emory University Kevin Killian, Poet and Critic Nancy Peters, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

3:45 PM	The Environmental Movement
	Running Time: 45 minutes Anne Lage, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Sylvia McLaughlin, Save the Bay Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University

4:45 PM	The Beats
	Running Time: 57 minutes Michael Davidson, UC San Diego Michael McClure, poet

Bear in Mind: Research at UC Berkeley

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800

This three-part edition of Bear in Mind explores the innovative world of research at UC Berkeley. Join Chancellor Robert Birgeneau as he travels to several labs and engages some of the university's top scientists in a lively discussion ranging from stem cells to smart buildings.

Part One: "Stovepipes" vs. Multidisciplinary Research
15:27 minutes

The chancellor talks to Beth Burnside, professor of cell and developmental biology and vice chancellor for research. Burnside begins with an update on her own research into photoreceptors in the eye and how they wear out and replace themselves. She then discusses how, as vice chancellor for research, she is trying to help Berkeley overcome the typical university tendency to be a "stovepipe," a top-down-driven information silo, in favor of a level, multidisciplinary collaboration - and how that percolates into the classroom.

Part Two: Stem Cells, Industry Partnerships, and Berkeley's Strengths
40:10 minutes

Randy Schekman, developmental biology professor and a campus leader in stem cell research; Eva Harris, assistant professor of public health and a pioneer in battling infectious disease in developing countries; and Robert Tjian, biochemistry and molecular biology professor and the faculty director of Berkeley's Health Sciences Initiative, sit down for a discussion with the chancellor about their own investigations and common interests. Tjian explains how humans may have similar hardware to lowly plants, but the software running our development is very different; Schekman discusses why embryonic stem cells are crucial to research; and Harris questions whether industry partnerships inhibit academic freedom.

Part Three: Energy Pricing, Green Buildings, and Putting Technology in California Homes
25:17 minutes

Birgeneau talks to Paul Wright, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean at the College of Engineering; Edward Arens, professor of architecture and director of the Center for the Built Environment; and engineering graduate student Will Watts about their development of energy-saving technologies. From developing technology that will rely on flexible energy prices tied to peak demand, to integrating sensor networks into "smart" buildings, the work these men are doing for the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society is helping CITRIS more than live up to its name.

For more information, visit the Bear in Mind website.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Environment, Health and Democracy

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Kennedy Jr., Robert F.) — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0800

Seventh Annual Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture in Health Policy

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of the Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law's Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career Mr. Kennedy served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He has published several books, including the New York Times' bestseller Crimes Against Nature (2004) and The Riverkeepers (1997) with John Cronin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Pace Environmental Law Review, and other publications. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School and a Masters Degree in Environmental Law from Pace University.

Al Gore: Global Climate Change

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Gore Jr., Al) — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0800

Al Gore speaks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, following a presentation on global climate change.

Please note: we are unable to show Gore's full presentation due to copyright restrictions from his staff.

This event was webcasted live on October 26, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

Sponsored by The Graduate School of Journalism, Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs and The Office of the Chancellor, Commonwealth Club of California.

Bush Science: Use and Abuse of Science in Policymaking

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0800

This event took place on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley

Featuring:

David Baltimore
President, Cal Tech and Nobel Laureate

Bruce C. Buckheit
Former director, EPA Air Enforcement Division

Andrew Eller
Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Kurt Gottfried
Chair, Union of Concerned Scientists and Professor of Physics at Cornell

Moderated by Michael Pollan
Knight Professor of Journalism

Sponsored by The Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The Pulse of Scientific Freedom in the Age of Biotech Industry

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0800

A conversation with: Arpad Pusztai, John Losey, Tyrone Hayes, and Ignacio Chapela. Introduced by Michael Pollan. Moderated by Mark Dowie.

The four participants in this conversation have performed simple, yet dramatic discoveries in Biology that question the wisdom of a quarter century of committment to an agenda of agricultural development based on intensive technological dependence.

As a consequence of the publication of their research, each of the participants has encountered not only controversy, but also threats to their research, reputations, and livelihoods.

Behind their research lies a committment to make their knowledge available to the public. Behind the hurdles they have faced lies one of the greatest challenges to public, democratic discourse in our century: the growing influence of private interests on the scientific enterprise.

The commonalities of their stories and the peculiarities of their personal histories provide a unique window into the mechanisms through which this threat to scientific discourse operates.

This is the first time that these scientists meet as a group, and a unique opportunity for the public to gain insight into the byzantine working of the academic-industrial complex.

Sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism; the College of Natural Resource's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the Center for Sustainable Resource Development; Berkeley Art Museum; the Bancroft Library, Oral History Project; and the Council for Responsible Genetics.

An Ecologist in Space: The Earth from 240 Miles Up

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Sellers, Piers) — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0800

An Ecologist in Space: The Earth from 240 Miles Up

BASC 2003 Distinguished Lecture by Astronaut Piers Sellers.

This event took place on December 7, 2003 in 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley,

Dr. Piers Sellers, trained as an Earth scientist, was an astronaut on the STS-112 mission to the International Space Station in October 2002 and did three space walks. He will show video and photos of the Earth from space. He will also reflect on his personal experience as an astronaut and an earth scientist.

Dr. Piers Sellers' research is in the area of biosphere-atmosphere interaction. He is the principal author of the benchmark model SiB, a Simple Biosphere Model, which encapsulates the atmospheric controls of stomatal conductance and the large-scale feedbacks of plant physiology on climate. He was the leader of the field campaigns FIFE and BOREAS to study the exchanges of energy, water, CO2 and other trace species between the atmosphere and biosphere.

Dr. Sellers was selected as an Astronaut Candidate in 1996, and completed his first space flight on STS-112 to the International Space Station in October 2002. He logged over 252 hours in space, including almost 20 EVA hours in 3 spacewalks. The mission was accomplished in 170 orbits, traveling 4.5 million miles in 10 days, 19 hours, and 58 minutes. He is currently assigned to the crew of STS-120.

Dr. Sellers is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

For more information, visit the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center website.

Sponsored by the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center and The College of Natural Resources.

Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0800

Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain

The Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism present a panel discussion with:

Wendell Berry
Farmer and author of The Unsettling of America and Citizenship Papers

Carlo Petrini
President and Founder, Slow Food International

Michael Pollan
Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine and professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Eric Schlosser
Journalist and Author, Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness

Vandana Shiva
Activist and author, Monocultures of the Mind and Biopiracy

Introduced by Alice Waters
Chef and Owner, Chez Panisse Restaurant

Moderated by Orville Schell
Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

This event took place on November 24, 2003 in Wheeler Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley

Co-sponsored with the Office of the Chancellor.

Norman Borlaug: 60 Years of Fighting Hunger

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Borlaug, Norman) — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0800

Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing methods to help the world's poorest nations feed themselves. Born of Norwegian descent, Dr. Borlaug was raised near Cresco, a small farming community in northeast Iowa. He earned a B.S. in forestry and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota. From 1942 to 1944, Dr. Borlaug worked as a microbiologist for E.I. Dupont de Nemours Foundation, in charge of research on industrial and agricultural bactericides, fungicides, and preservatives.

In 1944, Dr. Borlaug joined the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico, where he was a research scientist in charge of wheat improvement. It was on the research stations and in the farmers' fields of Mexico that Dr. Borlaug developed dwarf, high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat varieties. These high-yielding varieties and improved crop management practices transformed agricultural production in Mexico and later in Asia and Latin America--sparking what today is known as the "Green Revolution".

In 1985, Dr. Borlaug created the World Food Prize, which today is the foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. Today, Dr. Borlaug still serves as Chair of its Council of Advisors. He currently splits his time as a senior consultant to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico and as Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at Texas A&M University. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from 50 universities and memberships in 17 academies of science worldwide.

Dr. Borlaug is on campus as the featured speaker for the 2003 Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, a unique educational opportunity for mid-career environmental professionals established in 2000 with a generous gift from Richard and Carolyn Beahrs.

This event took place on July 10, 2003 at UC Berkeley.

Click here to also view a conversation from July 9, 2003 between Borlaug and Paul Ludden, Dean of the College of Natural Resources entitled "Norman Borlaug: Thoughts on Science & Education"

America In the Second Nuclear Age

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 +0800

The Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism present:

America In the Second Nuclear Age

The live event took place on April 30, 2003 in Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

A conversation with:

Jonathan Schell
Author and Fellow at The Nation Institute and
Senior Fellow at the Center for Globalization at Yale University

Frances FitzGerald
Author of Fire In The Lake and Way Out There In The Blue

Michael Nacht
Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy;
Chair, Pentagon advisory panel on combating terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction;
Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1994 -1997

Mark Danner
Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Introduced by Orville Schell
Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs is a series of lectures, dialogues and scholarships meant to foster debate about how critical world issues are covered in the American press -- and how they can be covered more effectively.

Co-sponsored by The Commonwealth Club of California.

National Forest Management: Great Issues and Great Diversions

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Bosworth, Dale) — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0800

National Forest Management: Great Issues and Great Diversions
Dale Bosworth, Chief of the USDA Forest Service

The live event took place April 22, 2003 at 4 p.m. in 1 Le Conte Hall.

Dale Bosworth, chief of the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, will deliver a major policy address, titled "National Forest Management: Great Issues and Great Diversions," covering policies on wildfires, logging, invasive species, public land use, new road construction in national forests and habitat fragmentation. There will be a Q&A session following.

A native of California, Bosworth became the 15th chief of the U.S.D.A. Forest Service in April 2001. Prior to his current appointment, he held various leadership positions with the Forest Service, including regional forester for the Northern region and deputy regional forester for the Pacific Southwest region, which is headquartered in San Francisco. He also served as assistant director for land management planning for the northern region and deputy director of forest management in the national headquarters in Washington, D.C. Bosworth is a member of both the Society of American Foresters and the Society for Range Management.

The College of Natural Resources is sponsoring the talk as part of the William Main Distinguished Visitor Program, which provides an opportunity for students to meet leaders from industrial, governmental and other public organizations concerned with forestry and related natural resources for discussions of conservation issues.

Bay Area Earthquake Probabilities

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Schwartz, David) — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0800

1906 Commemorative Lecture
USGS Bay Area Earthquake Probabilities and Loss Estimate

April 22, 2003, Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

The UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory is sponsoring a lecture series in commemoration of the April 18, 1906 earthquake. This lecture series is part of a campus-wide effort to observe the centennial of the 1906 earthquake. The public lecture is held each April and focuses on issues of earthquakes and society.

The inaugural lecture in the series was delivered by Dr. David Schwarz of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park. Dr. Schwartz is the leader of Working Group '02, a wide cross-section of the Earth science community, dedicated quantifing earthquake hazards in the San Francisco Bay Area. This lecture was to be part of the first public announcement of the new probabilities by Working Group '02.

For more information, visit the Berkeley Seismological Lab event site.

webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events

The Transformation of Chile

Addressing Global Hunger & Poverty through Agricultural Development

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008

California Colloquium on Water - Heather Cooley

Desalination, With a Grain of Salt: A California Perspective

Alternative Energy and the Americas

California Colloquium on Water - Barton Thompson

Protecting Watershed Services Through Law, Regulation and Markets

2008 UC Berkeley Energy Symposium - Leadership at the Nexus of Science, Policy & Business

Agenda

Energy Trends & Technologies: Regent's Lecture

California Colloquium on Water - Randy Poole

Leading the Way: A Look at the Sonoma County North American Climate Initiative

Berkeley China Initiative: China's Environment

China's Environment: What do we know and how do we know it?

Public Lands & Climate Change Symposium

Albright Lecture in Conservation

Judging Forestry: Courts, the Constitution, Competence, and Conservation

The Death of Environmentalism

Oil, Gas, and Global Warming: Youth Confronting America's Petroleum Addiction

Creating Forest Sector Solutions for the New Bioeconomy

S.J. Hall Lectureship in Industrial Forestry

BERC First Annual Lecture: Michael Walsh of the Chicago Climate Exchange

Agriculture for Development: Implications for Latin America?

A Celebration of the Life of Nathaniel Gerhart

Lawson Lecture

Parkfield 2004: Lessons from the Best-Recorded Earthquake in History

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Conservation: From the Farm to the Front Office

Conservation: From the Farm to the Front Office - Sustainability with a Sense of Place

The U.S. Supreme Court Confronts Global Warming: Deconstructing Massachusetts v. USEPA

The Economics of Climate Change

Food Fight: A Teach-in On the 2007 Farm Bill

Faculty Forum on the Energy Biosciences Institute

Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute

The Past, Present, and Future of Food

Global Warming: A Time to Act (Cap & Trade Conference)

Discover Cal - UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Janine Benyus Author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature"

Globalism: Report from the Front Lines of Oil and Global Warming

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Can We Save California's Delta?

Ricardo Lagos & David Bonior: Trade, Development and the Americas

Trade, Development and the Americas

East Asia in Transition: Comprehensive Security in the Pacific Rim

East Asia in Transition: Comprehensive Security in the Pacific Rim

Panelists:

Panelists:

Panelists:

Concluding Remarks

China U.S. Climate Conference

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Jane Goodall: The Bixby Symposium on Population and Conservation

Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Bancroft at One Hundred: Bancroft Centennial Symposium

Friday, February 10, 2006

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Bear in Mind: Research at UC Berkeley

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Environment, Health and Democracy

Al Gore: Global Climate Change

Bush Science: Use and Abuse of Science in Policymaking

The Pulse of Scientific Freedom in the Age of Biotech Industry

An Ecologist in Space: The Earth from 240 Miles Up

Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain

Norman Borlaug: 60 Years of Fighting Hunger

America In the Second Nuclear Age

National Forest Management: Great Issues and Great Diversions

Bay Area Earthquake Probabilities

Janine Benyus
Author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature"