FALL SCHEDULE 2001
STEP PEI Seminar Series
The seminar series is co-sponsored with the Princeton Environmental Institute
(PDF Schedule)
Wallace Hall, Room 300
(12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m)
Lunch is provided starting at 11:45 a.m.
September 24, Michael Oppenheimer
Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense
"How Warm is Too Warm?"
October 1, Laura Holgate
VP for Russia/NIS Nuclear Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative
“Public-Private Partnerships in Non-Proliferation”
October 8, John Weingart
Associate Director of Eagleton Institute of Politics
“Risk, Radiation, and Distrust of Government”
October 15, Greg van der Vink
Director of Planning, IRIS Seismological Research Consortium
“Earthquakes, Nuclear Explosions, and International Arms Control—Monitoring Clandestine Nuclear Weapons Tests”
October 22, Robert Mendelsohn
Edwin W. Davis Professor of Forest Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor in the School of Management, Yale University
“Optimal Forest Carbon Sequestration”
October 29 - Fall Break
November 5, Ellis McKenzie
Staff Scientist, National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health
“Why Malaria Parasites are Smarter than Policy-Makers”
November 12, Margaret Mellon
Food & Environment Program Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
“Agriculture Biotechnology after Starlink: Lessons and Opportunities”
November 19, Richard Benedick
Senior Advisor, Joint Global Change Research Institute (Battelle/University of Maryland)Joint Global Change Research Institute (Battelle/University of Maryland)
“Demography, Environment and the US National Interest”
November 26, Melanie Stiassny
Axelrod Research Curator, Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History
“Freshwater Biodiversity: Threats and Prospects”
December 3, Peter Davies
Vice President and Chief Economist, BP plc
“Testing Times in World Energy Markets”
December 10, Lee Silver
Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
“Biotechnology: In Service of God or the Devil?”