Tod Spieker Series

George HurttProfessor and Research DirectorDepartment of Geographical SciencesUniversity of Maryland  

Deborah MartinAssociate Professor of Geography and Associate Director Graduate School of GeographyClark University  

Laura PulidoProfessor of Ethnicity and American StudiesUniversity of Southern California

Christian BerndtProfessorUniversity of Zurich

Vinay GidwaniAssociate Professor, Institute for Global StudiesUniversity of Minnesota

George HurttProfessor and Research Director, Department of Geographical SciencesAssociate Director, Joint Global Change Research InstituteUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Climate-Carbon Feedbacks During the 21st Century and BeyondJames T. RandersonChancellor's Professor, Earth System ScienceSchool of Physical SciencesUniversity of California, Irvine

Value in Motion; Earth and Sky in FluxLuke Bergmann Assistant Professor, Department of GeographyUniversity of Washington

Old Carbon in the New Carbon Cycle: Global Change and Destabilization in Terrestrial EcosystemsDaniela Cusack Assistant Professor, Department of GeographyUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Globalization of Water, Land, and Food through Trade and International Investments in AgriculturePaolo D'OdoricoErnest H. Ern Professor, Department of Environmental SciencesUniversity of Virginia

A Virtual Road Trip Through Three Drought Studies in Western North America, from the Southwestern Forests to the Los Angeles CoastPark WilliamsLamont Assistant Research ProfessorLamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Tracking Global Change in Tropical ForestsStephanie PauAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Geography Florida State University

Biogeography in the Critical Zone: Insights from the Mountain Tops to the Valley FloorGreg Barron-GaffordSchool of Geography and Urban Development, University of Arizona

Beyond City Limits: a conceptual and political defence of 'city-centrism' in urban geographyKurt Iveson, Associate ProfessorThe University of Sydney

Supraglacial Rivers on the Greenland Ice SheetLaurence C. Smith, Chair and ProfessorUniversity of California Los Angeles

21st Century Global Freshwater Security: Can it Exist and Can Scientists Communicate the Challenges?Jay Famiglietti, Professor, Senior Water ScientistUniversity of California Irvine, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Water governance and more-than-human digital democracy: Countering "soft capture" in hydraulic fracturing regulation throughindigenous community-led water monitoring systemsKaren Bakker, Professor of Geography, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Program on Water Governance at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and SustainabilityUniversity of British Columbia

Water for Peace? The Geopolitics of Development in the Mekong River Basin, 1957-2016Chris Sneddon, Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies ProgramDarmouth College

Stochastic and Deterministic Dynamics of a Neotropical ForestStephen Hubbell, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,UCLA

Advanced Global Land Mapping and ModelingMatthew HansenProfessor of Geography, University of Maryland College Park

Toward an Ethnography of "The Economy"Hanna AppelAssistance Professor of Anthropology, UCLA

Cold Encounters: Geoaesthetics, Feminist Geopoliticis and Climate ChangeSallie MarstonProfessor, School of Geography and DevelopmentDirector, UA Community & School GardenUniversity of Arizona

Vegetation Boundary Shifts: Global and Local DriversNeil SaintilanProfessor and Head of Department of Environmental SciencesMacquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Just Compensation?: The Politics of Land and Justice in the Global CityMichael GoldmanProfessor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesDr. V.K.R.V. Rao Chair Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

The Specter of Global China: Is Chinese Capital a Different Kind of Capital in Africa?CK LeeProfessor of Sociology, UCLA

Theory and the Practice of Futurable Socioecological Systems - Behind the Scenes -Kelley CrewsAssociate Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas - Austin

Organizing the World's Water: Observing Rivers from AboveTamlin PavelskyAssociate Professor of Global HydrologyDepartment of Geological SciencesUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Live/stock: A short tour of capitalist animal production, the pathogens it industrializes, and alternate agriculturesRobert WallaceInstitute for Global StudiesUniversity of Minnesota

Snow: What's albedo and why should you care?Jeff DozierBren School of Environmental Science and ManagementUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

CANCELLEDTitle TBABurak KadercanDepartment of Strategy and PolicyNaval War College

CANCELLED!! - Illusory SustainabilityTed BohnAssistant Research ScientistJulie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of SustainabilityArizon State University

Hydrologic Change in the Conterminous United StatesJennifer BakaDepartment of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral SciencesPenn State University- Dr. Lettenmaier will speak today instead of Dr. Baka -

Property, precarity, and the right not to be excludedNicholas BlomleyDepartment of GeographySimon Fraser University

The Territorial Logic of the Islamic State: Space, Society, and Statehood in the Post-Modern CaliphateBurak KadercanDepartment of Strategy & PolicyNaval War College, Newport, RI

Green Antarctica? Recent plant growth conditions in the Antarctic Peninsula in context of the last 2000 yearsDavid BeilmanDepartment of GeographyUniversity of Hawaii, Mānoa

Ideas of Water: The Hydro-Politics of Flooding in a Sinking CityKian GohLuskin School of Public AffairsUCLA

Advancing Global Land MonitoringMatthew HansenDepartment of Geographical SciencesUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD

Spatial distribution dynamics and regional income inequalitySergio ReySchool of Public PolicyUC Riverside

California's Forests Navigate Complex Terrain in a Changing ClimateJanet FranklinUC Riverside

Using Functional Traits to Predict Species Coexistence in Plant Communities across Spatial and Temporal ScalesNathan KraftDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUCLA

Land System Architecture: Linking the Spatial, Human-Environmental and Sustainability SciencesB. L. Turner IISchool of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of SustainabilityArizona State University

What caused the recent record low Antarctic sea ice extentMarilyn RaphaelDepartment of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles

Seeds of Memory: Food Legacies of the Transatlantic Slave TradeJudith CarneyDepartment of Geography, UCLA

Couplings between the Climate and Food SystemsJennifer BurneyAssistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Just gardening? Urban agriculture, policymaking, and everyday governanceNathan McClintockAssociate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University

The Taste of Home: Baking Bread and the Making of Social Worlds in Rural EgyptJessica BarnesUniversity of South Carolina

Race, Capital and the Politics of Space in Southern CaliforniaJuan De LaraAssistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

The Future of Cities in a Post Carbon AgeStephanie PincetlFounding Director California Center for Sustainable Communities and Professor-in-Residence at IoES, UCLA

Applied climate research in the Portland metro regionPaul LoikithAssistant Professor, Department of Geography, Climate Science Lab Director, Portlant State University

Not yet, not now, maybe later: Queer futurity and feminist politics in South KoreaJu Hui Judy HanAssistant Professor, Gender Studies, University of California Los Angeles

Generating Global Land Surface Satellite Products for Environmental Change StudiesShunlin LiangProfessor, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park

Meltdown in the Arctic: A perspective from the Greenland Ice SheetAsa RennermalmAssistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University

The 2019 Colorado River Drought Contigency Plan: why it was needed, what it will do, and what's next?Brad UdallSenior Water & Climate Research Scientist, Colorado Water Institute / Water Center Colorado State University

Does Weather/Climate Make Us Non/Human?Nathan SayreProfessor, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Watershed: Rural Political Belonging and Ecosystem Restoration in the Contemporary United StatesJessica CattelinoAssociate Professor, Lens P.I. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Between the Wall and the Mall: Israelis and Palestinians in post-Oslo JerusalemMarik ShternScholar in Residence, Department of Sociology. University of California, San Diego