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
Digital Geographies of Urban Inequality and Economic AttentionMatthew ZookUniversity of Kentucky
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
Researching multi-direction migration: Citizens in motion and contemporaniety Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore
Birkha Bawari: A Contemporary Construction of a Traditional Indian Stepwell to Address Modern Water Scarcity A. Mridul and Shilpa Mridul
Spatial Inequality and Innovation Policy in a Complex World Pierre-Alexandre Balland Utretch University and MIT
Microclimate Regulation through Urban Design Experiments V. Kelly Turner Assistant Professor, Urban Planning UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
What's Going On WIth Precipitation Behavior over Northern Eurasia? Hengchun Ye Associate Dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences California State University, Los Angeles
Living Just Enough for the City: Volume VII/Black Methodologies Katherine McKittrick Department of Gender Studies Queen's University Canada Recorded lecture and Q&A.
3rd UCLA Symposium Tuesday Afternoon April 21, 2020 California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium, UCLA
Cooling the City: Regulating Microclimate through the Built Environment Dr. V. Kelly Turner Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs UCLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfFAE5g1iQw
At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War Jennifer Greenburg Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University
Antarctic Sea Ice: Variability, Change, and Linkages with the Atmospheric Circulation Marilyn Raphael Professor of Geography and Interim Director of Institute of Environment and Sustainability UCLA
California Wildfires in the 21st Century - Days of Future Past? Glen Macdonald Endowed Chair and Professor, Geography UCLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc6LB8bPP3A
From Threat to Frontier: The Commodification of Waste in Cairo, Egypt Mohammed Rafi Arefin Assistant Professor, Geography The University of British Columbia Recorded lecture and Q&A.
Using Voyaging Simulations to Study the Prehistory of the Pacific Alvaro Montenegro Associate Professor, Geography & Director of Atmospheric Sciences Program Ohio State University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKzITVgt8Y
Termination's Creeds: Race, Health Science, and Spatial Matters in US Colonialism Dr. Meredith Palmer Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPzGGkSmVw
Precipitation Variability Effect on Ecosystem Functioning: Experimentation, Modelling and Data Synthesis from Local to Global Scale Dr. Laureano Gherardi Arbizu Senior Manager, Global Drylands Center Arizona State University Recorded lecture and Q&A.
Fast Circulation, Slow Life: The Racial Fix of Logistics Dr. Charmaine Chua Assistant Professor of Global Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor MacDonald invites you to attend the Ursus Environmental Symposium. The Ursus Symposium top UCLA scientist that will discuss Ballona Wetlands and the Future of Southern California Coastal Conservation. Join us!
Fires, Smoke Exposure and Public Health Dr. Miriam Marlier Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Fielding School of Public Health University of California, Los Angeles
Climate Change from the Street Dr. Michael Mendez Assistant Professor of School of Social Ecology Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy University of California, Irvine
Climate consequences for pest predation, production and producers in coffee Dr. Katherine Ennis UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Departments of Plant and Microbial Biology and Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley
Forming Skid Row: Redevelopment, Policing, and Indigenous Sites of Care in Downtown Los Angeles, 1950s to 1980s Dr. Deshonay Dozier Assistant Professor Departments of Geography California State University, Long Beach
Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession Dr. Brandi Summers Assistant Professor Department Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies University of California, Berkeley
Land-Grant University Geographies between Qatar and Texas Dr. Danya Al-Saleh ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow Department Geography University of California, Los Angeles
Jobs or Jails: Superintending Neoliberalism in Reagan's America Dr. David Stein UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Department of African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles
Water Resources Sustainability along the US-Mexico Border Region Dr. Enrique Vivoni Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe
Wednesday April 20, 2022 @ 3:00pm - 4:00pm Luskin Conference Center Hotel Seating limited: RSVP recommended Critical physical geography in practice: Our depth perception improves when we look through biophysical and social lenses Dr. Rebecca Lave Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography Indiana University
Turning Data into Stories: Climate Change in Space and Time Dr. Kate Marvel Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Center for Climate Systems Research Columbia University
Right Beyond the Site: Otabenga Jones & the Social Practice of Belonging Dr. Willie Wright Department of Geography, University of Florida
"People Without Property in Jobs": Informal Waste Economies and the Agrarian Question of Labor in Urban India Dr. Vinay Gidwani Distinguished University Teaching Professor Geography and Global Studies University of Minnesota
From Playing with Fire to Hungry Translations: Co-building antidisciplinary agitations in search of justice Dr. Richa Nagar Professor Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
UCLA Friends of Geography 2022-2023 Welcome Back Reception & Special Event to Celebrate The Antony Orme Award Saturday 5 November 3:00pm - 5:00pm La Kretz Pavilion Mildred Mathais Botanical Gardens RSVP required
