Earth Day Week - 2021
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Event Description
For the Week of Earth Day, 2021 the College of the Environment and the WWU Alumni Office are providing a series of online presentations:
MONDAY, APRIL 19th
- Growth, Land Use, Water, and Limits: Perspectives from Upstream Communities
- Lorah Super
- 5:00 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is brought to you by Huxley on the Peninsulas in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association
TUESDAY, APRIL 20th
- Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Emissions during the COVID-19 Pandemic with NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
- Dr David Crisp (NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab)
- 4:00 pm
- Details
- This talk is produced by the Institute for Energy Studies
- All Critters Great and Small: The Wildlife Research Program of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
- Kim Sager-Fradkin
- 5:00 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is brought to you by Huxley on the Peninsulas in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21st
- Revegetation of the Elwha Reservoirs and Lessons for the Klamath Dam Removal Project
- Joshua Chenoweth
- 5:00 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is brought to you by Huxley on the Peninsulas in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association
THURSDAY, APRIL 22nd (EARTH DAY)
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
- Kate Moore
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is part of the Toxicology and Societies Speaker Series
- What Earth Day Offers Us (The Office of Sustainability invites students, faculty, and staff to discuss the history of Earth Day and how we can build a more sustainable community)
- Including:
- Steven Hollenhorst (Dean of Huxley College of the Environment)
- Grace Wang (Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies)
- Seth Vidana (City of Bellingham Climate and Energy Manager)
- Zaria Lavalais (Associated Students VP for Sustainability)
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm (Zoom)
- Including:
- Intersectional Environmentalism: The key to Fighting Racism and Climate Change
- Emily Pinckney
- 4:30 - 5:20 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is part of the Environmental Speaker Series
- Riparian Restoration in Dammed Rivers: Elwha Dam Removal, Effects on Riparian Vegetation, and Beaver
- Dr. Rebecca Brown
- 5:30 - 6:30 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is brought to you by Huxley on the Peninsulas in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association
THURSDAY, MAY 6th
- Creating a Carbon Conservation Trust Movement
- Steven Hollenhorst (Dean of Huxley College of the Environment)
- Howard Sharstein retired environmental attorney)
- 4:30 pm (Zoom)
- Details and Registration
- This talk is brought to you by Huxley on the Peninsulas in partnership with the WWU Alumni Association
See also: Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth: Three Days of Climate Action (April 20-22) - from EarthDay.org