If you are interested in presenting a lecture, please contact Dr. Carsten Haber, CSCR founding Board Member.
Celebrating 20 Years of Inspiring Students
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 from 5:30 – 7:00pm
Join us via Zoom to celebrate the achievements of one of CSCR’s very first student cohorts (pictured below). Dr. Ross Lieb Lappen, (3rd from right); Dr. Matthew Davis, 2nd from left); Dr. Robert Hickey (center) will be speaking about their work today, their paths traveled, and their passions for educating and inspiring the next generation of science and civic leaders.
Previous Lectures
| Lecture | Speaker |
| Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wildlife: Facts, Fictions, and Unknowns | Anna Robuck, PhD Candidate at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography |
| Blurred Lines between “The Environment” and “Me” | Maria Hottelet, Immunologist and Founder of Fire LLC |
| Biometrics for Covid-19 – Vaccine Delivery in the Developing World | Toby and Tristram Norman, Forbes “30 under 30” Social Entrepreneurs and founders of Simprints |
| Big data for Big Mammals: Genomic Study of Ecology & Evolution of Whales | Morgan McCarthy, PhD Candidate in the Marine Mammals Ecology Group at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark |
| Instability: Climate Change, Health, Loss of Wildlife, and what we can d about it | Dr. Alexander More, Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Long Island University, in NYC, Assistant Research Professor at the Climate Change Institute and group leader at Harvard University |
| Sinking Ocean | Rob Moir, Executive Director of the Ocean River Institute |
| Building toward US federal climate action – a look at key strategies needed to win federal action to cut carbon emissions | Margie Alt, Environmental Campaigner and Strategist at Climate Action Campaign DC |
| Offshore Wind: Power, Policy, and Promise | John Rogers, Senior Energy Analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists |
| The effects of ocean acidification on the shell mineralogy of Crassostrea virginica (Eastern Oyster) | Isabel Gutowski, Research Assistant and Outreach Instructor at Northeastern University Marine Science Center in Nahant MA ( March 6, 2019) |
| Wildland Fire Ecology in Massachusetts and Beyond | Alexander Etkind, Specialist at Northeast Forest and Fire Management, LLC in Sandwich MA (February 13, 2019) |
| A Volunteer’s Perspective on Youth, Gender, and the Environment | Torey Hart, Peace Corps, Malawi (January 24, 2019) |
| Optimizing Community & Business Resilience: Preparing for Natural Disasters by Practicing Pollution Prevention | Mary Dever-Putnam, Chief of the Environmental and Compliance Assistance Unit of EPA Region 1 |
| Nature and Maritime Archaeology: Can Massachusetts’ hidden history be used to better understandsea level rise and global warming? | Victor T. Mastone, Director and Chief Archaeologist of the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources. |
| Consumer product chemicals in the environment: How did they get there and what can we do? Preventing Cancer at Home and About Town | Dr. Laurel Schaider of the Silent Spring Institute |
| We Need to Come Clean – the Fight Belongs to Everyone! | Emily Norton, Massachusetts Chapter Director for the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental advocacy group in the country |
| Habitat Diversity- Can ecosystems thrive when species diversity is declining? | Christian Alsterberg currently pursues a postdoctoral degree at UMASS Boston. He obtained a PhD in Marine Ecology and BS in Biology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| Ocean Acidification: Are coral reefs and clams fizzing away? | George D. Buckley, Assistant Director of the Sustainability program at the Harvard University Extension School. |
| Plastic Pollution in the Ocean- And what you can do about it! | Jessica Donohue, Research Assistant, Sea Education Association (SEA; Woods Hole, MA). |
| Flood Mitigation Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy | Sarah Hamm, M.S. Geology, Colorado School of Mines; Coastal Geologist, an expert in flood hazard analysis. |
| Legal From the Start: Partnering Legal and Policy Research with Current Science for Better Coastal Management | Julia Wyman, J.D., Director of Marine Affairs Institute & Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program |
| From Antarctica to the Arctic: A Story of Snow, Sea Ice, and the Frigid Cold | Dr. Ross Lieb Lappen |
| Size matters: The fate of vernal pools and their inhabitants | Steven Schwartz |
| Developing 21st Century Green Students & Schools | Robin Organ |
| What’s Behind the Revised FEMA Flood Maps and Understanding Storm Surge Impacts to the Coastline | Ingeborg E. Hegemann & Matthew Creighton |
| Coastal Habitat Resiliency | Mary B. Griffin |
| Restoration of Coastal Wetlands on the South Shore | Jason D. Burtner |
| Learning from Coastal Systems how to adapt to Environmental Changes | Dr. Anamarija Frankic |
| Diversity in the Spice of Life in Coastal Ecosystem | Jarrett Byrnes |
| Exploring the Bowhead Whale Feeding Hotspot near Barrow, AK | Carin Ashjian PhD |
| Beside Still Waters: Exploring Vernal Pools | Jonathan Twining |
| From Headwaters to Harbor – A Look at Restoration and Research in the Gulf River | Dr. Sara Grady |
| Current Issues in Environmental Policy: Climate Change Adaptation, MA Initiatives | John Clarkeson |