"Three Islands and an Archipelago: Human-Natural System Interactions in Oceania" by Patrick V. Kirch, University of California-Berkeley.

Dr. Kirch is the Class of 1954 Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. His research interests focus on the origins and diversification of the cultures and peoples of Melanesia and Polynesia and in the evolution of their complex sociopolitical formations. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recent recipient of the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, and the I. Staley Prize.

The Winter Colloquium of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies encourages interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching in areas related to the global issues of population growth, environmental change, resource use, and economic development. Colloquium lectures are free and open to the general public. Credit is available for HumBio 60 and BioSci 146.