The Stanford Alumni Association and the University of British Columbia Alumni Association present two special seminars featuring top environmental professors from both institutions. UBC President Martha Piper will welcome attendees.
Schedule for the evening
5:30 — 6:30 p.m. Registration and Reception
6:00 p.m. Welcome remarks by Dr. Martha Piper, President of UBC
6:30— 7:30 p.m. Seminars; Choose from the following:
"Fisheries in Crisis"
Meg Caldwell, JD '85, Director and Senior Lecturer of Stanford's Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy program. Caldwell teaches land use law and policy, coastal law, science, and policy and the environmental workshop seminar at Stanford Law School. Caldwell was appointed to the California Coastal Commission in June 2004 and her fellow commissioners elected her to chair the Commission in December 2004.
Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director, UBC Fisheries Centre. Dr. Pauly's concepts, methods and software are in use around the world. He has been named one of UBC's Distinguished University Scholars and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science).
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"Fueling the Future"
Mark Jacobson, '87, MS '88, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. Jacobson teaches courses on weather and storms, air pollution and numerical weather prediction. He specializes in computer modeling and analysis of atmospheric pollution to help understand--and ultimately reduce--its contribution to global warming.
Bob Evans, Professor and Director of the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre. Dr. Evans is currently the Methanex Professor of Clean Energy Systems, and is the founding Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre in the Faculty of Applied Science at UBC.