Previous BIOMES Seminars

Spring 2025

Dr. Elizabeth Yankovsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, "Challenges & Application of Ocean Modeling"

April 16, 2025

Emerson Shenandoah, Member of Onondaga Nation and Director, The Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center, presents "Repatriation of 1000 acres".

April 09, 2025

Annalee Newitz, journalist, editor, and author,  “Avoiding Dystopia, in Theory and Practice”. This seminar was co-hosted by Planetary Solutions.

April 02, 2025

Margie Alt, Director, Climate Action Campaign and Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment

March 26, 2025

Dr. Craig Brodersen, Howard and Maryan Newman Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology
Dr. Yuan Yao, Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems
Reid J. Lifset, Research Scholar, Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology

March 5, 2025

Dr. Daniel Enrique Ibarra, "The role of lithology and the cryosphere on chemical weathering and global carbon fluxes," Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Environment and Society, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University

February 26, 2025

Dr. Ben Lee, "Climate change effects on biotic interactions in temperate forests," Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology, East Tennessee State University

February 19, 2025

Dr. Katharine J. Mach, "Increasing preparedness for intensifying climate change," Coleman P. Burke Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yale School of the Environment; Professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, & Earth Science

February 12, 2025

YSE Post-Docs Garam Byun, Samuel Shaheen and Elisa Tedaldi, "Environmental Insights"

February 5, 2025

Dr. Rohini Pande, Professor of Economics and Director of the Yale Economic Growth Center

January 29, 2025

Dr. Paul Anastas, “Designing Tomorrow”, Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, Yale School of the Environment

January 22, 2025

Fall 2024

Shimon Anisfeld, “The Past and Future of Water: From Local to Global and Back Again”, Senior Lecturer II and Research Scientist in Water Resources and Environmental Chemistry, Yale School of the Environment

November 20, 2024

Kai Chen, “Climate Epidemiology: How to Assess the Health Impacts of Climate Change”, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health

November 6, 2024

Nataliia Lisitcyna and Dmitry Lisitsyn, "Victories in Russian Nature Conservation: Freeing Whales from Jail, Protecting Forests, & Other Stories from Russia's Pacific Coast", Associate Research Scholar and Executive Fellow, Yale School of the Environment

October 30, 2024

Daniel Friess, "Blue carbon, from site to global scales", Cochran Family Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University

October 23, 2024

Rohan Pethiyagoda, Managing Trustee, Wildlife Heritage Trust, Sri Lanka, Research Associate, Australian Museum, Sydney

October 02, 2024

Dr. Emily Bernhardt, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor, Duke University

September 18, 2024

Dr. Johnathan Howard, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Yale University

September 11, 2024

Dr. Narasimha Rao, Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment

September 4, 2024

Spring 2024

Dr. Michelle Wong, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

April 17, 2024

Dr. Javier Ceja Navarro, Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University

April 10, 2024

Dr. Matt Kotchen, Professor of Economics, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Hydrology,
Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture
Dr. Jim Saiers, Thomas J. Siccama Senior Lecturer in Field Ecology,
Yale School of the Environment
Dr. Paulo Brando, Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment
Dr. Marlyse Duguid
, Director of Research, Yale Forests, Yale School of the Environment

April 3, 2024

Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, Chair, South Asian Studies Council, MacMillan Center, Yale University

March 27, 2024

Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Data-Driven Lab, University of North Carolina
Reid Lifset, Research Scholar, Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology, Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program, and Founding Editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale School of the Environment

March 6, 2024

Benjamin Z. Houlton, The Ronald P. Lynch Dean, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University

February 28, 2024

Sarah Keubbing, Research Scientist , Director of Research of the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program, Yale School of the Environment

February 21, 2024

Ronita Bardhan, Director of Research & Deputy Head of Department of Architecture Selwyn College in Cambridge

February 14, 2024

Jinhua Zhao, Professor of Cities and Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

February 07, 2024

Alex Munoz, Pristine Seas Senior Director for Latin America, McCluskey Fellow National Geographic Society, Yale School of the Environment

January 31, 2024

James Prosek, Artist, writer, and naturalist

January 24, 2024

Fall 2023

Yale World Fellows Panel

November 29, 2023

Eli Fenichel, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Yale School of the Environment

November 15, 2023

Marshal Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor; Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program Department of Geography, University of Georgia

"Cloudy with a Chance of Science: The intersection of wicked problems, perception, communication, and risk"

November 08, 2023

Narasimha Rao, Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment

November 01, 2023

Gretchen Goldman, Climate Change Research and Technology Director U.S. Department of Transportation

"From the White House to the Right of Way: Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Justice in the Nation’s Transportation System"

October 25, 2023

Nancy Grimm, Regents Professor; Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology; Distinguished Sustainability Scientist; Special Advisor to the Director for Faculty Mentoring and Development School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

"Fire as a new entry in the disturbance regime of a desert stream ecosystem"

September 27, 2023

Yuan Yao, Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems, Yale School of the Environment

"Life Cycle Systems Modeling for Sustainable Pathways to a Circular Bioeconomy"

September 20, 2023

Ingrid M. Parker, Professor Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California Santa Cruz
Gregory S. Gilbert, Professor; Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice Department of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

"Plant-pathogen networks in complex plant communities"

September 13, 2023

Erick Gagne, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Disease Ecology University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

"SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals - integrating from molecular to ecosystem scales to understand pathogen spillover"

September 06, 2023

Spring 2023

Elena Grewal, Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment

April 19, 2023

Catherine Wolfram, William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management

April 12, 2023

Anna Dyson, Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design and Professor at the School of the Environment, Yale University

"Built Ecologies"

April 05, 2023

Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale University
John Grim, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale University

March 08, 2023

Paul Sabin, Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of American Studies, Yale University

March 01, 2023

Dana Tomlin, Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Design and an Adjunct Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

February 22, 2023

Pat Gonzales Rogers, Lecturer, Yale University

February 15, 2023

Doug Kysar, Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School

February 08, 2023

Luke Sanford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance, Yale School of the Environment

February 01, 2023

Peter Raymond, Senior Associate Dean of Research & Director of Doctoral Studies; Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry, Yale School of the Environment

January 25, 2023

Fall 2022

World Fellows Panel

November 30, 2022

Zhao Zhong, Director of Green Camel Bell

November 17, 2022

Rita Effah, Senior Climate Finance Officer & Coordinator Africa Climate Change Fund - African Development Bank

"Financing Climate Action in Africa"

November 16, 2022

Babatunde Omilola, Yale World Fellow, Head of Public Health, Security, and Social Protection, African Development Bank Group

"Accelerating Sustainable Development in the age of COVID, Conflict, and Climate"

November 02, 2022

Paul Wright, Executive Director, Human Rights Defense Center

October 26, 2022

Chris Boone, Dean, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University

"A Roadmap for Sustainability in Higher Education"

October 12, 2022

Frances Seymour, McCluskey Fellow, Yale School of the Environment - Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute

September 28, 2022

Caren Cooper, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

"What's in a Name? Transforming Citizen Science into a Diverse, Inclusive, Equitable Practice"

September 21, 2022

Wake Smith, Lecturer in Yale College, Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

"Is Solar Geoengineering Unethical?"

September 14, 2022

Spring 2022

Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management & School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley

April 27, 2022

Marccus Hendricks, Associate Professor; Director at SIRJ Lab; Affiliated Research Faculty, Clark School of Engineering's Center for Disaster Resilience, NCSG & EFC.

April 13, 2022

Kristen Lyons & Frederic Mousseau, University of Queensland & The Oakland Institute

"Is Solar Geoengineering Unethical?"

March 30, 2022

Craig Santos Perez, Poet, Essayist, University Professor, American Publisher from the Chamorro People

March 09, 2022

Karenna Gore, Founder & Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics

February 23, 2022

Environmental Justice at Yale

February 09, 2022

Fall 2021

Michael Cepek, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a fellow in the Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation at the Field Museum of Natural History

"Indigenous Colonization: Territorial Dispossession, Shamanic Violence, and Anthropological Ethics in Amazonian Ecuador"

November 11, 2021

Liz Koslov, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA

October 27, 2021

Anna Behm Masozera, Director, International Gorilla Conservation Programme

October 22, 2021

Dennis Garrity, Chairman of The Board at The Global EverGreening Alliance

"Code Red and Code Green: Reflections on the future of global landscape restoration"

September 29, 2021

Chris Mooney, Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment

"Science and journalism of environmental data science"

September 22, 2021

Marian Chertow, Professor, Industrial Environmental Management, Yale School of the Environment

"Increasing Business Efficiency and Community through Industrial Symbiosis"

September 15, 2021

Patty Limerick, American historian, Author, Lecturer and Teacher

"Adventures in Alliance-Making: The Promise and Pleasure of Life in the Science/Humanities Borderland"

September 08, 2021

Spring 2020

Scott Creel, Matt Becker, Goran Spong

February 19, 2020

Phil Barnett, Former Democratic Staff Director, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Former Counsel for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Schiliro Barnette, LLC.

"An Innovative Approach to Using the Clean Air Act to Tackle Climate Change"

February 12, 2020

COP 26 Discussion

February 09, 2020

Juanita Sundberg, Associate Professor, Geography, University of British Columbia

"Mastery & Managerialism in the Making of Anthropocene Subjects"

January 29, 2020

Mark Bomford, Director, Yale Sustainable Food Program

"Bringing Vertical Farming’s Founding Paradox Down to Earth"

January 22, 2020