Water Science, Policy and Management
Agriculture Changing Chemistry of Mississippi River
Midwestern farming has injected the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers and more carbon dioxide annually into the Mississippi River during the past 50 years, according to a study published today in Nature by researchers at Yale and Louisiana State universities.
Environment: Yale, Spring 2007
The Journal of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies - Spring 2007 Issue
Redistribution of Rainfall in Space and Time by Forest Canopies
Presented by: Richard Keim, Ph.D. School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Richard Keim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. His research interests include hydrology of forested wetlands and...Morphodynamics of Deltas under the Influence of Humans
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut Lecture open to the university community. Abstract: Hundreds of millions of people occupy river deltas, and human engineering through flood control and irrigation...Living with Oil and Gas: The Effects of Petroleum on Louisiana
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...Understanding Causes to Understand Remedy: Above Else, Do No Harm
Dr. Eugene Turner, Professor, Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University To understand the remedies, as in medicine, one should understand the causes of the disease. Further, the minimum demonstrable outcome of restoration (treatment) should be to cause no harm to the marsh...Keynote: Lessons from Katrina: Will crisis bring about significant policy changes that address coastal vulnerability?
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...Recovering from the Asian Tsunami: Policies, Processes, Culture and Conflict
Dr. Barbara Best, Coastal Resources and Policy Advisor, Office of Natural Resources Management, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, U.S. Agency for International Development. How do developing countries with scarce resources and weak institutions recover from devastating...From Spark to Flame—The Public Interest Role in Coastal Restoration and the Future of South Louisiana
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...Sustainability of Louisiana Coastal Wetland Forests
Dr. Richard F. Keim, Assistant Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. Changing hydrological conditions in deltaic swamp forests have resulted from flood control measures on the Mississippi River. The result is degradation of productivity and regeneration...The Vulnerability of the Netherlands: Past vs. Future, and Zeeland 1953 vs. New Orleans 2005
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...A Sustainable Coastal Louisiana: What will it take to get there?
Dr. Denise J. Reed, Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of New Orleans The lecture will outline recent and current plans to restore the coast, highlighting how restoration decisions are made and the role of science in informing them. Various options will be...Anatomy of a Disaster, What We Learned from Katrina
Dr. Lewis E. Link, Senior Research Engineer, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, and currently serving as Director, Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force. What happened during Katrina was the result of decisions and actions taken over decades. Change,...
Use Attainability Analysis Fieldwork in Missouri
2006 Student Internship As part of my summer internship at Tetra Tech, I was sent out for some field work in Missouri to conduct a Use Attainability Analysis on watersheds throughout Missouri as part of a contract with EPA. Tetra Tech is the largest U.S. consulting firm in treatment,...Losing Land: Underlying Geologic and Anthropomorphic Vulnerabilities of the Louisiana Coast Revealed By Geodetic Studies
Dr. Roy Dokka, Director of Louisiana Spatial Reference Center, and the Center for GeoInformatics, Louisiana State UniversityAlligators, Muskrats, Oil, Hurricanes and People: The Changing Louisiana Coastal Landscape
Dr. Don Davis, Research Professor, Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program, Louisiana State University Louisiana’s sea-level citizens have learned to live and adapt to subsidence, sea-level rise, hurricane-induced storm surges, and coastal land loss/erosion. These...
Global Perspectives on Large Dams
From fish extinction, dam collapse and community displacement to hydropower, agricultural development and flood protection, discuss and learn why so many dams are coming down and going up around the world. Join us on November 3-5, 2006 for “Global Perspectives on Large Dams,” a conference...
Resource Use in the Tri-National Sangha River Region of Equatorial Africa
Heather E. Eves, Rebecca Hardin, Stephanie Rupp, Editors Order a print copy in English, French or both.
Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems
The mission of this center is to promote interdisciplinary science and policy studies of watersheds and adjacent coastal waters, and to incorporate these studies into academic life at Yale by providing opportunities for student and faculty projects related to the study of coastal and watershed...
Restoration of an Urban Salt Marsh
David G. Casagrande, Editor Order a print copyWater Science, Policy, and Management
This focal area uses the watershed (stream or river basin) as its unit of analysis, instruction, and action. The global water crisis takes diverse forms, including water scarcity, polluted lakes and rivers, contaminated ground water, spread of water-related diseases, and extinction of aquatic...
Human Population and Freshwater Resources
Karin M. Krchnak, Editor Victoria Dompka Markham and Nancy Thorne, Assistant Editors Order a print copy
Developing Industrial Ecosystems
Part I: Tools From Industrial Ecology
Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments
Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna, Editors Order a print copy
Aldeafeliz Ecovillage
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ALDEAFELIZ ECOVILLAGE: Finding happy ways to live sustainably Why an ecovillage? You might have dreamed of a lifestyle where you are closer to nature, and live as a community, where the values of respect for people, nature, and self are promoted. You might also want to live in an...
