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NOVEMBER 2006 |
HEADLINESDEPARTMENTS
Stanford, TNC, WWF Partner
on Ecosystem ServicesResearch
Events
Program Links Scholars, Policy-makers Nov. 9-10 “Imaging Environment”I-Earth Launches Website Dec. 4: “Made in China”
An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund is developing new systems and tools to quantify the value of ecosystem services, i.e., the contributions nature makes to human life, and to incorporate those values into decision-making.
http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org
The Woods Institute has developed an in-depth training program for mid-career scholars from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, and Davis. The goal is to improve the understanding, communications and connections between university researchers and Sacramento policy-makers focusing on climate change.
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/11/3/scholarProgramToAddressClimateChange
Stanford is launching an I-Earth (Introduction to the Earth) Program designed to help ensure that all students, regardless of whether or not they plan to have an environmental career, understand the challenges of environmental sustainability and how to meet them.
http://iearth.stanford.edu
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GCEP Announces Research Awards
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Study Predicts Collapse of Ocean Fisheries
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Upcoming Events |
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Imaging EnvironmentNov. 9-10, Stanford Humanities Center
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Made in China7 p.m., Dec. 4, 2006, Memorial Auditorium
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Working Solutions e-News provides highlights of activities and events from Stanford's university-wide Initiative on the Environment & Sustainability. It is distributed the first week of each month during the school year. Submissions are due on the 15th of each month. For more information, please see woods.stanford.edu, or contact us at environment@stanford.edu
Global Climate and Energy Project Director Franklin Orr Jr. announced awards totaling $1.15 million for two novel research programs and two exploratory research efforts that have been initiated at Stanford and outside the university. The new research activities are in the areas of biomass, advanced coal utilization and integrated assessment of biofuels.
All species of wild seafood will collapse within 50 years, according to a new study in the Nov. 3 issue of Science. Loss of marine biodiversity worldwide is profoundly reducing the ocean's ability to produce seafood. Stephen Palumbi, professor of biological sciences at Hopkins Marine Station and Woods Institute senior fellow, is co-author. 
“Imaging Environment: Maps, Models and Metaphors.” Nov. 9-10, Levinthal
Hall, at the Stanford Humanities Center. Co-sponsored by the Woods
Institute.
Ted C. Fishman, author of China, Inc., will discuss China's emergence as a world power and global implications of its rapid growth. First of three lectures. Sponsored by the Stanford School of Earth Sciences and the Woods Institute for the Environment.