FebruaryFebruary 04, 2016 5:30 PM WAYNE POWELL - Brooklyn College & The Graduate Center “Geoarchaeological Investigations of Bronze Age Tin Mining and Metallurgy in the Central Balkans.” February 11, 2016 5:30 PM SIMON SPRINGER - University of Victoria “Earth Writing”

February 18, 2016 5:30 PM JENNIFER CHERRIER - Brooklyn College “Pollutants in Coastal Waters: Inputs, Impacts and Solutions”

February 25, 2016 5:30 PM PETER GROFFMAN - Brooklyn College “Emulating Natural Systems to Achieve Low Cost Carbon-dioxide Removal from Air”MarchMarch 03, 2016 5:30 PM PETER KELEMEN - Columbia University “Terrestrial Denitrification: A Tale of Misery, Woe and the Frontiers of Environmental Science ” March 10, 2016 5:30 PM CARSTEN KESSLER & GREGORY DONOVAN - Hunter College & The Graduate Center; Fordham University “GeoHumanities and the Urban Platform” March 17, 2016 5:30 PM TREVA ELLISON - Dartmouth College “Protect and Service: 1970s Gay and Lesbian Police Activism in Los Angeles and the Value of Precarity”

March 24, 2016 5:30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION “Critical Physical Geography in New York City”

March 31, 2016 5:30 PM ANTHONY BROCCOLI - Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers Climate Institute, Rutgers University Using Single-Forcing Coupled Model Experiments to Understand the Response of Climate to Greenhouse Gas, Ice Sheet, and Astronomical Forcings AprilApril 07, 2016 STUDENT RESEARCH DAY April 14, 2016 5:30 PM KAFUI ATTOH - The Murphy Institute, CUNY “Public Transportation and the Idiocy of Urban Life” April 21, 2016 5:30 PM MARIA TZORTZIOU - City College & The Graduate Center “Tidal Exchanges In and Out & What Goes Up Must Come Down in Highly Vulnerable Coastal Wetland Ecosystems”

MayMay 05, 2016 5:30 PM FILIP STABROWSKI - Hunter College “ ‘People as Businesses’: Airbnb and Urban Micro-Entrepreneurialism in New York City” May 12, 2016 5:30 PM MARK CANE - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University “Climate Change and the Conflict in Syria”

Unless noted above, all talks are at 5:30 in the Science Center, Room 4102, 4th, Floor, at the Graduate Center and are followed by a reception CITY UNIVERSITY

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