PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Mathematical Ecology: A Century of Progress, and Challenges for the Next Century
LENGTH ・ 00:59:03NSpring 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 4/4/2017 Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The subject of theoretical ecology is an old and productive one, and has helped in the management…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Environmental Martyrdom and Defenders of the Forest
LENGTH ・ 00:57:18Spring 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 3/7/2017 Robert Nixon, Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment. Professor of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute. Martyrdom is direct action in extremis. Martyrs put…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Outsized Role of the Southern Ocean in the Regulation of Carbon, Heat, and Biological Productivity
LENGTH ・ 01:01:21Spring 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 2/7/2017 Jorge Sarmiento, George J. Magee Professor of Geosciences and Geological Engineering. Director, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling. Director, Cooperative Institute for Climate Science. The Southern Ocean accounts for…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Small-scale Fluid Dynamics with Environmental Implications
LENGTH ・ 00:58:52Fall 2016 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 12/6/2016 Howard Stone, Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fluid flows occur at every scale in our…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Suffering of Wild Animals: Should we do anything about it, and if so, what?
LENGTH ・ 00:59:00Fall 2016 PEI Faculty Seminar Series, November 15th, 2016 Peter Singer, Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values Most of us accept that suffering is an intrinsically bad thing, even if it may…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Competition, Hydraulic Damage, and the Universal Rules Regulating Plant Water Use
LENGTH ・ 01:06:19Tiny valves on the surfaces of leaves, called stomates, regulate carbon gain and water loss by plants, and are thus linchpins of the global carbon and water cycles. Amazingly, the same simple model regulates stomates worldwide. This model is…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Probabilistic Coastal Hazards Mapping for the US
LENGTH ・ 00:53:13Improving coastal resiliency, and the adoption of natural infrastructure as part of a multiple lines of defense strategy, relies on effective coastal flood hazards and risk assessment and risk management. Current flood hazards maps do not adequately consider geomorphological,…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Future of Carbon and Heat Uptake by the Ocean: Seeking Insight From the Ice Ages
LENGTH ・ 01:05:35Heat uptake by the ocean is slowing the greenhouse gas-driven warming of the atmosphere, and the ocean represents the dominant long-term sink for the carbon dioxide gas deriving from fossil fuel use. However, these beneficial roles of the ocean…
