Program Agenda and Videos
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Welcome and Introduction
2:00 p.m. Wendell Brase, UCI Vice Chancellor and Chair, University of California Climate Solution Steering Group
2:05 p.m. - Energy at the Nexus of Water
Scott Samuelsen, Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine (View Video)
2:35 p.m. - Water Research at UC Irvine (View Video)
- Brett Sanders, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Alice Robinson, Graduate Student Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering
3:05 p.m. California’s Statewide Marine Protection Act Network: Future Opportunities, Future Benefits
Michael L. Weber, Program Officer-Oceans, Coasts, and Fisheries Resources Law Group, Sacramento California (View Video)
3:35 p.m. Environmental Challenges of Sustainability: the Center for Environmental Biology, the Steele-Burnand Anza Borrego Desert Research Center, and the Salton Sea
Travis Huxman, Director, Steele-Burnand Anza Borrego Desert Research Center (View Video)
3:45 p.m.- Coffee Break
The Alan C. Buck Memorial Lecture on the State of the State of California's Natural Resources (View Video)
- Invitation to Emerging California Government Leaders of Sustainability
Juliana Zanotto, Graduate Student Researcher, UCI Sustainability Fellow, Brazil - Introduction of Secretary Laird
Daniel G. Aldrich, III
State of the State of California's Natural Resources
John Laird, State of California Secretary of Natural Resources
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