The State of California’s Natural Resources

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
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering
100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA