Environmental Studies
Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Building a Sustainable Future: Careers in Environmental Justice Panel Discussion
UC Alumni Career Network event
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 12:00pm
Join us to hear from Dr. Lin at the upcoming UC Alumni Career Network online panel event:
Dr. Cindy Lin is an ecologist, environmental engineer, environmental and data scientist, and expert on the environmental impacts of land use, human activities on ecological habitats, and the Clean Water Act who worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for two decades. She is the President and Co-Founder of the San Diego Environmental Film Festival; and CEO and Co-Founder of Hey Social Good, a social impact tech company working to revolutionize social good for people, planet, and profit. This year Lin has joined the core faculty of the Environmental Studies Program at UC San Diego.
Register here:
https://ucop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0BvexWkVSPy_LV4gNk15cA#/registration
PAST EVENTS
How Environmental Law Affects Your Life in San Diego
Tim Patterson
Wednesday, January 31, 11–11:45am
Join us for Tim Patterson’s Take a Triton to Class talk!
Tim Patterson has over forty years of litigation-based experience and has been a core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at UC San Diego since 2019. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Santa Clara School of Law. As a Deputy Attorney General and later as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General of the Environment Section of the California Attorney General’s Office in San Diego, Patterson was fortunate to be able to participate in the development of significant legal precedents in several subject areas of federal and state environmental law.
Using Community-Based Science to Study the Ecology of Coastal Salt Marshes
Dr. Kellie Uyeda
Monday, January 29, 2024, 11am-12pm
Join us for Kellie Uyeda’s Take a Triton to Class talk!
Dr. Kellie Uyeda is a research scientist at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. She has a Ph.D. in Geography from San Diego State University / University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are focused around multidisciplinary approaches to ecosystems and their management, ranging from landscape-level patterns assessed using satellite imagery to mechanistic understanding of factors shaping plant distributions using manipulative experiments. She is also interested in community-based science, both as a participant and data user. Dr. Uyeda has been a lecturer in Environmental Studies since 2020.
Jim and Julie Lin Environmental Justice in Underserved Communities Awardee Panel
Saturday, February 3, 2023 from 11am - Noon
Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, CA 92037
Join us at the Triton Leaders Conference Saturday, February 3, 2024, where student awardees Antonio Catanzarite and Julianne Luong of the Jim and Julie Lin Environmental Justice in Underserved Communities Award will be present, as well as donor Emeritus Professor Jim Lin!
Register Here
Co-sponsored by John Muir College, UC San Diego
2023 San Diego Environmental Film Festival
Opening night
Friday, November 17, 2023 from 6-10pm
All-day Screenings
Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 12-9pm
Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, MOSAIC Hall (Room 0113), 9605 Scholars Drive North, La Jolla, CA 92093, UC San Diego
The San Diego Environmental Film Festival (SDEFF) is a registered 501c3 nonprofit created to inspire and effect social change through the mediums of film, art and storytelling. We hope you will join us to build a community working together to learn, inspire, and act to effect change.
Co-sponsored by the UCSD Environmental Studies Program at John Muir College, UC San Diego and the UCSD Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts
Image: sdeff.org
Dr. Carolyn Finney
The History of Racializing the Environment Keynote Lecture
October 26, 2023, 12:30-2 pm
UC San Diego Campus – International Lane
Sixth College invites you to this year's Culture Art Technology Conversation with Dr. Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Dr. Carolyn Finney is a storyteller extraordinaire, author, cultural geographer and self-described accidental environmentalist. She is an artist-in-residence and the Environmental Studies Professor of Practice in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College.
CAT Conversations is an annual program in which students read, discuss, and converse with an author on a topic that examines prevailing and longstanding inequities or social challenges.
Image: Sixth College, CAT Conversations
Dr. Carolyn Finney
The History of Racializing the Environment Keynote Lecture
October 26, 2023, 12:30-2 pm
UC San Diego Campus – International Lane
Sixth College invites you to this year's Culture Art Technology Conversation with Dr. Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Dr. Carolyn Finney is a storyteller extraordinaire, author, cultural geographer and self-described accidental environmentalist. She is an artist-in-residence and the Environmental Studies Professor of Practice in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College.
CAT Conversations is an annual program in which students read, discuss, and converse with an author on a topic that examines prevailing and longstanding inequities or social challenges.
Image: Sixth College, CAT Conversations
Multispecies Convivality
Guest Lecture by Michael Lim Tan
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of the Philippines at Diliman
Organized by Dr. Joy Siapno in collaboration with UCSD Environmental Studies, ENVR 140: Wilderness and Human Values (Spring 2023)
Michael Tan is a medical anthropologist, veterinarian, and scholar focusing on the regions of Southeast Asia and East Asia at the University of the Philippines at Diliman. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Minor at John Muir College.
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
April 14, 2023 - 5pm
5pm conversation, 6pm film screening
Structural and Materials Engineering Theater (SME 149)
UC San Diego's Environmental Studies Program at John Muir College and the San Diego Environmental Film Festival invite you to the screening of The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a documentary film about the remarkable life of the eco-activist exposing the corporate control of global food systems.
Vandana Shiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations invested in continuing their degenerative but lucrative agricultural practices. By profiling one of the greatest activists of modern times, the film looks at the epic struggle over who controls the world’s food systems, and asks the question, who will prevail?
Panel conversation on local food justice at 5pm will include:
Introductory short film: "Growing a Food Movement: Foodshed Small Farm Distro"
Light vegetarian snacks and refreshments will be served.
Please note: Structural Materials & Engineering Theater is located on the North side of the Epstein Family Amphitheater. UCSD Main Campus trolley stop is a close walking distance. Parking available at Gilman Parking Structure on Gilman Drive and Russell Lane.
Harriet A. Washington
A Terrible Thing to Waste, Public Lecture
February 16, 2023, 6-9 pm
The Jeannie Auditorium - North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood
Harriet A. Washington will be presenting her recent book A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Little, Brown, 2019) at UC San Diego. From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence causes irreparable physical harm to millions of people across the country—cutting lives tragically short and needlessly burdening our health care system. But these deadly environments create another insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN Oakland Award, and the 2007 American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
Love Your Wetlands - Community Climate Action Day, San Diego
February 4, 2023 at 9am
Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve
Eighteenth Annual “Love Your Wetlands Day” hosted by the UC San Diego Natural Reserve System in collaboration with the San Diego Audubon Society will take place at the Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve on the northern edge of Mission Bay in San Diego, California took place on February 4, 2023 at 9am.
Environmental Studies Lecturer and Director of the UCSD Natural Reserve System Heather Henter searches for volunteers, please circulate this announcement widely.
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/california-volunteers-joins-uc-san-diegos-annual-love-your-wetlands-day-celebration
Photo by Karina Ornela
Environmental and Climate Justice in Southeast Asia
January 26, 2023 at 4pm (San Diego)
Online roundtable event
Participants:
Sheila Coronel, professor and journalist at Columbia University; Demetrio de Carvalho, an environmental justice activist and Goldman Prize winner from East Timor; Therese Tham Nguyen, community development theorist and organizer based in Timor; and Kim Ninh, former Country Representative for Myanmar/Burma and Vietnam, Asia Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Minor; Science Studies Program; Nature, Space, and Politics Working Group; Green New Deal at UCSD; I-House; and Muir College.
Image: Urban ecology/ foraging field trip in ENVR 120: Coastal Ecology with Chris Johnson, Landscape Sustainability Worker at UC San Diego (Winter 2023); Photo credit: Kellie Uyeda