Events for February 2013

The Future of Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Presented by J.R. DeShazo, Luskin School of Public Affairs and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Monday, February 04, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300, Large conference room

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Where landscape architecture and social justice meet: Designing parks for people

Presented by Tori Kjer, Program Manager, The Trust for Public Land
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
La Kretz Hall, Room 110

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Charles Corbett, Anderson

Energy Efficiency in Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms: Order Effects and the Adoption of Process Improvement Recommendations
Monday, February 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Luskin School of Public Affairs

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Century City Center: Land Use, Planning, and Traffic Impacts

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center & Institute of Transportation Studies Seminar
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
10:30 AM
Public Affairs Building, Room 2343

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Hagfish Slime Unraveled

A Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar by Douglas S. Fudge, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2320 Life Sciences Building

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Conservation for our World of 9 Billion People: The End of Nostalgia and Apocaholism

Presented by Peter Karieva, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
La Kretz Hall, Room 110

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Conservation for Our World of Nine Billion People: The End of Nostalgia and Apocaholism

An Oppenheim Lecture featuring Peter Karieva, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium

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Boutique medicine - Health care for the one percent: Science, ethics, and policy

An Ethics Center at the School of Medicine Seminar presented by Alumni, Martin Donohoe, UCLA (B.S. Biol '84, MD '90)
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
RRMC B-130 Tamkin Auditorium

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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar

From Microfiltration to Reverse Osmosis: Water Purification in Space and in Theory presented by Richard M Lueptow, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean, Northwestern School of Engineering
Thursday, February 14, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4275 Boelter Hall

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Corporations and Public Health: Profits before people?

An Ethics Center at the School of Medicine Seminar presented by Alumni, Martin Donohoe, UCLA (B.S. Biol '84, MD '90)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
C8-183 (NPI Auditorium)

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February Steering Committee Meeting

February 2013 Meeting of the LARC Steering Committee (not a public event, please contact if you would like to attend)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Metro Headquarters

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How Can L.A. Get to a More Sustainable Water Future by 2021?

A Water Resources Student Group Seminar presented by Dr. Mark Gold
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300, Large Conference Room

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Movement Ecology: Animating the Planet with Tracking Data

A Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar by Roland Kays, Biodiversity Lab, NRC, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, NC State University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2320 Life Sciences Building

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Communication, Mapping and the Public Interest - Lessons from GreenInfo Network

Presented by Larry Orman, Executive Director, GreenInfo Network
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
La Kretz Hall, Room 110

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Should We Just Adapt to Climate Change?

A Zócalo Public Square event moderated by Jon Christensen, Environmental Historian, UCLA
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Actors' Gang

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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar

To be announced.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4275 Boelter Hall

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UCLA/Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Conference on Housing and the Macroeconomy

The conference will be hosted by the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and held on the UCLA campus at the Broad Art Center on Thursday and Friday, February 21-22, 2013.
Thursday, February 21, 2013

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UCLA/Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Conference on Housing and the Macroeconomy

The conference will be hosted by the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and held on the UCLA campus at the Broad Art Center on Thursday and Friday, February 21-22, 2013.
Friday, February 22, 2013

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Symposium on Spatial Analysis of Social Environmental Justice

Applying Knowledge of Space, Place & Networks to Equitable Solutions
Friday, February 22, 2013
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

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UCLA 4th Annual Green Jobs Fair

Looking for a job or internship in the growing green sector?
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom

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Energy and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Passenger Transportation

The California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA invites you to attend a brown bag lunch with Dr. Mikhail Chester, with special introduction by Juan Matute, CCSC Researcher and Director of Local Climate Change Initiatives at UCLA School of Public Affairs
Monday, February 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
La Kretz Hall, 3rd Floor

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What A Mayor Can Do To Green A City

Join a conversation with Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles and David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto. Moderated by Glen MacDonald, Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
California NanoSystems Institute

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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar

CRITICAL ZONE ECOHYDROLOGY: PREDICTING THE CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGE presented by Praveen Kumar, Lovell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Program, University of Illinois
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Boelter Hall 4275

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Linking functional ecology and population / community dynamics in the Sonoran Desert

A Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar by Travis E. Huxman, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Center for Environmental Biology, Steele-Burnand Anza Borrego Desert Research Center
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2320 Life Sciences Building

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UCLA Science Faculty Research Colloquium

"Future Nanoscale Multiferroic Devices" presented by Gregory Carman, Director, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:00 PM
CNSI Auditorium

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Communities can fight climate change and create jobs – here’s how.

Presented by David Miller, former Toronto Mayor
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:15 PM
La Kretz Hall, Room 110

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UCLA Recreation Sustainability Sale

Thursday, February 28, 2013
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
John Wooden Center

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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar

To be announced.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4275 Boelter Hall

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Can A Lawyer/Mayor Succeed Against Climate Change Where Nations Have Failed?

Come hear how the world's largest cities are combating and responding to climate change from David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto and Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and current Counsel of International Business and Sustainability at Aird & Berlis LLP.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA School of Law

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Seminar

“Connecting Antarctic cross-slope exchange with Southern Ocean overturning” by Andrew Stewart, Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:30 PM
Room MSB 7124

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