Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Environmental Forum

The Environmental Forum informs the Stanford community about a broad range of environmental issues and solutions through presentation and discussion by global experts from within Stanford and other leading academic institutions, government, NGOs, foundations and business. The forum is open to Stanford faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and staff. 


Forum Calendar

Woods Environmental Forum: Principles and Scales for the Sustainable Engineering of Rivers in the American West - Desiree Tullos »

June 1, 2017 4:00 pm PDT

Desiree Tullos, Associate Professor of Water Resources, Biological and Ecological Engineering Department, Oregon State University

Woods Environmental Forum: Buying and Selling Freshwater Ecosystems: The Promise and Pitfalls of Restoration and Mitigation in the Management of Freshwaters - Emily Bernhardt »

May 30, 2017 4:00 pm PDT

Emily Bernhardt, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry and Director of Graduate Studies, Ecology PhD Program, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

Woods Environmental Forum: Drought and Floods in the Anthropocene - Giuliano Di Baldassarre  »

May 26, 2017 12:00 pm PDT

Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Professor of Hydrology, Department of Earth Sciences of Uppsala, University in Sweden, UNESCO-IHE's Adjunct Professor at the Department of Integrated Water Systems and Governance and Director of CNDS, Centre of Natural Disaster Science.

Woods Environmental Forum: Managing the Origins of Air Pollution and Climate Change in China's Industrial Firms - Valerie J. Karplus »

May 25, 2017 3:30 pm PDT

Valerie J. Karplus, Class of 1943 Career Development Professor, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; and visiting at the Management Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University

Woods Environmental Forum: The Hydrologist's CT Scan: Resolving Connectivity to Plan and Evaluate Restoration and Adaptation Strategies for Aquatic Ecosystems - Laurel Larsen »

May 19, 2017 12:00 pm PDT

Laurel Larsen, Assistant Professor, Physical Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Behavioral Economics and Energy Policy: The Case of the Lightbulb Market »

March 9, 2017 3:30 pm PST

Dmitry Taubinsky, Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an affiliate of the Ifo Institute's Center for Economic Studies.

Multiple Stressors on Ocean Systems »

February 2, 2017 3:00 pm PST

Richard Bailey, Associate Professor, University of Oxford and Andreas Merkl, CEO, Ocean Conservancy, will present.

Microbial Diversity and Global Change »

February 1, 2017 3:30 pm PST

Jennifer Martiny, professor, ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Irvine presents.