[Ecolunch] ecolunch 15 September 2005

[Wm. R. Freudenburg]

   You might want to mention to the group the availability of a public 
lecture on campus that might be of interest.  On Thurs, Sept 29 (one month 
after Katrina hit the
Gulf Coast), right AFTER the ecolunch seminar, will be the kick-off lecture 
a series of events at UCSB this year, focusing on Equity and the Environment.

   The details:
2:00-3:00, I.V. Theater I
"Equity in the Eye of the Hurricane:  Lessons Learned?"
featuring yours truly (I work cheap).

   It's open to the public, and anyone from NCEAS would be more than 
welcome.  The basic argument will be that Katrina isn't just a "natural" 
disaster, but also a "human" disaster -- not just in terms of consequences, 
but in terms of causes.
   I'll be summarizing not just the history of how a long history of policy 
choices contributed to the disaster, but also the very clear evidence from 
NOAA photographs (only starting to be sensed vaguely in the media, as in 
the Matt Grunwald story in today's Washington Post) that very specific 
engineering decisions by the Corps of Engineers provide a major portion of 
the reason why so many people in the eastern sections of New Orleans and in 
neighboring St. Bernard Parish lost their homes and/or lives.  Finally, I 
will hope to offer some lessons that are sitting there in plain sight, just 
like the thus-far unreported gashes in major levees, if only we can learn 
to see them.  Questions, arguments, and contrary points of view would also 
be welcome.
   Cordially -- Bill F.

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William R. Freudenburg
Dehlsen Professor of Environment and Society
Environmental Studies Program
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-4160
   phone: 805-893-8282  fax: 805-893-8686
   http://www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/freudenburg.php
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At 9/14/2005 08:06 AM, drake at nceas.ucsb.edu wrote:
>Please join us for this week's ecolunch seminar at 12:15 on Thursday,
>September 15. Our speaker will be Leeza Pachepsky from UCSB. The title of
>her talk is "A null model of alien invasions. Or understanding temporal
>patterns of accumulating introduces species."
>
>John
>
>GENERAL INFORMATION Ecolunches are Thursdays, at 12:15 pm (Brown Bag
>Lunch) National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 735 State
>St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Phone: (805) 892-2500
>
>DIRECTIONS FROM UCSB BY BUS: You can get to NCEAS by taking the 11:40
>a.m. bus (# 24x) from campus. From the transit center, walk one block
>east to State Street and two blocks south to the Balboa Building at 735
>State Street. To return to campus, you can take the 1:30 p.m. bus (#24x)
>from the transit station and be back on campus by 1:49 p.m. Or you can
>the 2:20 p.m. bus and arrive campus at 2:39.
>PLEASE NOTE: THE 1:30 BUS WILL NOT BEGIN RUNNING UNTIL SEPTEMBER 22.
>
>BY CAR: take Highway 101 South. Once in Santa Barbara, exit on Carrillo
>Street. Turn left onto Carrillo. Drive 5 blocks and turn right on State
>Street. NCEAS is located on the right side at 735 State St., Suite 300.
>To Park: Drive past NCEAS on State Street and make your first right on
>Ortega Street. Drive 1 block and turn right on Chapala Street. Park in
>the underground Mall parking lot on your right. (First 90 minutes free).
>Once you are at the Balboa Building: We are on the third floor in the
>lounge area.
>
>
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