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Visiting Scholar Seminar Series

The Visiting Scholar Seminar Series brings policy scholars and experts from around the country to interact with the VIMS and William & Mary communities. The series is cosponsored by Virginia Sea Grant, the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, and the VIMS School of Marine Science. VIMS students working towards a subconcentration in marine policy attend the seminar series and complete coursework relating to it.

Series Archive

Fall 2011

Community Supported Fisheries and the Consumer Behavior of Sustainability

Josh Stoll

Josh Stoll

The Growth of Community Supported Fisheries in North America
Josh Stoll is a founder of LocalCatch.org, an online network that links consumers to community supported fisheries (CSFs).  As a graduate student at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, Josh helped start Walking Fish, the first CSF in the southeastern United States.

Towards Sustainable Consumption

Michael Luchs

Michael Luchs

Michael Luchs is an Assistant Professor at William & Mary’s Mason School of Business whose research interests include sustainability, ethical consumerism, product design and creativity. Prior to earning his Ph.D., Dr. Luchs worked for over a decade as a consultant and as a manager in industry.

 

Spring 2011

Realizing an Effectiveness Revolution in Environmental Management

Matt Keene

EPA Social Scientist Matt Keene

EPA Social Scientist Matt Keene discussed ways to evaluate the impact of environmental programs. The environmental movement of the 20th century has evolved into a large, diverse and well-financed global community that is increasingly required to prove its worth. Though the environmental sector collects and uses data to determine the status of ecological and social systems, the effectiveness of the programs and policies it uses to affect this status remains largely untested. Learning from other fields, the environmental sector must exploit key leverage points, such as flows of information and self-organization, to overcome impediments and create incentives to initiate and realize an era of effectiveness in environmental management.

Fall 2010
Joe Bouchard

Joe Bouchard

Friends Don’t Let Friends Marry Climate Scientists
In his varied career, Joe Bouchard has served as the Commanding Officer of Naval Station Norfolk and represented the 83rd District in Virginia Beach in the Virginia House of Delegates. He discussed the challenges of adaptation planning and policy development and the role of research in informing policy.

Spring 2010
Morgan Gopnik

Morgan Gopnik

Marine Spatial Planning: What is it? Why do it?
Is “marine spatial planning” just a new buzzword, or can it really help improve ocean health? Morgan Gopnik is an independent consultant with more than 20 years of experience advising government, industry, and NGOs in ocean and marine issues. In this visiting scholar seminar, Gopnik discusses the history, status, and potential of marine spatial planning.

Anne Khademian

Anne Khademian

The Scientific, the Political, and the Local: Leadership across multiple ways of knowing public policy problems
Professor Anne M. Khademian is the Alexandria Program Director for the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Anne’s expertise in organizational culture and leadership has been applied to a range of public policy settings, including homeland security, financial regulation, and climate governance. Her seminar focuses on collaborative leadership in governance networks.

Fall 2009
Kristina Hill

Kristina Hill ©Jane Haley/UVA

Adapting Cities to Floods
University of Virginia’s Dr. Kristina Hill presented on ways cities around the world are using landscape architecture to adapt to sealevel rise. Dr. Hill is a landscape architect, who considers how communities near water systems adapt to climate change. Her recent work looks at connects between community design and flood-related damage and pollution. Her book Water, Ecology and the Design of Cities is due out this year. Dr. Hill is Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture Program at University of Virginia.

Spring 2009

Climate of Opinion and The Hope for Regional Governance
Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan, Chris Borick of Muhlenberg College, and Virginia Sea Grant Director Troy Hartley presented a series of talks about public attitudes towards climate change and the prospects for regional governance solutions to address climate change.