| Date/Venue |
Activity |
| Wed.
September 6
CIK
Room 117
Munchie
Detail
|
Orientation
|
| Lobsters:
A Case Study in Resource Management |
|
Fri.
September 8
CIK
Room 117
Judith |
The Biological Dimension
Dr. Stan
Cobb
Professor Emeritus
University of Rhode Island
Cobb,
J.S. 2006. What's going on with our lobsters? 41N 3:19-24
Cobb,
J.S. and K.M. Castro. 2006. Homarus Species. Chapter 9 in
Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries.
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|
Wed.
September
13
CIK
Room 117 |
Mr. Richard Allen
Commercial Lobsterman
The
Lobsterman by Alec Wilkinson (The New Yorker July 3, 2006)
Understanding
the Collapse of the Southern New England Lobster Fishery and Doing Something
About It (Richard Allen, 2002)
|
|
Fri.
September 15
CIK
Sun Room |
CIIP Council Meeting - No Class
CIIP Council Meeting
|
|
Wed.
September 20
CIK
Room 117
Q |
The Cultural, Social and Ethical Dimensions
Dr. Kathy
Castro
Rhode Island Sea Grant Program
Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission
Click on "Managed Species," then "American Lobster"
Peer
Review of ASMFC Lobster Stock Assessment Model
Optional
Reading on the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act of 1996
Rosenberg, A.A., J.H. Swasey, and M. Bowman. 2006. Rebuilding
US fisheries: progress and problems. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment: Issue 6, Volume 4 pp. 303-308.
|
Fri.
September 22
CIK
Room 117
Pete
|
The Economic Dimension
Dr. Tom
Tietenberg
Colby College, Maine
Privatization
of the Ocean (Rognvaldur Hannesson, 2004)
Recommended as background: Chapters 3 & 4
Required: Chapters 5, 6 & 7
|
|
Wed.
September 27
CIK
Room 117
Candace |
Synthesis:
Lobsters
|
| Climate
Change |
|
Team Building on the Ropes Course!
|
Wed.
October 4
CIK
Room 117
Jim
Public
Seminar
12:00
pm
Weaver Auditorium
CIK
|
The Science of Climate Change
Dr. Paul Mayewski
Director and Professor
Climate Change Institute
University of Maine
Dr. Mayewski's
presentation: Understanding
Climate Change
The
Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change, 2002
By Paul Andrew Mayewski and Frank White
Optional
readings and resources:
Hansen et al (2006). Global
temperature change
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 14288-14293.
The
Warming of the Earth: A beginner's guide to understanding the issue
of global warming
Woods Hole Research Center, 2006
Global
Warming Facts and Our Future
Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences,
2006
|
|
No
Class
|
Wed.
October 11
CIK
Sun Room
Cathy
|
Climate
Change and Policymaking
Dr. Fred Meyerson
Meyerson, F.A.B.
(1997). Pollution
and our people problem. The Washington Post, November 10,
p. A21.
Meyerson, F.A.B.
Population
and Climate Change Policy. In Schneider et al. (2002). Climate
Change Policy: A Survey. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Rewriting
the Science. CBS News Video: 60 Minutes.
Ellison,
Katherine (2006). Get
Real. Conservation
in Practice 7 (2), 28-34.
Optional readings
and resources:
Gardner, Timothy (2006).
White
House says no change on carbon strategy. Reuters, September 28.
|
|
Fri.
October 13
CI
Bay Campus |
9:00-Noon. CI Bay
Campus
Sounds
in the Sea Web Site Review (Optional)
5:00 - 6:30 PM.
Hazard Room, CI Bay Campus
Work-life
Balance Workshop
Work-Life,
Gender, and the Academy
|
|
Wed.
October 18
Small Conference Room
Coastal Institute
Narragansett
Steph
Small
Conference Room
Coastal Institute Narragansett
|
Gail Scowcroft
Office of Marine Programs
Graduate School of Oceanography
University
of Rhode Island
New
England Regional Assessment of the Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change. U.S. Global Change Research
Program, 2002.
Required: Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
Manning,
Martin and Michel Petit (2003).A
Concept Paper for the AR4 Cross Cutting Theme: Uncertainties
and Risk. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The
Economics of Climate Change
12:30 to 1:30 - Polycom session
with
Dr. Michael Hanemann
Chancellor's Professor
California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley
Haneman's
presentation
RFF
DP 06-06: The Economics of Climate Chage
By Lawrence H. Goulder and William Pizer
Our
Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California.
(2006). Biennial report of the California Climate Change Center.
|
|
Thurs & Fri.
October 19 & 20
|
Roger
Williams Marine Affairs Institute
6th
Marine Law Symposium
Note:
CIIP will cover registration. Attendance is strongly encouraged.
Please notify Deb Coty ASAP of your intentions.
|
Wed.
October 25
CIK
Room 117
Jason
|
Synthesis:
Climate Change and Public Perceptions
State
of Fear, 2004
By Michael Chrichton
Farrell,
Bryan (2006-03-27) Science Fact or Science Fiction? The Nation.
Remnick,
David (2006-04-24) Ozone Man. The New Yorker.
Grunwald,
Michael (2006-07-23) Warming to the Inconvenient Facts. The Washington
Post.
Easterbrook, Gregg
(2006-09) Some Convenient Truths. The Atlantic Monthly.
Global
Warming. CBS News Video: 60 Minutes.
Climate change
in media forms aimed at reaching children:
|
Fri.
October 27
CIK
Sun Room
|
CIIP Council Meeting - No Class
|
| Urban
Waterfronts |
|
Wed.
November 1
Erika
CIK
Room 117 |
Op-Ed
Workshop
|
|
Fri.
November 3
Karen
CIK
Sun Room |
Dr. Scott Nixon
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
The History of Anthropogenic Impacts to Narragansett Bay
Nixon, S.W., C.A. Oviatt, J. Frithsen, and B. Sullivan. 1986. Nutrients and the productivity of estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems. J. Limnol. Soc. sth. Afr. 12:43-71.
Nixon, S., B. Buckley, S. Granger, L. Harris, A. Oczkowski, L. Cole, and R. Fulweiler. 2005. Anthropogenic nutrient inputs to Narragansett Bay: A twenty-five year perspective. A Report to the Narragansett Bay Commission and Rhode Island Sea Grant. URI Graduate School of Oceanography. 52 pp. (Note: skim the dense bits...)
Nixon paper in review - to be distributed
|
| Wed.
November 8 |
Tuesday Classes Meet
|
|
Fri.
November 10
CIK
Room 117
|
Providence Waterfront Field Trip
Site visits to Promet Marine Services,
Providence Piers, and Save the Bay
REVISED
field trip itinerary 11/9/06
Jennifer
McCann and Austin Becker
Rhode Island Coastal Resources Center
The Metro Bay SAMP and the
Providence Waterfront
Sairinen, R. and S. Kumpulainen. 2006. Assessing social impacts in urban waterfront regeneration. Env. Impact Assess. Review 26:120-135.
The
Metro Bay SAMP
on homepage read "Introduction";
from homepage click "Background"; click
"SAMP Boundary"; click "Issues"
Use the following
three websites to familiarize yourself with the
sites we'll be visiting.
Promet
Marine Services
from homepage, click
"company"; click "facilities"
Providence
Piers
from
homepage, click "about Providence Piers"; "Waterside/Phase
II"; and
"Landside/Phase III"
Save
the Bay
from homepage, click
"About", then "Save The Bay Center"
|
|
Wed.
November 15
CIK
Room 117
Public
Lecture:
12:00 pm
Weaver
Auditorium
CIK
|
Planning
for Urban Waterfronts
Ann Breen
The Waterfront Center
Public Lecture:
"The Many Facets of the Urban Waterfront Phenomenon"
Breen, A. and D.
Rigby. Waterfronts: Cities Reclaim Their Edge. Introduction
and Chapter 1
To be distributed in class
France, R. Green
World Grey Heart
Waterfront
Center website
Click "About
TWC" and then "Urban Waterfront Manifesto"
|
|
Fri.
November 17
CIK
Sun Room
|
Economics of Urban Waterfronts
Dr. Charles
Colgan
University of Maine
The Changing Ocean Economy and Our Relationship to the Shoreline
Recognizing
Ocean Assets and Challenges, Chapter 1 of
An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century: Final Report of the U.S.
Commission on Ocean Policy
"Living Near...and Making a Living From...the Nation's Coasts
and Oceans." Appendix C of "Appendices
Printed in the Main Report," p. 14-40.
Colgan, Charles S. (2004) The Contribution of Working Waterfronts to
the Maine Economy. Maine's Working Waterfront Coalition.
|
|
Wed.
November 22
CIK
Room 117 |
No Class - work on Op-Eds
|
Fri.
November 24 |
Thanksgiving Break
|
Wed.
November
29
CIK
Room 117
|
Autumn Ozcowski
Case Study:
The Nile Delta
S
Nixon, The Artificial Nile, 2004, American Scientist, Vol 92: 158-165
Egypt's High Aswan Dam, Abu-Zeid and El-Shibini, 1997, Water Resources
Development, Vol 13: 209-207
A
Lost Ancient Land,
H Miles, The Middle East, July-August 1994 n236 p35(3)
Additional Resources:
World
Commission on Dams - Role of the Aswan High Dam (browse through,
specifically read the list of Pros and Cons)
The
Aswan High Dam - General Information (Browse through this site)
|
|
Fri.
December 1
CIK
Sun Room |
The History of IGERT and the CIIP... everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
|
Wed.
December 6
Pete
CIK
Room 117
|
Doug Ahlers
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Kates
et al. (2006) Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina:
A Research Perspective.
Gosselin
(2005) On Their Own in Battered New Orleans.
Draining
New Orleans New York Times. (Browse through the interactive maps)
|
Fri.
December 8
CIK Sun
Room
|
Synthesis: Urban Waterfronts
|
Fri.
December 15
9 am - 12 noon
South Kingstown
Land Trust's
Weeden Farms Barn
|
Student-led Synopsis and Reflection
This date is the final exam time period for the class
Directions to "The Barn" from URI's Kingston Campus:
Rte 110 S (Ministerial Rd.) to Rte 1 S. Take first Left to get onto
Rte 1 N. Exit at Matunuck Beach Rd. The Barn is the first right off
Matunuck Beach Rd. Click here for
a map.
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