Chair's Lecture Series
The below lectures are in chronological order. Select the lecture title link to access their presentations and video archives.
Is Nitrogen the Next Carbon?
Viney P. Aneja, Ph.D., Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University | February 28, 2018
Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States
Jim Williams, Ph.D., Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) | May 13, 2015
Air Pollution in Developing Mega-Cities - Something Old, Something New - Lessons from Los Angeles
David D. Parrish, Ph.D., Colorado Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences | August 7, 2014
Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Regulations: Lessons Learned from the Past 30 Years
Richard D. Morgenstern, Ph.D., Resources For the Future (RFF) | March 14, 2014
Climate Change and Los Angeles: A Close-up View of the Future
Alex Hall, Ph.D., Professor, University of California, Los Angeles | October 23, 2013
Climate Change: Its Impact on California’s Cities and Economy
Matthew E. Kahn, Ph.D., Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future | August 13, 2013
Black Carbon Reductions in California and its Implications for Regional and Global Climate Change Mitigation
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Ph.D. and Lynn M. Russell, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. | July 23, 2013
Low Carbon Transportation: A Crucial Link to Economic and National Security
David L. Greene, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee and Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. | September 4, 2012
We Are What We Eat and Breathe, and Build:
Preventing Chronic Diseases and Protecting the Environment by Building Healthy Communities
Richard Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health at UCLA. | July 11, 2012
California's Energy Future: The View to 2050
Jane C.S. Long, Ph.D., Associate Director at Large, and Fellow, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. | July 15, 2011
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