Upcoming Events at The Nicholas Institute
Art & Science Film and Panel Discussion
February 20, 2010, 1:00 pm
Nasher Art Museum, Duke University
The Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and the Nicholas School of the Environment invite the Duke community and the public to view Het Verloven Land (Before the Flood) by Dutch filmmaker Jos de Putter and to participate in a discussion about art, science and communication on Saturday, February 20, 2010 starting at 1:00 pm at the Lecture Hall at the Nasher Art Museum.
Bill Chameides, Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment, will moderate a panel including Larry Band, Director, UNC-CH’s Institute for the Environment; Rick Hooper, President & Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), Linwood Pendleton, Director, Ocean & Coastal Policy for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions; and Victoria Szabo, Program Director, Information Science + Information Studies, Duke Dept of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
Contact Bill Holman at the Nicholas Institute or William Noland at the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies for more information.
Rick Hooper from CUAHSI will come to the Research Triangle early and do a seminar on CUAHSI’s work on Friday, February 19, 2010.
Marine Spatial Planning and U.S. Oceans Policy
Linwood Pendleton, Larry Crowder, and Morgan Gropnik
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Nicholas School of the Environment
This talk has been postponed to the Fall semester.
The Obama Administration, through its recently convened Interagency Ocean Task Force, has recently developed a draft framework for coastal and marine planning in the waters of United States. The new framework, "coastal and marine spatial planning" outlines a holistic approach to managing the coast and ocean - one that includes consideration of all ocean uses and all ocean and coastal agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. The new approach will require an unprecedented level of cooperation among ocean industries and environmental groups. The Nicholas Institute and the Nicholas School are working with Meridian Institute of Washington D.C. to host a series of policy labs and exercises to bring together key ocean industries and environmental NGOs. The goal is to engage these stakeholders, create a dialogue among them, and to help define a spatial planning process that will promote continued dialogue and participation among all stakeholders.
Linwood Pendleton, Larry Crowder, and Morgan Gopnik will discuss the new coastal and marine spatial planning framework and the NI/NSOE policy labs.
For more information, please contact David Cooley at david.cooley@duke.edu.
