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California has lost large amounts of estuarine space to coastline urbanization which has degraded important fish nursery habitats. Restoration allows resources managers to recover some of these habitats but these efforts face a number of challenges including landscape fragmentation and impacts from surrounding urban spaces.  In addition, there are limited extant estuaries to compare to the functionality of restored estuaries.

Professor H. N. Lukes will moderate a discussion with Cassils, Ron Athey, and Fanaa, three LA-based artists who collaborated for the performance art piece Cyclic at the Biosphere 2 near Tucson AZ in autumn 2018. This discussion will bring that terrestrial and extraterrestrial performance home to Planet LA with such topics as "What can art do about in the face of apocalypse"?

Sponsored by the Remsen Bird Fund

San Francisco artist Jennifer Zee, who has a MSc in Behavioral Ecology and a MFA in Art and Design, will share her experiences as a scientific illustrator, museum exhibit designer and fine artist.

This event is sponsored by the Biology Department and the Remsen Bird Fund.

Lauren Abramson, Ph. D. is a bio-psychologist with over 25 years of experience as a Restorative Practices (RP) practitioner, trainer, and writer. As the Founding Director of one of the first and longest-standing restorative justice programs in urban America, Lauren applies Restorative Practices in courts, juvenile justice, schools, neighborhoods, prisons, and organizations as a means of providing people with collaborative opportunities for understanding, healing, learning, and fair justice.

Shatema Threadcraft is the author of Intimate Justice: the Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.

Biology Seminars | Spring 2019

Norma Morella '12

UC Berkeley, Biology PhD Program

Multiple forces shape microbial community structure in the phyllosphere

Jenn Broomfield, Title IX Coordiantor, will provide an overview of Occidental College's New Interim Sexual Misconduct Policy

In "Bread & Roses," Adrien Brody stars as Sam Shapiro, an idealistic organizer trying to help immigrant janitors build a union.   Brody’s character is based on the real life Jono Shaffer, an organizer with the "Justice for Janitors" campaign among janitors working in downtown Los Angeles office buildings.

Sponsored by Oxy's Pre-Law Department