March 31, 11 AM - University Center Auditorium - Distinguished Lecture on US
Policy on Global Security and Nonproliferation featuring Assistant Secretary and
Ambassador Tom Countryman
Issues of international security and weapons of mass destruction remain in the
forefront of the news today. The removal of chemical weapons in Syria is
ongoing, and recent events in the Ukraine are presenting a number of policy
challenges, including potential damage to the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of
Nuclear Weapons. We are extremely fortunate to have the State Department’s
Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation as a guest
speaker on Monday (3/31/14) at 11 AM in the University Center Auditorium.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Thursday, April 3, 1:30 -3:30 Empowering Women Through Sports featuring
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational & Cultural Affairs, Evan Ryan, and
a panel of athletes from Argentina, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Korea,
and Turkey. Toyota Auditorium - Free & open to the public.
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Thursday, April 3, 3:30 - 5 PM - E&E Forum featuring Rob McDonald, Nature
Conservancy - Alumni Memorial Bldg.
**Please note: for this meeting of the Forum only, we will be meeting in Alumni
Memorial Building, Room 27 (1408 Middle Drive, large building next door to
Neyland Stadium) as opposed to the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium.
Rob McDonald, Senior Scientist from The Nature Conservancy, will give a 45-
minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. This talk has
been rescheduled following a postponement last month. Rob’s talk is entitled:
Water on an urban planet: urbanization, drinking water, and source watershed
conservation
Abstract: Urban growth is increasing the demand for freshwater resources, yet
surprisingly the water sources of the world’s large cities have never been
globally assessed, hampering efforts to assess the distribution and causes of
urban water stress. In this talk, McDonald will discuss the results from the first
global survey of the large cities’ water sources and show that previous global
hydrologic models that ignored urban water infrastructure significantly
overestimated urban water stress. He will also talk about which cities are most
dependent on the natural world for the maintenance of raw water quality and
where source watershed conservation is likely to have the greatest financial
return on investment in terms of avoided costs for operations and maintenance
and new capital construction projects.
Rob McDonald is Senior Scientist for Urban Sustainability at The Nature
Conservancy, the world’s largest environment focused nonprofit. His research
examines the impact and dependencies of cities on the natural world, and he
leads much of the Conservancy’s urban conservation work. He has also written
extensively on the effect of U.S. energy policy on natural habitat and water
use. Prior to joining the Conservancy, McDonald was a Smith Conservation
Biology Fellow at Harvard University, studying the impact that global urban
growth will have on biodiversity and conservation. He also taught landscape
ecology at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
The Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum is an opportunity for
academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics,
researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a
common interest in environmental and energy issues. For more information
about the Baker Center Energy and Environment forum visit the forum’s
website:
http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html.
Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion and
presentation.
Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences
Jacob LaRiviere, College of Business Administration
Becky Jacobs, College of Law
Chris Clark, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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