Experiments in Ocean Governance

Susan Farady joined Roger Williams University after serving at the Ocean Conservancy in Portland, Maine, where she was the New England Regional Director. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maine School of Law and Bates College, teaching marine policy and law courses.

Dr. Farady has worked with a broad range of stakeholders on an expansive range of issues in charting marine policy for the Gulf of Maine and the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary. She has contributed articles in her areas of expertise to various publications and testified before legislative committees.

Thursday, October 16, noon
UEL room 106 (classroom)
Pizza will be served for $1.00

Dr. Susan Farady
Director
Marine Affairs Institute
School of Law
Roger Williams University

Coming Events

Should This Building be Saved? See the Brown Alumni Magazine's feature article "What's in a Building?" in the September/October 2008 issue for more on the debate over the fate of the UEL.

Lois Gibbs, LoveCanal leader, Executive Director of the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, and major impetus to the modern environmental movement, will speak on "Love Canal ... 30 Years Later--What do we know, 'For Sure', and Where do we Go From Here"
Thursday, October 23rd
7:00 PM
Macmillan Hall 115 at Brown University. This event is open to the public.

Bioneers of the Bay Conference October 24 - 26, 2008
Connecting for Change is an internationally acclaimed annual gathering of environment, industry, and social justice innovators who have demonstrated visionary and practical models for restoring the Earth and its inhabitants. Bioneers by the Bay promises to be an unforgettable weekend of live keynote presentations, afternoon workshops, plenary presentations from the 2008 Bioneers Conference in California [bioneers.org], an extensive Youth Initiative program, an exhibition hall featuring sustainable businesses and organizations, a farmers’ market, films, music, an open mic night, local and organic food, and art installations.

Are you puzzled by the search for just the right environmental course? Here is your spot for one-stop shopping for environmentally-related courses. You will find courses from many departments and at all levels to help build your environmental concentration, or to add an environmental focus to your program. Come back often. This list will evolve as new courses are added.

Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. He has been involved in CES for many years, advised undergraduate and graduates, and co-taught the Environmental Justice course. He works on environmental health issues, including disputes on environmental causation, citizen involvement in disease and exposure discovery, citizen-science alliances to study environmental health, and toxics reduction. Currently he is doing much work on biomonitoring and household exposure studies, including ethical issues of reporting back personal data to participants.

He also works on the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology, and on health social movements.  In other environmental and related efforts on campus, Phil Brown is part of the Superfund Basic Research Program and its associated Center for Environmental Health and Technology. He is part of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation and of the Committee on Science and Technology Studies.