Jean Thomas Lambert '45 was a faithful friend and supporter of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ who cared deeply about the environment. In 2003, the Jean Thomas Lambert Lecture Series was established by the Jean Thomas Lambert Foundation to provide annual lectures for the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies.
2021 - 2022
Dr. Patricia Kaishian, Bard College. Scientific and Theoretical Lessons from Mycology
2019-2020
Roberta L. Millstein, Department of Philosophy, UC Davis. Thinking about Aldo Leopold: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and Research Questions
2017-18
Lori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University. "Empathy and Sanctuary: Re-imagining Our Relationships With other Animals."
Jack Ewing, The New York Times. "Can a Corrupt Company Be Green?"
2016-17
Lauren Hartzell-Nichols '03, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington. "A Climate of Risk: Precautionary Principles, Catastrophes, and Climate Change"
2015-16
Michelle Mart, Associate Professor of History, Penn State Berks, "The Stories We Tell About Pesticides"
2013-14
Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet. "Food Justice for a Small Planet"
2012-13
Christoph Irmscher, Provost Professor of English, Indiana University. "Three Cheers for the Jellyfish: Writing the life of Louis Agassiz"
2008-09
Ellen Wohl, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, "Water Follows the People: The State of the Platte River Ecosystem after 150 Years if Flow Regulation"
Mark Smith - Director, Eastern U.S. Freshwater Program, The Nature Conservancy, Boston, MA: Balancing Human and Environmental Water Needs with Increasingly Scarce Water Resources
2006-07
Bryan Norton, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Evaluation and Species Preservation"
Kenneth Rosenberg, Director, Conservation Science Program, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, "Saving an Ecosystem Through Endangered Species Recovery: Conservation of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker"
2004-05
Vandana Shiva, Director, The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in New Delhi, India, "Keeping Food Security in Women's Hands"
2003-04
Mitchell Thomashow, Director, Antioch New England Doctoral Program in Environmental Studies, "Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change"