Spring 2019 Lecture Series

Morgan Grove is a social scientist and Team Leader for the USDA Forest Service’s Baltimore Urban Field Station and is a lecturer at Yale University. He joined the USDA Forest Service in 1996 and has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) since its beginning in 1997. Morgan has a B.A. from Yale College with a dual degree in Architecture and Environmental Studies, a M.F.S. in Community Forestry from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from Yale University.

Giovanni Zinn, P.E. is the City Engineer for the City of New Haven as of 2014. As City Engineer, he has worked on many projects focused on sustainable and livable infrastructure, including complete streets, encouraging alternative transportation options, adopting green infrastructure, designing resilient living shoreline installations, and reducing the City's carbon footprint through aggressive energy reduction. Prior to leading the Engineering Department, Giovanni also served as a project manager for the City of New Haven’s Engineering Department and Office of Sustainability and managed environmental programs for the City Plan Department. Giovanni graduated from Yale College in 2005, and lives in New Haven with his wife Megan and their three little boys (who keep them very busy!).

Doug Hausladen serves as the Director of the Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department for the City of New Haven and the Acting Executive Director for the New Haven Parking Authority. He graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a degree in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry. Mr. Hausladen comes to the public sector from a transportation advocacy and activism background with professional experiences in real estate management, entrepreneurship, and public health. He was twice-elected to the Board of Alders in New Haven representing the 7th Ward encompassing the Downtown, Dwight, Wooster Square, and East Rock neighborhoods. Mayor Toni Harp then appointed him for a four-year term to his current position beginning on February 1st, 2014 and asked him to lead the New Haven Parking Authority in August of 2015. In his present role he is a leader in New England in Complete Streets, Smart Parking, Mobile Payment, Active Transportation, and Sustainability. Mr. Hausladen was born and raised on the Kentucky side of Cincinnati, OH and is the head coach of the Yale club water polo program.

The Hixon Center for Urban Ecology is excited to invite Asha Ghosh to speak as part our Spring Speaker Series. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. Location: Marsh Hall Rotunda, 360 Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06511.

Radhika Khosla is the Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (Somerville College) and a Senior Researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (School of Geography and the Environment) at the University of Oxford. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Radhika's work examines the productive tensions between urban transitions, energy services and climate change, with a focus on developing country cities. Her research focuses on examining the socio-technical drivers and patterns of changing energy consumption in urbanizing cities, and the forms of governance that characterize urban responses to climate change in such rapidly developing cities. Radhika's previous affiliations include the Centre for Policy Research, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the MIT Energy Initiative. She holds a PhD in the Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate and master's degrees in Physics from the University of Oxford.

Galina Churkina holds a diploma in Mathematics from the Moscow State Lomonosov University in Russia and PhD from the School of Forestry, University of Montana, USA. Galina researched and taught at the flagship institutions and universities including Yale School of the Environment, School of Natural Resources and Environment (University of Ann Arbor), Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Galina Churkina was a recipient of fellowships from Open Society Foundations, the German Science Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies. She received the Women of Distinction award from the Soroptimist International of the Americas. Elsevier issued her the reviewer recognition for outstanding contribution in reviewing. Galina Churkina enjoys and has an extensive experience in inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations. She has served as a scientific advisor to interdisciplinary research projects as well as private companies. She is an associate editor of the Urban Ecology section at the Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and has been a member of review boards in Europe and in the USA.