Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

Banner for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award featuring a group exploring a rainforest, a pangolin resting in a person’s hands, and a conservation worker holding young plants in a coastal wetland.

10-Year Anniversary Symposium | Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

Celebrating a decade of impact of one of the most prestigious environmental prizes in the world for innovators under 40.

Join UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability for a public symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. The Symposium brings together past Pritzker Award…

Two smiling men pictured over a coastal ocean scene, with an orange fish in the lower left, green kelp in the lower right, and the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science logo in the upper right.

Conserving California’s Coastal Waters

The 2026 La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science Public Lecture

Join us for a public discussion of recent advances in ocean conservation and a chance to interact with current UCLA conservation researchers, Zach and Mark Gold.

On Campus

UCLA-wide sustainability events calendar

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PAST EVENTS

Fossils as a Tool for Marine Restoration: Old Shells Provide New Insights For Santa Monica Bay

One of the great challenges in conservation biology is discovering ‘what was natural’ before human impacts. This problem is especially pressing in marine systems where biological monitoring and other records…

KCET Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival (co-sponsored by LENS)

The second annual Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival will take place Sat., April 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center in Santa Monica (1332 2nd…

How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

Featured speaker: Edward Struzik Panelists: Douglas Bevington, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (moderator); Beth Burnham, North Topanga Canyon Fire Safe Council; Chad Hanson, The John Muir Project ; Alex Hall, UCLA; Chief Ralph Terrazas,…

Now Comes the Hard Part… Implementing Groundwater Management Under SGMA

Presented by: Eric Garner, Managing Partner, Best, Best & Kreiger LLP As one of the leading water attorneys in California, Eric Garner helped to write the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act…

Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise

In a 2016 lecture titled “Let Them Drown,” Naomi Klein called attention to the nexus of climate change, colonial racism and poverty—as Rob Nixon has done in his book Slow Violence…