Morning Learning Sessions

After a nice evening of sleep in which I got caught up and got over the jet lag, I woke up early to go eat breakfast in the hotel restaurant. After that I had a chance to go walking through a wonderful Japanese garden near the hotel, and to go out to the shore to look at the many crabs that are along it. After that the instructional part of the trip began with lectures on Australia’s environmental history, environmental politics, and issues in common between the US and Australia governments in relation to the environment. For the environmental politics lecture, we had Dr. Shibuya from the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies. For the session on the US and Australia governments, we had John Quinn, the Australian Consul General. Both of these guests were very impressive and very informative. I am pictured below with John Quinn.