CES Newsletter February 7, 2011
CES News
- CES/ECI Special Seminar on Monday, February 7: Bruce Hungate “From the Globe to the Cell and Back-Responses of Ecosystems to Global Environmental Change”
- CES/ECI Special Seminar on Wednesday, February 9: Hanqin Tian “Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions: An Interdisciplinary Research Program in Climate and Global Change”
- CES noon Seminar, Thursday, February 6, “The New Green Heretics: Ecological Modernization as the Future of Environmentalism”
On Campus
- Coffee Kids: Sustainable Development
- Presentation by Professor Jasbir K. Puar
Off Campus
Jobs & Opportunities
- UN Commission on Sustainable Development Youth Delegation
- Biodiversity Science newsletter
- Farm Dinner Internship Positions
- The School for Field Studies
- CDC Environmental Internship for Graduate Students
- Earth Corps 2011
- Northwest Connections
- NWF Opportunity for Young Conservation Leaders
- Operation Groundswell
- Center for Ecological Living and Learning
- Green Corps
- Northwestern University’s Global Engagement Summer Institute
CES News
CES/ECI SPECIAL SEMINAR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Bruce Hungate “From the Globe to the Cell and Back-Responses of Ecosystems to Global Environmental Change”
Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220 at 12pm
Speaker Dr. Bruce Hungate is a Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Northern Arizona University. His research focuses on ecosystem processes, especially carbon, water, and nutrient cycling. Hungate studies biogeochemical responses to global changes, such as rising atmospheric CO2, climate change, N deposition, and altered land use. Currently he is investigating how altered precipitation and warming alter carbon and nitrogen cycling in Arizona's ecosystems, how elevated CO2 alters nitrogen cycling and hydrology of scrub oak woodlands, and how increased temperature influences the nitrogen cycle in grasslands.
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CES/ECI SPECIAL SEMINAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Hanqin Tian, Dixon and Alumni Professor of Ecology; Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Aubun University. “Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions: An Interdisciplinary Research Program in Climate and Global Change”
List Arts Building, Room 120, at 12pm
Dr. Hanqin Tian is an ecosystem scientist and systems modeler working at a broad scale to examine ecosystem processes and exchanges (energy, carbon, nitrogen and water) that occur at the interfaces of the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. Dr. Tian has become increasingly interested in coupled biogeochemical cycles in the Earth’s ecosystems and dynamics of coupled natural and human systems.
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THE NEW GREEN HERETICS: ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION AS THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
Thursday, February 10 in the UEL, 12:00pm
Ted Nordhaus and Michel Shellenberger, co-founders of the Breakthrough Institute and co-authors of the seminal 2004 “The Death of Environmentalism” will argue that the future of environmentalism lies with these new heretics, and that the spectacular collapse of cap and trade and the prospects of a U.N. treaty on global warming makes the work of developing this paradigm of ecological modernization all the more urgent.
On Campus
COFFEE KIDS: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Wednesday, February 9, 5:30 pm in List Arts Building Rm 120
Susan Wood is co-founder of Coffee Kids, a non-profit organization that works with coffee farming communities in Latin America, as well as CEO of the Coffee Exchange on Wickenden Street in Providence known for its fair trade coffees and support of Coffee Kids. Wood will speak about fair trade coffee and the community-based projects Coffee Kids sponsors to promote sustainability and support community needs such as health, education, small businesses assistance, and other projects. Coffee and light snacks will be served at the reception following the talk.
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PRESENTATION BY PROFESSOR JASBIR K. PUAR
“States of Exception and Exceptional States: Homonationalism and its Discontents”
Tuesday, February 8th, 5:30pm / List Art Building, Room 120
Off Campus
Jobs & Opportunities
UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT YOUTH DELEGATION
SustainUS is now accepting applications to join the Agents of Change (AoC) youth delegation to the nineteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19), which will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from May 2 – 13, 2011. CSD-19 is a policy session and addresses the topics of transport, chemicals, waste management, and mining. In addition, CSD-19 will follow-up on the 2006 Johannesburg Summit call to develop a 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns.
How to apply: Please respond to the questions in the Application (http://www.sustainus.org/docs/2011/CSD19_Delegate_Application_Form.doc) and send your application in the form of a single Word document to agents@sustainus.org. If you have any questions, please contact AoC Coordinators at the above address.
Applications must be received by 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 14, 2011
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BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE NEWSLETTER
Operation Wallacea is delighted to bring you the first issue of Biodiversity Science, a quarterly peer-reviewed newsletter designed to provide updates to biology, geography and environmental science teachers, academics and interested students on developments in biodiversity science and conservation management issues. Graduate students can submit articles to articles@biodiversityscience.com.
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FARM DINNER INTERNSHIP POSITIONS
Meadow Lark Farm Dinners is accepting internship applications for the 2011 season. For a detailed description of the Internship Positions, and to download an Internship Application, please visit website: www.farmdinners.com/internships.html
The application deadline is March 13, 2011.
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THE SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES
Applications for summer and fall 2011 field studies programs are being accepted. Visit http://www.fieldstudies.org/pages/228_prospective_students.cfm for more information.
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CDC ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNSHIP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
CDC/ATSDR’s National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) is offering a 10-week summer internship program for graduate students. The Graduate Environmental Health program (GEH) is a paid ten week summer internship available for graduate students with majors or interests deemed to be in support of environmental health missions at NCEH/ATSDR. During the program interns will be assigned to projects that utilize the skills they’ve acquired through graduate studies and personal experiences. Interns will also be able to take advantage of lecture series and other opportunities offered at the CDC. Interns will receive a $750 weekly stipend while participating in this program. The mission of the internship is to offer selected students a broad overview of environmental health at the federal level and to foster an interest in environmental health as a career. Applicants should have a passion for the environment and an eagerness to learn about the environment’s link to human health.
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EARTH CORPS 2011
Earth Corps is a selective field-based program that offers motivated, environmentally conscious students the opportunity to live and learn in the incredible natural classroom of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. The program integrates key lessons in environmental studies with the completion of a critical environmental restoration project. Run by the Rocky Mountain Field Institute in partnerships with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Earth Corps attracts exceptional students from across the nation and the world to participate in this unique service learning opportunity. For more information contact the Rocky Mountain Field Institute at: rmfi@rmfi.org.
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NORTHWEST CONNECTIONS
Earn University of Montana credits in field-based programs. Priority application deadline is April 1st. Visit www.northwestconnections.org for more information.
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NWF OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG CONSERVATION LEADERS
Apply at http://polldaddy.com/s/76C8BE36CA039DB7 to be a delegate at National Wildlife Federation’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 13-16, 2011.
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OPERATION GROUNDSWELL
Volunteer with Foster Parrots and the people of Nappi Village to help the community create economic alternatives to hunting and trapping exotic wildlife for the pet and zoo trade. Visit www.operationgroundswell.com for more information.
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CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING AND LEARNING
Interested in learning how to live sustainably while having an adventure of a lifetime and earning college credit? Our interdisciplinary study abroad programs will inspire you with a new vision of what is possible and will transform how you look at yourself and your global community. Space is available in our Spring 2011 Iceland, our Fall 2011 Iceland, our Central America Spring 2012, and our Middle East Spring 2012 programs.
More info: http://www.cellonline.org/
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GREEN CORPS
Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.
In Green Corps’ year-long paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you’ll need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Greenpeace. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.
For more information, visit our website http://www.greencorps.org/findoutmore
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT SUMMER INSTITUTE
GESI students design and implement a community development project with their host community and a small interdisciplinary team of talented students from across the country. Visit http://www.gesi.northwestern.edu/application-process/ for more information.