Monday, April 20th, 2009
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CES News
- Spring 2009 Seminar Series
- CES Graduate Student Presentations Next Week!
On Campus
- The African Green Revolution Moves Forward
- Sociology Colloquium
- Symposium on Narragansett Bay
- The 2009 Invitational Lecture in the Humanities
Off Campus
- Firehouse 13 Urban Gardening Events
- Farm Tour to Notarianni Farms
Internships & Opportunities
- Rabbits Dance Farm Survey Course
- AmeriCorps Environmental Educator Positions
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CES News______________________
Spring 2009 Seminar Series
Thursday, April 23rd at noon
UEL Classroom
Elizabeth Delucia
Costs and Benefits of Rhode Island's Proposed Offshore Wind Project
Gi On Gideon Ng
Climatic Transitions in the Mediterranean During the Development of Northern Hemispheric Glaciation
Pizza served for $1/slice
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CES Graduate Student Presentations Next Week!
UEL Classroom
Please join the CES graduate students as they publicly defend their Master’s theses. Delicious lunches and brunches will be served.
Tuesday, April 28th at 10:00 am
Nicholas Greenfield
Environment and Conflict: The Case of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Tuesday, April 28th at noon
Michael Clark
Reducing Demand and Improving Drinking Water Use Efficiency in the HAP
Upcoming (Date and time will be posted shortly):
Naira Aslanyan
Investment and Financial Flows to Address Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: Practices, Barriers, Solutions. Armenia Case Study
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The African Green Revolution Moves Forward
Tuesday, April 21st at 6 p.m.
Barus & Holley 168 (corner of Hope and George Streets)
Pedro Sanchez, Director of tropical agriculture at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Recipient of the World Food Prize (2002) and a MacArthur Fellow (2003)
Pedro Sanchez is Director of Tropical Agriculture and Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York City. His professional career has been dedicated to improving the management of tropical soils through integrated natural resource management approaches to achieve food security and reduce rural poverty while protecting and enhancing the environment. Sanchez was named a MacArthur
Foundation Fellow in 2003, and received the World Food Prize in 2002. He currently directs the Millennium Villages project, a major new initiative to help communities in Sub-Saharan Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The Environment and Society lecture series is sponsored by Brown University's Environmental Change Initiative.
"I have been personally affected by this project in amazing ways," says Dr. Sanchez. "All my life I have been doing research in experimental plots, but now I find it so exciting to see how people can change – they now have hope. As a professional, it provides evidence that what we have been practicing in science really works. And, as a human being worrying about the bottom billion, to see them pulling themselves out of their poverty traps is very satisfying."
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Sociology Colloquium
Thursday, April 23rd at 4pm
Maxcy Hall Zimmer Lounge
Marion Fourcade, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley will talk about, "Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and Conceptions of Nature in France and America".
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Symposium on Narragansett Bay
Wednesday, April 22nd from 1 to 3pm
GeoChem 039
Jesse Farmer
Evaluating the Use of Organic Paleotemperature Proxies in Narragansett Bay
Sc.B. Thesis Presentation (Thesis Advisors: Warren Prell and Tim Herbert)
David Koweek
Application of the Chlorins Productivity Proxy Towards a Productivity Record of Narragansett Bay
Sc.B. Thesis Presentation (Thesis Advisors: Warren Prell and Heather Leslie)
Shane Schoepfer
Stable Isotopes of Inorganic Nitrogen Nutrients in Narragansett Bay
Sc.M. Thesis Presentation (Thesis Advisors: Warren Prell and Mark Altabet)
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The 2009 Invitational Lecture in the Humanities
Cogut Center for the Humanities
Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:00 pm
Pembroke Hall 305
“What is Wisdom?”
Charles Larmore, W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown
Reception to follow, open to the public, wheelchair accessible
Seating is limited, please arrive early
The Invitational Lecture in the Humanities is an annual event in which a prominent member of the Brown University faculty considers pressing issues in the humanities, issues of importance to scholarship and to the world at large. This occasion gives the university and the community an opportunity to learn from our most distinguished colleagues, many of whom have more regular opportunities to speak off campus than at Brown.
For more information, visit:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/events/invitational.html
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Firehouse 13 Urban Gardening Events
Tuesday, May 5th
41 Central Street, Providence
5:30pm – Green Zones: From the War Garden to Your Garden
A presentation on Victory Gardens, the Women’s Land Army of America, and how gardeners are growing their own food today. The panel includes Sarah Zurier (Green Zone/RI Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission) on Rhode Islands wartime garden movements; Judy Barrett Litoff (Bryant University) on the Women’s Land Army of World War II; and Rich Pederson (Southside Community Land Trust) on how and why to plant a victory garden today.
7:30pm – The first RI Urban Ag Spring Start Party
Seed swapping, plant sharing, food potluck, drink, music, learning about local garden organizations and projects, and getting to know your fellow gardeners. Lets start the spring together!
More info: http://greenzonegarden.wordpress.com/green-zones-event/
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Farm Tour to Notarianni Farms
Saturday, April 25th from 9:30AM - 3PM
Lunch provided
Notarianni Farms loved having the help last weekend, so there will be another farm tour this Saturday. Here's your chance to get outside and get moving before finals hit!
If you're interested, please email Emily at emilyviggiano@gmail.com. If you are able to drive, please let her know as well.
Internships & Opportunities______
Rabbits Dance Farm Survey Course
This summer, get a great introduction to local agriculture through this four week course at Rabbits Dance Farm in Cumberland, RI. The Farm Survey will provide experience working in the field with a fun and spirited farm crew, learning basic farm skills like weeding, transplanting, and harvesting, as well as offering relevant readings and trips to nearby farms.
This course will help you to be a qualified candidate for an assistant grower position, and will help you to be a powerful team player at the next farm you work on.
There is no application necessary, but to fully enjoy and benefit from our program, you must be comfortable being outside all day, in all weather conditions, being physically active, and lifting at least 20 pounds.
Two sessions are offered from June 1- July 17, & July 20- August 21. The program runs 4 days a week, Monday through Thursday, 9am to 3pm with one hour for lunch.
Farm Survey program is $1000 per semester or $1600 for both.
Contact Kristen Lewis for more information at: 401-658-2457, or kristin@rabbitsdancefarm.com
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AmeriCorps Environmental Educator Positions
The Maine Conservation Corps is dedicated to environmental education, outdoor recreation and conservation projects, volunteer opportunities, and developing career and leadership skills.
Qualifications include a 4-year degree or equivalent experience, good organizational skills, initiative, good communication, writing and public speaking skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, computer skills, a valid Driver’s license, and a commitment to environmental issues and community service.
1700 hour positions receive a living allowance of $11,400 ($253.50/week for 45 weeks) and if eligible, an AmeriCorps education award of $4,725.00 upon successful completion of the program.
900 hour positions receive a living allowance of $6,035 ($253.50/week for 24 weeks) and if eligible, an AmeriCorps education award of $2,362.50 upon successful completion of the program.
Other benefits include health insurance, childcare reimbursement if eligible, experiential learning, a wide range of training and networking opportunities and a Maine State Park Pass.
The Maine Conservation Corps application is available to download from our website (log on to www.maine.gov/doc/parks/mcc/ and download our MCC application) OR by contacting the MCC at 207-624-6085 (800-245-5627 in Maine only) or corps.conservation@maine.gov.
Send completed applications and reference forms to
Brenda Webber, Recruitment Assistant
Maine Conservation Corps
124 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0124
Deadline Date: April 10, 2009
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Environmental Educator – 900 hours May - October
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Swan Island (Steve Powell WMA)
Successful applicant will live in shared housing on the island, which includes utilities. They will meet and transport visitors and their camping equipment from the mainland boat landing across the Kennebec River to Swan Island, assign camping sites, maintain campground and other facilities and equipment, conduct interpretive tours and educational programs, and oversee the welfare of visitors. Other duties include assisting in reservations and collection of fees, trail maintenance, habitat management activities, etc
http://www.maine.gov/ifw/education/swanisland/main_content.htm
Environmental Educator – 900 hours May - October
DHHS – CDC – Drinking Water Program, Augusta
The Maine Drinking Water Program is committed to working with public water systems to improve the protection of their wells. The program geo-locates each new well, and also surveys the area around the well for potential threats. An assessment of the current and future risks to the source is then conducted, and a report with recommendations for the system is prepared. Where systems are willing, technical assistance is offered and outreach to local government and neighbors to improve protection is provided. This MCC position would assist in working on the backlog of new wells and systems. These activities often require collaboration with local government, nearby landowners, and land trusts.
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Environmental Educator – 900 hours May - October
Maine Department of Conservation – Bureau of Parks and Lands, Augusta
There are two positions with the Bureau of Parks and Lands in Augusta. They will serve to work with and and assist BP&L staff with analysis of baseline documentation information and development of an easement monitoring protocol for 35 State held Conservation easements. Baseline documentation for each of the conservation easements will be reviewed to determine if key features have been located on the ground using geographic coordinates and assisting with compiling missing baseline information.
http://www.maine.gov/doc/parks/
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Environmental Educator – 900 hours May - October
Maine Department of Conservation – Bureau of Parks and Lands
There are two positions with the Bureau of Parks and Lands serving with the (1)Androscoggin Riverlands and the (2)Seboomook Unit. They will provide key stewardship and management functions at a critical juncture in planning for and implementing significant new recreation opportunities on two hallmark state properties - the Androscoggin Riverlands in Turner and Leeds, and the Seboomook Unit north of Moosehead Lake. The Bureau of Parks and Lands is transitioning the Androscoggin Riverlands on the outskirts of Lewiston and Auburn to a new State Park linking to other water and land trails; and the Seboomook Unit is being removed from the gated North Maine Woods system beginning in 2009, allowing free day use and bicycling and ATV use of these lands for the first time.
http://www.maine.gov/doc/parks/
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CES Newsletter Editor, Marie-Laure Couët
marie-laure_couet@brown.edu
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