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Monday, September 8, 2008

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On Campus

  • CES Noon Seminar’s Begin this week
  • Another course!
  • Geology Colloquium
  • S4 Colloquium

Off Campus

  • Save The Bay Event

Internships & Opportunities

  • MacMillan Lab Worker: Wanted
  • Marine Conservation Science Opportunities
  • Marine Policy Fellowships in DC

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On Campus­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________

Center for Environmental Studies (CES) Noon Thursday Seminar

Thursday, September 11 at noon.
UEL room 106 (classroom)
Hard Interdisciplinarity: The Paradigm for Environmental Studies
Dr. Glen Adelson, English Department, Brown University
Pizza will be served for $1.00

 

Another course!

Global Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles (GEO 1130)
MWF 1:00-1:50 MM 317
Prof. Tim_Herbert@Brown.edu

Topics:

  • Physical and chemical environment of marine plankton production
  • Processes controlling vertical and lateral gradients in Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in the ocean
  • Long-term controls on sea water biochemistry and Ice Age perturbations
  • Coastal Eutrophication and the development of “dead zones”
  • The ocean’s role in regulating atmospheric CO2 and projections for ocean uptake of industrial carbon

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Department of Geological Sciences

Fall Semester 2008 Colloquia

4:00 P.M. Thursdays, 115 MacMillan 
 
September 11
Dr. Ray Arvidson, Washington University
Special Tim Mutch Lecture
Mars Phoenix Lander: A Story of Soil and Ice 

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S4 Fall Colloquium

September 15th, noon

PSTC in Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street

This first talk will be by Dr. Christine Hannemann of Berlin's Humboldt University.  The title is "Berlin in Transition: From a Politically to a Socially Divided City."  More information is on the flyer which can be downloaded from our webpage:

http://www.s4.brown.edu/S4/colloquia/Fall08/hannemann_Flyer.jpg.

Off Campus______________________

Save The Bay Event

Save The Bay is co-sponsoring a free speaking event at CCRI on Saturday, September 27, at 7 p.m., featuring Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Children from Nature Deficit Disorder. He will be introduced by U.S. Senator Jack Reed and will sign books after his talk.  Louv has been credited with spurring the national conversation about the disconnect between children and nature, and his message has galvanized an international movement. He is also the founder of the Children and Nature Network.  

See http://www.rwpzoo.org/louvEvent.cfm for details.

Internships & Opportunities_________

MacMillan Lab Worker: Wanted

Dave Murray (really nice guy) is looking for a number of student workers for the labs in MacMillan.  Job description: general support of MacMillan laboratories - includes labware washing and processing environmental samples for chemical analysis.

Please contact dmurray@brown.edu to apply and for more information.

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Marine Conservation Science Opportunities

Prof. Heather Leslie is seeking undergraduate collaborators with strong interests in ecology, environmental science, economics and/or policy to contribute to projects in Fall 2008.

Possible topics include:

  • Population and community ecology of New England marine intertidal species
  • Trade offs among different sectors and ecosystem services to inform ocean management
  • Social and ecological indicators of marine management success

While preference for some of these topics will be given to students interested in carrying out a senior thesis project, others are more appropriate for rising sophomores and juniors.

For more information, please send a brief email by September 15th to

Professor Leslie (Heather_Leslie @ brown.edu) describing your interests and relevant experience. No attachments please.
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Marine Policy Fellowships in DC

Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship provides a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program matches highly qualified graduate students with "hosts" in the legislative and executive branches of government located in the Washington, D.C. area, for a one year paid fellowship. Any student, regardless of citizenship, who, on February 29, 2008 is in a graduate or professional program in a marine or aquatic-related field at a United States-accredited institution of higher education may apply to the NSGO through their state Sea Grant program.

For more information see http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/knauss/knaussapplicationinfo.html
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Please send questions, comments and stories to:
CES Newsletter Editor, Marie-Laure Couët
marie-laure_couet@brown.edu

Thanks!