Monday, February 8, 2010
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On Campus
- Nancy Jacobs, “Africa, Europe, and the Birds Between Them,” February 9 (Tuesday)
- 1st Annual Environmental Activities Fair, February 11 (Thursday)
- “Climate Change: Health Problems & Healthy Solutions,” February 18
- Job Announcement: Student Research Assistant
- Math and the Environment Symposium, March 13
Off-Campus
- 3rd Annual Coastal Erosion Control Workshop, February 24
- All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair, February 26
- Register now! Navigating the American Carbon World: New Direction for Climate Action, April 14-16
- Save the Date: Bridging Conservation and Recreation, May 18-20
Internships & Opportunities
- Wild Rockies Field Institute
- Help the Union of Concerned Scientists Engage Younger Scientists in Our Work
- Ecological Society of America Student Section Travel Awards 2010
- REU Opportunity: Pollinator Behavior, OR
- Marine Education & Aquarist Summer Internships, Catalina Island, CA
- Brower Youth Awards 2010 Prize Search
- Deadline Extended for Unique Environmental Program at Tahoe and Baikal
- Call for Submissions: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
- Aquatic Ecology REU Position
- Position Available: Project Assistant for Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Impact Study
- 2010 WWF Science Internships
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On Campus_____________________
Nancy Jacobs, “Africa, Europe, and the Birds Between Them”
Tuesday, February 9, 6:00pm, List Art Center, 64 College Street, Room 120
Nancy Jacobs, Department of History, Brown University, will discuss how people hear and mimic birds; lists of bird names in African languages; textual representations of bird calls by European observers; and some recording of birds and imitation of birds. Her forthcoming book, Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa, concerns the intimate connectivity between birds and humans.
The lecture is held in conjunction with Rachel Berwick's exhibit Zugunruhe at the David Winton Bell Gallery, and is free and open to the public.
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1st Annual Environmental Activities Fair
Are you interested in getting more active in environmental, sustainability, or climate related work on campus, but too overwhelmed with all the groups doing work?
Well, we've got a solution, on February 11th, environmental groups from all over campus (and some from off-campus) will be tabling and talking to students about getting involved in each of their projects! They'll be lots of opportunities to talk to students who have done campaigns ranging from working to get bottled water off campus to doing presentations in high schools about climate change to lobbying congress on climate issues. There is something for everyone! So please join us for the 1st annual Environmental Activities Fair. Also, when you arrive they'll be some snacks and delicious tap water!
Date: February 11th
Time: 7 - 9pm
Location: Salomon Lobby
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“Climate Change: Health Problems & Healthy Solutions”
Paul Epstein, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, February 18, 4-5 PM
121 South Main Street, Room 245
Post-Seminar Mixer: 5 PM room 247
Presented by the Epidemiology Seminar Series in conjunction with the Society, Human Biology and Health Series.
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Job Announcement: Student Research Assistant
Two Environmental Change Initiative postdoctoral researchers are interested in hiring an enthusiastic undergraduate research assistant available part-time in spring quarter and full-time in summer. The assistant will review and analyze data from secondary sources investigating an exciting emerging trend in human food systems: the shift in seafood production from wild fisheries harvest to increasing production from aquaculture. Applicants should have a strong interest in environmental topics, interdisciplinary research, as well as strong analytical and writing skills. Interested applicants should get in touch directly with either Sheila Walsh Sheila_Walsh@brown.edu or Leila Sievanen at Leila_Sievanen@brown.edu.
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Math and the Environment Symposium
Brown University Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences:
Math and the Environment
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Faculty Speakers:
Professor Andrea Bertozzi, Mathematics, UCLA
Professor Kerry Emanuel, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Professor Ken Golden, Mathematics, University of Utah
Professor Brad Marston, Physics, Brown University
Professor Sergei Tabachnikov, Mathematics, Penn State University
Attendance is free and open to all. Registration is required.
Now accepting applications for short talks and posters from undergraduates.
Please visit http://math.brown.edu/SUMS
Sponsored by: Brown University Dept. of Mathematics, Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics, The Mathematical Association of America
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3rd Annual Coastal Erosion Control Workshop
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
Holiday Inn, 3009 Tower Hill Road, South Kingstown, RI
7:30 – 8:30 AM Registration; Continental Breakfast; Exhibits
8:30 – 9:00 AM Keynote Address: Coastal Geologic Hazards Jon Boothroyd, Ph. D.& Long-Term Beach Changes
9:00 – 9:45 AM Legal & Regulatory Issues Glenn A. Wood
9:45 – 10:30 AM Coastal Containment & Breakwaters Mike Groh
10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:30 – 11:15 AM Polymers & Shoreline Protection Seva Iwinski
11:30 AM – 12 PM The Future of Coastal Erosion Control Pete HanrahanK. G. Jayanath
12:00 PM – 1 PM Lunch & Exhibits
1:00 – 2:00 PM Case Study: Structure Impact on Downdrift Mark Byrnes, Ph. D. Beaches: Montauk Harbor, N. Y.
2:00 – 2:30 PM Speaker Forum & Closing Remarks
All participants will receive certificates for 4.5 Professional Development Hours!
COST is $30.00 and Includes Certificate, Continental Breakfast and Lunch
SPECIAL STUDENT RATE is $5 for half the day, $10 for the full seminar including lunch. Please note you will not receive a certificate for professional hours. (DO NOT REGISTER ONLINE, YOU MUST REGISTER STUDENTS THROUGH THE LINCOLN R.I. DIVISION)
Please register before Friday, February 19th, 2010 to be eligible for your certificate.
TO REGISTER: Either call us, fill out the attached registration document in word format and simply reply, print out and fax the registration form, register at www.ejprescott.com, or mail the attached registration to our Lincoln, R.I. location with payment,
E.J.Prescott Inc.
38 Albion Rd
Lincoln, RI 02865
Phone: 401-333-1317
Fax:401-333-9035
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All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair
The All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair is coming up on February 26, 2010. The Fair is a unique opportunity for students to interact on a one on one basis with employers from around the country, government agency representatives, and graduate school representatives. There is no cost to register for this great event that allows you to speak to many employers and schools all in one place.
For more information on the fair, visit: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/education/ivy_career_fair/.
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Register now! Navigating the American Carbon World: New Direction for Climate Action
APRIL 14-16, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Register now: https://www.regonline.com/navigating_the_american_carbon_world
Taking place April 14-16, 2010 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Navigating the American Carbon World: New Direction for Climate Action will be the year’s first major conference to take a comprehensive look at the status of climate policy in 2010 and how climate initiatives will move forward with or without new policy.
Navigating the American Carbon World (NACW) represents nearly a decade of bringing together the most forward-thinking minds in carbon and has consistently ranked among the highest attended carbon events. NACW 2010 will capitalize on that experience while incorporating a few new elements. In a fresh twist for conference participation, delegates at NACW 2010 will play an interactive role that will help shape the outcome of the conference. During panel sessions, they will actively weigh in on key issues, as well as pose questions for the panel speakers. With a focus on action and charting a clear path to advance climate initiatives, the conference aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the carbon space, help organizations and individuals establish clear climate goals and capture industry participants’ sentiments on numerous carbon-related topics.
For more information on registration, please contact Elisabeth Hunel at ehu@pointcarbon.com. For information on sponsorship and exhibition, please contact Margaret Bruce at margaret@centerforclimateaction.org. Additional conference information will be available shortly at www.nacw2010.org.
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Save the Date: Bridging Conservation and Recreation
River Management Society (RMS) and National Association of Recreation Resource Planners (NARRP) encourage you to save the date for our 2010 symposium,
Bridging Conservation and Recreation
May 18-20, 2010
Red Lion Hotel on the River, Jantzen Beach, Portland, OR
- Wild and Scenic Workshop
- Columbia River Gorge Plenary
- Five concurrent tracks, plus poster session
- Nine field trips featuring restoration, kids and nature, water trails, premier whitewater, trail development and urban recreation
- Keynote speaker Charles Jordan, Chair, The Conservation Fund (former Director of Portland’s Parks and Recreation)
For information and registration: www.river-management.org.
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Internships & Opportunities_______
Wild Rockies Field Institute
The Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI) is an independent, nonprofit educational organization that offers academically rigorous field courses in some of the most dynamic places in North America. WRFI courses integrate traditional academics with field studies and meetings with government officials and community members in order to connect students to human communities and the environment.
During one- to nine-week courses, students travel, camp, and study in Southeast Alaska’s rainforest, the Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to British Columbia, Utah’s canyonlands, and Montana’s diverse landscapes. Fostering broad-based learning, a typical WRFI course might offer credits in science, environmental studies, forestry, geography, resource conservation, anthropology, and/or Native American studies.
For more information and for the Spring/Summer/Fall 2010 schedule, visit www.wrfi.net.
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Help the Union of Concerned Scientists Engage Younger Scientists in Our Work
For 40 years, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. We combine independent scientific research and citizen action to secure policies that protect and improve our environment and security. But we can’t do this important work without the involvement of the scientific community.
That’s why UCS is initiating a new program to engage younger scientists in our work. We need your help to reach out to graduate students and post-docs, or other early career scientists. We are also reaching out to economists, engineers, and physicians who are just starting out in their careers, and encourage you to send this to colleagues in these fields of expertise as well.
We have developed a short online survey to help us gather information about the needs and science policy interests of graduate students and post-docs.
But we need YOUR help! Please forward this message to students you know or to any student groups or list serves that serve this population.
If you are currently a graduate student or post-doc, please take a few moments to fill out the survey yourself.
The survey is short and the results will not be shared with anyone outside UCS. The information we receive will help us integrate young scientists into the critical work that we do—with your help—to produce top-notch science and analysis and advocate for smart solutions for a healthy environment and safer world.
Please take just a few minutes now to forward this email on to any young scientists you may know.
The direct link to our survey is: http://www.ucsusa.org/action/YSSsurvey.html
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Ecological Society of America Student Section Travel Awards 2010
The Student Section of the Ecological Society of America is happy to announce its call for applications to the ESA-SS Travel Awards to attend the next ESA meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.
Students interested please follow the next link for details: http://www.esa.org/students/section/node/117
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REU Opportunity: Pollinator Behavior, OR
Oregon State University is offering a competitive opportunity for
a handful of motivated college students to participate this summer in an
NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) in Pollination
Biology. To learn more about this opportunity, visit
http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/REU.
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Marine Education & Aquarist Summer Internships, Catalina Island, CA
Pennington Marine Science Center
Camp Emerald Bay, Santa Catalina Island, CA
Marine Science Education Internship
May 30 - September 1, 2010
Description: The Pennington Marine Science Center marine science
education internship is designed to provide
instruction opportunities for aspiring educators. These skills can be
marketed towards future secondary school
teaching positions. As a summer staff member of Camp Emerald Bay and the Pennington Marine Science Center, you will be involved in many different aspects of camp and science center operations including, merit badge instruction, leading open house tours, camp staff required work activities and other duties as assigned.
Aquarist Internship
May 30 - September 1, 2010
Description: The Camp Emerald Bay - Pennington Marine Science Center Aquarist Internship is designed to provide instruction and opportunities to learn aquatic animal husbandry skills. These skills can be marketed to a number of organizations and businesses such as public aquariums, research groups, aquaculture production facilities, aquarium service businesses, and the ornamental fish trade including retail and wholesale production levels. The job of aquatic animal keepers, also known as aquarists, is a physically active job. Besides the potential for SCUBA diving, other job duties include lifting boxes of frozen fish (50 lbs), climbing up and down stairs or ladders, bending over, carrying buckets of water, restraining and netting animals. Days are frequently spent standing on your feet and usually consist of feeding, monitoring, and otherwise caring for aquatic animals.
Applications for both positions are due by Friday, March 12, 2010.
If interested, please contact the Marine Science Director by email or
phone for an application:
Kevin Erickson, KErickson@BSA-LA.org
Marine Science Director
Pennington Marine Science Center
1-310-510-1795 ext 36
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Brower Youth Awards 2010 Prize Search
The Brower Youth Awards has launched the 2010 prize search for outstanding grassroots environmental leaders across North America. We celebrate eco-activists, ages 13-22, leading the way to a green, just future.
Six Brower Youth Award recipients will receive a $3,000 cash prize, an all-expenses paid trip to San Francisco to speak at an inspirational award ceremony, and media coverage. Our honorees continue as environmental change agents, writers, organizers, visionaries, and speakers, supported by Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative.
Are YOU an eco-activist? Do you know an eco-activist? Apply, or nominate a leader, at broweryouthawards.org/apply.
Completed applications must be received by May 15, 2010.
More questions? Email bya@earthisland.org or call 510-859-9144.
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Deadline Extended for Unique Environmental Program at Tahoe and Baikal
The Tahoe-Baikal Institute has extended the deadline for our 2010 Summer Environmental Exchange until Tuesday, February 15th.
This one-of-a-kind international exchange program is being offered from June through August, 2010. Our 10-week interdisciplinary exchange exposes TBI participants to the intersection of watershed science, policy, education, restoration, and management, and explores issues of sustainable economic development, technology transfer, and cultural understanding in two of the world's premier freshwater ecosystems, Lake Tahoe in California and Nevada and at Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia.
Please visit the Tahoe-Baikal Institute's website for more details and to download program application materials: www.tahoebaikal.org. Applications should be sent by email to jgreen@tahoebaikal.org.
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Call for Submissions: Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable is a global, online journal based at Columbia University in the City of New York, dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development, and is the first student-founded academic journal of its kind.
Consilience is now accepting articles for the fourth issue, due to be published in Summer 2010. All pieces can now be submitted online via our new web interface: http://journals.cdrs.columbia.edu/consilience/index.php/consilience/author/submit/1. The deadline for submission for Issue IV is February 22, 2010.
Consilience publishes four categories of written work: Scholarly Articles, Opinion Pieces, Field Notes, and Photo Essays. We also welcome submissions to the bi-weekly Editorial Column. While our website is under construction, I welcome you to visit http://journals.cdrs.columbia.edu/consilience/index.php/consilience/issue/current to view our first issue. Our second and third issues will be uploaded shortly.
If you have any questions regarding the submissions process or Consilience, please do not hesitate to contact the editor at co2177@columbia.edu or the other members of the Editorial Board at contact@consiliencejournal.org.
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Aquatic Ecology REU Position
One Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) position is available in Dr. David Lodge’s Aquatic Ecology Laboratory with the University of Notre Dame for summer 2010.
REU Project Description: The REU will design and complete an independent research project that fits into the goals of this research. Because we will be collecting crayfish from a many different populations, there is an opportunity for the student to design a project that compares some aspect of crayfish morphology, crayfish habitat use, or physicochemical characteristics of the habitat between different locations. In addition, the REU will participate in all aspects of field and lab work involved in the larger project. This will mainly consist of crayfish collection from lakes and streams using baited traps as well as hand collection while snorkeling or SCUBA diving. Strong candidates must be comfortable working in and around water. Boating and snorkeling/SCUBA experience is a plus. Questions about the project can be directed to Lindsey Sargent (lsargen1@nd.edu).
For more information, and to apply, visit the GLOBES website http://globes.nd.edu/reu2010.shtml.
The priority deadline is February 12th, 2010. We may consider later applications. Contact Ginna Anderson (g.anderso@nd.edu) with questions about applying.
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Position Available: Project Assistant for Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Impact Study
In the EBM Tools Impact Study, researchers from Brown University, The Nature Conservancy, EBM Tools Network, and Waterview Consulting are analyzing the role of EBM tools (see ebmtools.org for examples) in coastal and ocean management decision-making around the world. We are seeking an assistant to conduct scientific literature reviews on selected topics. The assistant will find and compile relevant journal articles (PDFs). Temporary, part-time position starting immediately (February 2010) and continuing approximately 2 months. Pay is $10 per hour. We anticipate 40-80 hours total over the 2-month period. Work schedule is flexible, but periodic project deadlines must be met. Required: academic coursework, research, or other experience in marine/coastal sciences, management, or policy; strong library/online research skills; ability to thoroughly and accurately compile and organize information. Applications will be considered beginning immediately. To apply, submit letter of interest and CV/resume to Peter Taylor, peter@waterviewconsulting.com.
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2010 WWF Science Internships
World Wildlife Fund - United States is offering several internships for the summer at its office in Washington, DC. They are designed typically for graduate students, although some may be appropriate for advanced undergraduates. Projects can be undertaken over the summer (with extensions, as necessary, into the fall semester).
Most projects could also be extended over the course of one or two semesters as part of a student's course work or thesis requirements; advance arrangements would be necessary with faculty advisors. Internships are typically unpaid unless otherwise noted, but facilities, library resources, and computers at WWF headquarters are available. Hours are flexible. To qualify for an unpaid internship, the student must provide documentation that they are receiving credit from their university, or that the work they will be performing is consistent with a course requirement.
In general, our interns need solid data management and writing skills, self-motivation, an ability to work both independently and collaboratively. Specific skills (required or preferred) are listed with each project, along with the primary contact person.
To view available positions, visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/careers/internships.html.
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