Monday, November 16, 2009
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CES News
- Sustainability Consulting Partnership: Spring Info Session, Today
- CES Fall Seminar Series, November 19 (Thursday)
On Campus
- Anton/Lippitt Conference on Urban Affairs: “President Obama and America’s Cities,” November 18 (Wednesday)
- Department of Geological Sciences Fall Colloquium Series, November 19 (Thursday)
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar and Brown Bag Lunch Series
Off Campus
- Wintertime Farmers Market
- Build Boston, November 18-20 (Wednesday-Friday)
- Minimizing Vessel Strikes to Endangered Right Whales: A Crash Course in Conservation Science and Policy, November 19 (Thursday)
Internships & Opportunities
· Tahoe-Baikal Institute Summer Environmental Exchange
· Morris K. Udall Foundation scholarship
· First Study Abroad Program on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
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CES News_________________________
Sustainability Consulting Partnership: Spring Info Session
Want to advise an urban garden run by African refugees, rewrite a gender curriculum, or help plan an ecotourism hotel in Haiti? SCP is a student organization committed to volunteer consulting to achieve sustainability goals while giving Brown students an opportunity to apply their learning to real-world projects. We have several exciting projects lined up for the spring and will be holding an information session for student volunteers on Monday, 11/16 at 6pm in the Urban Environmental Lab. Email brown.sustainability@gmail.com or see http://sites.google.com/site/brownsustainabilityconsulting/ if you have any questions!
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CES Noon Seminar
Assessing the risks of climate change and climate variability on Indonesian rice agriculture
Roz Naylor
Director, Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford University
Rosamond Naylor is an associate professor of environmental earth system science and economics at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s program on food security and the environment. Her research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production. Working at the intersection of environment and economics, Naylor has been involved in a number of field-level research projects throughout the world concerning issues of aquaculture and livestock production, high-input agricultural development, biotechnology, climate-induced yield variability, and food security. Her research appears regularly in Science and Nature and recent articles have focused on how changing and increasingly variable climate may affect food production in developing countries.
Thursday, November 19
12 noon
Mencoff Seminar Room, 68 Waterman Street (Population Studies and Training Center)
On Campus_____________________
Anton/Lippitt Conference on Urban Affairs
President Obama and America’s Cities
Panelists:
Thomas E. Deller, Director of the city of Providence’s Department of Planning and Development
Scott W. Lang, Mayor of the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts
Wilbur C. Rich, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College Gregory D. Squires, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
4 P.M., Wednesday,
November 18, 2009
Brown Hillel,
80 Brown Street
Free and Open to the Public
Sponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions
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Department of Geological Sciences Fall Colloquium Series
Title TBA
Barbara Romanowicz
University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, November 19, 4pm
115 MacMillan Hall
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar and Brown Bag Lunch Series
Seminar, Monday, November 16, 12pm
Darrin Hulsey, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Mechanisms and Tempo of Diversification in Cichlid Fishes."
Sidney Frank Hall Life Sciences Building, Nathan Marcovitz Auditorium, Room 220
Brown Bag Lunch, Friday, November 13
Sarah Corman, Graduate Student, Leslie Lab "Salt Marsh Mosquito Ditches: Sedimentation Rate, Nekton Community, and Implications for Restoration"
Eddy Auditorium, Biomed Center 291
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Off Campus_____________________
Wintertime Farmers Market
Saturdays 11-2pm
inside Hope Artiste Village, four blocks north of the Providence/Pawtucket line
http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farmersmarkets_details.php?market=29
30 farmers + a cheesemaker + 3 bakers + a chocolatier + a coffee roaster + a jam maker + a nut roaster + 2 ice cream makers
what you might find:
direct from RI producers: lettuces, arugula, bok choi, kale, collards, cabbage, chard, broccoli, cauliflower, apples, cider, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, leeks, garlic, radishes, chilis, fresh herbs, beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips, winter squash, oysters, mussels, crab, lobster, scallops, beef, pork, chicken, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, eggs, honey, maple syrup, pesto, breads, pastries, pies, coffee, teas, herbal lotions, jams, jellies, dog treats
sourced direct from family farms: Maine rolled oats and (soon) heirloom beans, Florida oranges and grapefruits, Georgia pecans
stay for lunch: zesty meals made from ingredients at the market
Local, fair food available year-round! Hard to believe it all started three years ago in AS220's performance space. Join us in Pawtucket in rebuilding Rhode Island's year-round local food system.
See you Saturday!
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Build Boston
November 18-20, 2009
Seaport World Trade Center
Boston, MA
Build Boston is the largest regional convention and tradeshow for the design and construction industry. In this 25th anniversary year, over 250 exhibits fill the tradeshow floor and more than 200 workshops, tours and other professional development and networking events are offered. More than 10,000 building industry professionals from 43 states and 19 countries attended last year’s event.
There's something for everyone at Build Boston -- building owners/managers, architects, engineers, contractors, interior designers, design and construction firm administrators, landscape architects and all professionals, interns and students with an interest in the built environment.
This year, three keynote speakers, seven one-day symposiums and dozens of alumni receptions, building industry dinners and special tradeshow events are planned.
View the show information online, download the full conference program or request a hard-copy brochure and start planning your Build Boston 2009 experience today.
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Minimizing Vessel Strikes to Endangered Right Whales: A Crash Course in Conservation Science and Policy
Dr. Moira Brown is a Senior Scientist serving in dual roles with the Canadian Whale Institute and New England Aquarium. She has been conducting research on distribution, population biology and genetics of North Atlantic right whales since 1985. Her conservation interests are keenly focused on mitigation of collisions between ships and right whales, and reducing risk of right whale entanglement in fishing gear. The lecture is Thursday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Swan Auditorium, Swan Hall, Upper College Road, on URI's Kingston Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be preceded, at 6:30, by Rhode Island Natural History Survey's fourth annual used natural history book sale. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for refreshments & fellowship.
For more information / directions call 401-874-5800, email: programadmin@rinhs.org or visit www.rinhs.org
Internships & Opportunities_______
Tahoe-Baikal Institute Summer Environmental Exchange
The Tahoe-Baikal Institute is please once again to offer our Summer Environmental Exchange (SEE) program at Lake Tahoe and Lake Baikal from June to August 2010. Each summer the SEE program brings together an international group of young environmental leaders to learn about and directly participate in watershed protection, sustainable economic development, and cross cultural exchange.
The 2010 exchange will mark the 20th consecutive SEE program. Many of our 300+ international “graduates” of the SEE and other TBI programs hold influential positions as natural resource managers, academics, NGO leaders, and stewards of international cooperation and understanding all over the world, including Lakes Tahoe and Baikal. For students or recent graduates interested in pursuing a career in natural resource management, international policy, or related fields, the SEE is a promising and rewarding summer opportunity!
For more information visit our website at www.tahoebaikal.org.
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Morris K. Udall Foundation scholarship
http://www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/MKUScholarship/MKUScholarship.aspx
The deadline for application from Brown is 2/8/2010.
The Brown contact is Dean Linda Dunleavy (University Hall, 863-2538).
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First Study Abroad Program on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) introduces an eight-week Study Abroad Program, focusing on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through professional training, hands-on learning, and cultural immersion, students will embark on experiencing how global climate change influences sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Students will have the opportunity to explore firsthand the diverse direct and indirect effects of a changing climate on natural and human systems. Students are encouraged both individually and as a group to delve into complex topics and address challenging questions relevant to contemporary regional and national climate change problems.
This international program includes a professional training course on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which delivers hands-on training in climate change research methods and tools currently used by climate change practitioners in multilateral and bilateral development agencies, as well as Governments in both developed and developing countries, and engages students in a month-long internship. Students will be culturally immersed through home-stays and excursions in Panama, and will receive intensive Spanish language classes from native speakers.
The Study Abroad Program on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean is accredited by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and qualifies for six undergraduate credit hours through the Earth System Science academic program. These credits are available for transfer from UAH to any US college or university for current non-UAH students who wish to enroll at UAH for the summer course. CATHALAC also welcomes other universities to accredit the program directly. Consult your study-abroad office for your university's specific credit and transfer policy for this program.
Students who wish to receive credits through UAH must enroll in two sections of the Special Topics summer course entitled: ¨Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean¨. Payment of tuition (credit hours), which is in addition to the CATHALAC program fee, should be handled directly with the university at enrollment. Students who wish to participate but do not want to receive credits for the Study Abroad Program need only to pay the Program fee directly to CATHALAC.
Apply online now for summer 2010!
Further information is available on: www.cathalac.org/study_abroad
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