Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
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CES News
- No Seminar this week
On Campus
- Food and Climate Change Series
- SBRP Special Seminar: Laura Senier, Karen Wetterhan Award Recipient
Internships & Opportunities
- Northwest Connections' Landscape and Livelihood Fall Field Semester
- Undergraduate Research Experiences at Bodega Marine Laboratory: Summer 2009
- Environmental Summer Internship Program Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
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CES News________________________
CES Seminar Series Fall 2008
No seminar this week.
The week after Thanksgiving…
Tuesday, December 2nd at noon
UEL classroom
Lindsay Hagamen presents her thesis, “The Impact of Land Use on Nutrients in Freshwater Streams, Guanacaste Costa Rica”
Come to listen and to eat homemade soup from Rhode Island-grown veggies
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Food and Climate Change Series
Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 7:00pm
Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001
The Food and Climate Change lecture series presents Anna Lappé, bestselling author. Lappé is known for her research and writing on food politics, globalization, and social change. Her first book, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (2002), co-authored with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, described social movements to end hunger throughout the developing world. Her second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, promotes the value of eating sustainable food and serves as practical guide for its preparation.
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SBRP Special Seminar: Laura Senier, Karen Wetterhan Award Recipient
Barus & Holley, Room 190
Monday, December 1st, 2008, 12:00 PM
In this special seminar, Laura Senier, the recipient of this year's Annual Karen Wetterhan Award, will present the talk she will be giving at the annual Superfund Basic Research Program Grantees' conference to be held December 7-9 2008, in Pacific Grove, CA. This award is conferred on the most outstanding among all the graduate research assistants in all Superfund Basic Research Programs throughout the US, and is a very exceptional honor. Please join us for this special seminar.
Public Schools and Contaminated Land in Rhode Island:
Using SBRP Research Translation and Community Outreach to Foster Research and Advocacy
Presented by Laura Senier, MPH MA, Brown University Department of Sociology and Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc.
Many communities in Rhode Island are concerned about the sitting of public schools on or near contaminated land. There are no federal guidelines governing site selection for public schools, despite several high-profile cases of communities where schools were built on contaminated sites. Revised redevelopment guidelines were implemented in the fall of 2007, and our team will evaluate their impact.
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Northwest Connections' Landscape and Livelihood Fall Field Semester
http://www.northwestconnections.org/landscapeandlivelihood.html
An intensive two-month field-based educational program focused on ecology and community-based conservation. The program offers 15 semester credits from the University of Montana. Students learn experientially, while living in the wild landscape and rural community of the Swan Valley. Base camp for the semester is the historic Beck homestead, on the Swan River, nestled between two wilderness areas, 50 miles south of Glacier National Park. With the Swan Valley as their classroom, students have the opportunity to work with land managers and rural citizens towards an understanding of the common ground between the needs of the land, rural communities and local economies.
The Field Semester runs from August 31st - October 29th, 2009.
Cost includes: tuition, Wilderness First Aid certification, room and board, all course materials, transportation during the semester.
A $500 tuition break is being offered to students who apply by February 1st, 2009.
For more information, please contact:
Maureen 'Mo' Hartmann
Program Director
Northwest Connections
Box 1309 Swan Valley, MT 59826
(406) 754-3185
mo@northwestconnections.org
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Undergraduate Research Experiences at
Bodega Marine Laboratory: Summer 2009
California coast north of San Francisco
University of California at Davis
Bodega Marine Laboratory (http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu/) is seeking motivated undergraduate students interested in marine science careers to participate in a Summer Research-Experience-for-Undergraduate Program, supported by the National Science Foundation. Over eight weeks (June 21 - Aug 15, 2009), students will develop confidence and independence in doing research and communicating science. Faculty and other mentors will provide one-on-one research training, from choosing a topic to writing a paper, in a friendly, supportive environment. The program includes a unit on scientific ethics as an essential element of a science career path. Participants will receive a stipend ($3600) plus all laboratory housing and meals and travel costs.
A goal of the program is to increase the success of underrepresented minorities in marine science. We encourage underrepresented undergraduate students to apply. Contact the Program Assistant (bml-reu@ucdavis.edu) with any questions. Animamos aplicaciónes de estudiantes Latinas/Latinos en especial.
Details: http://www-bml.ucdavis.edu/student-info/researchexp.html
Deadline for receipt of applications is February 15, 2009.
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Environmental Summer Internship Program
Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals of Northern Arizona University in conjunction with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring the 2008 Environmental Summer Student Internship Program. Students will have the opportunity to gain professional skills by assisting government agencies and Native American tribes with special environmental projects related to air quality and environmental protection.
The 10-week internships will last from approximately June through August. Student interns will be provided with a $4000 stipend, with housing and travel allowances available as needed. Must be full-time Undergraduate or Graduate student with satisfactory academic standing, major in an environmental (science, engineering, planning, policy, law, management) or related (political science, anthropology, health) field, good communication (verbal and written) and word processing skills, and have strong interest in working with Native American tribes.
Visit, http://www4.nau.edu/eeop/internships/ssi_internship.asp for application requirements. Complete application packet should be received by February 15th, 2009.
Submit required documents to:
Matthew A. Zierenberg, Program Coordinator
Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
P.O. Box 5768, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Telephone: (928) 523-8864/1496
Fax: (928) 523-1280
Email: Matthew.Zierenberg@NAU.EDU
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Please send questions, comments and stories to:
CES Newsletter Editor, Marie-Laure Couët
marie-laure_couet@brown.edu
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