Upcoming ES Events: True Cost of Coal- Beehive Collective; One Small NGO's Efforts to Strengthen Health Care in Northern Haiti
Around Campus: Chemicals, Obesity and Diabetes Conference; Science Library Exhibit- Sustainability; Goldfarb Center Student Grants
Beyond Campus:Environmental Education Volunteers Needed; Bill McKibben and Ben Hewitt to speak at Maine conference; KMT Mushroom Walk; Urbanization Trends in China
In the News: How Indonesia Killed the First REDD project; In Pulp Wood Country: A New Kind of Conservation
Jobs and Internships: Community Energy Associate, Island Institute; Land Registry Manager, TNC
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Upcoming ES Events
ES Evening Lecture Series Continues with the Beehive Collective
The Beehive Collective will be presenting their presentation, "The True Cost of Coal". A not to be missed evening of fusing creative expression with discussion about environment and human health.
Tuesday, October 4th, 7 pm in Page Commons.
***This counts towards the 401 credit.
Co-sponsored by: ES Prg., Goldfarb Center, Departments of Biology and Geology, Pugh Community Board, the Cultural Events Committee Guy P. Gannett Fund, and the Colby College Museum of Art ES Lunch Lecture
One Small NGO's Efforts to Improve Health Systems in Northern Haiti: Meeting the Challenges of the Earthquake and Cholera Epidemic
We will be joined by Nate Nickerson, the Executive Director of Konbit Sante. Konbit Sante is a small Maine-based non-profit that had been working in Northern Haiti for close to ten years when a devastating earthquake followed by an unusually virulent cholera epidemic rocked an already fragile health system. This presentation describes the capacity-building approach of Konbit Sante, and how it is being applied to support the Haitian system to better meet these enormous challenges.
Wednesday, October 5th. 11:30 lunch. 12:00 lecture.
***This counts towards the 401 credit.
Around Campus
Chemicals, Obesity and Diabetes: How Science Leads Us To Action
The Goldfarb Center and the Environmental Health Strategy Center are co-sponsoring a cutting edge one-day conference to present the links between human exposure to environmental chemicals and the development of obesity and diabetes. Leading scientists and policy experts will be speaking. Students email Gail Carlson, Environmental Studies Program (gcarlson@colby.edu) if you are interested in attending.
The keynote speaker will be Bruce Blumberg, Ph.D., from the University of California-Irvine Department of Developmental and Cell Biology. Blumberg is a national expert on the role of chemical exposures as a contributing factor for obesity and diabetes.
Chemicals, Obesity and Diabetes: How Science Leads Us To Action
Friday, October 14, 2011
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Diamond Building, Colby College
Sustainability is the topic of this months Science Library Exhibit Books are on display as you enter the library along with a document of facts and links to resources. Please drop by to browse.
A slideshow of titles is on the Science Library Homepage as well as a link to the document of resources.
Goldfarb Center Students Grants Available
Do you have a great idea that you want to make happen? Do you need money to help with an independent academic project or thesis? Internship but no funding? Want to build a drone? Robot? Consider applying for a grant from the Goldfarb Center. The deadline is October 19th, for more details see -
http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/programs/funding/l-sandy-maisel-internship.cfm
or
http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/programs/funding/student-research.cfm
For information on how to write a successful proposal come to our grant-writing workshop on September 28th from 4-5 PM. For further details on the workshop please contact Alice Elliott, aelliott@colby.edu. For details on grants, contact John Turner, jpturner@colby.edu.
Beyond Campus
Environmental Education Volunteers Needed
Prof. Cathy Bevier needs student volunteers to help with a geocaching project at Waterville Junior
High School next Thursday at 12:30. The course will be set, and I have
GPS units available. These will be programmed with the coordinates of
the caches, and all you'd need to do is help the students use these to
find the "treasures". There may also be an additional step, to look
around at the vegetation near the caches to see if the species are
recognizable as native or introduced/invasive. We'll have help from
one of the environmental educators from the Belgrade Regional
Conservation Alliance.
We're looking for about 4 students to help that day, but have
lots of upcoming opportunities for Colby students interested in
practicing environmental education on our local middle-school
students! Email Cathy if you are interested crbevier@colby.edu
Island Institute 2011 Sustainable Island Living Conference
Bill McKibben will be the keynote speaker and Ben Hewitt will be opening the conference on Saturday
For more information and to buy your tickets for the keynote in advance please see http://www.islandinstitute.org/events/2011-Sustainable-Island-Living-Conference/14472/
Kennebec Messalonskee Trails Mushroom Walk
Sunday, October 9 at 1:00 PM: Mushroom Workshop and Self-Guided Tour Quarry Rd. Recreation Center
Mushroom expert, Richard Tory will present a workshop “The Top 10 Choice Edible Wild Mushrooms.” Tory has given such hands-on talks for many years at the Common Ground Fair. His demonstration will feature detailed instruction on foraging, identifying and preparing choice edible fungi. He will introduce beginners to the basic tools and practices for safely enjoying many delectable and common species of wild mushrooms with an emphasis on those easiest to identify.
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There will also be a self-guided tour of the area with signage of mushroom sites found on and off the trails. Although mushroom samples will be presented at the workshop, this will be an educational event and mushrooms will not be harvested from the area so that they will be available for all to observe.
This event is free and will be held rain or shine. (Mushrooms like the rain!)
Donations to Kennebec Messalonskee Trails will be gratefully accepted.
FMI: please visit www.kmtrails.org or call 872-2940.
URBANIZATION TRENDS IN CHINA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:30 p.m. Razzo Theatre at Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University, 92 Downing Street, Worcester, MA Please mark your calendars for this year's Atwood lecture sponsored by the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. The speaker this year, Dr. Karen Seto,will give the Atwood lecture. A reception follows the lecture. (On October 14 at 12:00 p.m., Dr. Seto will feature on a faculty panel discussing "Land-use science and environmental sustainability: future directions and applications". Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center.) Dr. Seto is an Associate Professor of the Urban Environment at Yale University. She studies the human transformation of land and the links between urbanization, global change, and sustainability and is an expert in remote sensing analysis and integrating satellite data with social science research methods.
In the News
How Indonesia Managed to Kill the its First REDD Project
(Thought this would be of interest in light of Dr. Dinerstein's recent visit to campus)
In July 2010, US investor Todd Lemons and Russian energy giant Gazprom
believed they were just weeks from winning final approval for a landmark
forest preservation project in Indonesia.
Now, the project is close to collapse, a casualty of labyrinthine bureaucracy, opaque laws and a secretive palm oil company.For more: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/nvironment/how-indonesia-managed-to-kill-its-first-redd-project/459819
In Wood Pulp Country, A New Plan for Conservation
For more than a decade, there's been talk of creating a new national
park in the heart of the Maine woods. Most locals were opposed from the
start, but as the economy here changes, opposition is softening. For
generations, Maine's North Woods have provided pulp for the state's
paper mills and created plenty of good jobs in an area with little other
economic activity. But now the paper industry is struggling and a mill
job is no longer a guarantee.
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/30/140632021/in-wood-pulp-country-a-new-plan-for-conservation
Jobs and Internships
COMMUNITY ENERGY ASSOCIATE, THE ISLAND INSTITUTE
The Community Energy Associate will provide technical, community outreach and administrative support to assist the Island Institute's community partners to better understand and confront their unique energy challenges. Responsibilities will include outreach and education; research, including data analysis and translation related to the evaluation of renewable energy projects; organizing, attending and reporting out on meetings; providing administrative support for internal and external initiatives; and advocacy at the state and federal level in collaboration with other staff. For further information, visit http://islandinstitute.org/careers.php#CommunityEnergyAssociate.
LAND REGISTRY MANAGER, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, VINEYARD HAVEN, MA
The Land Registry Manager is responsible for developing and coordinating the Private Land Management Registry, a new project that encourages and supports ecologically constructive management of residential property on Martha's Vineyard. S/he Land Registry Manager prioritizes landowner contacts, introduces the Registry to potential participants, develops strategies to enhance the ecological condition of registered properties, and maintains relationships with Registry participants by means of site visits, phone calls, a periodic newsletter, and social networking sites. The Land Registry Manager lives on or commutes on a daily basis to Martha's Vineyard and thinks both creatively and scientifically in enhancing ecological function on a landscape scale. This position is grant funded for three years but may be extended if funding is available. Ideally, this is a full time (35 hours/week) position, though a part time schedule may be considered. For further information, visit https://careers.nature.org/psp/P91HTNC_APP/APPLICANT/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL.
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