ES Lunch: Innovations in Maine’s Food System
Thursday, May 4 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
North Private Dining Room, Moulton Union

Join Linzee Weld, Slow Money Maine, Lucretia Woodruff, Milkweed Farm, and Anne Hayden, Adjunct professor at Bowdoin, and Program Manager of Sustainable Economies at Manomet for Conservation Sciences for a conversation about Maine’s Food System. Get your lunch and meet us in North Private Dining room. Faculty, staff and student without board are welcome to sign in at the Checker’s station.

Some Men Passed Here
A Documentary to Create Change
Thursday, May 4 7:00 PM
Druckenmiller Hall, room 20

Water is life and without water, there is no life. The Sahara dessert surrounds the small agrarian town of Jorf, Morocco, so water resources are precious and valuable. LIfe in Munkara, a neighborhood of Jorf, began with access to water, continues because of access to water through handmade qanats (Arabic for channel), but its future is now at risk as water resources and the health of the oasis are threatened.

Members of Smile Association recognized growing threats to their oasis town that nobody was willing to openly address, so they became determined to bring the conversation to light. Together, members of the youth, the President of the Association (Mohamed Danouni), and Evyn Dickinson (Bowdoin Professor Patsy Dickinson’s son) filmed a documentary that recorded local history and some of the issues facing their community in order to start the conversation and eventually create changes.

Evyn Dickinson was a Peace Corps volunteer in Jorf, Morocco from 2015-2017. He worked closely with a local association, Smile Association for Women, Children and Human Development, from its conception.

The primary purpose of this documentary is to begin local conversations about the future of the oasis and water use in Jorf, Morocco. However, it was also created with the intention of international use to learn about life in Morocco and the worldwide impact of climate change: no area is unaffected.
Contact Evyn Dickinson for more information: [email protected]

Film Runtime: 74 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Reporting from the Mongolian glacier that holds the secret to climate change
A conversation over lunch with environmental journalist Kevin Stark

Friday, May May 5, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
ES Common Room, Adams Hall

Bring your lunch and meet environmental journalist Kevin Stark to find out what we can learn about climate change from a Mongolian glacier.

Kevin Stark is a journalist with Chicago’s Data Reporting Lab. His focus is environment, science, energy and climate change.  Stark traveled with researchers to the Altai mountains of Western Mongolia and wrote about how climate scientists were dating the demise of last major Ice Age and finding a precise age for Mongolian petroglyphs. He reported on a crisis in Indiana where 1,100 people were living in a toxic public housing complex built on top of a defunct lead smelter. He has produced a data visualization of how sea level rise would hit some of the Bay Area’s hottest new development projects from the Warrior’s arena to Facebook HQ. He broke the story of how an building industry lawsuit convinced the California Supreme court that developers need not consider the effects of climate change on new real estate projects. He’s a current fellow with Northwestern University’s Social Justice News Nexus, and an alumnus of the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.  His work has appeared in Pacific Standard Magazine, the Chicago Reporter, the Chicago Reader, the San Francisco Public Press, Earth Island Journal, and other places.

Calling all ES students:
ES majors, minors, students who have taken an es class and prospective majors are cordially invited to an informal dinner with ES faculty and staff at the Bowdoin Outing Club on Sunday, Sunday, May 14 from 5-7

If you have and instrument please bring it!

The Earth Day Celebration on the Main Quad has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 27 from 2-4:30 near the Visual Arts Center

Free Popcorn!

The Water Complex: Preventing Water Catastrophes and Conflicts
Tuesday, April  18 4:00 PM
Shannon Room 208 Hubbard

Luke Wilson, Bowdoin Class of 2006, Co-founder and Deputy Director of the Washington-based nonprofit Center for Water Security and Cooperation (CWSC)

Luke Wilson is co-founder and deputy director of the Center for Water Security and Cooperation (CWSC) and a professorial lecturer at George Washington University. Wilson focuses primarily on the public international law issues surrounding water resources and manages CWSC’s international efforts. Wilson joins the CWSC from a niche private practice where he specialized in advising attorneys, arbitrators, and clients on issues of international law. In addition to his practice, Wilson previously worked as a law clerk at the International Court of Justice, as a consultant with the World Bank, and at the US Department of Justice, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, and US Department of State. His current research interests include the resolution of water conflicts through international dispute resolution, and the applicability of human rights to water availability.

Wilson earned his LLM in International and Comparative Law and his JD at George Washington University Law School, where he was executive articles editor of the George Washington International Law Review. He is a member of the Massachusetts, New York, and District of Columbia bars and is admitted to the bar of the US Supreme Court.

Professor David Rand, Brown University – “Genes and Environment in Evolution and Disease: Common features from our different genomes.”

April 6, 2017 | 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM | Druckenmiller Hall, Room 020

Nicholas King: “Public Health in the ‘Post-Truth’ Era”

April 6, 2017 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Searles 315

Nicholas King, associate professor of social studies of medicine and associate member of epidemiology and biostatistics at McGill University, will speak as part of the ‘Public Health and the Liberal Arts Lecture Series’.

This lecture series is supported by the Public Health and the Liberal Arts Initiative and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This event is open to the public and free of charge.

Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ Page-Turning with Special Guest Matthew Klingle

April 7, 2017 | 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Hawthorne Longfellow Library, Special Collections

Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies and Director of Environmental Studies Program Matthew Klingle joins Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of Audubon’s magnificent Birds of America.

Experience the excitement as we reveal the bird of the month and take home a keepsake button. Friday, April 7, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. in the Special Collections & Archives reading room on the third floor of the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.

Free and open to the public.