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On Campus Event: “The Radical King: His Final Years” Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture with Taylor Branch, Wed. Feb 13, 7PM, Kresge

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“The Radical King: His Final Years.” Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture with Taylor Branch
Wednesday, Feb 13 7:00 PM
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Taylor Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his landmark narrative history of the civil rights era, America in the King Years. The trilogy’s first book, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards. Two successive volumes also gained critical and popular success: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, and At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968. Branch’s work on Dr. King and the American Civil Rights Movement required over 24 years of intensive research. He earned his M.P.A. from Princeton University and is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

  • There will be a reception, book signing, and Q&A immediately following the lecture.
  • A post-lecture reflection will commence at 9:15 pm at Ladd House.

On Campus Event: “Following carbon in the Arctic and estrogens in sewage using the tools of environmental chemistry”, Fri. Feb 15, 1:30 PM (Druck 20)

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“Following carbon in the Arctic and estrogens in sewage using the tools of environmental chemistry”
Dana Walker Mayo Lecturer: David Griffith ’00, Assistant Professor – Willamette University

Friday, February 15, 1:30 PM
Druckenmiller Hall, Room 20

Humans have a knack for altering the natural environment. Every year, we use enormous quantities of chemicals to make widgets and cure diseases. Our activities also release chemical pollutants that harm ecosystems, change the climate, and make us sick. Solving these problems and mitigating future risk requires understanding how chemicals move, change, and interact in aquatic environments at a variety of scales. This talk will highlight how the tools of environmental chemistry, such as radiocarbon dating and mass spectrometry, can be used to (1) track carbon cycling in the deep Arctic Ocean under changing sea-ice conditions, (2) monitor sewage consumption by microbes in the Hudson River Estuary, (3) fingerprint synthetic estrogens from birth control pills, and (4) design cost-effective strategies for removing estrogens from sewage in Salem, OR.

On Campus Event: Common Hour with Michael Danahy, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Friday 2.15 @ 3PM

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Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture Common Hour with Michael Danahy, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry

Friday, Feb 15 3:00 PM

Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Each semester, the Common Hour program asks members of the student body to nominate a faculty member to present the Karofksy Faculty Encore Lecture, honoring that member as a teacher and role model. This semester’s presenter is Michael Danahy, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry.

Off Campus Event: Gulf of Maine 2050– Save the date, November 2019

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On November 4-8th, 2019, science, governmental, industry, and community leaders from across New England and the Maritime Provinces will come together in Portland, Maine to explore environmental, economic, social, and institutional perspectives on emerging climate challenges and opportunities.

Through a stimulating mix of symposium style presentations and practical work sessions we will:

  • learn how the Gulf of Maine is expected to change in the next 30 years
  • develop a shared vision of regional resilience
  • activate new collaborations to achieve this vision

We hope you can be part of this critical conversation!

www.gulfofmaine2050.org

Submission Opportunity: Call for Poster Abstracts, Maine Sustainability & Water Conference

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The 2019 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference, held in the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Maine on March 28th, is calling for student poster submissions.

The submission deadline for poster abstracts is Thursday, March 7, 2019. Abstracts can be submitted online through the conference website. This year, the juried poster competition will include three judging categories: graduate, undergraduate and high-school.

Posters invited for display will address one or more aspects of the following:

  • Water quality/quantity. These may include chemical, biological, hydrological, and geochemical aspects of surface and ground waters, and their policy and economic implications.
  • Sustainability. These may include implementation and evaluation of policies and practices that promote economic development while protecting ecosystem health and fostering community well-being.

On Campus Event: Black Faces, White Spaces- Thursday Jan 31 7:30 PM

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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:30 PM
Roux Center Lantern

Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer. Dr. Finney works to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak on environmental issues and determine policies.

Off Campus Event: Bee-Driven Environmental Monitoring Presentation, Wed. 1/16 6PM in Bath, ME

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Bee-Driven Environmental Monitoring Presentation
Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Center for P.E.A.C.E. and Community 44 Summer Street Bath, ME 04530 (map)

JOIN scientists Bach Kim Nguyen and Michaël van Cutsem of Belgium to discuss biodiversity, pesticide and heavy metal results from bee pollen tests at five sites in Kennebec Estuary.

BRAINSTORM how this new approach to environmental monitoring can be applied, including implications for conservation, policy, education and business!

Created by Bach Kim Nguyen and Michaël van Cutsem, BeeOdiversity aims to track and boost biodiversity and promote pollinators through an innovative scientific approach analyzing bee pollen.

KELT, Nourish (the international Nourishment Economies coalition), and BeeOdiversity are partnering to demonstrate this concept in the United States for the first time. This bee-driven environmental monitoring approach promises a practical, future-focused mechanism to help communities, scientists, policymakers and businesses build on each other’s work.

Join our full team as we share preliminary results from the Kennebec Estuary and examples of how the approach is working in parts of Europe. Help us think about what structures and actions make sense for KELT, Maine and our country. Local support and insight is critical for moving this initiative to next steps!

Off Campus Workshop: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Chicago- Deadline: 1/28/19

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Workshop: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Earth and Environmental Sciences: Supporting the Success of All Students

April 10 – 12, 2019

University of Illinois at Chicago

Application Deadline: Friday, January 28, 2019

This workshop will focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Earth and environmental sciences. We have the responsibility and the opportunity to make choices in our teaching and in our programs to better attract and support a diverse population of students. To move forward with this work, we will discuss the challenges and barriers students encounter, and explore a range of approaches that can be adopted to broaden participation and foster inclusion at the course and program levels. At the department and program level, we will apply a framework of engagement, capacity, and continuity (Jolly et al., 2004) to program evaluation and design. For the plenary and concurrent workshop sessions, we will draw from our collective experiences, from the science and sociology literature on this topic, from InTeGrate modules, from NAGT’s Traveling Workshop Program, from SAGE 2YC resources, and from recent publications in the Journal of Geoscience Education (e.g. Carabajal et al., 2017; Callahan et al., 2017; Sherman-Morris & McNeal, 2016; Wolfe & Riggs 2017). Workshop participants will leave with specific strategies to implement in their classes, as well as with discussion points to share with their programs.

Workshop Goals

  • Discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion and how they strengthen Earth and environmental sciences
  • Recognize barriers to and opportunities for inclusion
  • Explore strategies and practices that attract students, cultivate their science identities, help them to thrive in college and beyond
  • Apply a framework of engagement, capacity, and continuity to program evaluation and design
  • Develop an action plan with strategies to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion at the course and program levels
  • Enable networking, sharing, and collaboration within the Earth education community to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion

Workshop Cost

There is no fee to attend this workshop, and the project grant covers participant meals and supplies during the workshop. Participants or their institutions are expected to cover the cost of travel to and from the workshop as well as lodging (a hotel room block has been reserved). Travel and lodging details are forthcoming.

A limited number of workshop stipends (not to exceed $500) are available on an application basis to help defray travel expenses in cases of financial need. Stipends are available for airfare only.

 

More Information

The workshop application and additional information are linked from the workshop website: https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/twp_support_students/index.html

 

I am one of the leaders for this workshop and would be happy to provide more information or answer questions.  Please feel welcome to share this workshop announcement with faculty at and beyond Bowdoin.  Thanks!

 

Kind regards,

Rachel

 

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Rachel Beane, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences

Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science

Bowdoin College

6800 College Station | Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA

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