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If you are a student, faculty member, alumnus or professional in the field of environmental studies or environmental science, and you are interested in presenting an Earth Issues Seminar, please let us know. To volunteer as a student host, suggest topics for future seminars, RSVP, or for more information email the Environmental Studies Technician.

 Spring 2013 Earth Issues Schedule

Join Environmental Studies faculty, staff, and students as we experiment with a new discussion-based format for our Earth Issues Seminars. The spring 2013 semester will bring many exciting and environmentally relevant presenters to campus via the Clarke Forum Theme: “Living in a World of Limits”. We are looking forward to hosting informal discussions and networking opportunities in the wake of several of these presentations. Refreshments will be served.

ES Social and Post-Lecture Discussion: Will Technology Save the World?
Wednesday, January 30
4:30-6:00 in the ES Lounge (across from Kaufman 118)
Please RSVP by 12:00 noon on 1/30 or request more information: edenbov@dickinson.edu

Environmental Science Faculty Candidate Lectures and Discussion Dinners
SAVE THE DATES: February 4 – 15
email edenbov@dickinson.edu for more information

ERSC & Earth Issues Seminar: “Mill Dams and Legacy Sediments: the 18^th and 19^th c. “gifts” that keep on giving”, Prof. Jeffery Niemitz
Tuesday, February 12
12:05 PM, HUB side rooms 205-206

ERSC & Earth Issues Seminar: The Natural History Mosaic
Thursday, February 21
5:00 pm, location TBD

ES Social/ Post-Lecture Discussion on Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Extraction
Wednesday, March 6
4:30- 6:00pm in ES lounge (across from Kaufman 118)

ES Social/ Post-Lecture Discussion on Designing Resilience
Thursday, March 28
4:30- 6:00pm in ES lounge (across from Kaufman 118)

Earth Issues Seminar with Inge Mose, German scholar on sustainable tourism and landscape conservation
Wednesday, April 3
5:00pm, lecture title and location TBA

ES Social/ Post-Lecture Discussion on the Climate Change Fight
Friday, April 12
12:00 noon in ES lounge (across from Kaufman 118)

Student Research Presentations (w/ pizza)
last week of classes: dates, times and locations TBD 

 ENST Spring Picnic
Friday, May 3 (tentative), location TBD

Past Earth Issues Schedules

Fall 2012 Earth Issues Seminar Schedule

 Wed. 9/5 - Study Abroad Experiences of ENST and ENSC Majors
5:00 pm at the Treehouse

Thurs. 9/20- Roger Turner, "How the Invisible Sciences of Environmental Surveillance make the World Safe for Infrastructure (and us)"
5:00 pm in Kaufman 179

Thurs. 10/4 – John Priscu, “Earth’s Icy Biosphere”
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University
7:00 pm in Stern Center Great Room, sponsored by Clarke Forum

Wed. 10/10 – Richard Mathew, “Natural Resources, Conflict and Peacebuilding”
Professor of interna­tional and environmental politics, UC at Irvine
7:00 pm in Stern Center Great Room, sponsored by Clarke Forum

Thurs. 10/25 – Advising Session for ENST & ENSC Majors
12:00 noon in Althouse 106

Rescheduled:  Tues. 11/27 – Ashton Nichols, “Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting”
5:00 pm in Kaufman 179

Wed. 11/28– Mosaic Research Presentations 
12:00 - 4:00 pm in Kaufman 152

Tues. 12/4 – Student Research Presentations
5:00 pm in Kaufman 179

 Thurs. 12/6 -  Dickinson Takes Aim at Climate Change
7:00 pm in the Stern Great Room
 

Spring 2012 Earth Issues Seminar Schedule

Thursday, March 8 @ 12 noon in Dana 110

ES Advising Session

Environmental Studies and Environmental Science Majors are required to attend this advising session. ES faculty will present important information on the majors in advance of the course request period.

Thursday, April 12 @ 5pm in Kaufman 179

Monitoring Marcellus

Concerned residents and landowners living within the Marcellus shale gas play are asking how they can best determine if streams are being affected by drilling activities.  For many, the goals are early detection and prevention of serious environmental impact.  Community groups involved in volunteer monitoring and regional and state-wide service providers have responded to this need by collaboratively developing protocols and database management strategies to achieve these goals.  In 2010 the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring spent seven months researching and testing a volunteer-based Marcellus Monitoring protocol for the early detection of flowback contamination in small Pennsylvania streams. The presentation will cover the steps in and the science behind the protocol as well as stories from communities trained in gas land.

Thursday, April 26 @ 5pm in Kaufman 179

Student Research Presentations

Thursday, May 3 @ 5pm in Kaufman 179

Student Internship Presentations

Fall 2011 Earth Issues

Thursday, September 15 @ 5pm in Kaufman 179

Wild Utah: America's Redrock Wilderness
Jackie Feinberg, National Grassroots Organzier, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Thursday, October 13 @ 12 noon in Dana 110

Environmental Studies Department Advising
ES Faculty 

Tuesday, Novemeber 1 @ 5:30pm in Kaufman 179

Up from Louisiana's Bayous: Willie Fontenot Shares 40 Years of Environmental Justice Activisim in Cancer Alley and Beyond

Wednesday, November 15 @ 5pm in Kaufman 179

Carlisle Tire and Wheel: Anatomy of a Brownfield Redevelopment
Brad Maurer, Esq.

Thursday, December 8 @ 5pm in Kaufman 179

Student Research & Internships

Spring 2011 Earth Issues

Tuesday, February 8 @ 5pm, Kaufman 179

 Spatial discrimination & environmental justice: uses of GIS in Fair Housing litigation

Wednesday, March 2 @ 5pm, Kaufman 179
What is Permaculture?

Wednesday, April 5 @ 5pm, Kaufman 179

Fractured Communities: Psychological, Social, and Envrionmental Indicators of Change in Rural Marcellus Shale Boom Towns

Wednesday, May 4th @ 5pm, Kaufman 179
Student Internship and Independent Research Presentations

Fall 2010 Earth Issues