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.

Spring 2013 Earth Issues Seminar Schedule (PDF)

Earth Issues Seminars (website)

Interest in Environmental Majors Soars

http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/Interest-in-Environmental-Majors-Soars/

Environmental Science Major Ruby Stanmyer ’13 wants to make a difference, and Dickinson is giving her a leg up

http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/From-the-Tropics-to-the-Pennsylvania-Shale/

“Community Engagement and Perceptions of Brownfield Re-development in Carlisle, PA”
- Taylor Wilmot

“Educating Youth Through Sustainable Agriculture”
- Heather Livingston 

“Designing Forest Ecosystems"
- Cailey Clark

“Assessment of IPM hub pond strategy on the Dickinson College Farm”
- Anna Ramthun

ES Academic Advising Session
October 25, 2012
12:00 noon in Althouse 106

The Environmental Studies Department will be hosting an Academic Advising Session on October 25^th at noon in Althouse 106. 
Attendance is REQUIRED for all ENST/ENSC majors, and encouraged for anyone who is considering declaration of the major.  

The purpose of this meeting is to provide current and potential majors with invaluable information regarding the majors’ requirements, course scheduling and insight to course planning.
There will also be a brief question and answer session following our presentation. 

A pizza lunch will be provided. Email edenbov@dickinson.edu with questions.

Earth Issues – Environmental Surveillance
Thursday, September 20
5:00 pm in Kaufman 179
a light dinner will be served, please RSVP to edenbov@dickinson.edu
How the Invisible Sciences of Environmental Surveillance make the World Safe for Infrastructure (and us)
Roger Turner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

“Industrialized societies take for granted functional technological systems like power grids, air travel, and water systems. Yet these systems are continually threatened by storms, floods, eruptions and other outbreaks of the natural world. This talk uses history and sociology to explore how unseen managers use environmental surveillance to make infrastructures reliable and safe. Although this scientific work is purposefully invisible, it is crucial to our daily lives--and profoundly threatened by government austerity measures and right-wing ideologies.”

The complete schedule of Earth Issues Seminars is available at http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/environmental-studies/content/Environmental-Studies-Earth-Issues-Seminars/