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ERIE News and EventsPlease check out the following pages for the latest on Erie News, Events and Colloquium Speakers. What's going on the next month around ERIE:News Clips, Events, Scholarship Opportunities, Abstract Deadlines, Recent Announcements News ClipsERIE Trainee Bernadette “Bernie” Clabeaux recently participated in a teaching opportunity called the "Green to Clean" Project involving 4th to 6th grade students at the Futures Academy in Buffalo, NY (Buffalo Public School #37). Clabeaux, a 2nd year ERIE Trainee and Ph.D. student in UB’s Biology Department studying the uptake of pollutant metals by algae, was invited to teach at the Futures Academy by "Keep Western New York Beautiful", a non-profit organization that promotes the beautification of the environment by educating and empowering citizens. Keep Western New York Beautiful is partnering with the UB's Center for Urban Studies and Grassroot Gardens of Buffalo on its NYS Department of Environmental Conservation funded "Green to Clean" project to educate Buffalo residents about soil lead contamination. In various sessions throughout the month of October, Clabeaux taught students the about the process of phytoremediation – the removal of contaminants from soils using plants—and its potential to mitigate common urban environmental problems such as lead contamination. For more the full story of Clabeaux's educational outreach, click here. Congratulations to ERIE PI Dr. Alan Rabideau on being named to a National Academies of Science Panel, which will examine future options for management of subsurface remediation. The project to which he has been assigned is entitled, “Future Options for Management in the Nation's Subsurface Remediation Effort.” For a full list of panel members and their respective biographies, click here. ERIE faculty Sean Bennett's research and laboratories were featured in a recent UB news release. Bennett is currently studying the erosion and sediment transport processes of gullies and rills using physical and numerical models. By developing an understanding of these processes, his research contributes to a solution for reducing both sediment erosion and its high nutrient loadings. Several ERIE faculty were highlighted in the University at Buffalo's 2008 Annual Report: Impact's focus section on the Lower Great Lakes and Niagara River, which starts on page 16. ERIE trainee Shannon Seneca's paper has been accepted for the 2009 American Indian Science and Engineering Society(AISES) National Conference in Portland, OR. On October 31st, Shannon will present her talk titled "Native Americans, Ecosystem Restoration, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge." ERIE faculty Sean Bennett and Alan Rabideau have been mentioned in the latest newsletter of the Canadian Geophysical Union (July 2009)for their presentations at the AGU Conference Session: Binational Principles and Practices of Stream and Ecosystem Restoration. The summary can be found on page 5. Press release for ERIE 2010 Ecosystem Restoration Summer Workshop to be held August June 7th - 25th. EventsLast Friday's colloquium (November 6th) has been rescheduled for December 4th. Dr. Joseph Makarewicz of the Dept. of Environmental Science and Biology in SUNY Brockport presenting on “Lake and Watershed Interactions: Responses of Aquatic Plants, Algae, and Bacteria to Changes in Nutrient Inputs from Agricultural Watersheds.” The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Geography Awareness Week(GAW) is being held November 16th - 20th; it is run by the Geography Graduate Student Association. The featured event is a presentation by Dr. Kavita Pandit, former president of the American Association of Geographers and former member of SUNY administration. She will be giving a guest lecture on Friday, November 20th at 1:00 pm in 120 Clemens. She will be talking about international geographic education. Other GAW events will include a Geography Bowl (Tuesday), Wine Tasting (Wednesday), International Games Night(Thursday) and a Graduate Student Symposium(Friday). On November 21, ERIE partner Buffalo-Niagara Riverkeeper will be hosting their 20th Birthday Bash: A party for clean water at Pearl Street Grill and Brewery. Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services: A SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines will be hosted by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry on Monday November 23, 2009. Major goals of the meeting include 1) gathering key scholars from SUNY and other research institutions to engage in a facilitated interdisciplinary exchange on recent research and advances in ecosystem services quantification and valuation; 2)prioritizing a research agenda for quantification and valuation of ecosystem services that builds on existing research; 3) developing an initial set of guidelines for decision-makers for practical application of valuing ecosystem services; and 4)establishing a statewide network of scholars who would continue to extend the conversation theme into the future through shared forums, curricular development, collaborative research, and public service. Scholarship OpportunitiesAnchor QEA is an environmental science and engineering consulting firm whose expertise and focus is in aquatic-based remediation, waterfront development projects, and water resources planning and engineering. To promote and develop this focused service area, Anchor QEA has established a scholarship fund to assist graduate students in their pursuit of higher education. Individual scholarship awards will range in value from $500 to $5,000 and be provided to the recipient’s institution of higher learning to be disbursed to the student for graduate school tuition and supplies. Due date is November 9, 2010.Applications are available on the internet at www.anchorqea.com or by emailing scholarship@anchorqea.com. For more information, see scholarship flyer. CUAHSI Pathfinder Graduate Student Fellowships to Support Multi-site Research in Hydrology:CUAHSI will provide funding for up to five graduate students, with a $5000 maximum award to each recipient, to cover travel costs associated with conducting field research at an additional field site or to collaborate with a research group using alternate modeling approaches. Deadline for submission of all application materials is 31 December 2009. Inquiries and applications should be sent to pathfinder@cuahsi.org. For more information, http://www.cuahsi.org/pathfinder/. Upcoming Conference Abstract Deadlines
Recent AnnouncementsNew Spring 2010 Seminar: This coming spring semester Robin Kimmerer and Jack Manno are offering a 1-credit seminar. Students will attend a public education series, titled Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future at the Syracuse Stage. The series is co-sponsored by SU, ESF. Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, ESF Department of Environmental Studies, various departments at SU and the Neighbors of Onondaga Nation. Programs will be held at the Stage one night a month in February through May on a Monday or Tuesday evening. Instructors will meet with students before the first event and near the last one. For more information, contact Professor Manno. On October 30th, Dr. Scott Tiegs, an Assistant Professor from the Department of Biological Sciences at Oakland University, presented his talk "Pacific Salmon and their Diverse Ecological Influences on Alaskan Streams and Rivers". An abstract of his presentation is available online. Sontek/YSI representative Barrett Gaylord will provided a training session for ERIE trainees on recently purchased flow acoustic Doppler devices on Wednesday October 21, 2009. These devices are intended for measuring the flow velocity in small channels, and should be ideal for field flow and velocity measurements in streams.
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