ERIE Events: 2009-2010 Academic Year

August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July

Erie sponsored events in bold. To see archived calendars of events, click here.

August 2009

August 2-7
94th Annual National Ecological Society of America Meeting -Ecological Knowledge and a Global Sustainable Society at Albuquerque Coverntion Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 7
ERIE Orientation from 9am to 5pm at UB South Lake Community Center

August 7
ERIE Artists Reception at the UB Center for the Arts from 5 to 7 pm.

August 31st
First day of classes for Fall 2009 semester

September 2009

September 7
ERIE Colloquium: UB Professor Ken Shockley on Human values and institutional approaches to adaptive management (1:45pm in Jarvis 223)

September 7
No classes (Labor Day observed)

September 7
Information session on recently purchased ERIE YSI/SonTek field equipment (10am in Jarvis 223)

September 18 (Friday)
Classes canceled after 6pm (Rosh Hashanah)

September 19 (Saturday)
Classes resume at 6pm (Rosh Hashanah)

September 25 and 26
4th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium "Cultures at the Confluence: Native Americans, Ecology, and the Susquehanna Valley" at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.

September 27 (Sunday)
Classes canceled after 6pm (Yom Kippur)

September 28 (Monday)
Classes resume at 6pm (Yom Kippur)

October 2009

October 21(Wednesday)
Sontek/YSI representative Barrett Gaylord will provide a training session on recently purchased flow acoustic Doppler devices

October 22 and 23(Thursday & Friday)
Smart, Green and Clean: 21st Century Water Management in the Great Lakes - A Clean Water Network Regional Caucus co-sponsored by Citizens Campaign for the Environment will be held in Buffalo, NY.

October 30 (Friday)
Dr. Scott Tiegs will be presenting his talk "Pacific Salmon and their Diverse Ecological Influences on Alaskan Streams and Rivers" to the ERIE Colloquium.

November 2009

November 3-5
The Fourth Mid-Atlantic Stream Restoration Conference: The Benefits of Stream Restoration at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown, West Virginia

November 5
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and
the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be holding a one-day
workshop "COMMUNICATING SCIENCE: TOOLS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS" at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

November 21(Saturday)
ERIE partner Buffalo-Niagara Riverkeeper will be hosting their 20th Birthday Bash: A party for clean water at Pearl Street Grill and Brewery.

November 23 (Monday)
Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services: A SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines will be hosted by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

November 25-29
Fall Recess

December 2009

December 5
The Annual Finger Lakes Research Conference will be held at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Abstracts are due November 4th.

December 11
Last day of classes

December 14-18
The 2009 AGU Fall Meeting will be held in San Francisco, California.

January 2010

February 2010

March 2010

April 2010

April 5-9
The 25th annual meeting of US-IALE (US Regional Association, International Association for Landscape Ecology) will be held in Athens, Georgia. Important deadlines: October 15, 2009 for proposals for symposia and workshops; and December 15, 2009 abstracts due for oral and poster presentations.

April 14-18
2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers will be held in Washington, D.C. Abstracts due November 18th 2009.

April 15-16
The Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University is organizing a conference to be held at Penn State on "Integrating Development and Climate Change Ethics."  The deadline for abstracts for those interested in presenting a paper is October 30, 2010.

May 2010

May 12-15
The GIScience IGERT at the University at Buffalo will be hosting a conference, Representing Reality:Imagery in the Cognitive, Social and Natural Sciences in downtown Buffalo.

May 24-27
The International Journal Arts and Sciences will hold its Toronto Conference 2010 at 240 Jarvis Street in downtown Toronto. Online submissions for the conference will be accepted until March 25, 2010.

June 2010

July 2010

July 5-9
The International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software Conference will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The 2010 theme for iEMSs is "Modelling for Environment's Sake". Abstracts are due November 27, 2009.