News & Events

ES&P sponsored events, Fall 2009

Friday, October 30: ES&P Lunchbag, "Unearthing the lies of the land: Narrating environmental justice in the Americas" with Michelle Joffroy, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Bass Hall 102, 12:15 -1 p.m.
Lunch provided.

Friday, October 30: Operation WALLACEA:
Bass Hall 102, 4:30 p.m.
Scientific Conservation Expeditions -- Indonesia, Honduras, Egypt, Cuba, South Africa and Peru. Come find out about the exciting environmental and marine science and policy research summer opportunities you can get involved in during the summer! Get more detailed information and have your questions about Operation WALLACEA program answered!

Monday, November 2: Student Summer Research Symposium
McConnell Foyer and room 103, 7:00- 9:00 p.m.
Join us for hearty dessert and presentations by students about the work they did over the summer at internships funded by the Environmental Science and Policy Program and the Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences program.
... Next summer it could be YOU!

Monday, November 16: Info Session: Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Bass Hall 102, 12:15 -1 p.m.
Learn about one of the leading professional schools in environmental studies, natural resources, and coastal and watershed systems. Join us in a discussion of the graduate programs available at the School of Forestry and Enviromental Studies with Martha Smith (Smith '79), Program Director, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems, and Emily McDiarmid, Admissions Director, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Lunch provided.

Monday, November 16: "Deep-Sea Gold Rush: Understanding the Environmental Impact of Mining Seafloor Hot Springs" - Life Sciences Colloquium with Cindy Van Dover, Director of the Duke Marine Lab.
McConnell 103, 4:00 p.m.
Join us to hear a fascinating lecture from the first woman to pilot the submersible "Alvin".

Tuesday, November 17: Info Session: Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment
Bass Hall 102, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, December 1: ES&P Lunchbag, Title TBA- with Susan Sayre, Assistant Professor of Economics
Bass Hall 102, 12 noon- 1 p.m.
Lunch provided.

News

Read a short story submitted by sixth grader and budding marine biologist Olivia Ferraro from Westerly, Rhode Island. The story stars our very own marine ecologist Paulette Peckol.

Read the Summer 2009 Coral EdVentures Newsletter - in celebration of 10 years of Smith students teaching marine conservation in Belize

Read the Spring 2009 ES&P Newsletter

Hear a podcast interview of Smith's Sustainability Director, Dano Weisbord.

View a video of the Coral Reef EdVentures 2008 Team! Click on the link below "Smith Students Dive Into Educators Role" to view the 5 minute video.

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The National Council for Science and the Environment
announces the 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment
The New Green Economy: Aligning Science, Education and Markets
January 20-22, 2010
Washington, D.C.

You can get more environmental news and events information at:
www.smith.edu/green

For more information about ES&P events contact Coordinator Joanne Benkley
tel: (413) 585-3951, email: jbenkley@smith.edu, or stop by her office in Bass 107.