EarthWorks, January 25, 2008
Submit items to Lauren Bivona or Norm Meader at enews@email.arizona.edu preferably by 5:00 pm Wednesday of each week. Please include "EarthWorks" in the subject line.
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EarthWorks, January 25, 2008 Submit items to Lauren Bivona or Norm Meader at enews@email.arizona.edu preferably by 5:00 pm Wednesday of each week. Please include "EarthWorks" in the subject line. |
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In This Issue:
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS From the Head Check out the candidates for Provost. The three finalists for the position will be visiting campus as follows:
Each candidate will participate in an open forum for the campus community. Each of the forums will be held in the Student Union North Ballroom, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. This is everyone’s chance to hear, speak and comment on the candidates for this critical position. For more information, go to http://uanews.org/node/17768 AGU’s revised statement on climate change: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/positions/climate_change2008.shtml Karl W. Flessa UA Press release on Rick Bennett's Research Appreciation Luncheon for Susan Beck UNIVERSITY NEWS Parking and Transportation Director Patrick Kass to Speak and Answer Questions
This presentation is part of the Staff Advisory Council's general monthly meeting that starts at 3:00 pm February 12 in the Catalina/Rincon Rooms of the Student Union and is open to the UA Community. The transportation discussion will take place from 4:00-5:00 pm. There is no charge to attend. Refreshments will be served. [top] SAC Collecting Personal Items for Primavera Foundation We have been asked to collect disposable razors and toothbrushes for Primavera participants. We are working on several drop off areas around campus so if you would like to be a drop area contact us at garanda@u.arizona.edu. We plan to also work with Primavera on Cats in the Community Day - so get ready to volunteer. You may leave items with Lauren Bivona in Gould-Simpson 208. [top] Open Dialogue With the Provost Please bring your lunch and join us for open discussion and an exchange of information. Eugene G. Sander, Executive Vice President and Provost [top] University of Arizona Library New Free "Express Retrieval" Service Is your job and life in general keeping you busy? Don’t have time to search the library for the books you need? Let the Library do it for you. The University of Arizona Library is proud to introduce our new ‘Express Retrieval’ service. You can now submit a request for us to retrieve items off the library shelves and within 24 hours we will place them on hold for you at the appropriate library. To submit a request, just follow these four steps:
This service is only available to UA faculty, staff and students who have a valid CatCard and a library account in good standing and is only available at the Main, Science-Engineering, Fine Arts and Center for Creative Photography libraries. Please note that only books, videos and DVDs can be paged at this time. For more information, visit our website at: Express Retrieval OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS DOE The Global Change Education Program (GCEP)
Global change research encompasses a variety of technical areas including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climate modeling, and terrestrial processes. Since 2005, GCEP has focused attention on aerosols and their radiative effects in coordination with the change in the CCRD Atmospheric Science Program’s focus in atmospheric chemistry and physics. CCRD supports global change research through its Atmospheric Science Program (ASP), Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM), Terrestrial Carbon Processes (TCP), Program for Ecosystem Research (PER), and the National Institute for Climate Change Research (NICCR). Currently, ASP and ARM research projects are examining aerosols and their radiative effects, and the formation of clouds and their impacts on climate, respectively. TCP and PER projects are focused on understanding the terrestrial ecosystems and their effectiveness in sequestering carbon. Other studies address integrated assessments of Global Climate Change and Information Integration. For more details about GCEP-SURE and –GREF, and to access electronic applications, please visit http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/. The application deadline is 04 February 2008, so you still have time to apply. Contact Barbara Dunkin at (865) 574-6440 or Barbara.dunkin@orau.org if you have questions. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Student Conservation Association Visiting University of Arizona March 3 and 4 For 50 years, SCA members have been protecting our parks and restoring our environment as rangers, researchers, educators, and more. SCA is the leading provider of conservation internships in the nation and offers opportunities in such areas as Anthropology, History, Biology, Natural Resources, Youth Leadership, and Project and Land Management with the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Historic Sites, and the Nature Conservancy to name a few. SCA interns complete over 1 million hours of service annually, receive outstanding career training, work on our nation’s land, and are even eligible to receive an AmeriCorps Educational Award. Please contact me (Beth Erdey) if you and your students would be interested in learning more about the SCA experience. I would be happy to meet with you, give a class presentation, hold an information session, or speak with student groups. Thank you for you time, and we look forward to placing some of your students in an SCA internship this year. To learn more about SCA, visit us at www.thesca.org. Beth Erdey UPCOMING TALKS (GEOSCIENCES) Department of Geosciences Colloquium Who: Craig Rasmussen, Department of Soils, Water, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona UPCOMING TALKS (UA) (THIS WEEK IN GEOSCIENCES) Department of Physics Special Low Energy Seminar (Monday) Who: Roman Stocker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Microorganisms are key players in determining the fluxes of the elements and energy in the Ocean. They interact with their physico chemical environment in a number of ways, among them using motility and chemotaxis to search for and home in on nutrient sources. These sources are often localized and ephemeral (patches), resulting from the lysis of phytoplankton, sloppy feeding by zooplankton, or settling particles (plumes). [top] Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Colloquium (Tuesday) Who: Jason Soderblom, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Seminar (Wednesday) Who: Susana E. González , Physics Department, University of Arizona Hydrology and Water Resources Seminar (Wednesday) Who: Michael Celia, Darcy Lecturer, Princeton University College of Science Lecture Series - The Edges of Life (Wednesday) Who: Jonathan Lunine, Planetary Sciences and Physics, University of Arizona Department of Anthropology Seminar on the Origins of Homo Sapiens (Thursday) Who: Christian Tryon, Smithsonian Institution and George Washington University IGERT Seminar in Archaeological Sciences (Friday) Who: Christian Tryon, Smithsonian Institution and George Washington University EarthWorks On-Line Archive: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/events/enewsletter |
Good news from the Graduate College. The Department of Geosciences will receive an award of two research assistantships for the next two years through the Graduate College’s Graduate Incentive for Growth Award (GIGA) program. The award is linked to the department’s ExxonMobil project in recognition of its impact on our graduate program. Many thanks to Paul Kapp and Clem Chase for writing the successful proposal.