Due to the coronavirus shutdown, Ohio State’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day has been switched to a webinar. It’s from 4–5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15.
Registration is free and open to everyone. Find details and a link to register.
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Jason Ward, host of ‘Birds of North America,’ will speak twice at Ohio State on Feb. 18
Jason Ward (pictured, left)—Bronx-born birder and host of the Birds of North America web series—will speak twice at the Ohio State Columbus campus on Tuesday, Feb. 18: first, from 7:15–9:30 a.m. as featured speaker at the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) monthly breakfast program.; then, from 7–8:50 p.m. at a screening of episodes of Birds of North America as part of Ohio State’s Environmental Film Series.
Stone Lab offers solar tech curriculum
Hey, educators: Ohio State’s Stone Laboratory at Lake Erie is offering a free STEM-related curriculum on solar technology. The program teaches about how solar energy works, its uses and benefits, and ties into the lab’s own solar installation on Gibraltar Island, some of which is shown here.
You can find out more about the curriculum, which is suited to students from elementary age to adult, in the latest on our CFAES Stories website. (Photo: Ohio Sea Grant via Flickr.)
Stuff your cheeks with wildlife knowledge
There’s lots of life—wild life—in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest, and there’s a chance coming up to check it out (scroll down).
Thursday night at Stone Lab: SENR’s big 5-0; improving urban water quality
Tonight in Stone Lab’s guest lecture series, Jeff Sharp, director of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), will present “50 Years of Environmental and Natural Resource Education at The Ohio State University: Looking to the Next 50” (he speaks in the video above); and Rachel Gabor, assistant professor with SENR, will discuss “Watersheds and Sewersheds: Identifying Controls on Water Quality in Urban Environments.” Admission is free and open to the public. Find out more.
Stone Lab, part of CFAES, is located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie.
Students write new ‘ScienceBites’ book
Volume two of Environmental ScienceBites, a free open textbook written by undergraduate students in CFAES’s Introduction to Environmental Science course, is now available on Apple iBooks.
Watch: ‘What does this say about me?’
Nicole Sintov of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, featured in our previous post, talks about what drives earth-friendly decisions in the video above.
To composting, and beyond: ‘One pro-environment change appeared to lead to other benefits’
Composting food scraps can prompt people to make other earth-friendly choices, according to new research led by Nicole Sintov (pictured) of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Ohio educators: Explore 2 ‘amazing’ resources for teaching about nature, the environment
A July 18-19 workshop on Ohio State’s Mansfield campus — called A Walk Through Ohio’s Forests: The Good, the Bad and the Invasive — will feature two helpful tools for teaching students about nature and the environment. Co-sponsors of the event include CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources and OSU Extension outreach arm. Register by Friday.
Volunteer naturalists are certified, celebrated and ready to serve
Twenty-one central Ohioans received their Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist program certificates at a May 30 celebration at the Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, Ohio. Continue reading Volunteer naturalists are certified, celebrated and ready to serve