Reporter Laura Arenschield looks at M. Sanjayan’s upcoming talk at Ohio State in a story in today’s Columbus Dispatch. In it, she quotes CFAES lecturer David Hanselmann, coordinator of the Environmental Professionals Network, which is hosting the talk on Thursday. There’s a previous related post here. (Photo: M. Sanjayan by Ami Vitale.)
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Feb. 11: Sanjayan available to talk to media
M. Sanjayan, executive vice president and senior scientist with Conservation International, will give a free public talk, “Earth and People: Lessons in Living Together,” to more than 1,500 people — including students, faculty and staff from The Ohio State University and members of the surrounding community — at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 in the Ohio Union on Ohio State’s campus in Columbus. Reporters are welcome to attend.
Sanjayan will be available for media interviews starting at 4:15 p.m. Contact Molly Bean at 614-688-8798 or bean.21@osu.edu to make arrangements. Continue reading
‘We were knee high in mud. But it was worth it’
Ohio’s Division of Wildlife recently honored Medina County Career Center graduates Dan Phillips and Emma Trapp for their work developing a WILD School-designated wildlife garden at the center. Both are now students at CFAES’s Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster. Ann Norman of northeast Ohio’s Sun News has the story.
How to use crowdfunding, more to help green work
Crowdfunding can benefit green work, and December’s Environmental Professionals Network breakfast program will show how. Read the story …
M. Sanjayan, host of PBS’s ‘Big Blue Live,’ to speak at Ohio State
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eople need nature to survive.
That’s one of the messages that Conservation International’s M. Sanjayan, pictured, will share at Ohio State on Feb. 11. Continue reading
Today: ES3 is 8 to 4
A reminder that the Environmental Science Student Symposium, some 700 student-presenters strong, goes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Ohio Union at Ohio State in Columbus. Members of the public and the media are welcome. Read about it here.
Environmental Science Student Symposium is Tuesday
The 2015 Environmental Science Student Symposium, featuring about 700 student science posters about Earth’s biggest challenges, is tomorrow at Ohio State. All the students are in ENR 2100, an introductory environmental science course in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. Read more here. Get the full list of student presenters, topics and session times here.
Ohio State students launch ‘Environmental ScienceBites’ iBook
A new free iBook written by students in an introductory environmental science course at Ohio State describes some of Earth’s biggest challenges and how people are using cutting-edge science and engineering for sustainable solutions. Called Environmental ScienceBites, the 184-page e-book for Apple devices was written by undergraduate students in Introduction to Environmental Science, which is offered by CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. A version of the book is also available for Android devices. Read the whole story …
‘There really are solutions’: Environmental film series starts Oct. 20
Students from Ohio State and members of the broader community will screen and discuss six weekly environmental films with university and local experts in October and November.
The series is designed to raise awareness of climate change and its economic, health, political and environmental impacts, said David Hanselmann, a lecturer in CFAES and the coordinator of the Environmental Professionals Network. Continue reading
Waterbound
CFAES Dean Bruce McPheron travels to Ohio State’s Stone Lab on Lake Erie this Thursday evening, July 30, to deliver the lab’s weekly guest lecture. Free admission. Everyone’s welcome. You also can watch online; sign up here. (Photo: Stone Lab’s 37-foot M/V Biolab by Jamaal Bell via Ohio Sea Grant.)