Archive of Other Dept Seminars Conferences and Events

Archive of other seminars, conferences, and events (event date has passed).  [Back to Other UA Depts]

 

+ COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY:  Doctoral Candidates - Sat, May 11

  • Sat, May 11, 11:00 AM
  • LOCATION:  Centennial Hall
  • Hooding ceremony for Doctoral candidates.
  • Speaker to be announced.
  • RSVPs required for both students and their estimated number of guests.
  • Seating is limited, so there will be a limited number of tickets available for guests.
  • Details available at commencement.arizona.edu

 

+ COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY:  Bachelor's and Master's Candidates - Fri, May 10

  • Fri, May 10, 7:30 PM
  • LOCATION:  Arizona Stadium
  • Campus-wide ceremony for Bachelor's and Master's candidates, all majors
  • Speaker to be announced.
  • No tickets required for guests (seating will be open)
  • However, students should RSVP their attendance and estimated number of guests (planning purposes). Details available at commencement.arizona.edu.

 

+ PRE-COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY:  All Degree Candidates in College of Science - Thur, May 9

  • Thur, May 9, 3:00 PM
  • McKale Center
  • Doors open at 2:00 PM, first-come, first-seated
  • Event is free -- no tickets required for family and friends who wish to attend
  • Ceremony and Reception for both undergraduate and graduate students
  • Program will include individual recognition for each undergraduate and graduate student in attendance, but you (the student) must RSVP.  See details below.
  • The online RSVP system will close on April 29 at 11:59 PM.
  • Go to the COS Commencement website and click on the RSVP link at the BOTTOM of the page to start the RSVP process.  You will be directed to a survey from Career Services and a second survey from the College of Science. Both surveys should take 10-15 minutes to complete.
    • You will then be taken to the RSVP page and asked to submit a personal message, along with your degree, as part of a power point slide presentation given during the ceremony.
    • Please have your slide message -- 125-character message for undergrads, 200-character message for grad students -- ready before you begin the RSVP process!
  • You should confirm that your name is listed on the COS Commencement Program.

 

+ TALK:  Greener circles: Strategies for ecological design and opportunities for citizen scientists - Wed, May 8

  • Wed, May 8, at 6:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Tumamoc Hill Community Event, 1675 W. Anklam Road
  • Directions:  From campus, take 6th Street to Silverbell Road and turn south.  Take the first right onto Anklam Road.  The sign for Tumamoc Hill is on your left.
  • Parking:  Please park along Anklam Road or in the St. Mary's Hospital parking lot.  The shuttle will pick-up and drop-off on Tumamoc Hill Road.  (See map)
  • Dr. Mitch Pavao-Zuckerman will talk about Greener cities: Strategies for ecological design and opportunities for citizen scientists.
  • All lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
  • To reserve a seat, contact Cynthia Anson at cynthiaanson@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dendroarchaeology in the western Mediterranean:  tree-rings from Iberian cultural and natural heritage to bridge the last two millenia - Wed, May 8

 

+ WKSP:  Pulliam Trust Environmental Funding - Grants for Lunch - Wed, May 8

  • Wed, May 8, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Bob Berger, the Program Officer for the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, will speak about his role with the Trust as a foundation program officer and, more specifically, about his experiences in environmental grantmkaking.
  • This session will offer insight into the challenges, issues, and opportunities for grantseeking and with environmental priorities and funding.
  • More details and registration information will be available soon at the Foundation website

 

+ DINNER & TALK:  Arizona Geological Society - Tue, May  7

  • Tue, May 7
  • Arizona Geological Society monthly meeting, dinner, and talk
  • Event held off campus.  For details, see Off Campus section

 

+ WKSP:  Fulbright Research Study Grant Workshop - Thur, May 2

  • Thur, May 2, 4:30 PM
  • Slonaker House Living Room
  • Workshop will focus on application advice for the Fulbright research/study grant to conduct research, take courses, and/or work with an NGO in 2014-2015.
  • RSVP (and/or request info) so we can move to a larger room, if necessary

 

+ WKSP:  Preparing for final exams - Wed, May 1

  • Wed, May 1, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ TALK:  Snow cover monitoring: Challenges and possibilities - Wed, May 1

  • Wed, May 1, 12:00 PM Noon
  • New Bannister Tree Ring Building, Room 110
  • Elzbieta Halina Czyzowska will talk about Snow cover monitoring: Challenges and possibilities.
  • There is an undisputed need to increase accuracy of snow cover estimation in regions of complex terrain, especially in areas dependent on winter snow accumulation for a substantial portion of their water supply, such as the Western United States, Central Asia, and the Andes.
    Presently, the most pertinent monitoring and research needs related to alpine snow cover extent (SCE) are: (1) to improve SCE monitoring by providing detailed fractional snow cover (FSC) products which perform well in temporal/spatial heterogeneous forested and/or alpine terrains; (2) to provide accurate measurements of FSC at the watershed scale for use in snow water equivalent (SWE) estimation for regional water management; (3) to provide detailed distributions of FSC in mountainous regions to investigate the temporal/spatial distribution of SCE/SWE in relation to recent climate changes; (4) to use FSC products as input for climate models at multiple scales; and (5) to estimate SCE and SWE for use in ecological studies (e.g., vegetation cover, water stress, primary production, fire, insect outbreaks, and pulses in tree demography).  To address the above our approach is based on Landsat Fractional Snow Cover (LandsatFSC), as a measure of the temporal/spatial distribution of alpine SCE. We used a fusion methodology between remotely sensed multispectral data from Landsat TM/ETM+ and Ikonos utilized at their highest respective spatial resolutions. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are used to capture the multi-scale information structure of the data by means of the ANN training process, followed by the ANN extracting FSC from all available information in the Landsat images. The LandsatFSC algorithm was validated (RMSE ~ 0.09; mean error ~ 0.001–0.01 FSC) in watersheds characterized by diverse environmental factors such as: terrain, slope, exposition, vegetation cover, and wide-ranging snow cover conditions. The research results are presentedfor areas located in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado and the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA.

 

+ MTG:  UA Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists - Tue, Apr 30

  • Tue, Apr 30, 2:00 PM
  • Mines Building Room 225
  • The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists is a recognized club for students in the Departments of Mining and Geological Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, and Geosciences (undergraduate and graduate).
  • This is an open invitation for students to become members of AEG and attend meetings and field trips this semester.  To become a member, contact Ashley Cheesman at acheesman1992@gmail.com

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Apr 30

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 30:  Writing a critique of an article or book

 

+ WKSP:   Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Workshop - Tue, Apr 30

  • Tue, Apr 30, 4:30 PM
  • Slonaker House Living Room
  • Workshop will focus on application advice for the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) grant to teach English abroad in 2014-2015.
  • RSVP (and/or request info) so workshop can be moved to a larger space, if necessary

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Apr 29

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 29:  Writing essay exams

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:  Identifying and Supporting Our Student Veterans - Thur, Apr 25

  • Thur, Apr 25, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Apr 24

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 24:  Writing Curricula Vitae and cover letters

 

+ WKSP:  Preparing for final exams - Wed, Apr 24

  • Wed, Apr 24, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ TALK:  McGinnies Annual Lecture:  The tree-ring record of monsoon climate in the American southwest - Wed, Apr 24

  • Wed, Apr 24, 12:00 PM
  • Bio Sci East Building, Room 225
  • The 2013 Annual McGinnies Lecture:  Daniel Griffin is a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography and an EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, affiliated with the Climate Assessment for the Southwest, a project designed to provide climate information to regional stakeholders.
  • Griffin will talk about The tree-ring record of monsoon climate in the American southwest.
  • Contact:  Ashley Stewart at akstewart@email.arizona.edu

 

+ POSTPONED TO LATER DATE!  TALK:  Expanded fire history for the Chiricahua mountains - Wed, Apr 24\

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tues, Apr 23

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 23:  Review of punctuation

 

+ SYMPOSIUM:  Water Sustainability Program Annual Student Fellowship Presentations - Mon, Apr 22

  • Mon, Apr 22, 3:00 PM
  • Kiva Room, Student Union
  • Appetizers and refreshments will be served.
  • This annual student research symposium will feature presentations from the past year's undergraduate and graduate fellows.
  • Among the presentations will be those made by HWR graduate Fellow, Joel Biederman and HWR undergraduate Fellows, Adam Karczynski and Samantha McEntire.
  • After presentaitons, the winners for the AY13-14 Fellowship Program will be announced.
    For details about the presentations, go to the WSP Student Fellowship Presentation website.

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Apr 22

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 22:  Fine-tuning the final draft

 

+ TALK:  Mathematical challenges in climate variability - Thur, Apr 18

 

+ TALK:  Fire-climate feedbacks:  Understanding mechanisms and implications for sustainability managing fires during the 21st century - Thur, Apr 18

  • Thur, Apr 18, 3:30 PM
  • Physics-Atmospheric Sciences Building (PAS), Room 220
  • Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series
  • Dr. James Randerson, University of California-Irvine, will talk about Fire-climate feedbacks: Understanding mechanisms and implications for sustainably managing fires during the 21st century

 

+ WKSP:  Test anxiety and learning to manage stress - Wed, Apr 17

  • Wed, Apr 17, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Apr 17

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 17:  Tried-and-true strategies for written and oral exams

 

+ SEMINAR:  Teaching online for the first time - Wed, Apr 17

  • Wed, Apr 17, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  • Location:  ILC Building, Room 136
  • Audience:  UA Faculty, Graduate Assistants-Teaching, Campus Instructors
  • Offerings are provided at no cost to participants
  • Register at the OIA website for seminars, workshops, and professional development

     

+ TALK:  A continental-scale approach to understanding climate-sensitivity in Douglas fir - Wed, Apr 17

 

+ WKSP:  NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Program Information Session - Wed, Apr 17

  • Wed, Apr 17, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Student Union Santa Cruz Room (Main Student Union)
  • Summer research in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Taiwan
  • An EAPSI award provides graduate students in science, engineering, and education with first-hand international research experience, an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location, and an orientation to the society, culture, and language. 
  • For more information, go to the NSF Summer Institutes website
  • Please RSVP here to attend

 

+ SCIENCE CAFE:  Wildlife forensic genetics and a regional mountain lion database for Arizona - Tue, Apr 16

  • Tue, Apr 16, 6:00 PM
  • Ashwin Naidu, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, will talk about Wildlife forensic genetics and a regional mountain lion database for Arizona
  • Co-sponsored by UA Institute of the Environment and Flandrau Science Center
  • Admission Free but seating is limited, first-come, first-served
  • Science Cafe Series in Spring 2013 will feature Carson Scholars from the UA Instiute of the Environment, graduate students who focus on environmentally related fields, pursue interdisciplinary studies, and work to communicate their science in ways to engage the public with environmental insights and issues.
  • For more information about the Science Cafe, sponsored by Flandrau Science Center, go to flandrau.org/programs/science_cafe or their FB page, www.facebook.com/uasciencecenter.

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tues, Apr 16

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 16:  Toward conciseness:  Clearing the underbrush from your writing

 

+ SYMPOSIA:  EarthWeek 2013 - Tue, Apr 9, through Fri, Apr 12

  • EarthWeek 2013 sponsored by the UA School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (College of Science)
  • For complete details, review the EarthWeek 2013 Schedule website
    • Tue, Apr 9,  10:00 AM to 6:00 PM: Tree Ring Day & Open House at the new Bryant-Bannister Tree Ring Building
    • Wed, Apr 10, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM:  El Dia del Agua at the Student Union; talks in North Ballroom, posters in Catalina and Rincon Rooms, lunch in South Ballroom.  See registration and other details here.
    • Thur, Apr 11, GeoDaze at Student Union; talks North Ballroom; posters South Ballroom.
    • Thur, Apr 11, SWESx at Student Union; talks in Rincon Room, posters South Ballroom.
    • Thur, Apr 11, AIR at Student Union; talks in Rincon Room, posters in South Ballroom.
    • Fri, Apr 12, EarthWeek Plenary Oral Session from 8:00-10:00 AM in North Ballroom.
    • Fri, Apr 12, EarthWeek Plenary Encore Poster Session 10:00-11:00 AM in South Ballroom for ALL posters, ALL departments participating in EarthWeek
    • Fri, Apr 12,11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Noon:  EarthWeek Plenary Keynote Address by noted author, Craig Childs, in North Ballroom.  Childs will talk about his book, Apocalyptic Planet.
    • Fri, Apr 12, 1:00-6:00 PM:  GeoDaze continues; talks in North Ballroom, posters in South Ballroom; GeoDaze keynote address at 5:00 PM.

 

+ TALK:  Apocalyptic planet - Fri, Apr 12

  • Fri, Apr 12, 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
  • Student Union North Ballroom
  • EarthWeek 2013 Plenary Keynote Speaker
  • Noted author and commentator Craig Childs will talk about Apocalyptic Planet.
  • Craig Childs is a writer who focuses on natural sciences, archaeology, and remarkable journeys into the wilderness. He has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure. He is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, Orion, and High Country News. His subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flowing rivers of Tibet and Patagonia.
    • The expeditions Childs undertake often last weeks or months, informing his writing with a hard-earned sense of landscape and culture. The New York Times says "Childs's feats of asceticism are nothing if not awe inspiring: he's a modern-day desert father."He has been called a born storyteller by the New York Sun, and the LA Times says his writing is like pure oxygen, and "stings like a slap in the face." He has won several key awards including the 2011 Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, 2008 Rowell Art of Adventure Award, the 2007 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award and the 2003 Spirit of the West Award for his body of work, an honor he shares with Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest Williams and N. Scott Momaday.
    • Childs is an Arizona native, and grew up back and forth between there and Colorado. With a mother hooked on outdoor adventure, and a father who liked whiskey, guns, and Thoreau, his life was rigged from the start. In his teens, Childs began working as a river guide, and since then has held numerous jobs to support his field time, from gas station attendant to journalist to beer bottler. Now making a living as a writer, Childs lives off the grid with his wife and two young sons at the foot of the West Elk Mountains in Colorado.

 

+ WKSP:  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Information Session - Fri, Apr 12

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Apr 11

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 11:  Revision:  Editing for readability and correctness

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:   S.O.A.R.S. - Student Organization Advisor Resources and Support - Thur, Apr 11

  • Thur, Apr 11, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ SEMINAR:  Designing an accelerated course: Cramming 16 weeks into 5 weeks  - Thur, Apr 11

  • Thur, Apr 11, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Noon
  • Location:  ILC Building, Room 136
  • Audience:  UA Faculty, Graduate Assistants-Teaching, Campus Instructors
  • Offerings are provided at no cost to participants
  • Register at the OIA website for seminars, workshops, and professional development

 

+ TALK:  Saguaro secrets: A geochemical view of water use, growth, & climate responses - Wed, Apr 10

  • Wed, Apr 10, at 6:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Tumamoc Hill Community Event, 1675 W. Anklam Road
  • Directions:  From campus, take 6th Street to Silverbell Road and turn south.  Take the first right onto Anklam Road.  The sign for Tumamoc Hill is on your left.
  • Parking:  Please park along Anklam Road or in the St. Mary's Hospital parking lot.  The shuttle will pick-up and drop-off on Tumamoc Hill Road.  (See map)
  • Dr. David Dettman will talk about A geochemical view of water use, growth, and climate responses.
  • All lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
  • To reserve a seat, contact Cynthia Anson at cynthiaanson@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  Note taking and strategies for reading - Wed, Apr 10

  • Wed, Apr 10, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website
 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Apr 10

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 10:  Creating successful oral presentations

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Apr 9

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 9:  Controlling long sentences

 

+ TALK:   Exoplanetary atmospheres - Tue, Apr 9

  • Tue, Apr 9, at 3:45 PM
  • Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 308
  • Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the Atrium
  • Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale, will talk about Exoplanetary atmospheres. 
  • Recent advances in exoplanet observations and theoretical methods are leading to unprecedented constraints on the physicochemical properties of exoplanetary atmospheres. Atmospheric properties derived from exoplanetary spectra provide critical clues regarding not only their chemical diversity and various atmospheric processes, but also their interior compositions and formation mechanisms. In this talk, Madhusudhan will present many of the latest results in this field, both in observations and theory, and will discuss the promising outlook for the future.  He will present constraints on the elemental abundances, non-equilibrium chemistry, temperature inversions, atmospheric dynamics, and the presence of clouds/hazes, for a sizable ensemble of extrasolar planets - both transiting and directly imaged, and including gas giants, ice giants, and super-Earths. The exciting prospects of characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres using current, upcoming, and future observational facilities will be discussed, along with several open questions of fundamental nature in the field.

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Apr 8

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 8:  Getting it together and keeping it together:  The craft of cohesion

 

+ WKSP:  Spring 2013 Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Workshop - Mon, Apr 8

  • Mon, Apr 8, 12:45 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Ventana Room
  • Attendance at the workshop provides 4 hours of RCR instruction as required by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) as required for all PIs, co-PIs, and graduate students.
  • For additional requirements, visit the RCR Education pages or contact Tina Tarin at thaag@email.arizona.edu or 520-626-5851.

 

+ SOCIAL:  EarthWeek Trivia Night at SkyBar - Thur, Apr 4

  • Thur, Apr 4, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  • SkyBar on 4th Avenue
  • Sponsored by School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)
  • Come take the time to have some fun with your fellow SEES students as we all prepare for the EarthWeek 2013 conference next week!
  • FREE PIZZA will be provided with Happy Hour drink specials.
  • Trivia starts promptly at 6:45pm so show up early to eat pizza and find your team mates.

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thurs, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Apr 4

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 4:  Analyzing and summarizing a text

 

+ TALK:  Aviation weather: Operations and testbed at the Aviation Weather Center - Thur, Apr 4

  • Thur, Mar 7, 3:30 PM
  • Refreshments from 3:00-3:30 PM in PAS 546
  • Physics-Atmospheric Sciences Building (PAS), Room 220
  • David Bright (NOAA, NWS, NCEP, AWC) will talk about Aviation weather: Operations and testbed at the Aviation Weather Center
  • Next to last speaker in the Spring 2013 ATMO Seminar Series

 

+ WEBINAR:  Today's Chinese student: Understanding the U.S. classroom - Thur, Apr 4

  • Thur, Apr 4, 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM
  • RSVP by Apr 1 to Noelle Sallaz at ncarampa@email.arizona.edu
  • Student Union, Kiva Room
  • The Office of Global Initiatives, the Confucius Institute, and the Department of East Asian Studies invite you to join them for the final webinar of the NAFSA series, "Today's Chinese Students.  A faculty-led panel will immediately follow the webinar.
  • Fact:  1382 of the UA's 3118 international students are from China.
  • This webinar will provide best practices to help Chinese students address the challenges they face, such as English language difficulties, unfamiliar classroom expectations, issues of academic integrity, and building relationships with faculty and academic advisors. 
  • Presenters will discuss how to support Faculty in adjusting to the changing demographic of the U.S. classroom.
  • Please RSVP by April 1 by sending an email to Noelle Sallaz at ncarampa@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  Overcoming stage fright:  Tips for public speaking and presenting - Wed, Apr 3

  • Wed, Apr 3, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ SEMINAR:  True confessions:  How faculty promote academic integrity - Wed, Apr 3

  • Wed, Apr 3, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Location:  Student Union Sabino Room
  • Audience:  UA Faculty, Graduate Assistants-Teaching, Campus Instructors
  • Offerings are provided at no cost to participants
  • To register, go to the Dean of Students website (need UA Net ID to login)

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Apr 3

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 3:  Writing a critique of an article or book

 

+ TALK:  Biometric & eddy-covariance based estimates of above-ground carbon uptake - Wed, Apr 3

  • Wed, Apr 3, 12:00 PM Noon
  • Bannister Tree Ring Building, Room 110
  • Dr. Flurin Babst of WSL, Switzerland, will talk about Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of above-ground carbon uptake
  • Contact:  Malcolm Hughes at mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Mars and the problem of planetary habitability - Tue, Apr 2

  • Tue, Apr 2, 3:45 PM
  • Kuiper Space Sciences Building Room 345
  • Refreshments at 3:30 PM In the Atrium
  • LPL Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Edwin Kite, Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, will talk about Mars and the problem of planetary habitability.

 

+ TALK:  Deep biosphere:  Influence of hydrology on microbial carbon cycling and methane generation - Mon, Apr 1

  • Mon, Apr 1, 3:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • SWES Weekly Colloquium Series (the last talk for the SWES Spring 2013 Series)
  • Dr. Jennifer McIntosh (UA HWR), will talk about Deep biosphere: Influence of hydrology on microbial carbon cycling and methane generation.

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Apr 1

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Apr 1:  Style:  Rules (and non-rules) of usage

 

+ BROWN BAG:  Student readiness for online learning - Thur, Mar 28

  • Tue, Mar 28, 12:00 NOON to 1:00 PM
  • Location:  ILC Building, Room 103 (OIA Conference Room)
  • Audience:  UA Faculty, Graduate Assistants-Teaching, Campus Instructors
  • Offerings are provided at no cost to participants
  • Register at the OIA website for seminars, workshops, and professional development

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session - Thur, Mar 28

  • Thur, Mar 28, 3:30 PM
  • Location:  Education Building, Room 318
  • Information session for rising seniors, graduate students, and alumni in any discipline who want to spend 2014-15 abroad conducting research, taking classes, and/or teaching English.
  • Fulbright covers travel, room and board, and provides a stipend.
  • RSVP to attend (or if you cannot attend, get more information at): at http://goo.gl/SvWRO
  • Contact:  Dr. Jeff Thibert, Scholarship Advisor at ONCS, at thibert@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Mar 28

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 28:  Incorporating sources and avoiding plagiarism

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:  Behavioral Intervention Team and Threat Assessment and Management Team:  Balancing Safety and Support On Campus - Thur, Mar 28

  • Thur, Mar 28, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ SEMINAR:  Facilitating Online Discussions - Wed, Mar 27

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session - Wed, Mar 27

  • Wed, Mar 27, 3:00 PM
  • Location:  Social Sciences Building, Room 411
  • One more session will be held tomorrow, Thur, Mar 28 (see entry below)
  • Information session for rising seniors, graduate students, and alumni in any discipline who want to spend 2014-15 abroad conducting research, taking classes, and/or teaching English.
  • Fulbright covers travel, room and board, and provides a stipend.
  • RSVP to attend (or if you cannot attend, get more information at): at http://goo.gl/hlf2j
  • Contact:  Dr. Jeff Thibert, Scholarship Advisor at ONCS, at thibert@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Mar 27

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 27:  Style II:  Clarity and grace

 

+ WKSP:  Time management: How to avoid procrastination and manage your time wisely - Wed, Mar 27

  • Wed, Mar 27, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session - Tue, Mar 26

  • Tue, Mar 26, 2:30 PM
  • Location:  Social Sciences Building, Room 411
  • Two additional sessions will be held Wed, Mar 27, and Thur, Mar 28 (see entries for times, locations, and RSVP links below)
  • Information session for rising seniors, graduate students, and alumni in any discipline who want to spend 2014-15 abroad conducting research, taking classes, and/or teaching English.
  • Fulbright covers travel, room and board, and provides a stipend.
  • RSVP to attend (or if you cannot attend, get more information at):  http://goo.gl/Ila86
  • Contact:  Dr. Jeff Thibert, Scholarship Advisor at ONCS, at thibert@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Mar 26

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 26:  The use and abuse of passive voice

 

+ MTG:  UA Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists - Mon, Mar 25

  • Mon, Mar 25, 2:00 PM
  • Mines Building Room 225
  • The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists us a recognized club for students in the Departments of Mining and Geological Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, and Geosciences (undergraduate and graduate).
  • This is an open invitation for students to become members of AEG and attend meetings and field trips this semester.  To become a member, contact Ashley Cheesman at acheesman1992@gmail.com
  • Club Meetings have been scheduled for 2:00 PM in Mines 225:
    • Tuesday, Apr 30
  • Field trips have been planned for:

 

+ TALK:  Dimension reduction method for large ODE systems with application to reactive transport in porous media - Fri, Mar 22

  • Fri, Mar 22, 4:00 PM
  • Weekly Mathematics Colloquium Series, Mathematics Buiding, Room 501
  • Dr. Alexandre Tartakovsky (HWR PHD '2002) will talk about a Dimension reduction method for large ODE systems with application to reactive transport in porous media.
  • Contact:  Jeffrey D. Hyman, Applied Mathematics Program, jhyman@math.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG) Information Session - Fri, Mar 22

  • Fri, Mar 22, from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Student Union Santa Cruz Room (Main Student Union)
  • These grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research to improve the overall quality of research. They are available in the following fields:
    • Archaeology; Biological Anthropology;
    • Cultural Anthropology;
    • Documenting Endangered Languages;
    • Geography and Spatial Sciences;
    • Linguistics;
    • Decision, Risk and Management Sciences;
    • Economics; Political Science;
    • Law and Social Science;
    • Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics;
    • Science, Technology, and Society;
    • Sociology;
    • Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics Program;
    • Science of Science and Innovation Policy;
    • Environmental Biology (DEB);
    • Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS);
    • Arctic Research
  • Please RSVP here to attend

 

+ FESTIVAL:  GradFest '13 at the UA Bookstores - Tue, Mar 19 through Thu, Mar 21

  • Tue, Mar 19, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM   < OPEN LATE!
  • Wed, Mar 20, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  • Thu, Mar 21, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  • One-stop shop for all students' graduation needs related to:
    • Commencement:  Cap & gown, tassels, stoles, hoods, grad announcements
    • Wildcat Pride:  Class rings, 20% off diploma frames, free portrait sittings, UA alumni clothing and gear (mugs, licence plate frames, window stickers), UA professional supplies (engraved pens & pencils, portfolios, briefcases, Josten's memory photo books
  • For more details, go to the Bookstore Graduation website or join the Facebook event

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Mar 21

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 21:  Organization:  The essay, the paragraph, and the sentence

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:   I Made A Report to the Dean of Students Office -- Now What? - Thur, Mar 21

  • Thur, Mar 21, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Ventana Room  <  DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUAL!! >
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ CAREER FAIR:  Career Center's UA Spring Career Days - Wed, Mar 20

  • Tue & Wed, Mar 19-20, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Student Union 3rd Floor Ballroom
  • Connect with employers at over 180 tables representing recruiters from public service, government, health care, agriculture, and corporate-industry organizations looking for future interns and full-time employees.
  • For a list of companies participating in the career fair, go to the Career Center website

 

+ WKSP:  Learning how to learn:  Multiple intelligences and your learning style - Wed, Mar 20

  • Wed, Mar 20, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website
 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Mar 20

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 20:  Style I:  Grammar and punctuation

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Mar 19

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 19:  Writing cover letters and personal statements

 

+ SEMINAR:  Ebooks, Etexts, and Instruction - Tue, Mar 19

 

+ CAREER FAIR:  Career Center's UA Spring Career Days - Tue, Mar 19

  • Tue & Wed, Mar 19-20, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Student Union 3rd Floor Ballroom
  • Connect with employers at over 180 tables representing recruiters from public service, government, health care, agriculture, and corporate-industry organizations looking for future interns and full-time employees.
  • For a list of companies participating in the career fair, go to the Career Center website

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Mar 18

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 18:  Perfecting punctuation

 

+ TALK:  Metal stable isotopes as environmental source tracers:  Hg and Fe isotope case studies - Mon, Mar 18

  • Mon, Mar 18, 3:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • Refreshments at 2:45 PM
  • A talk in the SWES Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Ariel.D. Anbar, Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, will talk about Metal stable isotopes as environmental source tracers:  Hg and Fe isotope case studies.
    • During the past decade of discovery, high-precision isotope analyses revealed that natural variations in isotope abundances due to isotope fractionation are ubiquitous across the Periodic Table.  Many applications are now possible.  These include the use of isotopes as tracers of the sources of toxic metal pollutants, or of essential metal micronutrients.  Evolving case studies involving Hg and Fe isotopes will be presented.
  • Contact:  Kristie Gallardo at 520-621-7228 or gallardo@cals.arizona.edu

 

+ MINI-COURSE:  Introduction to Teaching Online - Fri, Mar 15 to Fri, March 29

 

+ STUDENT SPRING BREAK:  Classes dismissed for Spring Recess - Sat, Mar 9 through Sun, Mar 17

  • No classes from Sat, Mar 9, though Sun, Mar 17
  • University administration, college, and department offices open for business
  • Classes resume on Mon, Mar 18

 

+ WKSP:  No Think Tank workshop -- Have a nice Spring Break! - Wed, Mar 13

  • No workshop today!
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ SCIENCE CAFE:  Southwest river ecosystems: the challenge of tamarisk trees - Tue, Mar 12

  • Tue, Mar 12, 6:00 PM
  • Susanna Pearlstein will talk about Southwest river ecosystems:  the challenge of tamarisk trees
  • Co-sponsored by UA Institute of the Environment and Flandrau Science Center
  • Admission Free but seating is limited, first-come, first-served
  • Science Cafe Series in Spring 2013 will feature Carson Scholars from the UA Instiute of the Environment, graduate students who focus on environmentally related fields, pursue interdisciplinary studies, and work to communicate their science in ways to engage the public with environmental insights and issues.
  • For more information about the Science Cafe, sponsored by Flandrau Science Center, go to flandrau.org/programs/science_cafe or their FB page, www.facebook.com/uasciencecenter

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Mar 7

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 7:  Practice using articles:  A, An, The

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:   We Need to Talk: Tips for Having Difficult Conversations - Thur, Mar 7

  • Thur, Mar 7, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ TALK:  Creating a unified perspective of the North American monsoon:  From the paleoclimate record to climate change predictions - Thur, Mar 7

  • Thur, Mar 7, 3:30 PM
  • Physics-Atmospheric Sciences Building (PAS), Room 220
  • Dr. Christopher Castro will talk about Creating a unified perspective of the North American monsoon: from the paleoclimate record to climate change projections

 

+TALK:  Genomics Now Series:  Genomics tomorrow: A panel presentation - Wed, Mar 6

  • Wed, Mar 6, at 7:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.
  • Panel to include all five 2013 Genomics Now Lecture Series presenters: Fernando D. Martinez, Michael Worobey, Michael W. Nachman, Rod A. Wing, and Donata Vercelli
  • Moderator:  Dr. Joaquin Ruiz, Dean, College of Science
    • This panel discussion will bring together this series' five esteemed presenters to address the complex and varied issues associated with genomics research and its potential impact on individuals and society.
    • At the discussion's core will be the questions of mankind's role and responsibilities in choosing to "modify" nature.
    • Topics will include: the risks and rewards associated the new norms of pre-natal genetic screening; the impact of readily available low-cost genetic profiling; global opportunities posed by genetically modified plants and organisms; and the potentials of a greatly expanded knowledge-base of infectious diseases and their treatments.
    • Audience members will be able to submit questions in advance for panel members' consideration.
  • Lecture is free and open to the public.  Parking is available on a pay per use basis in the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage.  Call 520-621-4090 for more information.

 

+ WKSP:  Test prep and test taking strategies - Wed, Mar 6

  • Wed, Mar 6, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Mar 6

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 6:  Introductions, conclusions, and abstracts

 

+ WKSP:  Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Information Session - Wed, Mar 6

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Mar 5

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 5:  Refining your paper:  Revising for content and organization

 

+ TALK:  Present and future dendrochronological research in Lebanon - Tue, Mar 5

  • Tue, Mar 5, 2:00 PM
  • Bannister Tree-Ring Lab Building, Room 110
  • Jean Stephan, Lebanese University, will talk about Present and future dendrochonological research in Lebanon
  • Contact:  Malcolm Hughes at 621-6470 or mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu

 

+ TOUR:  New Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Building - Tue, Mar 5

  • Tue, Mar 5, beginning at 2:00 PM
  • Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, 1215 E. Lowell Street, just east of the main Mathematics Building and north of Highland Commons
  • Tour of the new building and labs
  • Tour will begin at the first floor lobby near the Giant Sequoia cross section
  • Read more about the building and see photos of the phases of construction here
  • If you plan to attend, sign up for the tour on Doodle
  • If you sign up to attend but find you're unable to attend, please go back to Doodle and DELETE your name.

 

+ CONFERENCE:  WRRC 2013 Annual Conference:  Water Security from the Ground Up - Tues, Mar 5

  • Agenda and Keynote Speaker, Anthony Cox, from the international organization, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Tues, Mar 5, 2013
  • Student Union Memorial Center, UA Campus (various locations to be announced)
  • Organized by the Water Resources Research Center of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Call for Posters - Abstract Deadline Friday, January 18, 2013
    • Participation from all interested researchers and practitioners is encouraged.  
    • Students are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts.
    • Three awards--$200, $150, and $100--will be made for the best student posters.
  • Posters may be on any topic related to the conference theme, including:
    • Water quality
    • Water supply
    • Climate and water
    • Environment and water
    • Role of governments
    • Role of markets
    • Socioeconomic issues
    • Water management and policy
  • Timeline -- Abstract Submission Deadline, December 3, 2012; Notification of Acceptance, December 12, 2012.  Early Bird Registration Ends January 31, 2013. 
  • Visit the WRRC Conference 2013 website for the abstract submission form and for more information

 

+ INFO SESSION:  German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) - Mon, Mar 4

  • Mon, Mar 4, from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM
  • ILC Building, Room 130
  • DAAD supports academic exchange, language courses, and research in Germany.
  • Leslie Harlson, the west coast representative, will be on campus today.  She will provide information and answer questions abou various opportunities offered by DAAD.

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Mar 4

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Mar 4:  Style:  Making your writing complete and concise

 

+ TALK:  Hg and Fe isotopic studies of the oceans - Mon, Mar 4

  • Mon, Mar 4, 3:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • SWES Weekly Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Ariel Anbar, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, will talk about Hg and Fe isotopic studies of the oceans.

 

+ TOUR:  New Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Building - Sat, Mar 2

  • Sat, Mar 2, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Free and open to the public
  • Visit the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research's new Bryant Bannister Tree- Ring Building, 1215 E. Lowell Streets, just east of the main Mathematics Building and north of Highland Commons
    • Guided tours of the new building
    • Exhibits about tree-ring science
    • Hands-on activities for kids
    • Demonstrations on coring trees
  • NOTE:  An additional tour for faculty and staff will be held next Tue, Mar 5, beginning at 2:00 PM.  Faculty and staff must RSVP through Doodle to attend the Mar 5 tour (see entry for Mar 5 below)

 

+ WEEK:  UA Peace Corps Week on UA Campus - Feb 24-March 2

 

+ EXHIBIT:  The Hydro-aesthetics of the Mexico City water system, 1900-1952 - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • UA Museum of Art, corner of Speedway and Park
  • Dr. Stacie Widdifield, UA art history professor, and Dr. Jeffrey Bannister, research scientist, Southwest Center and School of Geography, examine the relationship between humans and water through an art historical and geographical analysis of the visual culture of water in the Valley of Mexico, specifically at the "Hydro-Aesthetics" of two potable water systems built in Mexico City, one around 1900, the other around 1950.  
  • Presented in conjunction to the UAMA exhibition, Broken Desert--Land and Sea

 

+ INFO SESSION & PANEL:  Leadership beyond Peace Corps - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Student Union Ventana Room
  • A presentation and panel discussion about leadershippppp with Stacy Rhodes, Peace Corps Chief of Staff and Operations, Dr. Brint Milward, Dr. George Atkinson.  Light refreshments served.
  • For a comprehensive overview, see the UA Peace Corps Week website
  • Contact:  Holly Bryant at hbryant@email.arizona.edu or 626-2292

 

+ TALK:  Navigating the perfect water resources storm - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, 4:00 PM  < Note Change in Time!
  • Location:  Integrated Learning Center (ILC) Building, Room 140  < Note Location!
  • Refreshments to follow talk
  • Patricia Mulroy, General Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority, will talk about Navigating the perfect water resources storm.
  • What does a water manager do when the perfect storm strikes?  Las Vegas, for decades the fastest-growing metropolitan area int he United States, serves as an excellent case study for those interested in navigating through the extreme conditions.
  • Part of the Water Sustainability Distinguished Speaker Series:  UA Water Sustainability Program, in collaboration with the Water Resources Research Center and the James E. Rogers College of Law.
  • Contact:  Jackie Moxley at jmoxley@cals.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  8th Annual Blitzer Award and Speaker:  Dr. William B. Hubbard, Why do we have a space program? - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, at 4:00 PM
  • Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 308, 1629 E. University Boulevard
  • Parking available at the Cherry Avenue Garage (enter via Enke Drive from Campbell Avenue)
  • Dr. William B. Hubbard, the 8th Annual Professor Leon and Pauline Blitzer Awardee for Excellence in the Teaching of Physics and Related Sciences, will talk about Why we have a space program.
  • Reception to follow outside the lecture hall
  • Sponsored by the Departments of Physics and Planetary Sciences
  • Contact:  Physics Department at 520-626-0259 or su@physics.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 28:  Punctuation refresher

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:   How Can the Preacher Say That? A Dialogue on the Freedom of Speech at UA - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ TALK:  The impacts of terrestrial hydrological processes on climate prediction - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, 3:30 PM
  • Physics-Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 220
  • Refreshments served from 3:00-3:30 PM in PAS 546
  • Dr. Yue Guo-Niu, Assistant Research Professor, Biosphere 2, will talk about The impacts of terrestrial hydrological processes on climate prediction.  You can read the abstract for the talk here.

 

+ TALK:  Open science:  Accelerating the pace of scientific discovery - Thur, Feb 28

  • Thur, Feb 28, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Student Union Kiva Room
  • A discussion with Michael Nielsen, author of Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
  • Free and open to the public
  • Scholar, researcher and author Michael Nielsen not only made significant research contributions in the field of quantum physics, but also co-wrote the popular “Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.” Nielsen left academia to focus his research on open science, and recently published “Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science” -- a book that discusses the internet’s ability to “amplify our collective intelligence” and the cultural obstacles of the scientific community impeding this dramatic shift.
  • According to Nielsen, his talk will describe “how the internet is enabling a radical shift in how science is done. We'll see how mass online collaborations are being used to prove mathematical theorems; how online markets are allowing scientific problems to be outsourced; and how online citizen science projects are enabling amateurs to make scientific discoveries.”
  • Contact:  Chris Kollen at 520-305-0495 or kollenc@u.library.arizona.edu

 

+TALK:  Genomics Now Series:  Epigenetics: why DNA is not our destiny - Wed, Feb 27

  • Wed, Feb 27, at 7:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.
  • Dr. Donata Vercelli, M.D., Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Director, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, will talk about Epigenetics: why DNA is not our destiny.
  • Lecture is free and open to the public.  Parking is available on a pay per use basis in the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage.  Call 520-621-4090 for more information.

 

+ SOCIAL:  Social gathering with local Returned Peace Corps volunteers - Wed, Feb 27

 

+ WKSP:  Test anxiety and learning to manage stress - Wed, Feb 27

  • Wed, Feb 27, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Feb 27

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 27:  Presenting your methods and results

 

+ TALK:  Working effectively internationally (Peace Corps) - Wed, Feb 27

  • Wed, Feb 27, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Student Union Santa Rita Room
  • Campus visit and talk by Stacy Rhodes, Peace Corps Chief of Staff and Operations with Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons. Light refreshment served.
  • For a comprehensive overview, see the UA Peace Corps Week website
  • Contact:  Holly Bryant at hbryant@email.arizona.edu or 626-2292

 

+ TALK:  Mekong River flow reconstructed from tree rings:   - Wed, Feb 27

  • Wed, Feb 20, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Room 110 on the ground floor of the new Bannister Tree-Ring Building
  • Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) Lunch Time Talk Series
  • Dr. Kevin Anchukaitis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will talk about Mekong River flow reconstructed from tree rings.
  • Questions?  Contact Malcolm Hughes at mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu.

 

+ MIXER:  International Development & Volunteering for the Peace Corps - Wed, Feb 27

  • Wed, Feb 27, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
  • Student Union Rincon Room
  • Thinking about joining the Peace Corps?  This is your chance to get all of your questions answered!
  • For a comprehensive overview, see the UA Peace Corps Week website
  • Contact:  Holly Bryant at hbryant@email.arizona.edu or 626-2292

 

+ INFO FAIR:  Peace Corps Fair - Tue, Feb 26

  • Tue, Feb 26, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • Student Union North Ballroom
  • Info fair will feature elaborate cultural displays and photography from more than 75 countries
  • Participants will talk to volunteers about their experiences while listening to music from around the world
  • Event is free and open to the public.  Dessert reception.
  • Community organizations will be present to talk about getting involved with service in the Tucson and southern Arizona community
  • For a comprehensive overview, see the UA Peace Corps Week website
  • Contact:  Holly Bryant at hbryant@email.arizona.edu or 626-2292

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Feb 26

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 26:  Introductions and conclusions

 

+ PRESENTATION:  The Thirst Project - Mon, Feb 25

  • Mon, Feb 25, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  • Student Union South Ballroom
  • Presentation about The Thirst Project by the UA Thirst Project Club
  • The UA Thirst Project club is a representative of the national nonprofit organization, "The Thirst Project," at the University of Arizona.  We have the pleasure of having the national organization make a presentation about the current water crisis in third-world countries and its plan to become the first nonprofit organization to provide safe, clean drinking water to an entire country.
  • The UA Thirst Project club is dedicated to joining this revolutionary movement with our wildcat spirit to end the world water crisis.
  • The Thirst Project is a nonprofit organization that exists to raise awareness of and bring solutions to the clean water crisis through education outreach programs that educate, equip, and empower individuals to explore the human journey and take action in projects that create radical and sustainable global change, and champion hope and respect for the positive values of life.
  • Learn more at the UA Thirst Project Club FB page
  • Contact:  Ashkan Rastegar at  520-431-1820

 

+ MTG:  UA Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists - Mon, Feb 25

  • Mon, Feb 25, 2:00 PM
  • Mines Building Room 225
  • The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists us a recognized club for students in the Departments of Mining and Geological Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, and Geosciences (undergraduate and graduate).
  • This is an open invitation for students to become members of AEG and attend meetings and field trips this semester.  To become a member, contact Ashley Cheesman at acheesman1992@gmail.com
  • Club Meetings have been scheduled for 2:00 PM in Mines 225:
    • Monday, Mar 25
    • Tuesday, Apr 30
  • Field trips have been planned for:
 

+ TALK & PANEL:  Broken Desert Land and Sea Series:   The Rillito river project (bat night) - Thur, Feb 21

  • Thur, Feb 21, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • UA Museum of Art on the southeast corner of campus, Speedway and Park, in the Fine Arts Complex
  • Free admission and open to the public
  • A panel discussion focusing on art, design, and science collaborations for Bat Night 10.  Gregg Garfin and Ellen Skotheim, UA School of Natural Resources and Environment; Yar Petryzn, Rillito River Project; Moderator:  Ellen McMahon, UA School of Art.  Book signing for Ground Water/The Art Design and Science of a Dry River
  • For additional information, contact the museum at 520-621-7306

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:   Creepers Gonna Creep? When Cute Becomes Creepy - Thur, Feb 21

  • Thur, Feb 21, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+ WKSP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur,  Feb 21

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 21:  Principles of using articles:  A, An, The

 

+ TALKS:  Departments of ATMO, GEOG, GEOS, LTRR, and SWES

  • There are currently no HWR-related talks scheduled for the ATMO, GEOG, GEOS, or SWES Weekly Colloquia or Weekly Seminar Series during the week of Feb 18-22.
  • One LTRR talk is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb 20  (see entry below for details).

 

+TALK:  Genomics Now Series:  The 9-billion people question - Wed, Feb 20

  • Wed, Feb 20, at 7:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.
  • Dr. Rod A. Wing, Bud Antle Endowed Chair, School of Plant Sciences, and Director, Arizona Genomics Institute, will talk about The 9-billion people question.
  • Lecture is free and open to the public.  Parking is available on a pay per use basis in the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage.  Call 520-621-4090 for more information.

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Sandia National Laboratories UA Campus Visit - Wed, Feb 20

  • Wed, Feb 20, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • Old Engineering Building, Room 214
  • Food and drinks will be provided!
  • Learn about the exciting work and opportunities at Sandia National Laboratories where they're creating technology and solutions to the nation's most challenging problems, such as climate, infrastructure, homeland security, energy, nuclear weapons, defense, counterterrorism, and cyber security.   Learn first-hand about some of SNL's current projects, the SNL work culture, and why you should choose an internship, post doc, or career position at Sandia.
  • All Engineering and Science students are welcome.  Bring your resumes!
  • Read more at the Sandia National Laboratories website and click on the SNL info session flyer for details about this on-campus visit!

 

+ WKSP:  Memory strategies: Remembering important material - Wed, Feb 20

  • Wed, Feb 20, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Bear Down Gym
  • Think Tank Academic Skills Workshop series
  • FREE for all students
  • For more information, go to the Think Tank website

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Feb 20

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 20:  Becoming a trail guide:  Building the literature review

 

+ CAREER FAIR:  Engineering Student Council Annual iExpo Career Fair - Wed, Feb 20

  • Wed, Feb 20, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
  • Student Union Memorial Center's North Ballroom (Third Floor)
  • Bring your resume and dress to impress for the UA's largest student-run career fair that is specifically for engineering and computer science.  This year's event is sponsored by Raytheon, Sargent Aerospace & Defense, Dynamic Systems, Hatch Mott MacDonald, Jacobs, Quartus Engineering, RailWorks, and Sandia National Laboratories.
  • Whether you seek summer internships, co-ops, full-time positions, or want to explore your options and network with industry representatives, this is your chance.
  • A list of companies currently registered to attend the iExpo can be found here
  • More information is available at the UA iExpo website and on the iExpo Facebook page

 

+ TALK:  The role of invasive earthworms as ecosystem engineers and the associated implications for tree-ring research in the Great Lakes region of North America - Wed, Feb 20

 

  • Wed, Feb 20, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Room 110 on the ground floor of the new Bannister Tree-Ring Building
  • Dr. Evan Larson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, will talk about The role of invasive earthworms as ecosystem engineers and the assocaited implications for tree-ring research in the Great Lakes region of North America.
  • European earthworms have only recently been recognized as an invasive threat to the hardwood forests of the Great Lakes Region of North America, yet mounting evidence indicates that the invasion of earthworms into forests that had been earthworm-free since at least the last glacial maximum is profoundly and fundamentally altering nutrient cycling, soil structure, and the forest floor communities of these ecosystems. Less attention has been given to how earthworm invasions influence tree growth and productivity. We examined patterns of tree growth and basal area increment at four recently invaded sites in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and identified at times subtle and at others dramatic differences in growth that appear to be the direct results of environment changes wrought by earthworms. In some cases, earthworms altered the growing environment sufficiently to drive changes in how trees responded to climate variability. These results raise important and potentially profound questions for dendroclimatological research throughout the Great Lakes Region.
  • Questions?  Contact Malcolm Huges at mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu.

 

+ SCIENCE CAFE:  Solar membrane distillation for sustainable water supply and reclamation - Tue, Feb 19

  • Tue, Feb 19, 6:00 PM
  • Andrea Corral, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, will talk about Solar membrane distillation for sustainable water supply and reclamation
  • Co-sponsored by UA Institute of the Environment and Flandrau Science Center
  • Admission Free but seating is limited, first-come, first-served
  • Science Cafe Series in Spring 2013 will feature Carson Scholars from the UA Instiute of the Environment, graduate students who focus on environmentally related fields, pursue interdisciplinary studies, and work to communicate their science in ways to engage the public with environmental insights and issues.
  • For more information about the Science Cafe, sponsored by Flandrau Science Center, go to flandrau.org/programs/science_cafe or their FB page, www.facebook.com/uasciencecenter

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Feb 19

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 19:  The art of close reading

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Feb 18

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 18:  Style:  The importance of clarity

 

+ TALKS:  Departments of ATMO, GEOG, GEOS, LTRR, and SWES.

  • There are currently no HWR-related talks scheduled for ATMO, GEOS, LTRR, or SWES during the week of Feb 11-15.
  • There is one talk on geography and climate sponsored by School of Geography and Development (see entry below for details).

 

+ TALK:  Geography and climate leviathan - Fri, Feb 15

  • Fri, Feb 15, 3:30 PM
  • Harvill Building, Room 404
  • Refreshments served at 3:00 PM
  • School of Geography and Development Speaker Series
  • Dr. Joel Wainwright, Ohio State University, will talk about Geography and climate leviathan.

 

+ WKSHP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Feb 14

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 14:  Grammar refresher

 

+ WKSP:  Dean of Students' Practically Speaking Workshop Series:   Don't Haze Me Bro - Thur, Feb 14

  • Thur, Feb 14, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Student Union Presidio Room
  • Dean of Sudents Office workshops primarily designed for faculty and staff
  • For complete workshop descriptions and to register for a workshop, go to the Dean of Students Office website at www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/registration

 

+TALK:  Genomics Now Series:  Genomics and the complexity of life - Wed, Feb 13

  • Wed, Feb 13, at 7:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.
  • Dr. Michael W. Nachman, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will talk about Genomics and the complexity of life.
  • Lecture is free and open to the public.  Parking is available on a pay per use basis in the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage.  Call 520-621-4090 for more information.

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Feb 13

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 13:  Crafting an effective proposal

 

+ TALK:  Southwestern palynology and paleoecology - Wed, Feb 13

  • Wed, Feb 13, at 6:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Tumamoc Hill Community Event, 1675 W. Anklam Road
  • Directions:  From campus, take 6th Street to Silverbell Road and turn south.  Take the first right onto Anklam Road.  The sign for Tumamoc Hill is on your left.
  • Parking:  Please park along Anklam Road or in the St. Mary's Hospital parking lot.  The shuttle will pick-up and drop-off on Tumamoc Hill Road.  (See map)
  • Dr. Owen Davis will talk about Southwestern palynology and paleoecology.
  • All lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
  • To reserve a seat, contact Cynthia Anson at cynthiaanson@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Feb 12

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 12:  Integrating sources:  Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Feb 11

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 11:  Introductions and conclusions

 

+ TALK:  Rethinking water infrastructure: Philadelphia and San Francisco's approaches to implementing green stormwater infrastructure programs - Fri, Feb 8

  • Fri, Feb 8, at 12:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Water Resources Research Center, Sol Resnick Conference Room, 350 North Campbell Avenue
  • Lisa M. Beyer, RLA, Landscape Architect at AECOM Water in San Francisco and on-site consultant to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, will talk about Rethinking water infrastructure: Philadelphia and San Francisco's approaches to implementing green stormwater infrastructure programs
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at jcripps@cals.arizona.edu or 520-621-2526

 

+ TALK:  Message in a bottle:  Development of a laboratory chamber for studies of aerosol and cloud processes in the atmosphere - Thur, Feb 7

  • Thur, Feb 7, at 3:30 PM
  • Physics-Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 220
  • Refreshments in PAS 546 from 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  • Dr. Raymond Shaw, Professor of Physics, Michigan Tech University, will talk on Message in a bottle:  Development of a laboratory chamber for studies of aerosol and cloud processes in the atmosphere.
  • Clouds come in bewildering varieties, complete with their own Latin-derived lexicon, and exist under the full range of temperatures and pressures encountered in the earth's atmosphere. While their main constituent is water, the water itself can exist as liquid, ice, or even metastable, supercooled liquid, always dispersed over a broad range of particle sizes and concentrations. Furthermore, many trace species in the atmosphere, in both gas and condensed (aerosol) phases depend on chemical cycles that are tightly coupled to aqueous or surface-catalyzed reactions in clouds. The clear picture that has emerged in recent years is that clouds, in all of their multifaceted complexity, represent one of the primary uncertainties in our understanding of weather and climate. At Michigan Tech we are developing a laboratory chamber that will allow cloud processes to be investigated under controlled, repeatable conditions, and with a level of detail that is currently impossible to achieve in the field. The chamber, currently under construction, is capable of simulating tropospheric conditions, including the ability to generate realistic turbulent convection and mixing processes. The scientists involved with this project will be exploring processes from ice nucleation to organic aerosol formation, and optical properties to turbulent mixing.

 

+ WKSHP:  International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Thur, Feb 7

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 411
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with WSIP Staff.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 7:  The nuts and bolts of academic writing

 

+ TALK:  Broken Desert Land and Sea Series:   Is Mars a desert? - Thur, Feb 7

  • Thur, Feb 7, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • UA Museum of Art on the southeast corner of campus, Speedway and Park, in the Fine Arts Complex
  • Free admission and open to the public
  • Dr. Peter Smith, principal investigator for NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission and senior scientist at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, will talk about recent research and discoveries
  • For additional information, contact the museum at 520-621-7306

 

+ TALK:  Genomics Now Series:  The genesis of of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic - Wed, Feb 6

  • Wed, Feb 6, at 7:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.
  • Dr. Michael Worobey, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will talk about The genesis of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
  • Lecture is free and open to the public.  Parking is available on a pay per use basis in the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage.  Call 520-621-4090 for more information.

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Feb 6

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 6:  Writing your way to a focused research question

 

+ INFO SESSION:  ATLAS Leadership Certificate Program - Wed, Feb 6

  • Wed, Feb 6, at 4:00 PM
  • Career Services Conference Room (Student Memorial Union, level 4)
  • ATLAS Kick-Off event for Spring semester
  • ATLAS offers 7 tracks in a wide variety of leadership areas, encompassing basic leadership skills to social justice and service leadership.  Each certificate incorporates workshops and an opportunity for application, as well as mentoring and networking.
  • At the Info Session, learn more about ATLAS, sign up for a certificate, work with mentor, engage in teambuilding activities
  • RSVP to the event here
  • Questions?  Contact Stacie Schultz at stacieschultz@email.arizona.edu or visit the ATLAS website for more information.

 

+WKSP & WRITING GROUP:  Navigating your graduate writing projects: A workshop and writing group - Every Wednesday from Feb 6 - Mar 6

  • FREE 5-week workshop and writing group for graduate students facilitated by peer graduate assistants from the Writing Center at the THINK TANK
  • NOTE: Not to be confused with weekly graduate writing workshops offered by the Writing Skills Improvement Program (WSIP)
  • The workshop and writing group will meet Wednesdays from 1:00 PM to 2:50 PM
  • Meeting Dates:  Feb 6, 13, 20, 27, and Mar 6
  • LOCATION:  To be determined
  • Facilitated by THINK TANK Grad Assistants Amanda Fields and Beth Leahy
  • Participants will attend five sessions taking place every Wednesday from Feb 6 - March 6
  • Participation on a first-come, first-served basis; limited space is available.
  • Optional individual consultations once sessions are complete.
  • Interested in participating?  Complete the application here
  • The focus of the workshop is on the work you bring.  Some time will be spent reviewing concepts such as:
    • The role of specific genres in your discipline
    • Strategies for integrating sources
    • Organization and structure
    • Revision and editing strategies
  • The majority of the workshop will offer concentrated attention and time to your work.  We will discuss your work, ask questions meant to help you rethink, review, and develop your work, and offer concentrated discussions in small groups.  The writing you bring should be a project that might extend over five sessions and could include:
    • Journal article
    • Paper for a graduate course
    • Book chapter
    • Proposals (e.g. grant, conference)
    • Dissertation or thesis components (e.g. literature review, dissertation proposal, chapter)
    • Reports and write-ups
    • Research briefs
    • And more possibilities
  • Graduate students in any discipline and in any stage of their program are welcome.  Students who are new to graduate writing are particularly encouraged to attend.  This is the place to discuss writing processes and strategies, receive and give positive encouragement, and potentially form writing groups that may last throughout your time in graduate school, and perhaps beyond.

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Feb 5

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 5:  Writing a research paper
 

+ TALK:  Living the four corners:  Honoring our water short character--preserve, conserve, sustain, and inspire - Tue, Feb 5

  • Tue, Feb 5, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Location:  James E. Rogers College of Law, Room 168
  • Refreshments to follow
  • Justice Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., Colorado Supreme Court, will talk on Living the four corners:  Honoring our water short character--preserve, conserve, sustain, and inspire.
  • Focusing on the landscape, people, and waters of the Four Corners states, Justice Hobbs will speak to the practice of land and water poetry, history, and judging in this great land.
  • Part of the Water Sustainability Distinguished Speaker Series:  UA Water Sustainability Program, in collaboration with the Water Resources Research Center and the James E. Rogers College of Law.
  • Contact:  Jackie Moxley at jmoxley@cals.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Mon, Feb 4

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Feb 4:  Topic choice and effective research: The thesis, and general planning

 

+ TALK:  Treatment of soil, water, and ecosystem in weather and climate studies - Mon, Feb 4

  • Mon, Feb 4, at 3:00 PM (Refreshments at 2:45 PM)
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • SWES Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Xubin Zeng, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, will talk about Treatment of soil, water, and ecosystem in weather and climate studies.
  • Zeng will briefly review the (a) status of global weather and climate models, (b) the treatment of soil, moisture, and ecosystem in these models, (c) his recent work on soil moisture, ecosystem, and surface temperature, and (d) future direction and opportunities in this area.
  • Contact:  Kristie Gallardo, SWES, at (520) 621-7228 or gallardo@cals.arizona.edu

 

+ MTG:  UA Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists - Fri, Feb 1

  • Friday, Feb 1, 2:00 PM
  • Mines Building Room 225
  • The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists us a recognized club for students in the Departments of Mining and Geological Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, and Geosciences (undergraduate and graduate).
  • This is an open invitation for students to become members of AEG and attend meetings and field trips this semester.  To become a member, contact Ashley Cheesman at acheesman1992@gmail.com
  • Club Meetings have been scheduled for 2:00 PM in Mines 225:
    • Friday, Feb 1
    • Monday, Feb 25
    • Monday, Mar 25
    • Tuesday, Apr 30
  • Field trips have been planned for:

 

+ TALK:  The evolution of U.S. science policy and the American research university and current challenges - Fri, Feb 1

  • Fri, Feb 1, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  • UA Student Memorial Union, Kiva Room
  • Public lecture and Q & A session
  • Toby L. Smith, Vice President for Policy at the Association of American Universities (AAU) will talk about The evolution of U.S. science policy and the American research university and current challenges.  Tobin (Toby) Smith is the Vice President for Policy at the Association of American Universities (AAU). In this position, he is responsible for overseeing and coordinating AAU’s policy activities and matters relating to innovation and competitiveness, including the President’s American Competitiveness Initiative. He is responsible for issues related to the Department of Energy, and shares responsibility for monitoring key science policy issues concerning export controls, scientific openness and security, technology transfer, and costs of research, among other things. He staffs the Senior Research Officers (SRO) constituent group. 
  • As a federal government relations representative for the AAU, Michigan, and MIT, Toby has developed and coordinated university federal relations activities and legislative and executive branch strategies across a wide range of science policy issues.  He has also maintained regular interactions with key policy makers on Capitol Hill, in the White House and within the federal science and research agencies including the NIH, NSF, NASA, and the Departments of Energy, Defense and Homeland Security. From 1988 to 1992, Toby served as a legislative assistant to Congressman Bob Traxler (D-Michigan).
  • Toby has written and spoken widely on issues of science policy. He is a regular contributor to the AAAS Intersociety Working Group Annual Research and Development report.  He has also spoken to many groups, including the AAAS and various chapters of the Association of Women in Science (AWIS), concerning how scientists and engineers can better work with and communicate with member of Congress. Smith is the co-author of the book, Beyond Sputnik—U.S. Science Policy in the 21st Century, released by the University of Michigan Press. He also co-authored Reforming Regulation of Research Universities in Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2011, pg 57-64.  He holds a Master’s Degree in Arts of Legislative Affairs from George Washington University, and a Bachelor Degree in General Studies from the University of Michigan.  More information is available at: http://uanews.org/calendar/50444-public-lecture-and-qa-toby-smith

 

+ TALK:  Broken Desert Land and Sea Series:   Wildcats in the desert - Thur, Jan 31

  • Thur, Feb 7, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • UA Museum of Art on the southeast corner of campus, Speedway and Park, in the Fine Arts Complex
  • Free admission and open to the public
  • Dr. Lisa Haynes, coordinator of the UA Wildcat Research and Conservation Center, will talk about mountain lions, bobcats, ocelots, and jaguars
  • For additional information, contact the museum at 520-621-7306

 

+ TALK:  On the incidence and behavior of cloud-to-ground lightning in complex terrain:  Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, and the Ozarks - Thur, Jan 31

  • Thur, Jan 31, at 3:30 PM
  • Refreshments in PAS 546 from 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  • Dr. Kenneth L. Cummins, Research Professor, will talk On the incidence and behavior of cloud-to-ground lightning in complex terrain:  Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, and the Ozarks.
  • The climatological incidence of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning is known to have large regional differences associated synoptic-scale variations in weather that impact the development and propagation of deep convection. At smaller spatial scales, terrain variations are also known to play a significant role in the development of deep convection leading to thunderstorms. At even smaller scales, there are flash-scale interactions between downward propagating leaders and terrain variations that can alter the nature and location of attachment to ground. This talk will focus on terrain-related variations in the incidence (area density) of CG lightning and some of the physical parameters of lightning flashes. Estimates of these parameters are derived from measurements obtained from the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), and presented at kilometer-scale spatial resolution.
  • A recently developed method for classifying a CG stroke as creating a new ground contact or occurring in a pre-existing channel will also be presented.

 

+ TALK:  Land reclamation on Easter Island - Thur, Jan 31

  • Thur, Jan 31, at 12:00 pm
  • LOCATION:  Water Resources Research Center, Sol Resnick Conference Room, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Dr. Pablo Garcia-Chevesich, Researcher, Forest Institute of Chile, will talk about Land reclamation on Easter Island
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at jcripps@cals.arizona.edu or 520-621-2526

 

+ RECEPTION & TALK:  College of Science Galileo Circle Reception & first talk of the Genomics Now Lecture Series:  Are genes the software of life? - Wed, Jan 30

  • Wed, Jan 30
  • Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd. on the UA Campus
    • 5:00-6:45 PM:  Galileo Circle Reception wine and hors d'oeuvres
    • 7:00 PM:  First talk of the Genomics Now Lecture Series
    • Reserved seating at the lecture will be provided for Galileo Circle Members.  RSVP by Jan 23 to Elsie Gericke at 520-621-6797 or egericke@email.arizona.edu
    • Dr. Fernando D. Martinez, M.D., Director, BIO5 Institute; Director, Arizona Respiratory Center; Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics; and UA Regents Professor will talk about  Are genes the software of life?
  • Lectures are free and open to the public.  Parking is available on a pay per use basis in the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage.  Call 520-621-4090 for more information.
  • Subsequent talks will be held on Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 20, Feb 27, and Mar 6.  See individual entries/dates for details or visit the Genomics Now Lecture Series website.

 

+ WKSP:  Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Ongoing Spring Semester 2013 - Wed, Jan 30

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Jan 30:  Step-by-step through the master's thesis or doctoral dissertation

 

+ MTG:  UA Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists - Tue, Jan 29

  • Tue, Jan 29, 2:00 PM
  • Mines Building Room 225
  • The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists us a recognized club for students in the Departments of Mining and Geological Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, and Geosciences (undergraduate and graduate).
  • This is an open invitation for students to become members of AEG and attend meetings and field trips this semester.  To become a member, contact Ashley Cheesman at acheesman1992@gmail.com
  • Club Meetings have been scheduled for 2:00 PM in Mines 225:
    • Today! Tue, Jan 29
    • Friday, Feb 1
    • Monday, Feb 25
    • Monday, Mar 25
    • Tuesday, Apr 30
  • Field trips have been planned for:

 

+ WKSP:  Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013 - Tue, Jan 29

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Joe Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Jan 29:  The basics of writing a strong, clear essay

 

+ NETWORKING:   UA Student Energy Group Social - Mon, Jan 28

  • Mon, Jan 28, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  • Sponsored by Renewable Energy Network (REN) at the University of Arizona
  • Refreshments will be served
  • Student Union Memorial Center, Santa Rita Room (Level 3)
  • Go to Eventbrite link to RSVP  [Note: No link provided in email message announcement]
  • Purpose of this event is to bring together students from departments across campus who have taken an interest in sustainable energy.
    • Student groups like the Energy Science Group, the Eller Cleantech Club, Solar Cats, the Journal of Environmental Policy, and the Public Utilities Regulation and Policy Association have formed to focus on the various aspects of advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency.
    • We believe each group will benefit from learning about the other groups and their missions and may discover opportunities for collaboration.
    • Join us to explore these learning and integration opportunities!
  • Program:
    • 4:00 - 5:00 PM  Brief presentations by representatives of each student group and REN followed by a student-led panel to discuss collaboration opportunities
    • 5:00 - 5:30 PM  Open networking with freshments -- please RSVP your attendance so we may provide the right amount of food!
  • For more information (and to RSVP at this time), contact Lia at liasansom@gmail.com

 

+ WKSP:  Weekly Writing Workshop - Mondays, Ongoing for Spring Semester 2013

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Social Sciences Building Room 206
  • Weekly writing workshops covering all aspects of basic college writing with Dr. Victoria Stefani.
  • Free and open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and classified staff members.
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Director, at 621-5849 or visit the Writing Skills Improvement Program website.
  • No preregistration required.  Topics include:
    • Jan 28:  Getting started: The process of writing and overcoming writer's block

 

+ TALK:  Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen:  Denmark's green agenda - Fri, Jan 25

  • Fri, Jan 25, at 2:00 PM
  • Ares Auditorium, Room 164
  • James E. Rogers College of Law Building
  • Sponsored by the James E. Rogers College of Law and the Office of Global Initiatives
  • Dr. Peter Taksoe-Jensen, Danish ambassador to the U.S., will talk about Denmark's Green Agenda.
    • Well-known in international legal circles, Ambassador Taksoe-Jensen has been the driving force behind a number of Danish policies and initiatives to strengthen and develop international law.  Taksoe-Jensen holds a degree in law from the University of Copenhagen.  He has lectured at numerous courses on EU law, EU policies, and negotiations.
  • This event is part of "Danes in the Desert."  For more information, go to DanesInTheDesert.com
  • More information available at global.arizona.edu and www.law.arizona.edu

 

+ RESOURCE FAIR & PERFORMANCE:  Student Health Resource Fair:  "New Year + New You" plus a special FREE performance of the Danish National Performance Team - Wed, Jan 23

  • Wed, Jan 23, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
  • On the Mall
  • The Campus Health Service is coordinating an exciting event this month to promote student resources from across campus.  Friendly UA staff will answer your questions to get your new year off to a great start -- all under the big top tent.
  • There will be Food, Entertainment, Giveaways, a Photobooth, and
  • A special appearance by the Danish National Performance Team*  < DON'T MISS THIS!!
  • Student Health FB:  https://www.facebook.com/events/293435687426306/
  • *Part of the Danes In The Desert Series of Sports, Performance, Lectures-Exhibits, and Culinary Events

 

+ TALK: The surface climate response to 11-year solar forcing during northern winter - Thur, Jan 17

  • Thur, Jan 17, 3:30 PM
  • PAS (Physics-Atmospheric Sciences) Building, Room 220
  • Refreshments served from 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM in PAS 546
  • Sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series
  • Dr. Lon Hood, UA Lunar and Planetary Lab, will talk about The surface climate response to 11-year solar forcing during northern winter.
  • Questions?  Contact Avelino F. Arellano, Jr., at arellano@atmo.arizona.edu or 520-626-3015

 

+ SCIENCE CAFE:  Telescope-inspired solar concentrators: The sexiest way to go solar - Tue, Jan 15

  • Tue, Jan 15, 6:00 PM
  • Brian Wheelwright, College of Optics and Steward Solar Lab, will talk about Telescope-inspired solar concentrators: The sexiest way to go solar
  • Co-sponsored by UA Institute of the Environment and Flandrau Science Center
  • Admission Free but seating is limited, first-come, first-served
  • Science Cafe Series in Spring 2013 will feature Carson Scholars from the UA Instiute of the Environment, graduate students who focus on environmentally related fields, pursue interdisciplinary studies, and work to communicate their science in ways to engage the public with environmental insights and issues.
  • For more information about the Science Cafe, sponsored by Flandrau Science Center, go to flandrau.org/programs/science_cafe or their FB page, www.facebook.com/uasciencecenter

 

+ TALK:  Co-evolution of soils and topography on  upland landscapes - Mon, Jan 14

  • Mon, Jan 14, at 3:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • Soil, Water, and Environmental Science Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Jon Pelletier will talk about Co-evolution of soils and topography on upland landscapes.
  • For details, see the SWES Colloquium schedule

 

+ TALK:  Climate Change: Why mesquite trees are displacing southwest grasslands - Wed, Jan 9

  • Wed, Jan 9, at 6:00 PM
  • LOCATION:  Tumamoc Hill Community Event, 1675 W. Anklam Road
  • Directions:  From campus, take 6th Street to Silverbell Road and turn south.  Take the first right onto Anklam Road.  The sign for Tumamoc Hill is on your left.
  • Parking:  Please park along Anklam Road or in the St. Mary's Hospital parking lot.  The shuttle will pick-up and drop-off on Tumamoc Hill Road.  (See map)
  • Dr. Greg Barron-Bafford, will talk Climate change: Why mesquite trees are displacing southwest grasslands.
  • All lectures are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
  • To reserve a seat, contact Cynthia Anson at cynthiaanson@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WEBINAR:  Water efficiency and the Colorado river basin study options: Where do we go from here? - Wed, Jan 9

  • Wed, Jan 9, at 2 PM Mountain Time (Tucson), 1 PM Pacific Time
  • Free webinar (1.5 hours) to explore the role of water efficiency in the new U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's final Colorado River Basin water supply and demand study.
  • Webinar presented by the Water Efficiency Action Network of the Colorado River Basin (WEAN-CRB)
  • The webinar will open with a presentation focused on the role of water efficiency in the study's options and strategies.  Several panelists will respond to these options and share their views ont he policies, strategies, and technologies needed to help water users throughout the Colorado Basin states become more efficient
  • Invited panelists include Carly Jerla, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; Bill Hasencamp, Metropolitan Water District; Eric Kuhn, Colorado River District; Drew Beckwith, Western Resources Advocates; and Brad Udall, University of Colorado/NOAA Western Water Assessment.
  • For more information about WEAN-CRB, go to their website at www.wean-crb.org

 

+ DEMO:  Classroom Technology Demonstrations for Spring Semester - Beginning Wed, Jan 2 through Tue, Jan 8, 2013

  • Demonstrations and practice time between 8:00 AM and 3:30 PM, Jan 2-8
  • Sponsored by UITS Classroom Technology Services
  • All instructors are invited to attend a classroom technology equipment demonstration in the room they have reserved for their classes for the Spring semester (or a room that is set up identical to their assigned room)
  • Following each demo, there will be ample opportunity to practice using the various technologies
  • To schedule a demo and practice time, call 520-621-3852 or email uaav@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  The connection between Au and Te in hydrothermal gold telluride deposits - Tues, Jan 8, 2013

  • Tues, Jan 8, at 12:10 PM
  • Environment & Natural Resources Building (ENRB), Room 353
  • ENRB is located at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and Sixth Street.  Parking available in the parking garage just east of the building.
  • Dr. Paul G. Spry, Professor of Economic Geology and the 2012 Thayer Lindsley Lecturer (Society of Economic Geologists), Iowa State University, will talk about The connection between Au and Te in hydrothermal gold telluride deposits.
  • NOTE:  Several people have requested to meet with Professor Spry privately on Tues, Jan 8.  He will be available in the same room as the lunch time talk from 9:00-11:30 AM and from 2:00-4:00 PM.   Please contact Bob Kamilli at bkamilli@usgs.gov to make an appointment.
  • See also Off Campus event: Arizona Geological Society Dinner & Meeting for Tues evening:  Dr. Paul Spry will be the Guest Speaker for the meeting (a different talk) plus free dinner for students--but must register in advance!

 

+ WKSHP:  UA Spring 2013 Teaching Academy Workshops and Seminars - Thur, Jan 3, 2013

  • Thur, Jan 3, 2013
  • Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center (ILC Building), the underground facility on the UA Mall
  • All faculty and graduate students are invited
  • The Spring 2013 Academy's workshops and seminars will focus on the theme, Writing and the Curriculum.
    • A variety of methods, toolds, and resources for integrating writing into teaching will be provided by the Office of Instruction and Assessment (OIA), the UA Libraries, and the Think Tank.
    • Writing Center personnel will provide an overview of their services and resources
    • UA Libraries personnel will help instructors create research assignments for their courses
    • Learn about CREATE, an online tool for students and instructors that facilitates composing, researching, and analyzing arguments
    • OIA consultants will lead workshops about providing feedback to students about their writing
    • Learn how to use writing as a way to reflect upon and deepen learning
  • Go to the Teaching Academy 2013 website for registration and details about the workshop
  • Questions? Comments? Contact Garry Forger at 520-626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY:  ** University Wide ** December 2012 Commencement Ceremony - Sat, Dec 15

  • Sat, Dec 15, 9:00 AM
  • All-inclusive Ceremony for  Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Candidates
  • Undergraduate students must RSVP here to declare attendance and number of guests
  • Graduate students should consult with the HWR Graduate Advisor or the Graduate Degree Certification office regarding inclusion in the Commencement Program and other details
  • For information about parking, guests, caps and gowns, processing, and more, go to the comprehensive UA Commencement website

 

+ COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY:  ** College of Science ** December 2012 Ceremony & Reception - Fri, Dec 14

  • Fri, Dec 14, 10:00 AM
  • Centennial Hall
  • College of Science Commencement Ceremony at 10:00 AM for all COS undergraduate and graduate students graduating in December 2012.
  • Tickets are free but students must RSVP to attend and reserve seats for family and friends. (RSVP website closes Dec 3 at 11:59 PM).
  • Follow instructions at website (e.g. check to see if your name is on the graduation list & also must have 120-character (undergraduate) or 200-character (graduate) slide message ready BEFORE you RSVP
  • Cookie and punch reception immediately follows in the Women's Plaza of Honor.
  • Go here for College of Science Commencement FAQs.

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Jud Harvey, The natural flow regime and its role in function and sustainability of rivers and wetlands - Tues, Dec 11

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Laura Lopez Hoffman, Does the United States owe Mexico for the pest control services of bats? - Fri, Dec 7

  • Fri, Dec 7, at 8:30 AM
  • UA Law College, Sullivan Room (upstairs on the south side toward the west end of the building)
  • Coffee and bagels at 8:15 AM; talk will begin at 8:30 AM
  • Dr. Laura Lopez Hoffman, Udall Center and School of Natural Resources and Environment, will talk about projects she's working on related to ecosystem services of migratory bats, especially Does the United States owe Mexico for the pest control services of bats?
  • Contact:  Robert Glennon at glennon@law.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSHP:  Writing Skills Improvement Program (WSIP) Graduate Writing Workshops - Wednesdays, Sept 12 through Dec 5

  • Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Education Bldg. Room 318
  • Facilitator:  Dr. Victoria Stefani
  • Topics include:
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Assistant Director of WSIP, at 520-621-5849 or visit the WSIP website

 

+ WEBINAR:  Today's Chinese student: Cultural insights for better integration - Tues, Dec 4

  • Tues, Dec 4, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  • Student Union Memorial Center Room 411 (Career Services Workshop room)
  • Free to attendees.  To RSVP, or if you have any questions, contact Noelle Sallaz at ncarampa@email.arizona.edu.
  • Today's Chinese students are different from the students of previous decades, and they are enrolling in unprecedented numbers in U.S. colleges and universities.  It is becoming increasingly important for campuses to understand these students and how to bridge the cultural gap between them and other international and domestic students.  How does this group culture and shared experience affect the cultural and social integration of Chinese students on your campus?  What are some of the best practices you can implement to gain campus-wide support for orienting and supporting these students?
  • Sponsored by the office of International Student Services

 

+ WKSHP:  Writing Skills Improvement Program (WSIP) Upper Division Writing Workshops - Tuesdays, Sept 11 through Dec 4

  • Tuesdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Education Bldg. Room 318
  • Facilitator:  Joe Stefani
  • Topics include:
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Assistant Director of WSIP, at 520-621-5849 or visit the WSIP website

 

+ WKSHP:  Writing Skills Improvement Program (WSIP) Basic Writing Workshops - Mondays, Sept 10 through Dec 3

  • Mondays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Education Bldg. Room 318
  • Facilitator:  Dr. Victoria Stefani
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Assistant Director of WSIP, at 520-621-5849 or visit the WSIP website

 

+ WKSHP:  OIA Professional Development -- Designing an Accelerated Course - Mon, Dec 3

  • Mon, Dec 3, at 10:00 AM in OIA Conference Room (OIA is in the north side of the ILC courtyard)
  • Facilitator:  Kathy Spicer
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Rosalind Bark, Estimating the value of water for nature: The case of Australia's Murray-Darling River - Mon, Dec 3

  • Mon, Dec 3, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • Refreshments served at 2:40 PM
  • Joint with School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (UA SEES), the Water Resoures Research Center (UA WRRC), and co-sponsored by the Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions Initiative (UA)
  • Dr. Roalind Bark (CSIRO, Australia) will talk about Estimating the value of water for nature:  The case of Australia's Murray-Darling River

 

+ PUBLIC FORUMS & EVENTS:  Native American Heritage Month 2012 - Oct 31 through Dec 1

  • November is National Native American Heritage Month and the UA Native American Student Affairs office invites the community to celebrate the month by attending any of the events planned by the NASA Leadership and Club Boards.
  • Kick-off event will take place on Friday, November 2, at 12:00 noon at the UA Mall stage area where we will be joined by campus and local American Indian leaders to welcmone in the month in a culturally appropriate manner.  Light lunch to follow immediately after in the Wassaja Student Center (Nugent Building Room 203).
  • Questions?  Contact Kyle Ethelbah, Program Director, Native American Student Affairs (NASA) at kyleethelbah@email.arizona.edu or 520-621-3835.
  • For a full listing and description of events, vist the NASA website (weblink above)
  • Weekly Film Series -- Every Friday - Check the online calendar for Friday film titles

 

+ CEREMONY & RECEPTION:  Inauguration Ceremony for Dr. Ann Weaver Hart, UA's 21st President - Fri, Nov 30

  • Fri, Nov 30, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (audience should be seated no later than 3:00 PM)
  • Centennial Hall
  • Inaguration Ceremony and Reception for Dr. Ann Weaver Hart, 21st President of The University of Arizona
  • Seating is first-come, first-seated basis (no reserved seating)
  • FREE and Open to everyone, both on campus and from the community
  • Reception immediately following ceremony on the lawn of the Arizona State Museum
  • General parking, for those coming from off campus, is in the Tyndall Garage
  • Shuttles will be in use for those who need assistance in getting to Centennial Hall from the garage.  Shuttles will be running to and from the garage until 6:30 PM.
  • FACULTY AND STAFF are invited to robe and march in a formal procession, converging at Old Main before entering Centennial Hall.
    • Chair of the Faculty, Wanda Howell, and the Faculy Center invite all Faculty to celebrate this occasion at a luncheon prior to the procession.  
      • Faculty Luncheon 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM in the South Ballroom, Student Union Memorial Center
      • Robing will follow in the same location and the procession will leave the South Ballroom at approximately 2:30 PM. 
      • Faculty DO NOT need to attend the luncheon to robe and process.
      • Only robed individuals will be permitted to process.
      • Faculty should RSVP by November 23 to the Faculty Center at facultycenter@email.arizona.edu for the luncheon and/or procession so that we may plan accordingly.  Please include your College in your RSVP.
    • Staff will robe and process from the Student Union Gallagher Theater and should be present, in robe, by 2:15 PM.  Staff should RSVP by November 23 to the Faculty Center at facultycenter@email.arizona.edu.  Please include your College in your RSVP.
      • Only robed individuals will be permitted to process.
  • Please encourage all of your colleagues to attend this special and historic campus event.

 

+ WKSHP:  OIA Professional Development -- Designing an Accelerated Course - Thur, Nov 29

  • Thur, Nov 29, at 2:00 PM in (location TBA?)
  • A repeat workshop is also scheduled on Mon, Dec 3, at 10:00 AM in OIA Conference Room (OIA is in the north side of the ILC courtyard)
  • Facilitator:  Kathy Spicer
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Janice Coen, Coupled weather-fire modeling of large wildland fires - Thur, Nov 29

  • Thur, Nov 29, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building Room 224
  • Refreshments at 3:00 PM in PAS 546
  • Dr. Janice Coen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, will talk about Coupled weather-fire modeling of large wildland fires.
  • Wildland fires have become a costly natural hazard, with wide-ranging impacts on life, natural resources, and air and water quality. Incidents may span days to months, encountering spatially and temporally varying environmental factors (weather, terrain, and fuels). Physical processes involved in an event span a vast range of scales, from sub-cm scale combustion to synoptic-scale weather patterns, upon which climatic conditions such as extended drought may be imposed. A number of approaches exist for simulating wildland fires, ranging from operational tools designed to quickly estimate important metrics about fire behavior to computational fluid dynamics models that parameterize combustion processes at the meter-scale to model small fires.
  • I will present an approach that uses numerical weather prediction (NWP) models that are two-way coupled to fire behavior models to simulate the effect of weather on fire behavior, the feedback of a fire on the atmospheric state, and the impact of these fire-induced winds on fire behavior - i.e. how all fires, to some degree, 'create their own weather'. The methodology uses NWP models capable of modeling fine scale atmospheric flows (under 1 km horizontal resolution) in complex terrain. The wildland fire component is based upon semi-empirical relationships for surface fire rate of spread, post-frontal heat release, and a canopy fire model.
  • The fire behavior is coupled to the atmospheric model such that low level winds drive the spread of the surface fire, which in turn release sensible heat, latent heat, and smoke fluxes into the lower atmosphere, in turn feeding back to affect the winds directing the fire. Incorporating this interaction has allowed us to reproduce basic aspects of wildfire behavior, and more recently, the unfolding of large fire events. I will present case studies of landscape-scale wildland fires in a number of ecosystems to illustrate our current capabilities in capturing some distinctive features of these events and discuss current challenges.

 

+ WKSHP:  Writing Skills Improvement program (WSIP) International Writer's Workshops - Thursdays, Sept 27 through Nov 29

  • Thursdays, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Social Sciences Bldg. Room 222
  • Facilitators:  WSIP Staff
  • Topics include:
    • Nov 29:  Revision:  Editing for readability and correctness
  • For further information, contact Dr. Donna Rabuck, Assistant Director of WSIP, at 520-621-5849 or visit the WSIP website

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Charles Sanchez, Seeking agronomic solutions to global challenges - Mon, Nov 26

  • Mon, Nov 26, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • Refreshments served at 2:40 PM
  • Dr. Charles Sanchez (SWES, University of Arizona), will talk about Seeking agronomic solutions to global challenges.

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Valerie Trouet, A tree-ring based reconstruction of Balkan temperatures back to medieval times reveals a robust pan-European summer teleconnection mode - Wed, Nov 21

  • Wed, Nov 21, at 12:00 PM noon
  • Math Building East 20
  • Brown bag talk sponsored by the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR)
  • Dr. Valerie Trouet, Assisant Professor, University of Arizona, LTRR, will talk about A tree-ring based reconstruction of Balkan temperatues back to medieval times reveals a robust pan-European summer teleconnection mode.
  • The dominant atmospheric circulation pattern that governs European summer climate is a seesaw between the geopotential height fields over northwestern versus southeastern Europe: when a low occurs over the British Isles, a blocking-like pattern dominates the Balkans, and vice versa.  One phase of this seesaw was exemplified by the summer of 2012, when anomalously wet and cold conditions over northwestern Europe co-occurred with dry and hot conditions over southeastern Europe.
  • We here present a summer temperature reconstruction (1274-2009 CE) for the southeastern node of this teleconnection pattern.  This reconstruction is based on maximum latewood density (MXD) measurements of 111 Pinus heldreichii tree cores from a high-elevation site in the Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria. Our reconstruction explains 41% of the variance in interannual summer temperature variability in the Balkans as instrumentally recorded over the twentieth century.  Fluctuations in our Bulgarian reconstruction correspond to summer temperature variability in southeastern Europe, but opposing temperature variability patterns are manifested over the British Isles and southern Scandinavia.
  • The strong and consistent anti-phase relationship between our reconstruction and a reconstruction of the summer North Atlantic Oscillation (sNAO) suggests that the sNAO pattern is a main driver of the teleconnections between summer temperatures in southeastern versus northwestern Europe. This teleconnection was well pronounced during the summer of 2012 and has been stable since at least 1700 CE.

 

+ TALK:  Keith J. Lombardo, Chaparral fire history and fire-climate relationships in the transverse ranges of southern California, USA - Fri, Nov 16

  • Fri, Nov 16, 2:30 PM
  • Harvill Building Room 402
  • Part of the Weekly Tree-Ring Talks
  • Keith J. Lombardo, Doctoral candidate in Geography (minor Watershed Management), will talk about Chaparral fire history and fire-climate relationships in the transverse ranges of southern California, USA.  This is the public portion of his dissertation defense.

 

+ PUBLIC FORUMS & EVENTS:  International Education Week - Mon-Fri, Nov 12-16

  • Forums and other events week-long, Monday through Friday, Nov 12-16
  • Locations, times, and events will vary
  • Organized by UA's Regional Development, Outreach, and Global Initiatives
  • The UA's impact on globally-relevant fields is a source of pride for our extended Arizona family and is a key element in our strategic future.  One way to encourage even deeper global engagement is to participate in International Education Week (IEW).
  •  
  • The 2012 theme is Striving for a Healthier Future Worldwide
  • Every UA student should have the opportunity for international connection during that week.  Participation from departments, clubs, organizations, centers, or advisory boards is encouraged, particularly those events which engage the Tucson community.
  • How to Connect: 
    • Identify a globally relevant speaker or event that your college or department can support during the week (ideas below), and assign someone in your office to manage the logistics
    • Complete the IEW Participation Form so the IEW committee can help promote your event.
    • Completing the form will guarantee inclusion on the calendar and our promotion.
    • Submit your form by October 15 to ensure maximum exposure.  (Events after that date will not appear in printed materials).
  • Some Ways UA Departments, Colleges, and Centers Can Participate:
    • Are you hosting or do you have an international scholar on your faculty (or someone visiting)?  Consider holding a faculty forum to showcase their expertise and provide a global perspective to students and/or the community.
    • Incorporate a week of international discussion into course curricula
    • Secure a globally-relevant speaker to talk about the global changes or trends in your discipline
    • Host a competition within your college focused on global education, leadership, art, or culture
    • Create an "internationally/culturally aware" student award sponsored by your college
    • If you already have an international event planned, consider holding it the week of Nov 12-16 for more exposure
    • Consider giving extra credit to students who attend one or more evens during the week
    • Review last year's 2011 IEW Calendar here for more ideas
  • Your logistics person is invited to join the IEW management committee.  Please email Mary Ann Berg at maryannb@email.arizona.edu regarding inclusion in the process or if you have any questions.  The UA needs your involvement to make the week a success.

 

+ TOWN HALL:  Strategic Plan Town Hall Meeting - Fri, Nov 16

  • Fri, Nov 16, 8:00 AM - Repeat 1-Hour Session in the Tucson Room, Student Union Memorial Center (a repeat of sessions held previously on Wed, Nov 14)
  • Each of the three dates are open and will have the same format
  • UA Provost Andrew Comrie and Chair of SPBAC, J.C. Mutchler, co-chairs of the UA Academic Strategic Planning Committee, will host three campus town hall meetings to present an early draft of the new UA Strategic Plan for feedback and comments.
  • Most of the town hall meeting will be dedicated to answering questions about important issues facing the development of the University of Arizona Strategic Plan.
  • Participants are encouraged to bring questions with them.  Those unable to attend may submit questions in advance to the Faculty Center at FacultyCenter@email.arizona.edu
  • For further information or questions, contact the UA Faculty Center at FacultyCenter@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Stephen B. DeLong, Rapid landscape change ln detection using terrestrial LiDAR in post-wildfire landscapes - Fri, Nov 16, 2012

  • Fri, Nov 16, at 10:00 AM in the ARS-SWRC Conference Room
  • USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, 2000 E. Allen Road, Tucson, AZ
  • NOTE:  ** Please arrive several minutes early to check in and pick up a vistor's badge **
  • Dr. Stephen B. DeLong, Assistant Research Professor, Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, will talk about Rapid landscape change detection using terrestrial LiDAR in post-wildfire landscapes.
  • A basic challenge of understanding landscape change in post-wildfire landscapes is that the time between fire containment and the first landscape-altering precipitation event is often negligible, so airborne or other remote methods are difficult to fund and mobilize in the appropriate timeframe. However, rapid response using portable, ground based rtk-GPS and t-LiDAR systems allow for collection of post-fire pre-erosion, and post-erosion data collection. These data can quantify landscape change at the cm level, and also have significant potential for study of ecological recovery at the hillslope scale.
  • We present data from six t-LiDAR surveys of a steep, initially unchannelized hillslope that was burned severely in the Horseshoe 2 fire in the Chiricahua Mountains of SE Arizona in 2011. We use these measurement tools to make detailed maps of landscape change and to quantify sediment delivery at the hillslope scale as a result of post-wildfire precipitation and runoff. In this case a single runoff event that occurred several days after the fire was this most significant agent of landscape change.
  • These methods hold promise for quantifying relationships among topography, burn severity, precipitation, hydrology and surface processes. They also may enable the testing of models used for rapid post-fire watershed hazard assessment, and understanding the details of landscape response to wildfire.
  • Questions?  Contact Dr. David Goodrich at 520-647-9241 or dave.goodrich@ars.usda.gov

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Rafael Rosolem, Improving land surface processes with the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System - Thur, Nov 15

  • Thur, Nov 15, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building Room 224
  • Refreshments at 3:00 PM in PAS Building Room 546
  • Sponsored by Department of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Dr. Rafael Rosolem, HWRS Research Assistant Professor, will talk about Improving land surface processes with the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS).
  • The ability to accurately describe land surface processes in numerical models (e.g., exchanges of energy and water) is directly related to the success of weather and climate predictions. In this case, soil moisture plays a key role in controlling such processes but it is still not well understood given its highly spatial heterogeneity within model grid size. Fortunately, real-time integrated soil moisture measurements at spatial scales of a few hundreds of meters are now available from the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS). The network comprises of 50+ sensors deployed mainly in the USA, and attempts to fill the gap between point scale measurements and remote sensing estimates of soil moisture.
  • Recent improvements to the cosmic ray soil moisture method and advances in COSMOS data assimilation by land surface models are discussed in this seminar. First, because the cosmic ray method relies on the exceptional ability of hydrogen to moderate fast neutrons, all sources of hydrogen must be quantified. The effect of atmospheric water vapor on the cosmic ray probe signal is investigated using a neutron particle transport model and in situ observations. Second, the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Interaction Code (COSMIC), a physically based and analytic model that calculates the above ground fast neutron intensity from simulated soil moisture profiles provided by land surface models, is developed for use within the context of data assimilation. Finally, preliminary results of data assimilation of COSMOS measurements into the NOAH model are presented for a semi-arid site in Southern Arizona.

 

+ WKSHP:  Graduate College - Obtaining Funding for International Research and Study - Thur, Nov 15

  • Thur, Nov 15, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Ventana Room (level 4), Student Union Memorial Center
  • Speakers will discuss specific funding opportunities and their research experiences abroad, such as
    • NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI)
    • Fulbright
    • David Boren
    • Fulbright-Hays
    • FLAS
    • DAAD
    • Inter-American Foundation
    • and others!
  • Questions?  Contact Georgia Ehlers at gehlers@grad.arizona.edu

 

+ CAREER PANEL & NETWORKING:  STEM Career Panel & Networking Event - Wed, Nov 14

  • Wed, Nov 14, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
  • Catalina and Tucson Meeting Rooms, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Food and beverages provided!
  • Panel brings together professionals representing different facets of careers in the STEM fields
  • Panel will offer career insights, sharing information about their own career paths, trends in the field, and critical skills students should hone
  • Networking follows the panel discussion when students can connect directly with:
    • Hank Hollum, Surgeon, Arizona Oncology Associates
    • Timothy G. Morill, Engineering Fellow, Raytheon
    • Larry Head, Department Head, UA Dept. of Systems and Industrial Engineering
    • Ricardo Valerdi, Associate Professor, UA Dept of Systems and Industrial Engineering
    • David Henz, Manager, Edmund Optics (Tucson Office)

  • * A grant from the UA Student Services fee has made this career panel/networking event series possible

 

+ INFO SESSION & FAIR:  2012 Arizona Study Abroad Fair - Wed, Nov 14

  • Wed, Nov 14, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
  • UA Mall
  • The 2012 Arizona Study Abroad Fair:  Great opportunity for students and advisors to learn about UA study abroad and exchange opportunities
  • Study Abroad Staff and UA Faculty, plus third-party providers and university partners, will be on hand to talk with you

 

+ TOWN HALL:  Strategic Plan Town Hall Meeting - Wed, Nov 14

  • Wed, Nov 14, 10:00 AM - First 1-Hour Session in Drachman Hall, Room A118 (north of Speedway)
  • Wed, Nov 14, 4:00 PM - Repeat 1-Hour Session in the Union Kiva, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Will repeat on Fri, Nov 16, 8:00 AM - Repeat 1-Hour Session in the Tucson Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Each of the three dates are open and will have the same format
  • UA Provost Andrew Comrie and Chair of SPBAC, J.C. Mutchler, co-chairs of the UA Academic Strategic Planning Committee, will host three campus town hall meetings to present an early draft of the new UA Strategic Plan for feedback and comments.
  • Most of the town hall meeting will be dedicated to answering questions about important issues facing the development of the University of Arizona Strategic Plan.
  • Participants are encouraged to bring questions with them.  Those unable to attend may submit questions in advance to the Faculty Center at FacultyCenter@email.arizona.edu
  • For further information or questions, contact the UA Faculty Center at FacultyCenter@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALKS:  UA Environmental Law CLE:  Can Arizona become solar powered? - Sat, Nov 10

  • Sat, Nov 10, 8:30 AM ** Change in originally published start time **
  • To avoid conflict with the Homecoming football game, the CLE (Continuing Legal Education) has been moved to 8:30 AM in Room 168 at the University of Arziona College of Law.
  • Speakers include:
    • Peter Culp (UA Law 2001), Partner, Squire Sanders, Phoenix, AZ and practitioner of environmental, water, and natural resource and federal Indian law.  He has been recognized by Chambers USA for environmental matters and has served on numerous boards and commission related to natural resource and water law.
    • Ardeth Barnhart, Program Director, Renewable Energy at the UA's Institute of the Environment.  She specializes in the design and implementation of strategies for the adoption of renewable energy, not only in Arizona, but also nationally as well.
    • Robert Glennon, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, UA College of Law.  He has written numerous pieces on water law, including his recent book, Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It.
  • RSVP to attend at events@ajelp.com
  • For updated information, go to the website at www.ajelp.com/uncategorized/homecoming-cle-solar-energy-in-arizona

 

+ SHOWCASE & COMPETITION:  Student Showcase 2012 - Fri & Sat, Nov 9-10

  • Fri & Sat, Nov 9-10, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM ( Homecoming Weekend)
  • Under the tents at the Alumni Plaza in front of the Administration Building and the Student Union
  • The Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) seeks the best student research and creative projects for the 20th Annual Student Showcase
  • Undergraduate and graduate students from across campus are eligible to participate and will receive recognition and feedback on their projects, and cash $$ prizes will be given to top entries in each category.
  • EXTENDED DEADLINE:  Submit your application by Friday, Oct 19
  • For more information and to learn how to submit an application, go to:  gpsc.arizona.edu/student-showcase
  • Both graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Arizona may enter their projects in one of the following categories:
    • Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
    • Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
    • Biological Sciences
    • Business, Public Administration, and Economics
    • Education
    • Engineering
    • Health Sciences
    • Humanities, Literature, and Languages
    • Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science
    • Public Health
    • Social Sciences and Law
    • Visual and Performing Arts*
  • Questions?  Contact the GPSC Events Directory, Kevin Chau, at 520-626-6122 or email to UNION-gpscevents@email.arizona.edu
  • To request this information in an accessible format, please contact Printing Services at 520-621-9514 or 520-621-7306.
  • *This year Showcase will have a stage for participants in the Visual and Performing Arts Category that will allow students to present their research in a Lecture-Performance format.

 

+ TALK:  7th Annual W.C. Lacy Distinguished Lecture* -  Dr. Ross R. Bhappu, Molycorp--How we are utilizing new technologies to restore the U.S. rare earth industry - Fri, Nov 9

  • Fri, Nov 9, 4:00 PM
  • Kiva Room of the Student Union Memorial Center
  • Informal reception to follow the lecture
  • Sponsored by the UA Dept. of Mining and Geological Engineering
  • Dr. Ross R. Bhappu, Chair, Molycorp, Inc., and Partner, Resource Capital Funds, will talk about Molycorp--How we are utilizing new technologies to restore the U.S. rare earth industry
  • *W.C. Lacy was the first department head of the UA's combined Department of Mining and Geological Engineering.

 

+ TOUR:  University Research Parks Tour - Fri, Nov 9

  • Fri, Nov 9, 8:15 AM to 11:30 AM (Off Campus Event)
  • FREE Round-trip transportation via Shuttle Bus provided from Main Campus
  • Arrive in front of Old Main by 8:15 AM.  Shuttle will depart at 8:30 AM
  • Seating is limited!   Please RSVP to jbturner@uatechpark.org by Wed, Oct 31
    • Come to the UA's researchpark and see how impossible ideas are translated into real companies
    • Go behind the scenes in fields such as solar energy, border technology, and biotechnology
    • Interact with successful technology companies
    • Learn about new technologies
    • See first-hand how the Park is creating high wage jobs for the region
  • Official event of the Third Annual Collegiate and Campus Showcase organized by the University of Arizona Alumni Association as part of the UA Homecoming Celebration

 

+ RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM:  Institute of the Environment Annual Environmental Research Grad Blitz - Thur, Nov 8

  • Thur, Nov 8, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • University Marriott Hotel in the Pima and Sabino Rooms
  • The Blitz showcases the incredible diversity of environmental research happening here at the UA
  • Presenters are challenged to showcase their findings in a concise and through-provoking manner via a poster or a rapid-fire, TEDx style 5-minute presentation
  • The top 2 presenters in both categories (posters, papers) will receive financial awards ($200, $100) and special honors are given to those who excel in particular aspects of their presentations (graphics, most interdisciplinary, connecting science and society, audience connection)
  • Questions?  Contact IE at IENV-environment@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Xubin Zeng, Global surface temperature: model improvement, dataset development, and quantification of greenhouse gas effect - Thur, Nov 8

  • Thur, Nov 8, 3:30 PM
  • Seminar in PAS Building Room 224
  • Refreshments from 3:00-3:30 PM in PAS Room 546
  • Dr. Xubin Zeng, Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, will talk about Global surface temperature: model improvement, dataset development, and quantification of greenhouse gas effect.  Surface air and skin temperature is one of the most important variables in weather and climate research and applications.  In this talk, our most recent work on three related topics will be discussed:
    • NCEP operational model (GFS) and the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) both have a significant cold bias of early afternoon surface skin temperature over global arid regions.  We have developed an improved treatment of roughness lengh for momentum and heat to improve both GFS and CESM.  It also improves the assimilation of satellite radiance from surface-sensitive channels.
    • There has been much confusion about monthly mean surface air temperature in the modeling and reanalysis community between the conventional average of daily maximum and minimum temperature versus the 24-hourly average.  We have developed, for the first time, global 0.5 deg hourly surface air temperature from 1948-2009 to address this issue.
    • It is frequently stated in textbooks and scholarly articles that the surface temperature of Earth is 33 degC warmer than it would be without the atmosphere and that this difference is due to the greenhouse effect.  We find that the atmosphere effect leads to warming of only 20 degC.  This new conclusion requires a revision to all fo the relevant literature.

 

+ TALK & MEETING:  SEACAMS Seminar:  Dr. Ken Cummins, On the incidence and behavior of cloud-to-ground lightning in complex terrain: Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, and the Ozarks - Wed, Nov 7

  • Wed, Nov 7, 6:30 PM
  • ENRB Building Room 253 (UA Campus Map: DeConcini Environment and Natural Resources Building)
  • SEACAMS (Southeastern Arizona Chapter of the American Meteorological Society) Meeting
  • Dr. Ken Cummins, Research Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, will talk On the incidence and behavior of cloud-to-ground lightning in complex terrain: Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, and the Ozarks
  • The climatological incidence of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning is known to have large regional differences associated synoptic-scale variations in weather that impact the development and propagation of deep convection. At smaller spatial scales, terrain variations are also known to play a significant role in the development of deep convection leading to thunderstorms. At even smaller scales, there are flash-scale interactions between downward propagating leaders and terrain variations that can alter the nature and location of attachment to ground.
  • This talk will focus on terrain-related variations in the incidence (area density) of CG lightning and some of the physical parameters of lightning flashes. Estimates of these parameters are derived from measurements obtained from the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), and presented at kilometer-scale spatial resolution.
  • A recently-developed method for classifying a CG stroke as creating a new ground contact or occurring in a pre-existing channel will also be presented. The method employs information that can be provided by modern Lightning Locating Systems. Detailed analyses ground contact behavior will be presented for two regions – the front range of the Rocky Mountains and the Ozark/Washita mountains in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

 

+ WKSHP:  OIA Professional Development -- D2L Advanced Grades - Wed, Nov 7 & Thur, Nov 8

  • Wed, Nov 7 at 2:00 PM WEBINAR
  • Thur, Nov 8 at 9:30 AM in ILC Room 13
  • Facilitator:  Elle Tivine
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSHP:  Community Connection Grants - Mon, Nov 5

  • Mon, Nov 5, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  • Vine Avenue Annex Room 102 at 1125 N. Vine
  • Attendees must pre-register (see link below)
  • Community Connection Grants consist of awards of up to $10,000 for exemplary, innovative projects that connect the University to the community
  • Competitive grants will provide support for new or existing projects and any faculty or staff member is eligible to apply
  • Emphasis will be on outreach efforts that benefit the community
  • Awards are made possible by the generosity of donots who have funded endowments held by the University of Arizona Foundation
  • To register or obtain additional information, go to the Connection Grants website

 

+ TALK:  Dr. David Breshears, Drought-induced tree die-off:  An overview and update on patterns, mechanisms, and consequences - Mon, Nov 5

  • Mon, Nov 5, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • Refreshments served at 2:40 PM
  • Dr. David Breshears (SNRE, University of Arizona), will talk about Drought-induced tree die-off: An overview and update on patterns, mechanisms, and consequences

 

+ WKSHP:  College of Science Undergraduate Workshop: UAccess Registration Prep Workshop - Thur, Nov 1

  • Thur, Nov 1, 5:00 PM
  • Gould-Simpson Building Room 906
  • Learn about the UAccess registration process BEFORE your priority registratiaon period, including:
    • How to read your advisement report
    • When to register for classes
    • How to search for classes/Gen Eds
    • How to register for classes
    • Who to contact for enrollment problems
    • How to learn something about the instructors teaching the courses you plan to take
    • Who is your advisor
  • Seating is limited, so go to the Workshop RSVP website if you plan to attend
  • Free Pizza and awesome advising will be available for all who attend

 

+ WKSHP:  FREE Graduate and Professional Development Workshop:  Negotiation Strategy and Tactics - Thur, Nov 1

  • Thur, Nov 1, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
  • La Aldea Community Room
  • La Aldea (Graduate and Professional Housing) is between the Tyndall Garage (north) and the Coronado Residence Hall (south) on Tyndall (825 E. 5th Street).  You may enter the Community Room through the glass doors facing Coronado (south). 
  • FREE and NO RSVP necessary.
  • Speaker will be  Alaina G. Levine, science careers consultant, science writer, and professional speaker and author
  • Negotiation Strategy and Tactics:  Did you know that the salary of your very first job after graduation determines your salaries for the rest of your life?
  • Learn how to create a win-win situation and negotiate right from start to finish in the job decision process.  Clarifying your needs and wants, and those of the other party, are key.  The negotiation skills you learn are valuate in that they can be applied to any situation in your professional (and even personal) life.
  • Questions?  Contact Amanda Brobbel, Coordinator, Graduate and International Student Housing, Residential Education and Residence Life, at brobbel@life.arizona.edu or 520-626-9714.

 

+ BREAKFAST TALK:  Dr. Rafe Sagarin, Observation and ecology:  broadening the scope of science to understand a complex world - Fri, Nov 2

  • Fri, Nov 2, 8:30 AM
  • CHANGE in normal location to Sullivan Room, Law College, upstairs on the south side toward the west (beyond that, the usual rules apply)
  • Dr. Rafe Sagarin, UA Instittute of the Environment, will talk about his new book, Observation and ecology:  broadening the scope of science to undestand a complex world
  • Questions?  Contact Dr. Robert Glennon, UA College of Law, at glennon@law.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Clint Dawson, Predictive numerical models for coastal ocean models - Fri, Nov 2

  • Fri, Nov 2, 4:00 PM
  • Math Building Room 501
  • Refreshments at 3:30 PM in Math 401N
  • Dr. Clint Dawson, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas, Austin, will talk about Predictive numerical models for coastal ocean models
  • Dawson will describe recent advances in computational methods and mathematics for modeling circulation, waves, and transport in the coastal oceans.  These advances include the numerical coupling of non-phase-resolving wave models and shallow water models, new discontinuous Galerkin-based wave and shallow water models, and the coupling of oil transport with hydrodynamic models.  Applications to the hurricane storm surges and the modeling of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico wll be emphasized.
  • Questions?  Contact the Program in Applied Mathematics.

 

+ PERFORMANCE, READING, BOOK SIGNING:   Dia de Los Muertos with noted author, Luis Urrea - Thur, Nov 1

  • Thur, Nov 1, starting at 4:00 PM
  • Celebrate el Dia de Los Muertos with Luis Urrea, noted author and Pulitzer Prize finalist (2005)
  • 4 PM:  Student Union Memorial Center Bookstore, Lower Level, celebrate with Las Aguilitas de Davis Mariachis, Grupo Folkorico Miztontli dancers, and student-made "altares" (traditional memorial altars), "Pan de Muerto" and hot chocolate
  • 5 PM:  Processional to Student Union Memorial Center Ballroom for Luis Urrea reading and book signing

 

+ WKSHP:  Graduate Enrichment Program: CV & Resume Workshop - Thur, Nov 1

  • Thur, Nov 1, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Student Union Memorial Center, Room 411
  • Designed for graduate, doctoral, and professional students
  • Presenter:  Lizzie Schloss, Associate Director, Career Services
  • Pre-register for the workshop at www.gpsc.arizona.edu/graduate-enrichment-program
  • No matter what sort of job you're going to seek after graduation, you're going to need a good resume or CV that will show off your education, your experience, and your skills
  • Learn how to catch potential employers' attention so that you can get a shot at your dream job
  • Lizzie Schloss, presenter, has extensive experience helping students find employment after graduation
  • Visit the Graduate Enrichment Program website at:  http://www.gpsc.arizona.edu/graduate-enrichment-program to learn more about (and how to register for) this workshop

 

+ RSVP DUE:  Wed, Oct 31, for UA Research Parks Tour on Nov 9,  part of Homecoming Weekend

  • Free transportation via Shuttle Bus provided from Main Campus
  • Seating is limited!   Please RSVP to jbturner@uatechpark.org by Wed, Oct 31
  • See event details for more information

 

+ TOWN HALL:  UA President Ann Weaver Hart - Wed, Oct 31

  • Wed, Oct 31, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  • Kiva Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • If unable to attend, Arizona Public Media will stream the town hall on its website:  http://ondemand.azpm.org/live
  • Most of the time during the town hall will be dedicated to answering your questions about important issues facing the University.  Please bring your questions with you to the town hall.
  • If you are unable to attend,  you can email your questions, in advance, to the Lo Que Pasa email at lqp@email.arizona.edu.

 

+ WKSHP:  OIA Professional Development -- Apple's iTunes U and YouTube's EDU Channels: Exploring the Wealth of Academic Content - Wed, Oct 31

  • Wed, Oct 31 at 2:00 PM
  • Modern Languages Room 512
  • Facilitator:  Stuart Glogoff
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSHP:  Crafting a successful grant proposal - Wed, Oct 31

  • Wed, Oct 31, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
  • Sabino Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Sponsored by the Office of the Provost
  • Light refreshments will be served
  • Professor Neal Armstrong (Chemistry/Biochemistry and Optical Sciences) and Professor LuAnn Gerken (Psychology/Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences) will discuss the nuts and bolts of writing effective proposals and working with funding agencies to build support for your projects.
  • Drawing from their interdisciplinary experiences, Professors Gerken and Armstrong will provide practical tips on everything from working with preliminary findings to justifying your budget.

 

+ WKSHP:  Faculty Seed Grant Workshop - Wed, Oct 31

  • Wed, Oct 31, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  • Vine Avenue Annex Room 102, 1125 North Vine
  • To register for the workshop, email garciac1@email.arizona.edu to reserve a spot.  The workshop will also be podcast and accessible through the FSG website.
  • Faculty Seed Grants consist of awards of up to $10,000 for projects involving research or other creative scholarly activity.  The competitive grants are intended to provide short-term one-time support that will "jump start" worthwhile projects and result in data or work products that can be used in developing major proposals for submission to extramural funding agencies or private contributors.
  • Individuals holding faculty rank, who have an appointment in the research scientist series of titles, or who have continuing or continuing-eligible status are eligible to apply; however, the Faculty Seed Grants Program gives highest priority to junior-level individuals in those categories.  The University of Arizona Foundation is pleased to sponsor these awards.
  • For information, review the Faculty Seed Grants website.
  • Application-proposal submission for the 2013 FSG Competition opens on October 12, 2012.  The application-proposal deadline is January 11, 2013.
  • Questions?  Contact garciac1@email.arizona.edu or call 621-3512.

 

+ WKSHP:  OIA Professional Development -- Apple's iTunes U and YouTube's EDU Channels: Exploring the Wealth of Academic Content - Tues, Oct 30 & Wed, Oct 31

  • Tues Oct 30 at 10:00 AM
  • (Repeat) Wed, Oct 31 at 2:00 PM
  • Modern Languages Room 512
  • Facilitator:  Stuart Glogoff
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ LUNCH & LEARN:  UA LifeWork Connections:  Power Over Parkinson's - Tues, Oct 30

  • Tues, Oct 30, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Santa Rita Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • An elder-care lunch and learn session as part of events celebrating National Work & Family Month.
  • Presented by Cynthia A. Holmes, Ph.D., UA Department of Neurology and American Parkinson Disease Association Arizona
    • Dr. Holmes will discuss the signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), conventional and alternative treatments, what we know about the causes of PD, and efforts to find a cure. 
    • She will also talk about programs and services available through the Arizona Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association.
    • 11:30 AM-11:45 AM :  Browse tables for information, meet other attendees
    • 11:45 AM-12:45 PM:  Presentation
    • 12:45 PM-1:00 PM:  Q & A
  • Because of limited space, reservations are requested by calling 626-4700 or sending an email to Jan Sturges, Caregiving Coordinator, at sturgesj@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Professor András Szöllösi-Nagy, Global changes and their impacts on water resources:  The challenges of the century? - Mon, Oct 29

  • Mon, Oct 29, 3:00 PM
  • Marshall Building Room 531
  • Refreshments provided
  • Sponsored by the UA's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, the Institute of the Environment, the School of Geography and Development, the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the Water Resources Research Center
  • Professor András Szöllösi-Nagy, Rector, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands, will talk about Global changes and their impacts on water resources: The challenge of the century?
  • The presentation will attempt to identify the technical and social challenges that need to be addressed to establish sustainable water development and management practices for the future. It will also look into the catchment-scale hydrological impacts of various global change drivers, such as climatic variability and change, as well as variations in population patterns and related changes, such as land-use change and migration from rural to urban areas.  Professor Szöllösi-Nagy will argue that design methodologies and institutional policies developed under the hypothesis of stationary hydrological processes need to be revisited and updated.
  • See the Udall Center website for event information
  • See the UNESCO website for the biography of Professor András Szöllösi-Nagy

 

+ CERTIFICATE WKSHP:  ATLAS Leadership Certificate Program - Sat-Sun, Oct 27-28

  • Sat-Sun, Oct 27-28, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Madera Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Sign up at the ATLAS website here
  • Looking for a way to increase your leadership skills, meet people, and earn a certificate you can highlight on your resume?  Then ATLAS has the program for you:
    • You can learn to be connected through service leadership this weekend.  The be connected series will help students learn about leadership within communities, addressing the basics of service and exploring how to create social change.
    • The be connected series runs from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm this Saturday and Sunday.
  • Questions?  Contact Stacie Schultz at stacieschultz@email.arizona.edu or visit the ATLAS website for more information.  See you this weekend!

 

+ MUSICAL PERFORMANCE:  Excerpts from Richard Danielpour's symphony, Darkness in the Ancient Valley, and his trio, Remembering Neda - Sat, Oct 27

  • Sat, Oct 27, 11:00 AM
  • At the Bookstore, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Free muscal performances and presentations
  • Sponsored by the UA ConfluenCenter for Creative Inquiry and the UA BookStores
  • Iranian-American composer Richard Danielpour (Manhattan School and Curtis Institute of Music) and Dr. Anne Betteridge (UA Middle Eastern Studies) will present musical and historical commentary highlighting the inventiveness and resilience of Persian women beginning with the ancient story of the Persian consort who avoided being beheaded by spinning stories over 1001 nights.
    • Danielpour will present FREE performances of excerpts from his full symphonic work, Darkness in the Ancient Valley, the composer's heartfelt tribute to Iran's long-suffering people, and his trio, Remembering Neda, honoring Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman who was killed in 2009 and became a symbol of hope unrealized in Iran.
    • Dr. Paula Fan will perform Ravel's Scheherazade with Kristin Dauphinais, mezzo soparano; Paula Redinger, flute; and Anne Gratz, cello.
  • The Tucson Symphony Orchestra is performing Danielpour's composition, Toward the Splendid City, on at the TCC Music Hall.
  • In collaboration with UA presents, Alonzo King LINES Ballet will perform Scheherazade on February 20, 2013, at 8:00 PM in Centennial Hall on campus.

 

+ SEMINAR:  OIA Professional Development - Copyright and Fair Use as it Applies to Teaching - Wed, Oct 24

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Free Professional Development Workshop: Leveraging Social Media for Networking and Career Advancement - Tue, Oct 23

  • Tue, Oct 23, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
  • La Aldea Community Room
  • La Aldea (Graduate and Professional Student Apartments) is between the Tyndall Garage (north) and the Coronado Residence Hall (south) on Tyndall (actual address is 825 E. 5th Street).  You can enter the Community Room through the glass doors facing Coronado (south). 
  • Sponsored by Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC)
  • No RSVP necessary
  • Leveraging social media for networking and career advancement:  More and more recruiters, job-decision makers, and hiring managers are using the web to find and research potential candidates.  How can you make sure that you are not only found, but are ahead of the pack?
  • In this session, we will discuss how decision-makers use LinkedIn and Facebook, and how you can use LinkedIn to establish yourself as a leader in your field, enhance your research reputation, and seek out and take advantage of innovative opportunities.  We will demonstrate how to create a winning LinkedIn profile, and how to use its multitude of features (such as joining and commenting in groups) to generate solid leads for your career.
  • Presenter:  Alaina G. Levine

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Global Water Brigades -- GWB Ghana - Tues, Oct 23

  • Tues, Oct 23 9, 8:30 PM
  • Repeat session on Oct 30 (different time)
  • Sabino Room in the Student Union Memorial Center
  • Learn everything you need to know about Global Water Brigrades Ghana
  • Lots of details about the upcoming Spring Break 2013 Ghana Trip to develop rain water harvesting system for a school and/or a family
  • Why should you come?
    • 1 in 4 people in rural Ghana do not have access to clean drinking wter
    • For every 1 volunteer, 36 students receive access to clean drinking water at school
    • 5-6 volunteers can = clean drinking water for an entire family year round
    • Hands-on sustainable development work
    • A chance to network with not only us, but students and professionals from around the world
  • Questions?  Contact us at:  arizona.gwb@globalbrigades.org
  • Check out the GWB Facebook Event at www.facebook.com/events/431006630290164/
  • For more information about membership, go here:  Global Brigades Official Membership Program

 

+ LUNCH & LEARN:  UA LifeWork Connections:  Are UA New Parent? - Tue, Oct 23

  • Tue, Oct 23, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  • Presidio Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • A child-care lunch and learn session as part of events celebrating National Work & Family Month
  • Welcome new and expectant parents.  Join us for lunch and learn about child care resources, flexible work information, family relationships, and nutritional tips during the infant-toddler years.
  • No reservations needed--seating is first come, first served.
  • Questions?  Contact Caryn Jung, MS, at jungc@email.arizona.edu or 621-9870

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Jeff Potoff, Predicting the impact of trace contaminants on the environment with atom-based computer simulations - Mon, Oct 22

  • Mon, Oct 22, 12:00 PM to 12:50 PM
  • Harvill Building Room 302
  • Sponsored by UA Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
  • Dr. Jeff Potoff, Associate Professor and Director of Early Engineering Programs, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, will talk about Predicting the impact of trace contaminants on the environment with atom-based computer simulations.
  • The prediction of environmental fate of trace pollutants requires knowledge of octanol-water and air-water partition coefficients and vapor pressures. However, experimental data are limited and in some cases conflicting. Furthermore, typical software describing Quantitative Structure Property Relationships (QSPR), such as EPI Suite, and Sparc have been shown to yield poor predictions for these quantities when applied to compounds that differ significantly from those used in the training set.
  • Molecular simulation using atom-based potential models provides an alternative means for the prediction of partitioning and physical properties of complex chemical species. The molecular models or “force fields” used as input to these simulations have evolved to the point where many properties can be predicted to within 5% of experimental values. In addition to physical properties, simulations are able to provide insight at the atomic level on the mechanisms of molecular binding, partitioning and transport that are not possible using QSPR or experiments.
  • In this talk, I describe the development of accurate molecular models for the prediction of physical properties, and show how these models may be used in atom-based computer simulations to predict 1-octanol-water and air-water partition coefficients for a wide variety of species, including n-alkanes1, alcohols, chemical warfare agents, energetic materials and ionic liquids2. A new methodology for the determination of absolute free energies of transfer from molecular dynamics simulations using the adaptive biasing force technique3-6 (ABF-MD) is described. The ABF-MD method offers a number of potential advantages over existing methods for the calculation of free energies of transfer, perhaps the most important of which is that the ABF method eliminates the need for reference solutes and therefore provides a robust method for determination of the absolute free energies of transfer.

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Kevin Gurney, Chasing carbon dioxide through the global anthrosphere: quantifying CO2 emissions for improved knowledge, international verification, and mitigation planning - Thur, Oct 18

  • Thur, Oct 18, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building Room 224
  • Refreshments from 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM in PAS 546
  • Dr. Kevin Gurney, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, will talk about Chasing carbon dioxide through the global anthrosphere: quantifying CO2 emissions for improved knowledge, international verification, and mitigation planning.
  • Basic elements of the global carbon cycle remain a top priority for research in climate change and global biogeochemistry. Crucial to understanding the carbon cycle is highly resolved quantification of fossil fuel CO2 emissions. This improved understanding provides additional benefits to applications in international policy, urban ecology and greenhouse gas emissions planning. In this talk I will trace my path from the "inverse" carbon problem to new work in quantifying CO2 emissions for the globe, the nation, and the urban domain.

 

+ WEEK-LONG EVENTS:  Pre-Law Week - Mon-Thur, Oct 15-18

  • It's Pre-Law Week at the UA.  Events include the 28th Annual Law School Information Expo (details below)
  • Mon, Oct 15, 12:00 PM noon to 1:30 PM
    • Pizza with a Professional - Careers in Law
    • Student Union Memorial Center, Kiva Room
    • Enjoy free pizza while you learn about law from professionals working in various fields and from former law students
  • Tues, Oct 16, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
    • Law Class Experience
    • UA College of Law, Room 164
    • Experience a mock law school class where you will work through an actual case taught by a law professor using the Socratic method.  Find out what to expect your first year of law school.
  • Wed, Oct 17, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
    • Personal Statement Information Session
    • Student Union Memorial Center, Santa Rita Room
    • Learn how to avoid the biggest mistakes when writing your personal statement
  • Thur, Oct 18, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
    • Admission Panel
    • Student Union Memorial Center, Santa Cruz Room
    • Learn what will make your application stand out.  Students are encouraged to ask law school representatives questions about the admission process.
  • Thur, Oct 18, 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM
    • 28th Annual Law School Information Expo
    • Student Union Memorial Center, Grand Ballroom
    • Interested students have the opportunity to talk personally with representatives from over 100 law schools throughout the country
  • Thur, Oct 18, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
    • Financing Law School
    • Student Union Memorial Center, Sabino Room
    • Learn about the most effective ways to finance your law school education
  • More Information available at ces.arizona.edu/pre_law_advising
  • Sponsored by the Colleges of Letters, Arts, and Science Academic Advising Center, Phi Alpha Delta, UA Pre-Law Chapter, and the Western Association of Pre-Law Advisors

 

+ SOCIAL:  Global Water Brigades -- The Fix % Day and Dinner with GWB - Tues, Oct 16

  • Tues, Oct 16, 6:30 PM
  • The Fix on University Boulevard
  • The whole day we are going to have a % Night and Dinner with all members and anyone who wants to come to The Fix on University.
  • Besides eating the best mac and cheese around, hang out with our members to ask any questions you may have or just talk.
  • This is a great opportunity to get to know GWB members and other people.
  • Proceeds will go back to GWB and our water project in Ghana!
  • Mention you are with Global Water Bridgades so that we get credit!

 

+ TALK: Aminata P. Kilungo, Well monitoring and characterization in the Kilombero region, southeastern Tanzania - Mon, Oct 15

  • Mon, Oct 15, 3:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • Refreshments at 2:40 PM
  • Aminata P. Kilungo, SWES PhD Student (Gerba, Powers) will talk about Well monitoring and characterization in the Kilmbero region, southeastern Tanzania.
  • The Kilombero region is situated in the southeastern part of Tanzania in the east African rift valley and is characterized by warmer climate, rainfalls, and wetlands.  Due to a favorable tropical climate, this region serves as an incubator for many tropical diseases, especially malaria and frequent diarrhea.  As a result, this region has been a center for tropical disease studies in East Africa since the 1960's.  In 1997, a cholera outbreak was declared in the village of Ifakara.  Since then, there have been cyclic cholera outbreaks.  People in this region rely on groundwater, the Kilombero River, and its major tributaries for drinking water.  These water sources are shared by livestock and also used for recreation.  In 2008, MSABL, an Australian based non-profit began to install lined and covered boreholes and modified open wells so as to provide better and safer drinking water in this region.
  • The purpose of the current study was 1) to compare three types of boreholes: closed and lined boreholes, modified rope pumps, and open wells; 2) to understand the occurrence of pathogens in these water sources; and 3) to compare a real-time intrinsic fluorescence technology with culture methods such as 3M petrifilms for culturing (total heterotrophic plate count) bacteria for water monitoring.  Total coliform, Escherichia coli, and turbidity data were also used to compare the three well designs.
  • Data for 100 total wells for total coliforms and E. coli were collected using 3M petrifilms and the Colilert presence-absence method.  Turbidity data were collected using a turbidity meter.  To understand the potential occurrence of pathogen bacteria, DNA isolation and sequencing were performed upon return to the United States.  No E. coli were detected in the improved well designs (closed borehole and modified rope pump).  Potential bacterial pathogens (other than E coli) were only detected in one well out of fifteen examined.  Data collected using the intrinsic fluorescence technology could not be correlated with the HPC numbers using the culture-based petrifilm method; the measurements from the intrinsic fluorescence indicated a higher viable total microbial load.

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Om Tripathi, Precipitation in south-west US: observations and simulations - Thur, Oct 11

  • Thur, Oct 11, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building Room 224
  • Refreshments in PAS 546 from 3:00-3:30 PM
  • Dr. Om Tripathi, Research Scientist, UA Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, will talk about Precipitation in south-west US: observations and simulations.
  • The effects of spatial resolution on the ability of regional climate models to reproduce observed precipitation for a region in the Southwestern U.S. will be presented. A total of 73 NCDC (National Climate Data Center) observational sites spread in Arizona and New Mexico are compared with regional climate simulations at the spatial resolutions of 50 km and 10 km for a 31-year period from 1980 to 2010. The focus will be during the monsoon season of June, July, August and September (JJAS). 3-hourly and 24-hourly observed extreme precipitation events will also be compared. The simulation is driven by NCEP-2 reanalysis.

 

+ SOCIAL:  EarthWeek Trivia Night at SkyBar - Thur, Oct 11

  • Thur, Oct 11, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
  • SkyBar located 536 N. 4th Avenue at the intersection of North 4th Avenue and East 5th Street
  • Sponsored by School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • FREE Brooklyn Pizza, Happy Hour Drinks, Bring a Friend
  • Need more info?  Contact mgquick@atmo.arizona.edu

 

+ WKSHP:  Funding Tips (and Lunch) for UA Grad Students in Water-Related Fields - Wed, Oct 10

  • Wed, Oct 10, from 12:00 PM noon to 2:00 PM
  • Presidio Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Sponsored by the UA Water Sustainability Program
  • Graduate students in any field related to wter and the environment are invited to attend
  • No charge to attend.  A light lunch will be provided.
  • RSVP by Monday, Oct 8, to Cassie Fausel at cfausel@email.arizona.edu
  • Agenda:
    • 12:00-12:20 PM  --  Check in and light lunch
    • 12:20 to 12:50 PM  --  Dr. Shelley Hawthorne Smith and Geogia Ehlers, Office of Fellowships and Community Engagement, Graduate College, will talk on Looking for grant and fellowship opportunities and recommendations on preparing applications
    • 12:55 to 1:25 PM  --  Dr. Sallie Marston, School of Geography and Development, will talk on State-federal grants: Insight into writing a successful proposal
    • 1:30 to 2:00 PM  --  Q & A on grant proposal writing and current opportunities

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Global Water Brigades -- GWB Ghana - Tues, Oct 9

  • Tues, Oct 9, 8:00 PM
  • Repeat sessions on Oct 23 and Oct 30 (slightly different times, different location)
  • Santa Cruz Room in the Student Union Memorial Center
  • Learn everything you need to know about Global Water Brigrades Ghana
  • Lots of details about the upcoming Spring Break 2013 Ghana Trip to develop rain water harvesting system for a school and/or a family
  • Why should you come?
    • 1 in 4 people in rural Ghana do not have access to clean drinking wter
    • For every 1 volunteer, 36 students receive access to clean drinking water at school
    • 5-6 volunteers can = clean drinking water for an entire family year round
    • Hands-on sustainable development work
    • A chance to network with not only us, but students and professionals from around the world
  • Questions?  Contact us at:  arizona.gwb@globalbrigades.org
  • Check out the GWB Facebook Event at www.facebook.com/events/431006630290164/
  • For more information about membership, go here:  Global Brigades Official Membership Program

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Brita Lorentzen, Cedar of Lebanon (Made in Anatolia): Dendroprovenancing timbers in the late Ottoman port of Joffa - Mon, Oct 8

  • Mon, Oct 8, 12:00 PM noon to 1:00 PM
  • Math East Building (Tree-Ring West Room 20)
  • Dr. Brita Lorentzen, Cornell University, will talk about Cedar of Lebanon (made in Anatolia): dendroprovenancing timbers in the late Ottoman port of Joffa
  • For more information, visit the LTRR website at ltrr.arizona.edu/event/1028

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Tom Zega, Laboratory-based astronomy at the nanometer scale - Wed, Oct 3

  • Wed, Oct 3, at 7:00 PM
  • Kuiper Space Sciences Building Room 308, 1629 E. University Blvd.
  • Event free and open to the public.  Doors open at 6:30 pm.  Parking in university surface lots is free after 5:00 PM.  Please be careful not to park in service or reserved spaces.  Metered parking also available at no cost after 5:00 PM.  Parking in the Cherry Avenue Garage is available after 5:00 PM at a cost of $1 per hour.
  • Dr. Tom Zega, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Planetary Sciences, will talk about Laboratory-based astronomy at the nanometer scale.
  • Throughout the course of their life cycles, stars shed matter through dust-driven winds or by outright exploding (supernova). This matter travels through the interstellar medium where it can become the starting material for new stars or planetary-forming nebulae. Our solar system was, among other things, built from such ancient stardust and some of this material was left over within primitive meteorites, the fossil relics of our solar nebula. I will show how, using the tools of nanoscience, we can probe, in the laboratory, such primitive meteorites, extract from them such ancient stardust, and gain fundamentally new insights into the histories of the grains and the stars from which they formed.
  • Contact:  Maria Schuchardt at mariams@LPL.arizona.edu or 520-621-4861 or the LPL Outreach website

 

+ WKSHP:  OIA Professional Development - ResponseWare: Classroom Alternative to Clickers - Tue, Oct 2 & Wed, Oct 3

  • Tue, Oct 2 at 9:30 AM in ILC 136
  • (Repeat) Wed, Oct 3 at 2:00 PM in ILC 136
  • Facilitator:  Andrew Grall, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ INFO SESSIONS:  Scholarships for Study Abroad & Summer Language Institute Abroad - Tue, Oct 2

  • Tue, Oct 2, 2:30-3:30 PM
  • Chavez Bldg. Room 405
  • RSVP to attend info session OR get more information at http://goo.gl/LVpgF
  • Info session for anyone interested in study abroad scholarships or funding for summer language institutes.
  • Focus at this session on Boren Scholarship and CLS, but Dr. Thibert will also discuss other study abroad funding opportunities
    • Boren Scholarship:  If you plan to study abroad in a non-Western country between May 2013 and May 2014, you might be interested in learning more about this scholarship.  The Boren provides up to $24,000 for study abroad.
    • Critical Language Scholarships:  CLS support provides full funding for summer institutes.
  • Questions? Contact Dr. Jeff Thibert at thibert@email.arizona.edu

 

+ ONLINE SEMINAR:  OIA Professional Development -- Teaching Online: An Online Mini-Course - Oct 1-Oct 15

  • An Online Mini Course from October 1-15
  • Facilitator:  Gretchen Gibbs
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Cliff Dahm, Continuous measurement of ecosystem production, respiration, nutrient dynamics, and fire effects in a mountain stream - Mon, Oct 1

  • Mon, Oct 1, 3:00 PM
  • Marley Bldg. Room 230
  • SWES Colloquium Series
  • Dr. Cliff Dahm, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, will talk about Continuous measurement of ecosystem production, respiration, nutrient dynamics, and fire efects in a mountain stream.  Our interdisciplinary research team has deployed continuous measuring in situ sensors throughout the year to study ecosystem production and respiration and nutrient dynamics in a high elevation mountain stream in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Multi-year deployment has facilitated studies of ecosystem production, respiration, and nutrient availability and uptake under 1) variable spring snowmelt conditions, 2) strong and weak summer monsoon precipitation, and 3) before and after a major catastrophic fire in the catchment. Catastrophic fire in the catchment in late June and early July of 2011 has dramatically altered both nutrient concentrations and ecosystem processes after precipitation events. Phosphate and nitrate increases, turbidity peaks, dissolved oxygen and pH sags, and conductivity increases have all been byproducts of the major fire (Las Conchas) within the catchment and in the Rio Grande.

 

+ SEMINAR:  OIA Professional Development -- The Rubrics Tool in D2L - Wed, Sept 26 & Thur, Sept 27

  • Wed, Sept 26 at 2:00 PM > WEBINAR
  • Thur, Sept 27 at 9:30 AM in ILC Room 136
  • Facilitator:  Elle Tivine
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Peter Dillon, Governance measures to effectively manage groundwater storage - Tue, Sept 25

  • Tue, Sept 25, 12:00 PM Noon - 1:30 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room, Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Dr. Peter Dillon, Stream Leader, Sustainable Water Solutions Urban Water Theme, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Program, CSIRO Land and Water, Glen Osmond, SA, Australia, will talk about Governance measures to effectively manage groundwater storage.
  • One of a series of thematic papers on Groundwater Governance initiated by GEF-FAO Facility is an international review and synthesis of governance measures for groundwater storage, recharge and discharge. It was found that depleting systems invariably had not adopted effective means of allocating the sustainable extraction. In those cases where there are no viable alternative supplies the only realistic options are to slow the rate of depletion and develop transitional plans for resource exhaustion. However, many excellent examples of good management were found where depletion has been reversed through effective policies that cap extraction equitably, allow trading where it is beneficial or benign, provide alternative water supplies and/or provide for managed aquifer recharge. This talk focuses mainly on the positive prototype groundwater management systems and the lessons they reveal and a policy framework synthesis.

 

+ WORKSHOP:  OIA Professional Development -- Applying the Quality Matters Rubric - Fri, Sept 21

  • Fri, Sept 21, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • UA Library in the Information Commons (Room 112A)
  • Facilitators:  Melody Buckner and Chris Johnson
  • Free to campus community
  • Designed for anyone who teaches:  Faculty and Adjunct instructors and Graduate TAs
  • To Register (or get more information), go to the OIA website:  oia.arizona.edu
  • Questions?  Contact Garry Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Armin Sorooshian, Deep convective clouds and chemistry experiment (DC3) - Thu, Sept 20

  • Thu, Sept 20, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building Room 224
  • Refreshments in PAS Room 546 from 3:00-3:30 PM
  • Dr. Armin Sorooshian will talk about Deep convective clouds and chemistry experiment (DC3) which took place between May-June 2012.  Three instrumental planes, bsed out of Salina, Kansas, investigated the impact of deep, mid-latitude continental confective clouds, including their dynamical, physical, and lightning processes, on upper tropospheric composition and chemistry.  This talk will provide an overview of DC3 including details related to one particular insrument deployed on the NASA DC-8 to quantify aerosol water-uptake properties.

 

+ CAREER FAIR:  UA Fall Career Days 2012 - Thur, Sept 20 & Fri, Sept 21

  • Thur, Sept 20, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Fri, Sept 21, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
  • Student Union Memorial Center, 3rd Floor Grand Ballroom
  • For an up-to-date-list of all the organizations attending, visit the UA Career  Fair Attendees Website
  • Need prep work?  Check out the Annual Career Services Kick Off to be held
    • Sept 12 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Career Services Office, Student Union, Suite 411.
    • Have your resume critiqued, practice your one-minute commercial with a mock career fair table, visit government agencies at the mini-fair, and learn more about resources available through Career Services
    • See separate listing for Sept 12

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Arnold Urken, How error-resilient data control improves network-centric decision-making - Wed, Sept 19

  • Wed, Sept 19, from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, 803 E. First Street (opposite north entrance to Main Gate Parking Garage)
  • Dr. Arnold Urken, Research Professor Affiliate, UA College of Engineering and Udall Center affiliate, will talk about How error-resilient data control improves network-centric decision-making.  Never has societal dependence on infrastructure been greater--water and energy supply, communications, and transportation rely on interlinked networks.  Error-resilient data fusion for resilient infrastructure operations draws from human voting behavior and is used to monitor infrastructure stability.  From collective inferences on networks, "votes" (data reports) permit error-resilient collective results that enhance infrastructure operations and societal outcomes.  Urken's research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation's Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN) program.
  • Contact:  Dr. Christopher Scott at 520-626-4393 or cascott@email.arizona.edu

 

+ FILM & PANEL DISCUSSION:  WATERSHED at The Loft Cinema - Wed, Sept 19

  • Wed, Sept 19, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • Premiere screening at The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway
  • Free and open to the public
  • One show only!  WATERSHED is the latest release from Executive Producer, Robert Redford, and tells the story of the threats to the once mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for its future in the vitality of the American West.  The Redford Center created WATERSHED as an inspirational social action tool for people who want to engage.  Promoting personal water conservation pledges of 5%-symbolic of the small amount of the river's flow required to reconnect the river to its delta--ad garnering donations to help purchase the water rights necessary to restore the connectivity, WATERSHED is a central tool in a larger grassroots effort focused on saving the Colorado River and supporting the communities throughout the river basin.
  • Panel Discussion following the film: Moderated by Nina Trasoff, former City of Tucson Council Member, panelists include:
    • Mark Decena, Director of WATERSHED, Kontent Films
    • Luther Propst, Executive Director of the Sonoran Institute
    • Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, Director of Water and Wetlands Program, Pronatura Noroeste, A.C.
    • Francisco Zamora Arroyo, Director, Colorado Delta Legacy Program, Sonoran Institute
    • Sharon Megdal, Director, Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Yun Zhang, Regional land subsidence in Shanghai and the Su-Xi Chang area - Fri, Sept 14

  • Fri, Sept 14, 12:00 Noon PM to 1:00 PM
  • Civil Engr Bldg. Room 201
  • Dr. Yun Zhang, Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, and Visiting Professor with the UA Dept. of Civil Engineering (Host: Budhu), will talk about Regional land subsidence in Shanghai and the Su-Xi Chang area.  Excessive groundwater withdrawl has caused severe land subsidence in Shanghai and the Su-Xi Chang area.  The field data, including groundwater level obtained from observation wells and compaction of individual hydrostratigraphic unit measured through extensometer groups, have revealed that the deformation characteristics of unit are closely related to the changing patterns of groundwater level the unit has experienced.  Both aquifers and aquitards may be of creep.  The creep of aquifer sand is also proved by laboratory tests.  Based on the field and laboratory data, modified Manchant's model is used to depict the soil deformation, and the corresponding governing flow equation is deduced.  The deformation equation and the flow equation are coupled through the relationship between the permeability and pore ratio and the relationship between compressibility and effective stress.  The constructed model is used to simulate the land subsidence in Shanghai and the Su-Xi Chang area.  The numerical simulation is proved to be reasonable and reliable by comparing with the field data.
  • Contact:  Karen Van Winkle at 520-621-2266 or vanwinkk@email.arizona.edu

 

+ TALK:  Leveraging research findings to engage stakeholders through strategic communication: Translating research toward engaging general audiences, including private donors  -  Thur, Sept 13

  • Thur, Sept 13, from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Santa Rita Room, Student Union
  • RSVP by Fri, Sept 7 to giftcenter@uafoundation.org.  Seating is limited.
  • Talk by Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, co-founder and creative director/president of Metropolitan Group
  • Eric is widely recognized as one of the nation’s most effective experts in developing and implementing community-sector strategic communication and resource development campaigns. He specializes in creating major social purpose brands, public-private partnerships and public will building strategies, and has led the company in raising more than $1 billion in support of client projects. Eric is the co-author of "Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World."

 

+CAREER PREP:  Annual Career Services Kick-Off and Career Fair Prep - Wed, Sept 12

  • Wed, Sept 12, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
  • Student Union Memorial Center, Career Services Office, Suite 411
  • Door prizes!  Free pizza and soda while they last!
  • Need prep work for the upcoming Career Days (following week)?
  • Have your resume critiqued, practice your one-minute commercial with a mock career fair booths, visit government agencies at the mini-fair, and learn more about resources available through the Career Services office
  • Learn how to prepare for the career fair, how to dress, how to present yourself, and how to network
  • Sneak preview and early sign up for interviews for Annual Career Days coming Sept 20-21 (see separate listing for these dates)
  • For details, check the Kick-Off website

 

+ PUBLIC FORUMS:  Zuckerman College of Public Health "Family & Workplace Preparedness" - Monday, Sept 10 through Fri, Sept 15

  • Mon, Sept 10, An Introduction to Workplace Preparedness
    • 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM in Drachman Hall Room A116
    • Discussion of current status of university's college's and county's emergency response plans.  Learn what  you and your department can do to make the plan more relevant and effective in the event of an emergency situation that develops on campus.
  • Tue, Sept 11, 9/11 Commemorative Screening:  "Surviving Disaster"
    • 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM in Drachman Hall Room A118
    • A special showing of the groundbreaking PBS documentary; based on the best-selling book "The Unthinkable:  Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - and Why" by Amanda Ripley.  Feel free to bring your brown bag lunch or partake of popcorn and drinks provided.
  • Wed, Sept 12, Preparedness for All Fair
    • 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on the Drachman Hall Patio (Walkway of Wellness) between Public Health and Pharmacy
    • Are you prepared to respond to a catastropic event?  Are your kids?  Your elderly mother?  Your blind brother-in-law?  Do you have a family reunification plan?  What would you do with your pets?  Or your computer?  Come join us to learn the steps you can take NOW to feel more confident and in control when disaster strikes.
  • Thur, Sept 13, Active Shooter:  How to Confront the Unthinkable
    • 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM in Drachman Hall Room B109 (Pharmacy Side)
    • Active shooter incidents have happened before and they most assuredly will happen again.  What is the average citizen supposed to do?  Led by UA Police Department personnel, this lecture will cover the three essentials:  Run, Hide, Fight.
  • Fri, Sept 14, Test Your Knowledge: Jeopardy Challenge Closeout
    • 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM in Drachman Hall Room A112
    • Come show us what you've learned this week by participating in a challenging game of emergency preparedness and response jeopardy.  Prizes will be given to the winning team.
  • Announcement of winner for the Family Emergency Kit raffle will be made on the last day of the week-long events.
  • Contact:  Brenda Ganillo at 520-626-0617 or bgranillo@u.arizona.edu or visit the Mountain West PERLC website

 

+ OPEN HOUSE & MEETING:  UA Chapter of AEG, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists - Mon, Sept 10

  • Mon, Sept 10, 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
  • Mines Bldg. Room 225 (from Harshbarger 206, go east down the hall & up half a flight of stairs)
  • See the UA AEG Welcome Poster for details about membership eligibility
  • Hydrology students welcome to join!  Only $5 for membership now!
  • First meeting on Sept 10 will be a welcome to new members and planning session
  • Tentative this year:  About 4 official club meetings (minimum), 2 field trips (1 professional, 1 as a club), involvement in 1 school function, a weekly hike/job/bike ride, and numerous unscheduled getaways
  • New Officers for 2012-2013:  President, Brian Gary; Vice President, Rob Davenport; Secretary, Jose Mendivil; Treasurer, Jaichen Xiang
  • IMPORTANT!  Current Members - >  Call Brian Gary at 520-256-3396 to get added to the member roster
  • IMPORTANT!  New Members - > Call Brian Gary at 520-256-3396 if you are interested in joining

 

+ TALK:  Environmental Breakfast Club - Kirsten Engel, College of Law, Anachronistic Pollution Policy?  The Case of Wildfire Smoke Regulation - Fri, Sept 7

  • Fri, Sept 7, 8:30 AM to 9:45 AM
  • Faculty Lounge, College of Law Room 237
  • Kirsten Engel will talk about Anachronistic Pollution Policy? The Case of Wildfire Smoke Regulation [NOTE: This talk replaces originally announced talk by Chris Cokinos]
  • Contact:  Robert Glennon at 621-1614 or glennon@law.arizona.edu

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Growth International Volunteer Excursions (GIVE) - Thur, Sept 6

  • Thur, Sept 6, with repeating 1-hour sessions: 12:00 noon, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, and 5:00 PM
  • Santa Rita Room, Student Memorial Union Center
  • GIVE leads a series of volunteer programs that focus on sustainable community development and cultural immersion in Tanzania and Nicaragua during the summer.
  • Volunteers will build schools out of recyclable materials, assist in fresh water projects, teach English, coordinate and design educational programs in conjunction with the local government, and help protect critically endangered species.
  • When not volunteering they will have the opportunity to participate in different cultural and adventure activities within the region.
  • Work in Nicaragua on both Pacific and Caribbean coasts and work in Africa on island of Zanzibar and the savannahs of mainland Tanzania
  • Volunteers work directly with organizations focused on important conservation projects to protect the hawksbill and leatherback sea turtle population, as well as the local caiman and crocodile populations. 
  • Intermixed with your volunteer work, you will sand board down active volcanoes in Nicaragua, go on incredible safaris and explore caves in Africa, surf, scuba dive, spearfish, and swim with sea turtles and sharks, or even climb Mt. Kilimanjaro the highest peak in Africa!
  • GIVE will tailor your program to align with your education or experience, and you may even receive academic credit.
  • For more details, check the GIVE website or contact staff at (206) 973-7791 or Info@givevolunteers.org

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Lelia Vann, Dr. Melissa Yang, and Dr. Amin Nehrir, Opportunities in atmospheric science at NASA Langley Research Center - Thur, Sept 6

  • Thur, Sept 6, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  • PAS Bldg. Room 224
  • Refreshments beginning at 3:00 PM in PAS 546
  • Dr. Lelia Vann, Director of Science, Dr. Melissa Yang, Atmospheric Scientist, and Dr. Amin Nehrir, Atmospheric Scientist, will talk about Opportunities in atmospheric science at NASA Langley Research Center
  • Vann is the Director of Science at NASA Langley, a group of nearly 400 NASA civil service and contractor employees that manage and mine vast Earth science data sets that help us understand how the Earth's atmosphere is changing and how that affects things like public health, air quality, and national security.
  • Yang joined the Science Directorate at NASA Langley in 2009 where she has been working on the study of the carbon cycle and the development of airborne instruments for in-situ measurements of CO2.
  • Nehrir joined the Science Directorate at NASA Langley in 2011 where he has been working on the development of a CO2 Integrated Path DIAL system being proposed for the NASA ASCENDS space mission.

 

+ EVENING TALK:  Dr. Wick Haxton, Matter and the creation of our universe: Our cosmic origins - Thur, Sept 6

  • Thur, Sept 6, at 6:00 PM
  • Henry Koffler Bldg. Room 204, 1340 E. University Boulevard on the UA Campus
  • Hosted by the UA Honors College and the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
  • Event free and open to the public
  • Dr. Wick Haston, Professor of Physics, UC-Berkeley, Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences member, and 2004 Hans. A Bethe Prize (American Physical Society), will talk on Matter and the creation of our universe: Our cosmic origins.  "Discover a new appreciation for the connection between life and the cosmos.  Learn how astronomers and astrophysicists perform cosmic archeology.  Examine the different speculations about the origin of matter in our universe."
  • Contact Dr. Jeff Thibert at thibert@email.arizona.edu or 520-626-5289.

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Jennifer McCloskey, Managing the Colorado River: A balancing act - Wed, Sept 5

  • Wed, Sept 5, 12:00 PM Noon - 1:30 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room, Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Dr. Jennifer McCloskey, Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma Area Office, will talk about Managing the Colorado River: A balancing act.  McCloskey will discuss the challenges she faces in balancing competing interests along the lower Colorado River.  She will present information about Reclamation's role in delivering millions of acre-freet of water primarily for agricultural use in Arizona, California, and Mexico and the balance act that occurs between international, agricultural, environmental, recreational, and municipal users of Colorado River water.  In response to municipal deman and drought condition, the Yuma Desalting Plant was recently began operation, and information from that operation will be shared.  For more information, visit the Yuma Bureau of Reclamation website at www.usbr.gov/lc/yuma
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at jcripps@cals.arizona.edu or 520-621-2526

 

+ EVENING TALK:  Dr. Ilaria Pascucci, Where did all Earth's water come from? - Wed, Sept 5

  • Wed, Sept 5, 7:00 PM
  • Kuiper Space Sciences Bldg. Room 308, 1629 E. University Blvd.
  • Hosted by Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Department of Planetary Sciences
  • Event free and open to the public.  Doors open at 6:30 PM. 
  • Dr. Ilaria Pascucci, Assistant Professor in the Department of Planetary Sciences, will talk about Where did all Earth's water come from?  With oceans covering 70% of its surface, Earth is a watery place.  Liquid water has played an important role in the origin and development of terrestrial life, yet its origin and abundance remains an exciting and hotly debated question.  Pascucci will review current ideas of how Earth got its water and discuss new insights coming from the study of protoplanetary disks and exoplanets.
  • Contact:  Maria Schuchart at mariams@LPL.arizona.edu, 621-4861, or www.lpl.arizona.edu/outreach
  • Parking in university surface lots is free after 5:00 PM.  (Do not park in service spaces or reserved spaces.)  Metered street parking is also available at no cost after 5:00 PM.  Parking in the Cherry Garage is available after 5:00 at cost of $1.00 per hour.

 

+ TALK:  Mike Gremilion, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 25th Operational Weather Squadron mission overview - Thu, Aug 30

  • Thu, Aug 30, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building Room 224 (Physics-Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Refreshments in PAS 546 from 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  • Mike Gremillion from the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base will talk about the 25th Operational Weather Squadron Mission
  • The unit is responsible for the chacterization of the environment and provides timely and relevant weather information for Air Force, Army, Guard, and Reserve forces operating at 86 installations in an 11-state region of the western U.S.  It provides commanders advanced warning of severe weather to protect personnel, weapon systems, and infrastructure valued at over $65 billion.  The unit is also responsible for initial qualification and upgrade training of new officer and enlisted weather career field accessions.  In addition, Gremillion will discuss the forecasts challenges unique to Air Force weather operations.
  • Questions?  Contact Dr. Avelino Arellano, Jr., at arelano@atmo.arizona.edu or 520-626-3015

 

+ OPEN HOUSE:  Sun Link Streetcar Open House for UA Students, Faculty, and Staff - Wed, Aug 29

  • Wed, Aug 29, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Student Union, Third Floor, Catalina Room
  • Learn more about biking, walking, and parking access during Streetcar construction
  • See displays, plans, and a video simulation of the Sun Link System
  • Understand detours and traffic impacts
  • Talk with project team members

 

+ WELCOME:  Campus Welcome to Dr. Ann Weaver, University of Arizona's New President - Tue, Aug 28

  • Tue, Aug 28, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  • Student Union Memorial Center, Third Floor, North Ballroom
  • Welcome reception open to campus members (students, faculty, staff)
  • Brief program at 4:30 PM

 

+ INFO SESSION:  Fulbright Fellowships for U.S. Students:  Information Program - Tue, Aug 28

  • Tue, Aug 28, location (building/room) to be determined
  • Offered by the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships
  • Audience:  Graduating seniors, graduate students, and alumni
  • Would you like to spend a year outside the U.S. serving as an English teaching assistant or taking courses and/or doing research?  Then consider applying for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.  Even though the UA deadlne is less than a month away, there is still time to put together a competitive application.
  • This will be the last information session for this application cycle
  • RSVP to Dr. Jeff Thibert at  thibert@email.arizona.edu for room location information

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Maite Moreira, Life cycle assessment as a useful tool for the environmental evaluation of different products and processes - Mon, Aug 27

  • Mon, Aug 27, 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
  • Harvill Room 302
  • Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Seminar
  • Dr. Maite Moreira, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela
    Santiago de Compostela, Spain, will talk on Life cycle assessment as a useful tool for the environmental evaluation of different products and processes
    • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology that aims to analyse products from an environmental point of view throughout its life span. This span follows the product through the extraction of raw materials to the disposal of the product at the end of its use. After a brief introduction on the concepts and fundamentals of LCA, this seminar will be focused on the application of the methodology for the environmental evaluation of different case studies.
 

+ UA Classroom Technology Demos for Instructors - Mon-Fri, Aug 13-17

  • Monday through Friday, Aug 13-17
  • Classroom technology equipment demos may be scheduled between 8:00 AM and 3:30 PM during the week prior to the start of the semester
  • All instructors are invited to attend a classroom technology equipment demonstration in the room they have reserved for the Fall semester (or a room that set up identically to the room they have reserved)
  • Following the demo, there will be ample time to practice using the new technologies
  • To schedule a demo, call 621-3852 or contact the University Technology Team at uaav@email.arizona.edu
 

+ OIA Teaching Academy Mini Workshops, Seminars, and Demos for Faculty and Instructors - Thur, Aug 16

  • Thur, Aug 16, 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM
  • Integrated Learning Center (ILC Building) Lobby and Rooms (as specified)
  • Offered by the Office of Instruction and Assessment (OIA): oia.arizona.edu
  • For faculty and course instructors -- Register at the OAI website here
    • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM  ~ Coffee etc (ILC Lobby)
    • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM  ~ Speed Dating with the iPad and Apps (ILC Lobby) = Informal session:  Spend 5 minutes to learn about a variety of Apps, the Chemistry App developed here at the UA, explore the iBook App, find out about the library's iPad checkout program and the Library App, and talk with faculty who use Apps for teaching, who have developed Apps themselves, and developers who work with faculty to produce Apps [Registration not required for the informal iPad session in the Lobby]
    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM  ~ Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions (ILC 125)
    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM  ~ Designing Research Assignments Using the D2L Library Tool (ILC 119)
    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM  ~ Breaking Down the Barriers with UDL and QM (ILC 125)
    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ~ D2L Session Quizzing Tool: Constructing Quizzes in D2L for Effective Testing and Minimizing Cheating (ILC 119)
    • 1:00PM - 2:30 PM  ~ Panel: Experiences and Strategies for Effective Online Education Projects (ILC 125)
    • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM  ~ What's New in D2L
  • Questions or comments?  Contact Gary Forger at 626-3918 or gforger@email.arizona.edu
 

+ 17th Annual Undergraduate Research Opportunities Consortium:  Research Conference Poster Session & Closing Ceremony - Tues, Aug 7

Faculty & Graduate Program Directors-Coordinators:  Come and meet prospective graduate students!
  • Tues, Aug 7, from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Student Union North Ballroom
  • This two-hour poster session is open to the campus and the local community.
  • Over 100 graduate school-bound juniors and seniors from schools across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Latin America will exhibit their summer research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, universities in Mexico, and The University of Arizona
  • These outstanding students have participated in an intensive 10-week summer research program, worked under the supervision of UA faculty mentors, and conducted research in the fields of science, math, engineering, business, social sciences, education and humanities.
  • These talented students have a strong interest in research and a desire to pursue graduate education. This is an excellent opportunity to recruit top underrepresented students for master's and Ph.D. programs at UA.
  • Questions?  Call 626-0095
 

+ INFO & TRAINING SESSIONS:  Dr. Stephanie Ulrich, Military and College: Bridging the Gap - Mon & Tue, June 18-19

  • Mon and Tues, June 18-19
  • Presented by Dr. Stephanie Ulrich, Director, Fairleigh Dickinson University Center for Psychological Services
  • All sessions will be held in Highland Commons B307
  • Sessions intended for UA faculty and UA staff members
  • Seating is limited, so reserve your seat as soon as possible
  • EXTENDED RSVP -- no later than Thursday, June 14, to Dr. Gail Wallen at cgafewen@email.arizona.edu with your preferred day & time (session details below)
  • Sessions are designed to increase awareness of military culture, the day-to-day reality for military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the challenges associated with the journey home to civilian life and into college
  • Sessions are intended to help staff and faculty understand, anticipate, and respond to the specific needs of student veterans
  • General Information and Awareness Sessions will be held
    • Monday, June 18, from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
    • Tuesday, June 19, from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Train the Trainer Sessions will be held
    • Monday, June 18, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
    • Tuesday, June 19, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  • All sessions will be held in Highland Commons B307
 

+ OPEN HOUSE:  College of Education and Ben's Bells Project/Ben's Bells Kindness Mural -- Unveiling of the first Kindness Corridor Mural on the UA Campus - Tue May 22

  • Tue, May 22, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  • College of Education Building, East Lobby
  • Refreshments and a short program at 4:00 PM
  • Contact:  Rose Santellano-Milem at rsmilem@email.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  Tony Sedgwic, Las Lagunas de Anza:  The story of the transformation of a dump into lovely wetlands in the City of Nogales, Arizona - Thu May 17

  • Thu, May 17, 12:00 noon to 1:30 PM
  • Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) Sol Resnick Conference Room, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Tony Sedgwic, landowner and 2012 recipient of the National Wetlands Award for Landowner Stewardship, and President of Santa Fe Ranch (Rancho Santa Fe), a nonprofit foundation providing out of doors opportunities for the people of Santa Cruz County
  • Sedgwic will talk on Las Lagunas de Anza:  The story of the transformation of a dump into lovely wetlands in the City of Nogales, Arizona.
  • In a poor and seemingly hopeless community, Las Lagunas de Anza is the story of hope, of high school kids laughing and wading in murky waters, of Anglos and Hispanics joining forces, having fun while they restore pride and the vulnerable wetlands in the heart of their city.
  • The future of our desert ecologies lies in the often indifferent hands of our electorate and of economic “realities”, read sustainability. This project, and the theme of the presentation, is about how we can bring together coalitions that provide a hope of conservation and of educating the generations of tomorrow.
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at jcripps@cals.arizona.edu or 520-621-2526
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Joanna Nadeau, Exploring strategies for managing water and the environment in an arid land - Wed May 9

  • Wed, May 9, 12:00 noon to 1:30 PM
  • Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) Sol Resnick Conference Room, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Dr. Joanna Nadeau, Research Analyst, Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona, will talk on Exploring strategies for managing water and the environment in an arid land
  • Arizona's physical setting and water law framework present a unique set of technical and policy challenges for water management and planning. The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) is developing a suite of policy tools and demonstration projects aimed at securing water for Arizona's ecosystems. The WRRC is exploring what it means to consider the environment in water planning and what the options are for the environment as a water customer in its own right.
  • Come learn about the progress the WRRC is making and the variety of strategies being employed - including technical assessments, public education, voluntary actions, and innovative policy mechanisms - to address Arizona's environmental challenges.
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at jcripps@cals.arizona.edu or 520-621-2526
 

+ TALK:  Xiaohong Liu, Tree-ring δ¹⁸O and δD records at the northernmost summer monsoon boundary in northwest China - Mon May 7

  • Mon, May 7, 12:00 noon   << NOTE THE CHANGE IN DAY FOR TREE RING TALK
  • Math East Building, Room 20*
  • *ACCESS:  Normal access to the building through the east entrance might be restored soon, but, as of this announcement, you must enter Math East through the temporary entrance on the west side of the building.  Talks are still down in the basement, at the northeast side.
  • Xiaohong Liu, Visiting Scholar at LTRR, will talk about Tree-ring δ¹⁸O and δD records at the
    northernmost summer monsoon boundary in northwest China
  • Details for this talk at the LTRR website
 

+ CEREMONY & REFRESHMENTS:  Annual LGBTQ & Allied Rainbow Graduation Ceremony - Fri May 4

  • Registration deadline April 15
  • Poetry Center, 1508 East Helen Street (at Vine Avenue)
  • Rainbow Graduation recognizes graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) and allied seniors, as well as graduating graduate school and professional school students
  • Graduates will receive rainbow cords, a certificate, and will be the guests of honor at a reception with food and musical entertainment
  • If you would like to participate, please send an email message with the following information to Chris Sogge at csogge@email.arizona.edu by April 15.  Items 1-6 (name through photo) will be included in a PowerPoint slideshow during the recognition ceremony:
    • Your name as you'd like it to appear on your certificate
    • Major(s)
    • Graduating degree
    • Career goal(s)
    • Your favorite quotation
    • Electronic picture of yourself
    • Name, email address, and telephone number of your presenter
      • As a graduating student, we ask that you select someone who will present you with your rainbow cord and certificate. The person you select will have 1 minute to say a few words about you. This person could be a friend, partner, family member, professor, mentro, neighbor, or whomever you choose.
 

+ INFO SESSION:  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for Natural Sciences-Engineering Majors - Thu May 3

  • Thu, May 3, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Tubac Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • RSVP to Beth Stahmer at estahmer@email.arizona.edu -- attendance limited to first 50 individuals
  • The GFRP supports graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in disciplines within NSF's mission
  • Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents of the U.S. by the deadline date
  • Individuals are eligible to apply
    • During the senior year of college
    • After graduation from college and prior to entering graduate school
    • During the first year of graduate school
    • Prior to completing the Fall term of the second year of graduate school
  • See the NSF Fastlane website for more information
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Dan Griffin, Earlywood and latewood:  New insight on the tree growth-climate response in the U.S. Southwest with emphasis on the summer monsoon - Wed May 2

  • Wed, May 2, 12:00 noon
  • Math East Building, Room 20*
  • *ACCESS:  Normal access to the building through the east entrance might be restored soon, but, as of this announcement, you must enter Math East through the temporary entrance on the west side of the building.  Talks are still down in the basement, at the northeast side.
  • Dr. Dan Griffin, Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research and School of Geography and Development, will talk about Earlywood and latewood:  New insight on the tree growth-climate reponse in the U.S. Southwest with emphasis on the summer monsoon
  • Details for this talk at the LTRR website
 

+ TALK:  Kristin (Stevens) Cleveland, Effects of zinc fertilization and mycorrhizal inoculation in peancs [Carya illnoinensis (Wagenh.) C. Koch] growing in alkaline soils - Wed May 2

  • Wed, May 2, 3:00 PM
  • Shantz Building, Room 440 (Refreshments at 2:40 PM)
  • Kristin (Stevens) Cleveland, MS SWES candidate, will talk about Effects of zinc fertilization and mycorrhizal inoculation in pecans [Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) C. Koch] growing in alkaline soils. 
  • Zinc is one of the most important nutrients in pecan stem, leaf, root, tree and nut quality.  Zinc deficiency in pecan trees results in limited photosynthesis, as well as rosette symptoms, which can include small, chlorotic leaves and decreased nut quality and yield.  When grown in alkaline or calcareous soils, pecan trees are extremely sensitive to zinc deficiency.  This is due to the formation of insoluble zinc hydroxides and carbonates that have low availability to pecan tree roots.  Foliar application is the standard method for zinc fertilization, but is labor intensive, expensive and causes soil compaction because of the machinery required for spraying.  Soil applied zinc EDTA and mycorrhizal inoculation have potential to increase zinc availability to pecan trees growing in alkaline soils.  Several studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of zinc on the growth, yield, and quality of pecans in alkaline, calcareous soils.
 

+ TALK:  Carrie Nuva Joseph, Bio-uptake of metal contaminants on engineered cell covers at inactive uranium mill sites near tribal lands & Melanie Maguire, Title to be announced - Mon Apr 30

  • Mon, Apr 30, 3:00 PM  -  Refreshments at 2:40 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • Carrie Joseph (MS SWES Student; Faculty Advisor:  Glenn) will talk on Bio-uptake of metal contaminants on engineered cell covers at inactive uranium mill sites near tribal lands.  The Department of Energy – Office of Legacy Management (DOE-LM) currently manages 87 inactive uranium-processing sites across the United States. Site operations for research, testing, and production of material for nuclear weapons during the Cold War and World War II era left behind a legacy of radioactive and chemical waste. As a result the Uranium Mill Tailing Remediation Control Act (UMTRCA) of 1978 gave the DOE-LM responsibility to stabilize, dispose of, and control uranium mill tailings to help mitigate environmental contamination and to protect human health. Final remedies include engineered covers to contain and cap tailings left over from the milling process to help control the release of metals and radioactive waste. This study will compare contaminant concentrations (U, Se, As, Mo, Pb and Th) of vegetation growing on engineered disposal cell covers to control plants in undisturbed areas. Preliminary results indicate there are significant differences (P<0.05) between bio-uptake of contaminants on the disposal cell (DC) compared to control sites (C) on undisturbed soil.  Further investigation is required, but ultimately the results will give clues to ensure the long-term performance of engineered cell covers and could justify a reason to convert to more sustainable covers that are designed to support vegetation growth.
  • Melanie Maguire (MS SWES Student; Faculty Advisor:  Brusseau) will talk about here research (title to be announced).
 

+ BANQUET & CEREMONY:  6th Annual Science and Engineering Excellence Banquet - Fri Apr 27

  • Fri, Apr 27, 6:00 PM
  • Location:  For details, contact November Papaleo at sbs-wisemup@email.arizona.edu
  • If you wish to attend, RSVP here before Fri Apr 20
  • >> Please submit an individual response for each person or guest who will be attending <<
  • Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) will be hosting this event to celebrate the power of mentoring in the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) fields
  • If you know of a student, faculty member, staff member, campus organization, or community organization that is worthy of recognition, please nominate them with a short response (reason for nomination) by Fri, Apr 13 at the Nomination website
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Deborah Huntzinger, Evaluating model estimates of land-atmosphere carbon flux - Thu Apr 26

 
  • Thu, Apr 26, 3:30 PM
  • PAS Building, Room 220 (Refreshments from 3:00-3:30 PM in Room 546)
  • Dr. Deborah Huntzinger, Assistant Professor, Climate Science, Northern Arizona University, will talk about Evaluating model estimates of land-atmosphere carbon flux.
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Anthony (Tony) Willardson, Water Needs and Strategies for a Sustainable Future: Managing Uncertainty - Thu Apr 26

  • Thu, Apr 26, 12:00 noon to 1:30 PM
  • Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) Sol Resnick Conference Room, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Dr. Anthony Willardson, Executive Director, Western States Water Council, will talk on Water needs and strategies for a sustainable future: Managing uncertainty
  • Water in the West is an increasingly scarce and precious resource, given population growth and an expanding range of often competing economic and ecological demands, as well as changing social values.  A secure and sustainable future is increasingly uncertain given our climate, aging and often inadequate water infrastructure, limited knowledge regarding available supplies and existing and future needs and uses, and competing and sometimes un-defined or ill-defined water rights.  Effectively addressing these challenges will require a collaborative, cooperative effort among states and stakeholders that transcends political and geographic boundaries.
  • The WSWC is a policy advisory body created in 1965, affiliated with the Western Governors’ Association.  Members serve at the pleasure of their governor.  Since 2006, the Council has focused its efforts on implementing recommendations from two water policy reports entitled Water Needs and Strategies for a Sustainable Future.  A revised 2012 Water Report is being prepared for the governors’ consideration, which will include a vision and principles for address and managing our water needs and developing strategies to reduce the uncertainties surrounding the future sustainability of water uses in the West.
  • The 2006 Water Report, a 2008 Next Steps Report and 2010 Update are available online at: www.westgov.org and more information on the Council is at www.westgov.org/wswc.
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at jcripps@cals.arizona.edu or 520-621-2526
 

+ INFO SESSION:  Commission on the Status of Women Info Session – Thu Apr 26

  • Thu, Apr 26, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • El Portal (offices of Residence Life), Saguaro Room, 501 N. Highland Avenue
  • The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) seeks new volunteer Commissioners to help design and implement programs as well as help shape University policy on issues that are important to women and families at the University of Arizona
  • Applications welcome from women and men, from faculty, staff, appointed professionals, graduate and undergraduate students – diversity is important as we work together to achieve the goal of creating a just, equitable and inclusive campus for all
  • Join us for an information session and talk with current Commissioners about their experiences with CSW
  • Projects include:
    • On-campus child care
    • Mentoring programs for students, staff and faculty
    • A youth outreach camp
    • Professional development programs
    • Baby changing stations and much more
  • You can influence the direction of the Commission and the University!
  • Application for membership is simple, with forms available at the CSW website:  UA CSW or directly on the Application Form
  • Commissioners are appointed by the University President for 3-year or 1-year (student) terms and serve on one of our action committees: equity, family care, mentoring, special events, professional development, or outreach and education
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Diana Liverman, International climate adaptation: challenges for governance and science - Wed Apr 25

 
  • Wed, Apr 25, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • School of Natural Resources and the Environment Seminar Series (RNR 496B, 696A)
  • Contact:  Ashley Stewart at 520-621-7264 (voice) or akstewart@email.arizona.edu
 

+ WORKSHOPS:  Weekly Writing Workshops Remaining Sessions Spring Semester - Apr 23-24

  • Remaining Weekly Writing Workshops for the Spring Semester are free and open to any undergraduate or graduate student or classified staff member.  No preregistration is required -- just show up!
  • All workshops will be held from 4:00-5:00 PM in Social Sciences Room 411 -- Days and instructors vary
  • Basic Weekly Writing Workshops on Mondays with Dr. Victoria Stefani
    • Apr 23  Writing Essay Exams
  • Upper-Division Writing Workshops on Tuesdays with Joe Stefani
    • Apr 24  Writing a Critique of an Article or Book
  • Graduate Writing Workshops on Wednesdays with Dr. Victoria Stefani
    • None scheduled for the remainder of the semester
  • International Writers Workshops on Thursdays with WSIP Staff
    • None scheduled for the remainder of the semester
 

+ FILM:  Special Earth Day Screening of Baraka - Sun Apr 22

  • Sun, Apr 22, 2:00 PM  [Doors open at 1:00 PM]
  • The Hanson Film Institute and Fox Tucson Theatre present a special screening of Baraka, a film by Ron Fricke (Director, Writer, Cinematographer) and Mark Magidson (Co-Writer)
  • USA, 1992, 96 minutes
  • Winner of FIPRESCI Prize at The Montréal World Film Festival 1992
    • Filmed during a 13-month period in 24 countries at over 150 locations, Baraka follows in the tradition of the groundbreaking nonverbal film Koyaanisqatsi (1983) for which director Ron Fricke was cinematographer.  Named after the Sufi term for “blessing,” the film with no plot, actors, or dialogue is a kaleidoscopic, global compilation of both natural events and by fate, life and activities of humanity on Earth.
    • Shot on high resolution, 70-millimeter film, Baraka combines diverse world music with dramatic images of nature, religious ritual, oppressive city life, and war to create a visual masterpiece that leaves the viewer pondering the nature of humanity and its role in the environment that sustains it.
  • Film critic Roger Ebert said, "If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can only carry one film on board, that film might be Baraka." 
  • Tickets at foxtucsontheatre.org $7general/$5 students
 

+ SYMPOSIUM & MORE:  EarthDay 2012 Celebration & Omani Falaj Water Oasis Exhibit - Fri & Sat, Apr 20-21

  • UPDATE!  300 complimentary tickets to the Earth Day celebration a B2 will be distributed on campus venues, at the Flandrau Science Center, and UA Visitors Center beginning Tuesday, April 17.  Attendees of the water symposium will also receive complimentary tickets.
 

+ EXPO:  UA EarthDay 2012 - Fri Apr 20

  • Fri, Apr 20, 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  • UA Students for Sustainability, the UA Office of Sustainability, and event sponsors cordially invite you, your family, and friends to attend UA Earth Day 2012. Come out to learn what the UA and Tucson community are doing to make the world a more sustainable place and how you can take part.
    • Visit and learn about UA programs, local busineses, and organizations committed to sustainability
    • Fill out an EarthDay passport and win a prize
    • Climb a 4-face rock wall or have your face painted
    • Listen to live music
    • Ride your bike and valet for free
    • Eat dinner at one of the many restaurants at the Main Gate Square
    • Learn how to live more sustainably
    • Parking validations available for the Tyndall Garage (880 East Fourth St)
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Rosalind Bark, Valuing the multi-benefits of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan using an ecosystem service framework - Thur Apr 19

  • Thurs, Apr 19, 12:00-1:30 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room of the Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell
  • Dr. Rosalind Bark, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia, will present the Murray-Darling Basin Plan which aims to maximize the benefits of river reform to the Australian public.  Valuing the benefits from changed flow and inundation regimes under the Basin Plan requires linking ecological outcomes and economic valuation.  An ecosystem service framework is used as the bridge between ecological sciences and economic valuation.
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Jon Krosnick, What Americans Really Think About Climate Change - Thu Apr 19

  • Thu, Apr 19, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Integrated Learning Center (ILC), Room 140
  • Dr. Jon Krosnick, Professor, Department of Communications, Political Science, and Psychology, Stanford University, will talk on "What Americans Really Think About Climate Change."
 

+ TALK-PANEL:  Sergio Avila-Villegas, Franciso Zamora Arroyo, and Mark Briggs, U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Issues in Climate Change Adaptation - Wed Apr 18

  • Wed, Apr 18, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • SNRE Seminar Series (RNR 496B-RNR 696A)
  • Three panelists from non-governmental organizations--Sergio Avila-Villegas (Sky Island Alliance), Francisco Zamora Arroyo (Sonoran Institute), and Mark Briggs (World Wildlife Fund)--will share their perspectives on transboundary environmental management, with a focus on climate change adaptation.
  • They will highlight ongoing initiatives in river restoration, landscape-level planning, on-the-ground conservation, and influencing public policy.  They will also discuss strategies for creating partnerships, facilitating collaboration, and adapting to the current ecological, economic, and political challenges in the border region.
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Kit O'Connor, Shifting from local to landscape controls of disturbance size and severity:  A tree-ring reconstruction of fire, spruce beetle outbreaks, and species dynamics of the Pinaleno Mountains - Wed Apr 18

  • Wed, Apr 18, 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM
  • Math East, Room 20 (see NOTE)
  • Full details, including abstract, are available at the LTRR website
  • NOTE:  Because of the new building construction, you must enter Math East through the temporary entrance on the west side of the building.  Talks are down in the basement on the northeast side.
 

+ INFO SESSION:  Repeat!  Back by Popular Demand!  Fulbright Program for U.S. Students - Wed, Apr 18

  • Wed, Apr 18, 3:00 PM
  • Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) Building, Room S212 (South Building, Room 212)
  • Open to entire UA community
  • Are you interested in spending a year abroad--taking classes, engaging in research, or teaching English--after you graduate?
  • Then you should consider applying for a Fulbright Fellowship!
  • Award supports a year in one of over 130 countries, during which you can take classes, carry out a research project, or serve as an English Teaching Assistant
  • Undergrads who will have a Bachelor's degree by August 2013 are eligible to apply
  • Alumni and graduate students are also eligible to apply
  • RSVP and/or request more information at goo.gl/lhNwr
  • Read more at the Fulbright program website us.fulbrightonline.org
 

+ WORKSHOP:  How To Apply for a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Tues Apr 17

  • Tues, Apr 17, 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM
  • Current Juniors, Seniors, and First-Year Graduate Students will be eligible to apply in Fall 2012
  • RSVP to Shelley Hawthorne Smith at ssmith@grad.arizona.edu and include your field of study (major)
  • Ventana Room of the Student Union Memorial Center
  • The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program's purpose is to ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the US.  NSF provides 3 years of funding (approximately $30,000 annually) to Fellows.
  • Students are eligible if:
    • They are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents
    • They have completed no more than 12 months of full-time graduate study (with no credit limit) by August 1, 2012 or if they are part-time graduate students with no more than 24 semester hours completed
    • They are engaged, or will be engaged, in research in a field within NSF's mission
  • Read more at the NSF Graduate Fellowship website
 

+ TALKS:  Brittany Choate (MS candidate, SWES), Evolution of the Roosevelt water conservation district: Lessons learned from the agriculture to urban community transformation, and Samendra Prasad Sherchan (Ph.D. candidate, SWES), Inactivation of MS2 by advanced oxidation process - Mon Apr 16

  • Mon, Apr 16, 3:00 PM (refreshments at 2:40 PM)
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • Brittany Choate, MS  SWES candidate, directed by Dr. Sharon Megdal, will talk on Evolution of the Roosevelt water conservation district: Lessons learned from the agriculture to urban community transformation
  • Samendra Prasad Sherchan, PHD SWES candidate, directed by Dr. Ian Pepper, will talk on the Inactivation of MS2 by advanced oxidation process
  • Contact:  Kristie Gallardo at gallardo@cals.arizona.edu
 

+ CAREER DAY & PANEL:  1st Annual UA GIS Career Day - Wed, Apr 11

  • Wed, Apr 11, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
  • Catalina, Santa Rita, and Tucson Rooms (2nd Floor) in Student Union Memorial Center
  • The School of Geography and Development MS GIS program will sponsor this event (see 1st Annual GIS Career Day flyer for times and details
  • Highlights of the day include networking opportunities with over 20 GIS groups from public, private, and academic sectors, as well as GIS demos and a panel discussion on GIS as a career
  • ESRI software developer "meet up" off campus from 5:00-7:00 PM
  • For more information, call (520) 621-5096 or go to msgis.arizona.edu
 

+ WORKSHOP:  Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Workshop - Wed Apr 11

  • Wed, Apr 11, 12:00 noon to 4:30 PM
  • Bio5 Keating Building Room 103
  • Register online by March 30 at orcr.vpr.arizona.edu/Rcrworkshops2012
  • Check in and seating from 11:45 AM to 12:00 noon
  • Lunch will be provided for all attendees
  • This 4-hour workshop will provide the mandatory RCR instruction as required by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health
  • Intended audience includes faculty, staff, and students (undergrad, grad, postdoc) supported by NSF grants received after January 2010
  • You can preview the workshop agenda for details or view additional details about this requirement at the RCR Education page
  • Contact Tina Tarin at 520-626-5851 or tina.tarin@email.arizona.edu if you have additional questions about this event or RCR training
 

+ TALK:  Roger Trosper, Daniel Ferguson, and Casey Kahn-Thornbrugh:  Indigenous perspectives on climate change and adaptation - Wed Apr 11

  • Wed, Apr 11, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Marley Bldg, Room 230
  • School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) Seminar Series (RNR 496B - 696A)
  • Ronald Trosper, American Indian Studies Program, has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard but has been a multidisciplinary scholar, being widely published in American Indian Studies, Ecological Economics, Economics, Policy Studies, and Anthropology
  • Daniel Ferguson, Program Director for the Climate Assessment of the Southwest (CLIMAS) program housed in the UA's Institute of the Environment, directs day-to-day operations of the CLIMAS program, including outreach and assessment efforts with stakeholders throughout the region.  His research focuses on the communication of science for decision making, methods and processes for building partnerships to address climate-related issues in society, and climate impacts and adaptation strategies in southwestern Native American communities.
  • Casey Kahn-Thornbrugh, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Geography at the University of Arizona, has been a life-long geographer and has taught for 4 years at Tohono O'odham Community College.  Casy has done research on climate variability on the Navajo Nation through the CLIMAS program and the U.S. Geological Survey.  Casey is a Mashpee Wampanoag tribal member, born in Massachusetts (the Wampoanoag homeland), and moved to New Mexico in 1990 when his family relocated to work on education projects with Native American tribes in the Southwest.  He has lived in the Southwest ever since.
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Gary Machlis, Science during Crisis: Scenario-Building during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Wed Apr 11

  • Wed, Apr 11, 4:00 PM
  • Communication Bldg, Room 206
  • Sponsored by the Institute of the Environment (IE) and School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE)
  • Dr. Gary Machlis, science advisor to the Director of the National Park Service and co-leader of the Strategic Sciences Group, a scientific group that helps officials prepare for and respond to environmental disasters, will discuss applying science during crises and the role of the Strategic Sciences Group which was created by the U.S. Department of Interior to aid in disaster planning, response, and recovery.
  • A professor of conservation at the University of Idaho, Machlis has written numerous books and scientific papers on issues of conservation, including "The State of the World's Parks," the first systematic study of threats to protected areas around the world.
  • His current research includes applying human ecology to conserving national parks, studying the environmental impacts of warfare and its resulting humanitarian crises, advancing science capacity in Haiti after its devastating earthquake and restoring the Gulf of Mexico following the oil spill.
 

+ PANEL & CAREER NETWORKING:  Getting Hired - Human Resources Perspective - Wed Apr 11

  • Wed, Apr 11, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
  • Catalina and Tucson Meeting Rooms, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Seating is limited (food and beverage is included free).  Interested students should RSVP online at www.career.arizona.edu
  • Do you want to find out how to make your cover letter and resume stand out from the rest? 
  • A panel of Human Resources professionals from a broad range of disciplines will share their insider information on what they look for when seeking to fille positions in their organizations
  • A networking session following the panel will offer students the opportunity to connect directly with panelists.  Students can meet:
    • Kelly C. Acevedo, Vice President of Human Resources,Tucson Newspapers
    • Luke Bishop, Owner, Satyr Entertainment
    • Kristin Denver, Training Manager, Texas Instrument
    • John Kubisch, retired Senior Vice President, Vyeth Pharmaceuticals
    • Scott McCale, Associate Director of Human Resources, Muscular Dystrophy Association
    • Maggie Reimer, Recruiter, Sunquest Information Systems
 

+ STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:  Water Sustainability Program 2011-2012 Fellows Presentations - THUR Apr 12

  • THUR, Apr 12, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  • Catalina Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Refreshments will be served
  • The 2011-2012 Water Sustainability Program (WSP) Graduate and Undergraduate Fellows will present their research projects completed over the past year
  • The event will also acknowledge the next generation of young researchers, the WSP-Southern Arizona Science and Engineering Fair's High School Award Winners.
  • WSP Fellows from HWR will make their presentations:
    • Becky Witte, MS Candidate, Probabilistic Risk Assessment to Determine Possible Failures in the Tucson, Arizona Water Supply (Advisor:  Larry Winter)
    • Brian Scott Shepherd, BS Candidate, The Effect of Wildfire on Rangeland Sustainability in the San Rafael Valley (Advisor:  Martha Whitaker)
 

+ SYMPOSIUM:  Ethnic Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Value of Scholarship - Tues Apr 10

  • Tues, Apr 10, 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Catalina Room, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Multiple talks and concurrent poster session with UA faculty discussing their ethnic studies research, scholarship, and pedagogies, as well as presentations on the concepts of intellectual and academic freedom
  • A concurrent poster session will feature graduate student research related to ethnic studies topics
  • Read more about this event from the Event Poster here
  • For more information, contact Miranda Joseph, Chair, Faculty Senate Task Force on Equity and Fairness, and Interim Department Head, Gender and Women's Studies at (520) 621-5839 or mirandaj@email.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Kim Ogden, Biofuel Production and Water in the Southwest - Tues Apr 10

  • Tues, Apr 10, 12:00-1:30 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room of the Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell
  • Dr. Kim Ogden, Professor, UA Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, will discuss the potential for using algae and sweet sorghum as feedstocks for biofuels in the Southwest.  Strategies for reducing water usage, recycling water, and using wastewater for cultivation will be highlighted.
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at (520) 621-2526 or jcripps@cals.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Tom Swetnam, Changing Fire and Climate Regimes: Consequences and Challenges - Wed, Apr 4

  • Wed, Apr 4, 2:00-4:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • SNRE's Seminar Series (RNR 496B and RNR 696A).  Sponsored by the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Institute of the Environment, and Biopshere 2
  • Dr. Tom Swetnam, Director, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, will talk about Changing Fire and Climate Regimes: Consequences and Challenges. 
  • Professor Swetnam studies changes in climate and forest disturbances using dendrchronology.  He has worked extensively on wildfire history and ecology in pine and giant sequoia forests of the western U.S. and Mexico and South America, and he is currently studying fire, climate and carbon dynamics in central Siberia. Recent papers on these topics include: “Multi-millennia fire history of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, USA” (Fire Ecology, Swetnam et al. 5(3):117-147, 2009);  “Fire in the Earth System” (Science, Bowman et al. 324:481-484, 2009), and “Forest Responses to Increasing Aridity and Warmth in the Southwestern United States” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Williams et al. 107(50):21289-21294, 2010).  He is Professor of Dendrochronology and serves as Director of the world’s premier and largest laboratory dedicated to all aspects of tree-ring research and education, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona.  He received a BS in Biology and Chemistry at the University of New Mexico and a MS and PhD in Watershed Management at the University of Arizona.
  • For additional information, contact Larry Fisher at lafisher@email.arizona.edu or Gregg Garfin at gmgarfin@email.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  UA Collaborative for Diversity in STEM Presentation - Tue Apr 3

  • Tue, Apr 3, at 12:00 noon
  • Kiva Auditorium, Student Union Memorial Center
  • UA Collaborative for Diversity in STEM presentation will be made by Dr. Helena A. Rodrigues, Project Director, and Dr. Heather Metcalf, Postdoctoral Research Associate, from the NSF ADVANCE Grant at University of Arizona
  • Presenters will draw on their work with UA's NSF-ADVANCE grant, present the grant's goals and initiatives, highlight UA and national data on STEM faculty and degrees, and discuss culture and pipeline issues in STEM
  • Questions?  Contact Kathy Godwin at kgodwin@email.arizona.edu
 

+ DINNER & POSTER COMPETITION:  Arizona Geological Society - Tue Apr 3

  • Tue, Apr 3 -- YOU MUST BRING STUDENT ID WITH YOU!
    • 6:00-7:00 PM Social hour & informal viewing of posters and talk with students
    • 7:00-8:00 PM Dinner
    • 8:00-9:00 PM Short oral presentation with digital versions of posters displayed on screen
    • 9:00-9:20 PM Presentation of prizes for the first, second and third best posters ($500, $250, and $100, respectively).
    • Panel of 3 judges will be distinguished AGS members, who have much experience in poster competitions
    • Judging based on scientific content and presentation and the quality and conciseness of the oral presentation
  • Sheraton Tucson Hotel & Suites, 5151 E. Grant Road
  • Hotel on Rosemont north of Grant, just north of the International House of Pancakes
  • Park in lot WEST of hotel and enter through the WEST entrance
  • RSVP for dinner required but you must do so online by 5 PM Friday!  Dinner is FREE for students who make a reservation online at www.arizonageologicalsoc.org/meeting-information/dinner-reservations by 5:00 PM, Friday, March 30. Students are encouraged to sign up for free AGS membership at the meeting. Please bring a student ID with you.
  • Still lots of space and time for additional posters!
  • Contact Bob Kamilli if you have any questions. Office: 520-670-5576; Cell: 520-349-9336; Email: bkamilli@usgs.gov
 

+ CONFERENCE:  2012 Southwest Wildfire Hydrology and Hazards Workshop - Mon-Thu Apr 2-5

  • The University of Arizona is hosting the 2012 Southwest Wildfire Hydrology and Hazards Workshop which will be held at the UA's Biosphere 2
  • 4 major themes include Post-Fire Research, Models, BAER, and Warning Systems
  • Call for Abstracts:  Deadline Feb 24
    • Abstract topics include:
    • Post burn runoff response and watershed recovery
    • Flood hazards, erosion and sedimentation
    • Ecological impacts
    • Peak flow modeling
    • Flash flood modeling
    • Debris flow modeling
    • Hydrological and hazard assessment models (available and in development)
    • Post-fire water quality and sedimentation
    • Warning system design, placement, funding, and dissemination
    • Forecasting burn area floods and debris flows
    • Hazard communication public awareness and outreach
    • Role of agencies and researchers in the BAER process
    • Societal impact
  • See website register.b2science.org/ for details about abstract submission and more info about conference
 

+ OPEN HOUSE and PAPER & POSTER COMPETITION:  Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists & Arizona Hydrological Society Student Night 2012 - Mon Apr 2

  • Mon, Apr 2, 5:30-9:00 pm
  • Student Union Rincon & Catalina Rooms
  • Call for abstracts (300 words or less) deadline 12:00 noon March 9 -- submit to Randy Post at randy_post@golder.com -- see Call for Abstracts form below for details or call 520-888-8818
  • RSVP to attend deadline March 16 -- RSVPs to uahwrsa@gmail.com; see form below for details
  • NOTE: You can use the same paper or poster you made for El Dia -- prizes will be awarded!
  • HWRSA has teamed up with AEG/AHS for Student Night 2012 to offer this mini-career fair, plated dinner, and poster competition
  • Event provides students the opportunity to learn more about careers in the industry and will also be a venue for the presentation of selected student research and work projects to the professional community
  • This event is a fun yet professional forum for networking and exploration of employment/internship prospects
  • Student Night also provides professionals who attend with the opportunity to market their companies to students and recruit potential future employees
  • Download the 2012 Student Night Flyer and RSVP Form (PDF)
  • Download the Call for Abstracts (Papers and Posters) (PDF)
 

+ RESEARCH SYMPOSIA:  School of Earth and Environmental Sciences' EarthWeek 2012 - Wed-Fri, Mar 28-30

  • Wed through Fri, Mar 28-30
  • Daily 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM ((unless individual event advertised otherwise) 
  • Participating departments and units include Atmospheric Sciences, Geosciences, Hydrology and Water Resources, Laboratory for Tree Ring Research, and Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences
  • EarthWeek events taking place include:
  • The plenary talk by Dr. Susan Joy Hassol, "Telling the Climate Change Story," will be held on Thurs, Mar 29, at 4:00 PM in the Student Union North Ballroom.
  • You can view the EarthWeek program  here (PDF file)
  • See the EarthWeek website www.sees.arizona.edu/sees/ew2012/  for more details on the Plenary Talk and all over events
 

+ WORKSHOP:  NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Workshop - Fri, Mar 30

  • Fri, Mar 30, 12:00 noon
  • Agave Room, Student Memorial Union
  • RSVP to Shelley Hawthorne Smith at ssmith@grad.arizona.edu if you plan to attend
  • Considering applying for an NSF DDIG?  This workshop will provide an overview of the application process, including a presentation from Sponsored Projects.
  • DDIG awardees and DDIG reviewers will give tips to improve the success of your application
 

+ INFO SESSION:  Fulbright Program for U.S. Students - Thur, Mar 29

  • Thur, Mar 29, 3:30 PM
  • Chavez Building, Room 301
  • Open to entire UA community
  • Anyone completing a Bachelor's degree by Sept 2013 is eligible to apply; open to any discipline
  • Students graduating after that date are welcome to attend info session to plan ahead
  • Are you interested in spending a year abroad--taking classes, engaging in research, or teaching English--after you graduate?
  • Then you should consider applying for a Fulbright Fellowship!
  • RSVP to Jeff Thibert at thibert@email.arizona.edu (or write to him for additional info if you cannot attend)
  • Read more at the Fulbright program website us.fulbrightonline.org
 

+ TALK:  Simeon Djankov, Minister of Finance, Republic of Bulgaria, Thur, Mar 29

  • Thur, Mar 29, 5:15 PM
  • UA Eller College of Management Berger Auditorium, 1130 E. Helen Street
  • Simeon Djankov is the Deputy Prime Minister of Finance for the Republic of Bulgaria.  Prior to his cabinet appointment, he was the chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank.  In his 14 years at the World Bank, he worked on regional trade agreements in North Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms around the world. In 1997, he participated in a World Bank enterprise restructuring project in Georgia. Since 2004, after the Rose Revolution, he has visited Georgia frequently and worked with the government on reforming the business environment.  Dr. Djankov was a principal author of the World Development Report 2002.  He is also the author of over 70 specialized articles in the most prestigious economic journals in the world, including Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. He served as associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics from 2004 to 2009. He is also the creator of the annual Doing Business Report, the top-selling publication of the World Bank Group.  He is ranked among the 100 Most Cited Economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. Dr. Djankov graduated from the University of National and World Economy and earned Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
  • For more information about the Distinguished Speaker Series, go to the Eller website at www.eller.arizona.edu/speakers
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Don Falk, Resilience Ecology: Theory, practice, and applications to adaptation - Wed, Mar 28

  • Wed, Mar 28, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • SNRE Seminar Series:  RNR 496B-RNR 696A
  • Dr. Don Falk is Associate Professor, School of Natural Resrouces, with joint appointments in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and the Institute of the Environment.  He will talk on Resilience Ecology:  Theory, practice, and applications to adaptation.  Restoration ecology has been viewed conventionally as a strategy primarily for repairing anthropogenic damage to ecosystems.  The parameters of a changing world are redefining the role of ecological restoration.  Falk will review the concepts and examples of the emerging discipline of resilience ecology as a key tool in adaptation to climate change and other emerging stressors.
  • Contact:  Larry Fisher at lafisher@email.arizona.edu or Gregg Garfin at gmgarfin@email.arizona.edu
 

+ INFO SESSION:  UK Graduate Scholarships - Wed, Mar 28

  • Wed, Mar 28, 9:00 AM
  • Modern Languages Building, Room 410
  • RSVP to Jeff Thibert at thibert@email,arizona.edu
  • If not able to attend, email Jeff for more information or to arrange an appointment to discuss these opportunities
  • Open to entire UA community, particularly rising juniors and seniors
  • Also open to undergraduates who may be completing degrees within the next two years
  • Info session and application information for nationally competitive graduate scholarships in the United Kingdom, including
  • Some GPA and age restrictions apply; see individual websites for details
 

+ GRAND OPENING:  UA Community Garden - Mon, Mar 26

  • Mon, Mar 26, from 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM
  • Ribbon cutting ceremony and brief tour of the new UA Community Garden north of the Highland Garage at Mabel and Highland
  • Light refreshments will be served
  • RSVP to Laura Hanson at lehanson@email.arizona.edu or 623-556-3648
 

+ FREE CLASSES:  Free Basic Progamming Classes for Research Applications for Undergrad and Graduate Students - Sun, Mar 25

  • Sun, Mar 25, times vary (details below) in Gould-Simpson Building, Room 906
  • Sponsored by the Women in Computer Science Club
  • Free classes (includes refreshments) plus Introductory and intermediate Python and MATLAB sessions
    • Python Intro:  Installation and snacks from 12:00-12:15 PM. Class from 12:15-1:15 PM
    • Applying Python:  Python Intro a prereq.  Class from 1:30-2:30 PM
    • MATLAB Intro:  Installation, if needed, from 3:00-3:30 PM.  Class on basics from 3:30-5:00 PM.
  • RSVP to this reservation link
  • Email the WIC Club at uofa.wics@gmail.com if you have any questions
  • Bring your laptop if you have one!
 

+ INFORMAL NETWORKING & CAREER ADVICE:  Cat Cafe, Multiple Coffee Chat Events with UA Alumni - Sun, Mar 25

  • Sun, Mar 25, 2:00 to 4:00 PM at various locations (dependent on career interest)
  • Join an alumnus in your field for a casual coffee chat.  More than 20 chat events will be held at coffee shops surrounding the UA campus.  Find out about the industry you want to work in, ask your burning questions about life after college, and get great advice from people who have been in your shoes.
  • You must sign up online at www.ArizonaAlumni.com/catcafe to attend
  • Students in the fields of Engineering, International Affairs, Science, and a few others will have their coffee chats at Caffe Luce at 943 E. University Blvd
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Michael Dorsey, Post-2012 Climate Policies & Movements: Justice vs. Eco-Market Ideologies - Fri Mar 23

  • Fri, Mar 23, at 12:00 noon
  • Marshall Building Room 531
  • Dr. Michael K. Dorsey, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth College, will talk about Post-2012 Climate Policies & Movements: Justice vs. Eco-Market Ideologies
  • Climate Justice is the name of the new movement that best fuses a variety of progressive political-economic and political-ecological currents to combat the most serious threat humanity and most other species face in the 21st century.  This talk examines both the production of hegemonic climate policy making and myriad forms of resistance against it. This talk examines one set of responses in particular: climate justice oriented strategies and tactics. This is done in part, as climate justice constituencies are not all the same. There are differences within particular organizations as well as between alliances advocating climate justice politics. The talk thus ultimately explores climate justice tendencies, by drawing on ethnographic data and case studies to illustrate approaches to climate (in)justice spanning campaigns and institutional critique.
 

+ OPEN HOUSE:  Innovation and Entrepreneurship Open House - Fri, Mar 23

  • Fri, Mar 23, from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Santa Rita Room, Student Memorial Union
  • In today's idea-based economy, the skills and knowledge to innovate, collaborate, optimize, and impact social and economic conditions is essential for nearly any career path
  • If you want to attend, please RSVP to entre.rsvp@eller.arizona.edu
  • Opportunities for BS, MS, and PHD students from all disciplines to enroll in entrepreneurship and innovation coursework and programs, such as:
    • Technology Commercialization Class (MS and PHD students)
    • Associates Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (BS, MS, and PHD students)
    • Applied Doctoral Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (PHD students only)
  • Contact Justin Cummins at 520-626-3030 or cumminsj@email.arizona.edu for questions about the open house or additional information
 

+ TALK:  An Evening with Tim Wise - Thur, Mar 22

  • Thur, Mar 22, 7:00 PM
  • Student Memorial Union Ballroom
  • Free and open to the public
  • Tim Wise has worked to dismantle racism throughout his professional career by lecturing at over 600 college campuses and training law enforcement officers, teachers, corporate employees, and non-profit organizations.
  • His lectures are powerful and riveting, and this will be an unforgettable evening.
  • Sponsored by the Wildcat Events Board, Women's Resource Center, Residence Life, African American Student Affairs, Chicano/Hispanic Student Affairs, Native American Student Affairs, and Asian Pacific American Student Affairs
  • Questions?  Contact Kevin Cleary, Coordinator and ASUA Advisor, at cleary@email.arizona.edu
 

+ FREE FILM & DISCUSSION:  CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil - Thurs, Mar 22

  • Thur, Mar 22, 7:30 PM
  • Drachman Hall Room A114
  • Free screening of the film, CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil, followed by a brief panel discussion
  • Panel includes Dr. Marcela Vasquez-Leon of the UA Center for Latin American Studies and Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Professor Art LaFrance from the UA Rogers College of Law, and Peace Corps Volunteers who have served in Ecuador
  • This is a lead up event for Friday's Social Justice Symposium themed "Mind the Gap: Health Disparities Across the Globe"
  • For more information on the Social Justice Symposium and directions to Drachman Hall, visit the College of Public Health's SJS website at www.publichealth.arizona.edu/students/student-organizations/sjs
  • Contact:  Jackie Pierson at piersonj@email.arizona.edu or 520-626-2292
 

+ TALK:  Dr. George Frisvold, The Economics of Climate Adaptation - Wed, Mar 21

  • Wed, Mar 21, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • Marley Building, Room 230
  • Part of the RNR 496B-696A seminar series
  • Dr. George Frisvold, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, will talk about The Economics of Climate Adaptation: Perspectives at the Nexus of Science, Society, and Resource Management
  • For details, contact Ashley Stewart at akstewart@email.arizona.edu or 520-621-7264
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Eric Betterton, Earth-Dust, Cloud-Dust, Storm-Dust:  The Pervasive Nature of Atmospheric Aerosols in Our Lives - The 7th Annual Blitzer Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Physics and Related Sciences   -  Mar 20

  • Tues, Mar 20, 3:30 PM
  • Steward Observatory, Room N210 (933 N. Cherry Avenue)
  • Dr. Eric Betterton will be honored as the 7th Annual Professor Leon and Pauline Blitzer Awardee for Excellence in the Teaching of Physics and Related Sciences
  • Following the talk, a reception will be held in the Steward Observatory Lobby
  • Sponsored by the Departments of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Dr. Eric Betterton, Professor and Department Head, Atmospheric Sciences, will talk about Earth-Dust, Cloud-Dust, Storm-Dust:  The Pervasive Nature of Atmospheric Aerosols in our Lives
  • Parking available at the Administrative Garage at 2nd Street and Mountain Avenue
  • Contact the Physics Department 520-626-0259 or su@physics.arizona.edu for more details
 

+ CAREER FAIR:  UA Spring Career Fair 2012 - March 20-21

  • Tues & Wed, Mar 20-21, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  • Student Memorial Union Third Floor Ballroom
  • The largest on-campus career for the spring semester!
  • Good for potential internship or employment opportunities
  • See Career Center website www.career.arizona.edu for a list of employers and the dates they will attend
  • Different employers on different days, so check the schedule frequently for new additions and/or cancellations
 

+ PREP FOR GRADUATION:  UA Bookstores GradFest Spring 2012 - Mar 20-22

  • Tue through Thur, Mar 20-22, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM*
  • Open late until 7:00 PM on Wed, Mar 21
  • GradFest is a bookstore event that will help students prepare for graduation, the commencement ceremony (e.g. ordering your cap, gown, tassel, stole, and/or hood)
  • Read more at the GradFest website
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Lorena Rios-Mendoza, Persistent Organic Pollutants Adsorbed to Pelagic Plastic Debris - Mar 19

  • Mon, Mar 19, 3:00-4:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • Refreshments at 2:50 PM
  • Dr. Lerna Rios-Mendoza, University of Wisconsin Superior, will talk on Persistent Organic Polluntants Adsorbed to Pelagic Plastic Debris.  The massive production of plastic and inadequate disposal has made plastic debris an important and constant pollutant on beaches and in oceans around the world. Plastics adsorb and concentrate persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs, PAHs, and chlorinated pesticides. Floating marine plastic debris collected in the North Pacific Gyre, a.k.a. the “Eastern Garbage Patch”, was found to behave as marine sediments in accumulating pollutants. Microscopic plastic particles were discovered suspended in sea water, and pose a major hazard to marine life since they are readily ingested and carry toxins and pseudo-estrogens. The quantitative analysis of persistent organic pollutants adsorbed onto plastic debris, and the discovery of microscopic plastic particles suspended in seawater, demonstrate that the pollution is far more than garbage: it is a carrier of toxins and pseudo-estrogens that are concentrated out of the water column in a readily ingestible form.
  • Supported by the UA Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions Visiting Speaker program
  • Contact Leif Abrell at abrell@u.arizona.edu if you wish to arrange a meeting with the speaker
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Scott Burns, the AEG/GSA Distinguished Richard Jahns Lecturer, Engineering Geology Challenges on the Cascadia Margin, Pacific Northwest, USA - Mar 19

  • Mon, Mar 19, 1:45 PM to 3:00 PM
  • Mines Building Room 225
  • Refreshments (free pizza and  soda) sponsored by the UA AEG
  • Dr. Scott Burns, Professor of Geology, Portland State University, and the 2011-12 AEG/GSA Distinguished Jahns Lecturer, will talk on the Engineering Geology Challenges on the Cascadia Margin, Pacific Northwest, USA.  In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, the Juan de Fuca plate is being subducted under the North American Plate at the Cascadia Subduction Zone.  The lecture will discuss the hazards of and the preparedness for ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides and tsunamis along the subduction zone.  What are the differences of recurrence intervals for large earthquakes on the northern and southern margins?  Much of the region was not thought to be an earthquake region so earthquake building standards are fairly recent. How does the chance of crustal, plate and subduction quakes affect building codes, emergency preparedness, siting of critical facilities, building of bridges, and transportation corridors in the region?  What have we learned from recent subduction quakes around the world that can be applied to the Pacific Northwest?  What can the region expect after a large quake?
  • UA AEG Membership: $10 UAAEG annual dues, free AEG National dues!  Activities include field trips, networking, community service, leadership opportunities
  • If possible, please RSVP to John Lyons-Baral, UAAEG President, at uazaeg@gmail.com, 0r 520-971-8235
 

+ FESTIVAL:  Tucson Festival of Books & Science City - March 10-11, 2012

  • Tucson's annual Festival of Books celebrates books and literacy at an all-ages festival which attracts 100,000 people.  Held on the University of Arizona Mall, the event showcases over 450 authors and performers and 240 exhibitors.
  • You can attend and you can also volunteer for Science City!
  • See the HWR news article for details about volunteer sign ups & orientation
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Catherine Naud, Observational analysis of clouds and precipitation in oceanic extratropical cyclones and evaluation of general circulation models - Thur Mar 8

  • Thur, Mar 8, 3:30 PM in PAS Room 233
  • Refreshments from 3:00-3:30 PM in PAS Room 546
  • Dr. Catherine Naud, Columbia University-NASA GISS, will talk on Observational analysis of clouds and precipitaiton in oceanic extratropical cyclones and evaluation of general circulation models
  • Clouds, radiation and precipitation in midlatitudes are determined to a large extent by the frequency and amplitude of baroclinic waves. Because synoptic scale (several hundred to several thousand kilometers) are fully resolved by general circulation models (GCMs), cloud representation at these latitudes has received little attention, contrary to the tropics where mesoscale systems (a few to several hundred kilometers) are difficult to represent at the current GCM coarse resolution. Thus we need to investigate which cloud and precipitation processes are ill-represented in current GCMs in the midlatitudes in general, and in extratropical cyclones in particular. To help in this investigation we have developed a methodology that combines NASA's satellite observations and NASA's MERRA reanalysis meteorological fields to study cloud and precipitation in extratropical cyclones and improve models evaluation. In this talk, I will explain the method of compositing and show what this method tells us about differences between northern and southern hemisphere cyclones. I will then explain how a similar compositing method can be applied to GCM outputs so a direct comparison can be made. I will illustrate how useful this method can be by testing the latest version of the NASA-GISS Model E general circulation mode.
     

+ TALK:  Dr. Kathy Jacobs, Connecting Science and Decision-making: Building a Foundation for Adaptation through the National Climate Assessment - Thur Mar 8

  • Thur, Mar 8, from 3:30-5:00 PM
  • UA Center for Creative Photograophy
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Kathy Jacobs, Assistant Director for Climate Adaptation and Assessment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Professor, Soil, Water and Environmental Science, will talk about managing the National Climate Assessment project which involves working with people in all of the regions and sectors of the US, building community, and doing a better job of synthesizing science and experience within and across multiple disciplines.
  • Contact:  Jackie Moxley at jmoxley@cals.arizona.edu for details
 

+ TALK:  Nick McKay, 2011 William G. McGinnies Scholar, Stories in the mud: What lake sediment has taught me about past climates - Wed Mar 7

  • Wed, Mar 7, from 4:00-5:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • 2012 McGinnies Inaugural Lecture
  • By slowly accumulating sediment over millenia, lake sediments record changes in the environment and past variability in local climate and hydrology.  McKay will share his experiences as a graduate student using sediment archives to understand climates in the past.  He has worked on lakes in the European Arctic, southern Alaska, and most recently in sub-Saharan Africa.  The focus of his dissertation, Lake Bosumtwi, in semi-arid southern Ghana, is formed in a million-year-old meteor impact crater.  His research includes understanding how the region has changed over hundreds of thousands of years, through multiple ice ages, as well as studying layers formed in individual years in particularly intereting intervals of the Earth's past.
 

+ TALK:  Dan Lee and Mark Felix, Copyright and Fair Use as It Applies to Teaching, Wed Mar 7

 

+ OPEN HOUSE & INFO SESSION:  Doctoral Minor in Entrepreneurship - Mar 7 & Mar 8

  • Wed, Mar 7, 12:00 noon - 12:30 pm
  • Thur, Mar 8, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm      < final session this semester!
  • McClelland Hall Room 202A (McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship)
  • Designed to equip students with an entrepreneurial skill set that is central to advancing new knowledge and innovations within the idea age economy
  • Similar to entrepreneurship and innovation in general, the curricular content is highly relevant to all disciplinary fields of study
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Colin Williams, Permeability in the Earth’s Upper Crust and Challenges in the Development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems - Tue, Mar 6

  • Tue, Mar 6, 12:10 pm -- Lunch time brown bag
  • Environment and Natural Resources Building, Room 353
  • Dr. Colin Wiliams, USGS Menlo Park, will talk about the Permeability in the Earth's Upper Crust and Challenges in the Development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems.  The successful implementation of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology has the potential to dramatically expand both the magnitude and spatial extent of geothermal energy production, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been working to develop a comprehensive EGS resource assessment for the United States. However, a number of outstanding scientific and technical issues must be resolved in order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of this assessment.  Although there are significant gaps in the spatial coverage of heat flow measurements in much of the United States and some uncertainty in the estimation of thermal properties at depth, analysis of the existing thermal data indicates that even with the possible constraints outlined above, large areas of the western United States will be suitable for EGS development. However, this preliminary interpretation is compromised by the limited number of cases in which model predictions can be compared to laboratory or in situ data. The key challenge for improved EGS resource assessments is acquiring and interpreting comprehensive laboratory and field data that can provide quantitative constraints on the recovery of heat from EGS reservoirs in diverse settings.
 

+ WEBINAR:  Dr. George Hornberger, Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences - Fri Mar 2

  • A special CUAHSI webinar scheduled for 2 PM Mountain Time (Tucson), 4 PM EST
  • To attend online, please visit cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/hornberger/. The call-in number for the audio portion of the webinar is 1-888-850-4523, passcode 449161.
  • Hornberger will present an update to the classic “Blue Book” of the 1990’s, review the report, and answer questions from the audience.
  • The webinar will be posted to the CUAHSI website for those unable to attend the live presentation
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Paul Blowers, Environmental Foresight Through Computational Chemistry: An Expanded Definition of Global Warming Potentials - Thur Mar 1

  • Thur, Mar 1, 3:30 pm
  • PAS Room 220
  • Refreshments 3:00-3:30 pm
  • See Dr. Blower's professional website for biographical information
  • Environmental issues have traditionally been discovered in hindsight after time lags of years to decades of industrial or consumer use of new chemistries. While our choices of new materials and routes for accomplishing a technological goal are often driven to avoid newly discovered environmental issues, lack of data often prevents the best economic and planning decisions to be made when alternatives are introduced. In this work, computational and estimation based methods are used to investigate potential environmental impacts of chemicals, particularly hydrofluoroethers (HFEs), while also retroactively looking at existing chemicals to see if we really do understand the impacts, even now. Future work needs the help of experts in atmospheric chemistry, climate modeling, and evaluation of rainout and cloud mechanisms for degradation species.
     

+ TALK:  Hans Huth, The Arizona-Sonora Border Region:  Water Quality Challenges and Priorities for the EPA Border 2012 - Wed Feb 29

  • Wed, Feb 29, 12:00-1:30 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room of the Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell
  • Hans Huth, Senior Hydrologist, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Border Environmental Protection
  • The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) co-chairs the Border 2012 Arizona-Sonora Water Task Force group which helps identify, prioritize, and mitigate challenges related to water quality along the Arizona-Sonora border region.  Huth will discuss past projects under the Border 2012 program and summarize current priorities and timelines for the new Border 2020 program.
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at (520) 621-2526 or jcripps@cals.arizona.edu
 

+TALK:  Dr. Scott Bonar, Dr. Melanie Culver, Dr. John Koprowski, Assisted Migration in the Face of Climate Change: Conservation Strategy or Conservation Folly? - Wed Feb 29

 

+ TALK:  Dr. Mitchell Thomashow, Nine Elements of a Sustainable Culture - Wed Feb 29

  • Wed, Feb 29, from 5:00-7:00 PM
  • UA Center for Creative Photograpy
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Mitchell Thomashow, author, educator, environmentalist, and philosopher, President Emeritus of Unity College, and author of Nine Elements of a Sustainable Culture (MIT Press, forthcoming), will talk about how he transformed Unity College into a nationally recognized institution for its focus on sustainability and the environment
  • Contact:  Joe Abraham at jabraham@email.arizona.edu or 520-621-2711

+OPEN HOUSE:  Peace Corps 2012 Celebrate Service! Celebrating the Spirit of Service At Home and Abroad - Tues Feb 28

  • Tues, Feb 28, 4:00-7:00 PM
  • Student Union North Ballroom
  • Elaborate cultural displays and photographs from over 75 countries
  • Community organizers available to discuss how you can become involved with service in Tucson and Southern Arizona
  • Participants will talk to volunteers about their experiences around the world while listening to music from around the world.
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • See website grad.arizona.edu/peacecorp/pcweek for details
  • Contact:  Jackie Pierson at piersonj@email.arizona.edu, or 626-2292
 

+ WORKSHOP:  Free Professional Development Workshop - "First Salary" Negotiation Strategy and Tactics* - Tues Feb 28

  • Tue, Feb 28, 5:30-6:30 PM
  • *Back by popular demand
  • For graduate and professional students
  • La Aldea Community Room
  • La Aldea is between the Tyndalll Garage (north) and the Coronado Residence Hall (south) on Tyndall (address is 825 E. Fifth Street).  ENTER the Community Room through the glass doors facing Coronado (south).  See map
  • Offered by La Aldea Graduate Student Apartments, Residence Life
  • Presented by Alaina G. Levine, President, Quantum Success Solutions
 

+ OPEN HOUSE:   Research Computing Center Open House - Mon Feb 27

  • Mon, Feb 27, 4:30-5:30 PM
  • Computer Center (Bldg 73) 1st Floor
  • Official ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for 5:00 PM
  • Rare opportunity to tour this secured area
  • Open to the campus research community
  • Light refreshments
  • See website rc.arizona.edu for information about the center
 

+ INFO SESSION:  Thirst Project - Wed Feb 22

  • Wed, Feb 22, 6:00 PM
  • Harvill Building Room 150
  • New club on campus affiliated with the Thirst Project
  • Project builds awareness about the water crisis in third world countries and also raises funds to build wells in communities that are in need
  • The CEO of the Thirst Project will visit our campus and give a 1-hour presentation
 

+ INFO SESSION:  Sustainability Career Panel and Networking Event - Thur Feb 23

  • Thur, Feb 23, 5:30-7:00 PM
  • Interested students are asked to RSVP online at www.career.arizona.edu
  • Catalina and Tucson Meeting Rooms, 3rd Floor, Student Union Memorial Center
  • Panel brings together professionals representing different facets of sustainability.  Panelists will offer career insights, sharing information about their own career paths, trends in the field, and critical skills students should hone.
  • Networking session will follow the panel discussion so students can connect directly with panelists:
    • Lisa Perez, Global Green Integrators, CEO
    • Michael Kazz, Grecycle, President
    • Lisette DeMars, LocalFirst Arizona, Membership Coordinator
    • Hyte Johnson, Raytheon Missile Systems, Director of Environmental Health and Safety
    • Michael Baruch, TEP, Bright HomeSave Program
    • Ted Burhans, TEP, Renewable Energy
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Juan R.I. Cole, 20th Annual Sabbagh Lecture:  The Arab Spring One Year Later - Thur Feb 23

  • Thurs, Feb 23, 7:00 PM
  • Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel, 880 East 2nd Street
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Juan R.I. Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, will review the political and social changes in the Arab World during the past year and consider what they mean to workers, women, intellectuals, and businesses in the region.  He will consider the outcome of the Tunisian and Egyptian elections and survey continued protest movements, as well as look at the role of armed forces in Egypt and Libya during the transition.
  • Cole has a regular guest on the PBS Lehrer News Hour and has appeared on ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Colbert Report, Democracy Now!, and many other programs.  He has a regular column at Truthdig.
  • The annual lecture, presented by the UA School of Anthropolgy, focuses on the Arab cultures of the Middle East from an anthropological perspective.  Tucsonans Entisar and Adib Sabbagh have sponsored this public lecture series for 20 years.
  • Contact:  Lori Harwood, Director of External Relations, UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at harwoodl@email.arizona.edu or 520-626-3846.
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Christopher Scott and Dr. Mitch Pavao-Zuckerman, Strengthening Resilience of Trans-boundary Riparian Corridors - Wed Feb 22

  • Wed, Feb 22, 2:00-4:00 PM
  • Marley Room 230
  • Dr. Christopher Scott, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, Scohol of Geography and Development
  • Dr. Mitch Pavao-Zuckerman, Biosphere 2, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
 

+ INFO SESSION:  UA's Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships (ONCS) - Wed Feb 22

  • Wed, Feb 22, 9:00 AM
  • Harvill 301
  • RSVP to Jeff Thibert at thibert@email.arizona.edu
  • Whether you're Class of 2015 or Class of 2012, there are Nationally Competitive Scholarship (NCS) opporunities for you.  NCS are highly competitive but richly rewarding scholarships that fund anywhere from one semester to five years of undergraduate or graduate study, in the U.S. or abroad.
  • Browse the ONCS website at www.honors.arizona.edu/ncs if you want to learn more
  • Attend the info session to learn what you can do to prepare yourself to be a strong candidate
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Edward C. Stone, The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space - Tues Feb 21

  • Tues, Feb 21, 3:30 PM
  • Kuiper Space Sciences Building Room 308
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, will talk on The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space
  • Launced in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 are now at 119 and 97 AU, exploring the spatial and dynamical properties of the heliosheath as the subsonic solar wind approaches the boundary of the heliosphere.
  • Contact:  Dr. Randy Jokipii at jokipii@lpl.arizona.edu or 520-621-4256
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Osvel Hinojosa Huerta, The Binational Restoration of the Colorado River Delta - Tue Feb 21

  • Tue, Feb 21, 12:00-1:30 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room at the Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Osvel Hinojosa Huerta, Director del Programa de Agua y Humedales, Pronatura Noroeste, San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
  • Contact:  Jane Cripps at (520) 621-2526 or jcripps@cals.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Derek Lemoine, Modeling scientific uncertainty in the economic evaluation of climate change - Thur Feb 16

  • Thur, Feb 16, 4:00 PM
  • Haury (Anthropology Bldg) Room 129
  • SEES Joint Colloquium (Host:  Jonathan Overpeck)
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Lemoine will present possible tipping points into economic models of climate change and how different kinds of topping points affect the optimal carbon tax.  He will describe one approach to formalizing uncertainty about temperature change.  Finally, he will combine multiple sources of uncertainty in a single analytic framework for economically evaluating climate targets.
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Alejandro Camacho, Transforming the Means and Ends of Natural Resource Management - Wed Feb 15

  • Wed, Feb 15, 2:00-4:00 PM
  • Marley Building Room 230
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Alejandro Camacho, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California-Irvine, will talk on Transforming the Means and Ends of Natural Resources Management
  • UA Seminar RNR 496B-696A
  • Information about this seminar series at www.snr.arizona.edu/seminars
  • Contact:  Larry Fisher (lafisher@email.arizona.edu) or Gregg Garfin (gmgarfin@email.arizona.edu)
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Wallace (Wally) Broecker, Water in the West:  Lessons from the Past - Mon Feb 13

  • Mon, Feb 13, 10:00-11:00 AM
  • Gould Simpson Building, Room 209
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Broecker, Newberry Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry, will present Water in the West:  Lessons from the Past
  • Contact:  Gabriela Guglielmo at (520) 621-2027 or gbg@email.arizona.edu
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Greg Caporaso, Ultra-high throughput microbial ecology:  software, sequencing, and practice for studying tens of thousands of environments - Mon Feb 13

  • Mon, Feb 13, 3:00 PM (refreshments at 2:40 PM)
  • Marley Bldg, Room 230
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Greg Caporaso, Assistant Professor of Bioinfomatics, Northern Arizona University, will discuss the exciting and rapidly growing area of biology, microbial ecology, with almost weekly publications in Science, Nature, PNAS, and even popular literature sources such as The New York Times.  Caporaso will present his recent work on increasing the scale on which microbial ecology is possible, both in terms of breadth (the types of communities that can be profiled in high-throughput) and depth (the amount of data that can feasibly be collected and analyzed).  In particular, he will talk about the QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology (www.qiime.org) software package and on developing a community sequencing protocol for the Illumina sequencing technologies.  He will present several projects that illustrate what is possible in ultra-high-throughput microbial ecology (e.g. a time-series analysis of the human microbiome for up to 18 months).
 

+ TALK:  Dr. Ximing Cai, Analyzing Water Resources Systems as Coupled Human and Natural Systems - Fri Feb 10

  • Fri, Feb 10, 12:00-1:00 PM
  • Architecture Buidling, Room 103
  • Admission Free and Open to the Public
  • Dr. Ximing Cai, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk about the continuous interaction between humans and natural systems which has resulted in the development of coupled human-natural systems (CHNS), which are characterized by the patterns and processes, reciprocal interactions and feedbacks, co-evolution of biophysical and socioeconomic states, and system emergence rooted in local phenomena.  New systems analysis techniques are needed to address the complexity of CHNS, with greater attention on stakeholder participation, ecological resilience and sustainability principles. The modeling approach, Integrated Hydrologic-economic modeling using a centralized, top-down approach can provide insights on the reciprocal effects between hydrologic variability and decision making. Cai will discuss the shortcomings and limitations of such an approach and present studies where the watershed is depicted as a multiple-agent system (MAS), in which human and natural water users are defined as agents. The watershed is then modeled as a self- organizing system characterized by disaggregated but interactive decision processes at the agent level, with a coordination mechanism leading to the interactions among individual decision processes. A distributed optimization algorithm based on the decentralized control theory is developed to solve the MAS model developed for studying basin-wide water allocation in the Yellow River Basin in China.
 

+ OPEN HOUSE:  WRRC Annual Chocolatefest - Fri Feb 10

  • Fri, Feb 10, 3:30-5:00 PM
  • Sol Resnick Conference Room at the Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell Avenue
  • Stop by the annual Chocolatefest and welcome Dr. Jean McLain, WRRC's new Associate Director
  • If you like water and you like chocolate, don't miss this opportunity to sample delicious desserts from local kitchens and fine chocolate from around the world while discussing the water issues of the day.
  • Bring your favorite chocolate delicacies to share.

 

 

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