Professor Gillian Stewart of EES and Queens College coauthored a paper entitled, “Temporal variability of dissolved iron species in the mesopelagic zone at Ocean Station PAPA” in the Journal of Marine Science. Highlights include: • A dissolved Fe enhancement in the mesopelagic zone of the NE Pacific was observed. • The anomaly was also evident in Fe(II) distribution with depth. • Aerosol deposition from Siberian forest fires is the likely cause of the anomalies. • Dissolved Fe at the surface was at background levels. • There was no evidence of a phytoplankton bloom.
Summer 2017 Ecological Assessment Paid Internships w/ @NaturalAreasNYC
Job Title: Summer 2017 Ecological Assessment Paid Internships Job Location: Graduate Positions and Undergraduate Positions available with reporting locations in New York City (Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn) Duration: 8-12 weeks, 35 hours/week, during June 4 – August 24, 2017 Internship: The Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC) will lead an ecological assessment of the natural resources of NYC Parks. Student interns will be trained and will work under the supervision of NAC ecologists. All interns will collect vegetation and site condition data in forests, wetlands, and grasslands. This position is approximately 90% field work (outdoors) and …
Visiting Assist Prof Geography & Environmental Justice at @brown_envsoc
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor with expertise in Human Geography or Physical Geography, doing research relevant to questions of environmental justice, and an interest in working to promote diversity within environmental disciplines. This is a three-year position with potential for renewal based on performance. The position involves three distinct roles: (1) conducting a varied portfolio of teaching activities, including undergraduate geography courses, student advising and senior thesis mentoring; (2) designing and implementing a summer program for undergraduates that promotes diversity in …
GC Digital Initiatives-Videography Fellowships due 3/23
GC Digital Initiatives – Videography Fellowships The GC Digital Initiatives’ is now accepting applications for two new fellows to join its Videography Fellows program. Ph.D. students with digital video editing and camera skills are invited to apply. The Videography Fellows Program promotes the scholarly activities of GC programs, centers, and initiatives by filming events such as lectures, colloquia, and conferences, and making them publicly accessible. Activities also include creating short promotional videos and shorter clips in conjunction with programs’ ongoing activities. Videography Fellows help The Graduate Center fulfill its mission of producing knowledge for the public, as well as raise …
3/9 #colloquium: Prof @dlindo_atichati of @csinews on #Oceangraphic control on #FishProductivity
David Lindo Atichati from Engineering Sci. & Physics, College of Staten Island – CUNY on “Diagnosis of oceanographic controls on fish productivity in the South Atlantic Bight” Areas of Interest My work, in conjunction with an international network of collaborators, grapples with questions at the frontiers of physics, biology, and chemistry in the oceanic systems. I approach these questions from a multidimensional perspective that includes theory, observation, and modeling. By weaving these three approaches together, my research program is specifically designed to understand the interactions between oceanic circulation, marine ecosystems, and marine pollutants. I rigorously test predictions of the models I use with observations collected …
EES Student Spotlight: John Zayac
John Zayac is a Level II PhD student in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program. A native to California, John earned his B.S. in Earth Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz and his M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He relocated to New York City three years ago and is currently living in Brooklyn. John’s dissertation research seeks to characterize the mechanisms that cause volcanic systems to go critical, triggering an explosive eruption. In October of 2016, he conducted a field research campaign in Nicaragua focusing on large, prehistoric eruptions of Volcán Cosigüina. …
USS Scholarships (Ernesto Malave Merit, Graduate Mentoring & Passantino) due 4/21
The University Student Senate (USS) is pleased to announce their Ernesto Malave Merit, Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino, and Graduate Peer Mentoring Scholarships competition. One Ernesto Malave Merit Scholarship of $1500.00 will be awarded to a Graduate Center student in good academic standing with a 3.5 and above demonstrating outstanding academic and leadership performance under extraordinary circumstances. The Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino Awards are for Graduate Center students with a disability and / or international students that have at least a 2.5 GPA. One Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino Award of $1000.00 shall be awarded to a student with …
Committee on Globalization & Social Change 2017–18 Fellowship Competition due 3/13
The Committee on Globalization and Social Change is now welcoming applications for Mid-Career Faculty and Dissertation Fellowships for the 2017–18 academic year. The deadline for both Doctoral Student and Mid-Career Faculty Applications is Monday, March 13th, 2017 at noon. We invite applications from recently tenured-faculty and CUNY doctoral students who would like to participate in a research seminar on the theme “Populism”. Seminar Description: Populism With the U.S. presidential election of 2016, public debate about “populism” has intensified. Trumpism as a populist phenomenon is certainly linked to systemic shifts in the United States and the specific relations of forces there …
Get your nomination in for the @cunydsc elections by 3/1!
The nominations ballot for 2017-2018 is now open from February 1- March 1. You can see the list of all positions up for nomination, their descriptions and duties, as well as eligibility requirements, at http://cunydsc.org/elections/ . You can nominate other registered students and/or yourself! Any student enrolled may also make a nomination February 1- March 1 via email to ccsa@cunydsc.org. This is especially important for those who are enrolled this spring but weren’t enrolled in the fall, as well as new students. After students are contacted about their nominations in March, the elections ballot will be open April 1- May …
3/2 #Colloquium: #EnergyProduction & #FishMigration in #AtlanticRivers w/ Prof #JohnWaldman
JOHN WALDMAN of Biology, Queens College – CUNY on “Maybe the Twain can meet: energy production and fish migrations on Atlantic rivers” Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution. In many places, such as the U.S. East Coast, hydroelectric dams have damaged the ecological integrity of nearly every major river and have decimated runs of migratory fish. This need not continue. Our rivers can be liberated from their concrete shackles, while also continuing to produce electricity at the site of former hydropower dams. How might …
