New Editorial by Prof William Solecki of Hunter College in the Journal of Extreme Events published October 1, 2015. Climate Justice and Extreme Events
Author: EES Social Media Fellow
New Articles by Profs Katz, Piasecki, & Bandosz!
Coauthored by Executive Officer Prof Cindi Katz Demanding Life’s Work in Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction Coauthored by Prof Michael Piasecki of City College Towards a Sensor-to-End-User Ambient Data Acquisition System Coauthored by Prof Teresa Bandosz of City College Oxygen reduction on chemically heterogeneous iron-containing nanoporous carbon: The effects of specific surface functionalities
Jobs and Fellowships for EES Students and Alumni
Looks like a great job/fellowship market for our EES students and alumni. Check out all these postings that came through in the last few days! Postdoc in Conservation Psychology @ Oregon State in Corvallis, OR Assistant Professor in Geography with a specialty in human-environment interaction @ Augustana College in Rockland, IL Adjunct Faculty for Race, Class, and Environmental Justice course @ Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship from the Society of Women Geographers Assistant Professor of Political Economy @ The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI Tenure Track Teaching and Research Faculty position in …
Anna Paltseva wins #BestPoster at #SUITMA8 Conference
The SUITMA Conference is a biennial gathering of urban soil scientists from all over the world. PhD student, Anna Paltseva won the Best Poster Award at the SUITMA 8 International Conference held in Mexico City two weeks ago. The Best Poster Award was chosen among 60+ posters! Anna works with Dr. Cheng in the Soil Research Lab at Brooklyn College. Congrats Anna!
Help the STRC keep it’s charter status active
The SpaceTime Research Collective (STRC) is an interdisciplinary community of scholars exploring the intersections of space, place, time, culture, society, power, and politics. They offer space for non-competitive creative production and other professional development support. STRC needs your support in order to keep our charter status active. Please sign our roster! While you’re there, consider signing rosters of other DSC orgs that you’d like to support. (You don’t have to be a member to show your support for any and all student run orgs). How to sign the roster: 1) Go to the Space Time Research Collective roster page and sign in at the top. (Or register here if you are …
10/15-WALK-IN FLU VACCINATION CLINIC FOR STUDENTS
Thursday October 15th 10am-1pm & 2-4pm The price of the vaccine is $11.00 Check or money order preferable (made payable to The Graduate Center). Cash also acceptable, but must be EXACT. If you do not have exact change, you may forfeit your place in line! You must have your student ID with the Fall 2015 validation sticker All students are welcome. However, the priority for this clinic is for uninsured and underinsured students: If you are insured, please do not wait to get your flu vaccine. Most insurance plans (including NYSHIP) now cover the flu vaccine in full (free …
New paper coauthored by Prof Longpre of Queens College
Deep intrusions, lateral magma transport and related uplift at ocean island volcanoes Abstract Oceanic intraplate volcanoes grow by accumulation of erupted material as well as by coeval or discrete magmatic intrusions. Dykes and other intrusive bodies within volcanic edifices are comparatively well studied, but intrusive processes deep beneath the volcanoes remain elusive. Although there is geological evidence for deep magmatic intrusions contributing to volcano growth through uplift, this has rarely been demonstrated by real-time monitoring. Here we use geophysical and petrological data from El Hierro, Canary Islands, to show that intrusions from the mantle and subhorizontal transport of magma within …
The Results Are In!
2015 – 2016 Representatives: Executive Committee [Geo]: Marlene Ramos, Denisse Andrade, Katya Bezborodko [ES]: Brian Lamb, Hamid Soleymani, Charuta Kulkarni Curriculum Committee [Geo]: Angelika Winner, Caroline Loomis, Ben Rubin [ES]: Derek Tesser, Aaron Davitt, John Zayac Admissions Committee [Geo]: Allison Guess, Robin McGinty [ES]: Annesia Lamb, Dhiman Mondal Faculty Membership Committee ** did not fill entire committee ** [Geo]: Sam Stein [ES]: Stephanie DeVries Elections Committee ** did not fill entire committee ** [ES]: Rocky Garcia, Anna Paltseva Lectures & Events Committee [Geo]: Olivia Ildefonso [ES]: Jasmine Bayron, Annesia Lamb, Peter Matt Diversity Committee [Geo]: Rafael Mutis, Celeste Winston [ES]: …
Conference Presentation Support 2015-2016
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