Professor Christopher Blaszczak-Boxe of the CUNY Grad Center and City College co-authored a paper in ICARUS entitled A detailed pathway analysis of the chemical reaction system generating the Martian vertical ozone profile. Highlights: •Determination of all significant O3 producing and consuming pathways and quantification of their contributions in the Martian atmosphere with help of an automated computer algorithm. •O3 production results from CO2 and O2 photolysis. •O3 is consumed by catalytic cycles involving HOx (=H+OH+HO2). •The Martian atmosphere can be divided into two chemically distinct re- gions according to the O(3P):O3 ratio. •Vertical transport of O(3P) from upper layers downwards …
Category: News
Voting now open on Referendum for Student Activities Fee @cunydsc
The Doctoral Students’ Council has been holding a petition drive in order to hold a referendum during the Fall 2016 semester. That petition received over 400 signatures from GC students, and was presented to and approved by President Robinson this week. Thank you to all those who signed, this is only possible because of you! Now we ask that you please vote for the referendum here: https://eballot4.votenet.com/dsc/login.cfm[eballot4.votenet.com] This FAQ has detailed information, but briefly, the referendum would allow the DSC to reallocate the $12 of the student activity fee that are earmarked for ‘health care services’ into the general DSC …
Sara Perl Egendorf wins Best Graduate Student Presentation Award at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Conference
Congratulations to Sara Perl Egendorf, one of our finest graduate students (first year PhD student), for winning the Best Graduate Student Presentation Award at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Conference in Phoenix, AZ. Way to go, Sara! Sara Perl Egendorf, Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, Zhongqi Cheng, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and Anna Paltseva, Earth and Environmental sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn, NY Abstract: Urban gardening provides valuable benefits to participants and local residents, including access to healthy food, reduced reliance on food transportation and distribution systems, …
Urban Soils Conference in Moscow: SUITMA 9 in May 2017
We are very pleased to invite you to participate in the 9th International Congress of the Working Group on Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas, SUITMA 9. SUITMA 9 will be held in Moscow, Russia on May 22-27 2017. The congress will be hosted by the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University, www.rudn.ru). This year’s theme for the congress will be «Urbanization: a challenge and an opportunity for soil functions and ecosystem services» Urbanization is currently among the most important land-use change trends globally. According to FAO and UN predictions, more than 6 billion people are …
Prof. #SethaLow wins #SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement
Professor Setha M. Low has won the 2016 SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, bestowed by the Society for the Anthropology of North America. The prestigious prize is awarded to a senior anthropologist for broad-based contributions to research, teaching, and service related to the development of critical studies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Low will receive the award at the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis in November. In September, Low received the inaugural Senior Scholar Award from the Society of Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). A new edition of her book Spatializing Culture …
New Course Offering: Hacking for Energy. Apply by 11/21 for Spring 2017.
Hacking for Energy is a new semester-long course designed to engage graduate-level students towards learning about and helping to solve real-world technological and business problems facing the energy industry, while also exposing them to the “Lean LaunchPad” approach to entrepreneurship. Based on Steve Blank’s Hacking for Defense class (recently taught at Stanford), Hacking for Energy features problem statements supplied by Industry Hosts for energy issues that need immediate solutions. Student teams will propose a solution to a problem statement and spend 13 weeks determining if it is viable using the Lean LaunchPad methodology for customer discovery. Hacking for Energy is taught at Columbia University but is also open …
10/19: Live Tweeting Workshop!
Check your @GC_CUNY email on 10/25 to fill out a survey and enter to win $50 from @amazon!
The Provost’s Office is committed to gathering student opinions about their experiences at the Graduate Center and using that information for ongoing planning, so that we can do our best to help current and future students make the most out of their time at the GC. We need your help to ensure that doctoral students’ voices are heard. On October 25th, the Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness will launch the 2016 Doctoral Student Experience Survey. The survey will be sent to all enrolled doctoral students via their GC email and will be open until November 18th. Students completing the survey will be eligible for a raffle for …
#EESPublishes: @GC_CUNY @GCSciences student #CharutaKulkarni on #Vegetational #History of #Serbia
EES Student Charuta Kulkani (@ckulkarni) first authored a paper in Quaternary Science Reviews entitled ” Exploring the role of humans and climate over the Balkan landscape: 500 years of vegetational history of Serbia“. Highlights of the article include; 1) The first Serbian palynological record of vegetation-landscape shifts from the Little Ice Age (LIA) to present. 2) Open landscapes with minor woodland and intense land erosion ensued during 1540–1720 CE due to human and climatic impacts. 3) Increased moisture availability in the late LIA (1720–1850 CE) is visible by increases in mesic and montane trees. 4) Increased forest cover with stable cultivation characterized …
#EESPublishes: Prof #BlaszczakBoxe of @GC_CUNY & @BklynCollege411 on the #Polar #IodineParadox in @ELSenviron
Professor Christopher Shawn Blaszczak-Boxe of EES and Medgar Evers College coauthored a paper entitled “The Polar Iodine Paradox” in the Journal of Atmospheric Environment which explores the uneven presence of iodine in the polar regions as it relates to marine algae, ice, and the atmosphere. Click here to read the article!
