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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
- Friends of Moon Library--Reception and Annual Meeting
4:00 pm. 408 Baker Laboratory. This event will include a brief Business Meeting before Don Leopold introduces Stephen P. Weiter, Director, Moon Library. Campus community is welcome!
Sponsor: Friends of Moon Libary | Contact: Kevin J. Reynolds, 315-470-6667
- Design Competition Interest Meeting
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm. 300 Bray Hall. This spring semester during Earth Week we are planning a design competition where we want all of the clubs and organizations on campus to get involved. The competition will be very broad and divided into a few categories which we will decide on later. At this general interest meeting we will discuss the criteria for the competition, budgets, materials, and prizes. Please come to learn more about this great opportunity!
Sponsor: Air & Waste Management Association | Contact: Nicole Chisholm
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- SAGE09: Sustainable and Green Entrepreneurship Seminar
8:30 am - 3:30 pm. Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Community Room. Do you want to be a science millionaire? All day event for high school students and teachers to learn about the opportunities and ventures in profit and non-profit contexts with the goal of developing a green and sustainable business idea to enter into the MDA of CNY & Syracuse Business Idea Competition. Program will look at the science of environmental challenges, entrepreneurial thinking and the role they play in these challenges. FREE event. Must pre-register. Limited space.
Sponsor: ESF Outreach | Contact: Maura Harling Stefl, 470-6889
- Native American Film and Feast
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Nifkin Lounge ( Marshall Hall). Native American Film and Feast is a celebration of Native American culture. There will be a wide selection of Native Foods to eat. Everyone will get the opportunity to learn Native dance during the Native American Dance Social. There will also be an educational film.
Sponsor: The Baobab Society, ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment | Contact: Dr. Robin Kimmerer
Thursday, November 12, 2009
- Potluck Supper Program: Ecofeminism
5:30 pm. 105 Marshall Hall. Janine DeBaise will lead a discussion on "Ecofeminism". Please bring a dish to pass, or a few dollars toward takeout.
Sponsor: ESF Women's Caucus | Contact: Ruth Yanai, x6955
Friday, November 13, 2009
- Dissertation Defense -- Hyunkee Bae
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm. 105 Marshall. Measuring the Effects of the Voluntary Disclosure of Environmental Management Performance Based on the US Stock Market
Contact: Dayton Reuter, 470-6545
Monday, November 16, 2009
- Thesis Defense -- Wenhua Zhang
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. 439 Baker Lab. Prediction of Tree Diameter and Crown Width from Remote Sensing Imagery
Contact: Francis Webster, 470-6863
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
- MDA Student Business Idea Competition Information Session
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm. Marshall Hall, Alumni Lounge (Nifkin) . Information session for the Metropolitan Development Association CNY Business Idea competition for college and high school students. Come meet a representative from the MDA and learn about how you can enter an idea for this $5,000 prize competition. No registration required, just show up!
Sponsor: Outreach Office | Contact: Maura Harling Stefl, x6889
- MDA Business Idea Competition Information Session
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm. Marshall Hall, Alumni Lounge (Nifkin), SUNY ESF campus, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210. Information session for FACULTY and STAFF who would like to get more information at the Metropolitan Development Association of CNY's Business Idea Competition which has a first place prize of $200,000. There is also a $15,000 agri-business competition. Come meet a representative from the MDA and learn about this unique opportunity!
Sponsor: Outreach Office | Contact: Maura Harling Stefl, x6889
- State of Our Planet Forum
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Nifkin Lounge. Green Campus Initiative is holding a forum to discuss the state of our planet. We submitted five questions to five ESF professors and invited them to share their responses with the college community. Come here what they have to say and voice your own thoughts, Tueday Nov. 17th 5-8pm in Nifkin Lounge. There will be lots of food and great discussions! This is a zero waste event, so bring a tupperware and your mug!
Sponsor: Green Campus Initiative | Contact: Hannah K. Morgan, 5185888640
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Global GIS Day
1st floor Lobby 1-story wing of Baker Lab. Come celebrate Global GIS Day with SUNY ESF's Council of Geospatial Modelling and Analysis (CGMA). See displays on how ESF researcher's are using GIS technology to better understand our natural and man-made environments. Plus free giveways, contests, and prizes.
Sponsor: SUNY ESF Council of Geospatial Modelling and Analysis (CGMA) | Contact: Eddie Bevilacqua, 470-6697
- Lunchtime Learning Seminar: Peter Black on Native American Water Law - Past, Present and Future
11:45 am - 1:00 pm. Alumni Lounge - Marshall Hall. Free Food at the Gallery
Sponsor: Multicultural Affairs | Contact: Eileen Baldassarre, 470-4895
Monday, November 23, 2009
- Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services: A SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines
Alumni Lounge (Nifkin), SUNY ESF campus, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210. This conference is part of the State University of New York’s “Conversations in the Disciplines.” "Conversations" funds intercampus conferences which bring together State University faculty and visiting scholars to examine new trends, review promising findings, and better acquaint them with professional developments in their fields and on other campuses.
Sponsor: SUNY-ESF, SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Grant and Western Consortium for Native Studies | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
- Dissertation Defense -- Michelle Serapiglia
10:00 am - 12:00 pm. 110 Moon Library. Variation in Lignocellulocis Biomass Composition in Segregating Populations of Shrub Willow (Salix spp.) Bioenergy Crops
Contact: Lindi Quackenbush, 470-4727
Monday, November 30, 2009
- Green Buildings and Practices: a three day seminar on LEED AP Core Principles
Marshall Hall, Alumni Lounge, SUNY ESF campus. SUNY ESF Outreach offers Green Buildings and Practices: a three day seminar on LEED Accredited Professional Core Principles. This seminar content will ready green building professionals to become Green Associates and/or LEED AP professionals successfully and to apply green building core principles in current projects.
Sponsor: SUNY ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Ongoing through Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
- Dissertation Defense -- Yinghai Ke
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm. 439 Baker. Tree Crown Detection and Delineation for Forest Inventory Analysis and Species Classification Using Remote Sensing Techniques
Contact: Maureen Fellows, 470-6621
Monday, December 7, 2009
- Dissertation Defense -- Jacob Wickham
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. 408 Baker Lab. Semiochemicals for the Asian Longhorned Beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Contact: Richard Smardon, 470-6576
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
- Principles of Engineering (PE-CIV) Review Classes begin
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. ARCADIS (formerly Blasland, Bouck and Lee (BBL), 6723 Towpath Road, P.O. Box 66, Syracuse, NY 13214. Let us help you prepare for the Principles of Engineering exam. You can do it - we can help. PE-CIV classes begin on December 9, 2009.
Sponsor: SUNY-ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Thursday, December 10, 2009
- Coffee Haus
7:00 pm - 10:30 pm. Nifkin Lounge. FREE FOOD! Student musicians and poets show off their talents! Anyone can perform! Contact Kimberly Quell if you would like to perform at this event - kpquell@syr.edu
Sponsor: Alpha Xi Sigma - ESF's Honor Society | Contact: Kimberly Quell
Friday, December 11, 2009
- December Convocation
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University. December Convocation Ceremony for 2009 December and August Graduates. For more information, visit the website listed. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.
Sponsor: Office of Student Life | Contact: Leah Flynn, 315-470-4865
- December Soiree
6:00 pm - 12:00 pm. Drumlins Country Club. December Soiree is open to all faculty, staff and students that wish to attend. Tickets go on sale in November in Marshall Foyer. A semi-formal dinner dance to celebrate the accomplishments of our December graduates! Families of December graduates also invited.
Sponsor: Undergraduate Student Association | Contact: Leah Flynn, 315-470-4865
Thursday, January 7, 2010
- Principles of Engineering (PE-EE) Review Classes
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. ARCADIS (formerly Blasland, Bouck and Lee (BBL), 6723 Towpath Road, P.O. Box 66, Syracuse, NY 13214. Let us help you prepare for the Principles of Engineering exam. You can do it - we can help. PE-EE classes begin on January 7, 2010.
Sponsor: SUNY-ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Monday, January 11, 2010
- Kiln Drying Workshop
139 Baker Lab, SUNY ESF campus, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 1321-. This course will provide practical knowledge about how wood is effectively kiln dried, and scientific background on related wood properties and drying processes. It will have value for novice as well as experienced kiln operators, and sales, purchasing, marketing and manufacturing managers. Instruction, by university professors and various industry experts, will be in the classroom and through hands-on lab exercises using our modern kiln.
Sponsor: SUNY ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Ongoing through Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
- Potluck Supper
5:30 pm. 110 Moon Library. Please bring a dish to pass, or a few dollars toward takeout. Families welcome!
Sponsor: ESF Women's Caucus | Contact: Ruth Yanai, x6955
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
- Principles of Engineering (PE-ENV) Review Classes
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. ARCADIS (formerly Blasland, Bouck and Lee (BBL), 6723 Towpath Road, P.O. Box 66, Syracuse, NY 13214. Let us help you prepare for the Principles of Engineering exam. You can do it - we can help. PE-ENV classes begin on February 10, 2010.
Sponsor: SUNY-ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions: Kathie Weathers
4:00 pm. 145 Baker Lab. Weathers is Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY and Program Director, Ecosystem Science Cluster, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
Sponsor: ESF Women's Caucus and others | Contact: Heather Engelman, 470-4868
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
- Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions: Molly Welker
4:00 pm. 5 Illick Hall. Welker is Senior Project Manager, Bristol Remediation Services, Anchorage, AK, and will address "Gold Mining versus Salmon Fisheries in Alaska: The Controversy over the Pebble Mine"
Sponsor: Department of Earth Sciences, ESF Women's Caucus, SU Women in Science and Engineering and others | Contact: Heather Engelman, 470-4868
Thursday, March 25, 2010
- Central New York Biotechnology Symposium 2010 – Cultivating Economic Growth
Marshall Hall, Alumni Lounge, SUNY ESF Campus, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210. The purpose of the symposium is for regional universities such as ESF, SU, Cornell, Upstate and maybe others to showcase their entrepreneurial efforts in creating biotech based companies and to develop synergies between those start-up companies.
Sponsor: SUNY ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Sunday, April 11, 2010
- Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium
The Sagamore Resort on Lake George, 110 Sagamore Road, Bolton Landing, NY 12814. The Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium, held at the beautiful Sagamore Resort, fosters quality information exchange between recreation and travel resource managers and researchers throughout North America. The forum provides opportunities for managers from different agencies, states, and governmental levels to discuss current issues and problems in the field. Students and those interested in continuing education in recreation and travel resource management are welcome.
Sponsor: SUNY-ESF | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
Ongoing through Monday, April 13, 2009
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
- Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions: Nina-Marie Lister
4:00 pm. 5 Illick Hall. Lister is Associate Professor, Urban + Regional Planning, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON and Design Critic, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University. Topic TBA
Sponsor: Department of Landscape Architecture and the ESF Women's Caucus | Contact: Heather Engelman, 470-4868
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
- Spring Environmental Summit (High School Students)
9:00 am - 2:00 pm. Baker Hall, Marshall Hall. ESF in the High School Students present their research projects to Outreach staff.
Sponsor: ESF Outreach | Contact: R. Beal, x4867/x6817
Ongoing through Wednesday, June 3, 2009

