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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

• Thesis Defense -- Alexis Ellis
  3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. 314 Bray Hall. Analyzing Canopy Cover Effects on Urban Temperatures, Baltimore, MD
  Contact: Jungho Im, 470-4709

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

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

• Thesis Defense -- Yue Zuo
  1:30 pm - 3:30 pm. 439 Baker Lab. Road Extraction from Linear Data in Residential and Commercial Areas of Oneida County, NY
  Contact: James Nakas, 470-6769

• Dissertation Defense -- Zhihai Ma
  3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. 324 Bray Hall. Multi-Scale Analyses and Modeling the Patterns and Changes of Bird Species Richness Using Spatial and Wavelet Methods
  Contact: John Farrell, 470-6990

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

• SUOC Bake Sale
  8:00 am - 4:00 pm. First Floor Marshall Hall. Stop by the Outing Club's bake sale in Marshall Hall from 8am to 4pm. Proceed will go towards first aid training for our members. Items available will include hot chocolate, delicious cookies and muffins and so much more for cheap. Or you can just come talk with us about climbing mountains, shredding gnar and all the awesome places we go that you can too.
  Sponsor: Syracuse University Outing Club | Contact: Harry Berking

Friday, December 4, 2009

• Thesis Defense -- Lauren Goldmann
  10:15 am - 12:15 pm. Illick 7. Position Specificity within the Laboulbeniales Genus, Chitonomyces
  Contact: Margaret M. Bryant, 470-4929

• Thesis Defense -- Kathleen Baier
  1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Illick 8. Identification of Chinese Chestnut (Castanea mollissiona) Laccase Gene by Interspecific Suppression Substractive Hybridization
  Contact: William Winter , 470-6876

• 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

• Thesis Defense -- Brian Hoven
  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. 8 Illick Hall. The Influence of Parasitoids and Predators on Buckmoth (Hemilucca maja) Populations in the Albany Pine Bush Reserve
  Contact: Kelley Donaghy, 470-6826

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

• Thesis Defense -- Mark Fabian
  3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. 439 Baker. Hydrological and Ecological Effects of Water Withdrawals from a Dry Tropical Stream
  Contact: Myron Mitchell, 470-6765

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

• Thesis Defense -- Christina Boser
  3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. 7 Illick. Coyote Foraging Ecology in New York State
  Contact: Ruth Yanai, 470-6955

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

• December Graduates Champagne Toast
  3:30 pm - 4:00 pm. Alumni Lounge, Marshall Hall. The ESF Alumni Association would like to "raise our glasses" to the College's newest graduates. Please join us for a champagne toast honoring the Class of 2009 December graduates.
  Sponsor: ESF Alumni Association | Contact: ESF Alumni Association, 315-470-6632

• Save Your Semester Workshop
  5:00 pm - 6:00 pm. 110 Moon Library. An end-of-the-semester workshop about the best ways to prepare for finals and to manage the stress associated with them.
  Sponsor: Academic Support Services - Student Life | Contact: Scott J. Blair, 315470-4921

• 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

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

• Blood Drive
  10:30 am - 3:30 pm. Marshall Hall, Alumni Lounge (Nifkin) . Donate blood! Free cookies and juice will be served!
  Sponsor: Red Cross | Contact: Anna Leiss, 315-440-5497

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

Friday, March 5, 2010

• Blood Drive
  10:30 am - 3:30 pm. Nifkin Lounge. Donate blood! Free cookies and juice will be served!
  Sponsor: Red Cross | Contact: Anna Leiss, 315-440-5497

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

Thursday, March 11, 2010

• 8th Annual Green Building Conference
  Oncenter Complex, 800 S. State Street, Syracuse, NY 13202 . The Annual Green Building Conference Mission is to promote, educate and support green building design, construction and processes. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry partners with the U.S. Green Building Council New York Upstate Chapter to host the Annual Green Building conference at the Oncenter Complex. Featured speaker, SARAH SUSANKA, Bestselling author, architect and cultural visionary.
  Sponsor: SUNY ESF and U.S. Green Building Council New York Upstate Chapter | Contact: Maureen Wakefield, 315-470-6888
  Ongoing through Thursday, March 12, 2009

Monday, March 22, 2010

• Central New York Biotechnology Symposium 2010 – Cultivating Economic Growth
  Drumlins Country Club, 800 Nottingham Road, Syracuse, NY 13224 . 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

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

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

• Blood Drive
  10:30 am - 3:30 pm. Nifkin Lounge. Donate blood! Free cookies and juice will be served!
  Sponsor: Red Cross | Contact: Anna Leiss, 315-440-5497

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

Thursday, April 29, 2010

• Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
  12:00 am. Various labs and spaces around campus. Kids 8-11 will participate in a series of hands-on activities in a number of fields. Registration required, please see website for more information.
  Sponsor: ESF Women's Caucus | Contact: Heather Engelman, 3154704868

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