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Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions 1 and Ms. Sharon Alestalo21Director, ADVANCE & 2Program Manager, ADVANCE/Women in Science & Engineering, Syracuse University ADVANCE: Transforming Workplace Culture. Feb. 7, 3:30-4:30 pm, Alumni (Nikfin) Lounge, Marshall Hall..jpg)
National Science Foundation’s (NSF) ADVANCE endeavors to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. Syracuse University’s Institutional Transformation award is one of seven Institutional Transformation grants funded under the 2010 competition. Dr. Garland's academic training and preparation is in organizational communication, specifically in interpersonal negotiation of identity via workplace interactions. Prior to coming to Syracuse University, she directed Faculty and Staff Diversity within central Human Resources at Cornell University. She has also held an appointment at Ithaca College’s department of Strategic Communication (previously Organizational Communication, Learning, and Design). Prior to administering SU’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program, Ms. Alestalo managed SU’s Healthy Marriage and Family Formation Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She also served for 15 years as the executive director of Girls Incorporated of Central New York.
Marissa Sobolewski-Terry PhD Candidate, Biological Anthropology, University of Michigan Chimpanzees in Uganda Feb. 9, 4-5 pm, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
Ms. Sobolewski-Terry is a Graduate Student Researcher at the Smithsonian while pursuing a doctorate at the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on the hormonal correlated of male chipanzee social behavior. She is an ESF alumna.
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Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions Deborah Delmer Consultant and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis Harnessing the new sciences in support of agriculture in the developing world Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4-5pm, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology and the ESF Women's Caucus
Andreanna King Welch
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo April 5, 4-5 pm, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology and the ESF Honors Program Dr. Andreanna Welch is an evolutionary biologist broadly interested in using molecular techniques to learn about the diversity of life around us. In particular, she is interested in gaining a better understanding of the continuum between populations and species. I investigate the process of divergence, the factors that lead to or impede it, anthropogenic influences on populations and species, their conservation implications, and the process of extinction. She believes that we can gain additional information about these processes by using ancient DNA techniques to incorporate a temporal perspective and look for changes through time. Also, with the advent of new sequencing technology, she increasingly uses genomic approaches to answer these questions. Dr. Welch earned her BS from ESF in 2003, and a PhD in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, University of Maryland, in 2011
Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions Lilian Na'ia Alessa Professor of Biology and Director, Resilience and Adaptive Management Group, University of Alaska Anchorage Water: The Endgame (tentative) Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4-5 pm, Nifkin Lounge or Marshall Auditorium, Marshall Hall
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the Department of
Environmental and Forest Biology, Graduate Student Association, ES Dr. Alessa heads the Resilience and Adaptive Management Group at University of Alaska Anchorage, and has served on the board of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. She currently conducts extensive research on human adaptation to climate change, funded by the National Science Foundation, including International Polar Year projects such as the Indigenous Arctic Observing Network. Canadian-born and raised, Alessa holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from the University of British Columbia and has extensive training in cognitive psychology. Her studies of cellular organization greatly inform her current approaches to social ecological complexity. Lil’s expertise is in the conceptual development and application of complex systems thinking, and development of research strategies. She holds affiliate appointments at the University of Alaska's Water and Environmental Research Center and Arizona State University's Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity.
Earlier this year: Adaptive Peaks Speaker Series Kathy Bunting-Howarth
Associate Director, New York Sea
Grant Institute & Assistant Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension-Coastal
Programs, Ithaca, NY Thursday, Sept 29, 2011, 4-5 pm, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
Adaptive Peaks Speaker Series Mollie Manier
Research Associate Professor,
Biology, Syracuse University Thursday, Oct 6, 2011, 4-5 pm, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology Dr. Manier's research interests center around natural variation, both genetic and phenotypic, and its significance in population and species divergence of fitness-related traits. Prior to coming to SU, she held NSF (SU) and NIH NRSA (Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University) Research Fellowships. She has also worked as a Herpetologist for the Blodgett Forest Research Station and the Museam of Vertebrate Zoology, both at UC Berkeley. She holds a B.A. Integrative Biology, UC-Berkeley and a PhD in Zoology from Oregon State University.
Update on Mechanisms of Cellulose Biosynthesis in Plants October 28, 2011,3-4:30 pm,148 Baker Lab Cellulose biosynthesis in plants occurs through the activity of a protein-based nanomachine that can convert soluble sugar into strong cellulose fibrils. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most remarkable processes occurring in nature, yet we do not understand the details of how the protein complex is organized or acts mechanistically. The details of how this complex organizes and works affect important cellulose properties such as fibril size, crystallinity, and degree of polymerization. This seminar will provide an update about current knowledge as well as novel recent research approaches.
Dr. Sarah Pabian NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University, Songbirds, snails, and soils: Calcium limitations in acidified forest ecosystems in Pennsylvania Thursday, November 17, 2011, 11-12 110 Moon Library Sponsored by the Department of Forest and Natural Resources Dr. Pabian is an applied ecologist with interests in ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, avian ecology, and environmental pollution. She is interested in the movements and interactions of nutrients, pollutants, and toxic metals through ecosystems. She is currently studying how mercury, aluminum, and calcium move trophically from soils to songbirds in forests impacted by acid rain and mercury pollution.
Adaptive Peaks Speaker Series Jaqueline Lu Director of Research, NYC Urban Field Station, USFS & Forestry Analyst, NYC Parks and Recreation, Flushing, NY Urban forestry research in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene (tenative) Thursday, Nov 17, 2011, 4-5 pm, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology Jacqueline Lu leads NYC Parks’ efforts in the New York City Urban Field Station, a research partnership between Parks and the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. She started working for Parks as a street tree planting forester in 1999, and has since led and coordinated interdisciplinary research projects on a wide variety of topics relevant to urban natural resource management, including using satellite imagery to measure land cover change over time, calculating the value of ecological benefits provided by street trees, assessing built environment and social factors affecting planted street tree mortality and long-term outcomes of forest restoration. Ms. Lu holds a BA from Princeton University and a MA, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology from Columbia University. All presentations are free and open to the public. Parking is available in Syracuse University's Irving Avenue Parking garage (area map; close up). The fee is $3.50 for the first hour, $2 for each additional. Presented
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Dr. Delmer
is renowned
for her investigation of plant cell biochemistry, so her retirement from that
field in 2002 to
serve as Associate Director for Food Security for the Rockefeller Foundation
surprised her colleagues. In her new role, she was charged with grant making
and policy relating to the role biotechnology can play in advancing the
improvement of crops for the developing world. Dr. Delmer retired again in 2007
and now serves on a number of advisory boards and works independently as a
consultant to foundations, industry, and governments on developing world
agriculture and on issues surrounding biomass production. Most notably: in
2009/10, she served as Program Director to help roll out a new program called
BREAD that supports innovative research that addresses issues of importance to
small-holder farmers in the developing world and is jointly funded by the US
National Science Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2010,
she became a member of the Board of Governors of The International Center for
Research on the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), one of the 15 centers of CGIAR
devoted to research that promotes agriculture in the developing world.
Prior
to her dual role with NY Sea Grant and Cornell Cooperative Extension,
Bunting-Howarth was with the Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control (DNREC) where she began in 1998 serving the Division of
Water Resources with distinction in a variety of roles culminating in the
position of Director overseeing a staff of 160 employees. Bunting-Howarth
holds a Ph.D. in Marine Studies and a B.A. in Biology and International
Relations from the University of Delaware as well as a J.D. from the University
of Oregon School of Law.
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