July 2012 - Ese-faculty-list

Aug 3 8am-12:30pm Potter 122 - Undergraduate Research Presentations Related to Environ. Sustainability
by Lee, Linda S 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Attached (and below) is a schedule of final presentations for the undergraduates doing research on projects related to environmental sustainability supported by Purdue's NSF supported REU Site program. . [cid:image003.png@01CD6C14.DB908640]

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New Fall 1 cr Course: Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability
by Lee, Linda S 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

See below (and same info in attached for posting) [cid:image003.png@01CD665D.0F20C550]AGRY 59800: Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability Fall 2012; 1 credit, CRN: 60224 When: Thursday, 3:30-5pm in 2-407 Lilly Hall Lead Instructors: Sylvie Brouder, Jeff Volenec Natural environments provide enormously valuable, but largely unappreciated, services that aid humans and other earthlings. It is becoming clear that these life-support systems are faltering and failing worldwide due to human actions that disrupt nature's ability to do its beneficial work. Using peer-reviewed literature, the course will address various aspects of ecosystem services, which may include how ecosystem services affect infectious and chronic diseases, what resources can be produced renewably or recovered by developing intense technologies that can be applied on a massive scale, social and technical capabilities needed to respond to abrupt changes in ecosystem services, agricultural and aquacultural systems that provide food security while maintaining the full set of ecosystem services needed from landscapes and seascapes, production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition, methods to accurately value natural capital and ecosystem services, types of federal policy needed to maintain or improve natural capital and ecosystem services within the United States, including measuring and documenting the effectiveness of the policy, how an international trade system can include accounting for impacts on ecosystem services, and increasing the American public's appreciation of the basic principles of ecosystem services. Each student will be expected to read and discuss assigned literature each week and formally lead at least one discussion during the semester. Linda S. Lee Ecological Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Program Head http://www.purdue.edu/ese/<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/ese/> Professor, Environmental Chemistry, http://www.agry.purdue.edu/staffbio/lslbio.htm Associate Head, Purdue University, Department of Agronomy Crop Soil & Environmental Sciences 915 W. State Street, 3-363 Lilly Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054 Office: (765) 494-8612; Cell (765) 414-3086 Fax (765) 496-2926

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ESE Summer Social Activity
by Musser, Christal A. 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hello ESE students and faculty, The summer is going by so quickly. I'm beginning to plan the ESE Summer Social. I have put together a doodle poll to see when is the best date and time to have the ESE social. It will most likely be similar to last year, as we did a picnic at one of the nearby parks and we had games/activities for all to participate in. http://www.doodle.com/9msk2z7hsdsmzx23 Please go to the link and fill in all the times you are available to attend. Please completed the doodle poll by Friday, July 6th. Thank you and have a great weekend! Christal Musser Program Coordinator Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Purdue University Young Hall, Room 948 155 S. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 765-494-2102 musser(a)purdue.edu<mailto:musser@purdue.edu> http://www.purdue.edu/ese<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/ese>

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PhD Defense announcement-Lamis Behbehani
by Musser, Christal A. 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Lamis Behbehani PhD Defense Ecological Sciences and Engineering Forestry and Natural Resources Does LEED-Certified Multifamily Housing Influence Occupants' Environmental Behaviors? Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:30 a.m. Pfendler Hall, Room 120 Everyone is welcome Christal Musser Program Coordinator Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Purdue University Young Hall, Room 948 155 S. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 765-494-2102 musser(a)purdue.edu<mailto:musser@purdue.edu> http://www.purdue.edu/ese<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/ese>

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