Center for Environmental Studies

Williams College

Calendar of EventsSpring 2012

ces.williams.edu

Research assistants from the Ting Lab (Biology Department) on a scientific expedition in the Sargasso Sea. From front to back: Adena Hernandez ’12, Donna Lee ‘12,

Ellen Beauchamp ‘12, Kyle Martin ‘12.

OceansA Symposium

February2/17 Disaster-Driven Ocean Policy in the United States: Gulf Oil Spill Not Big Enough? Catherine Robinson Hall, Williams-Mystic Program 2:30 pm, Wege Auditorium

2/21 Boulder Ideas: Storm Waves Can Move Megagravel on Cliff Tops of the Aran Islands, Ireland, Ronadh Cox, Department of Geosciences, Williams College, 7 pm, TBL 112

2/27 A Sea Change, Imagine a World Without Fish, Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker staff writer and author will lead a discussion following a showing of the film, 7 pm, TBL 112

March3/6 Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ocean Acidification Scott Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 7 pm, TBL 112

April4/10 Rethinking People and Parks (Once Again): Reflections on Ocean Environments from Tanzania’s Mafia Island Marine Park Christine Walley, Department of Anthropology, MIT, 7 pm, TBL 112

4/17 Bluewater Thresholds: Understanding the Resilience of Global Fisheries Governance, D.G. Webster, Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, 7 pm, TBL 112

4/24 Invasions in the Sea: The History, Science and Policy of Adding Species to Marine Communities, James Carlton, Williams-Mystic Program and Department of Biology, Williams College, 7 pm, TBL 112

Oceans Symposium SeriesSee back page for details

Center for Environmental Studies 54 Stetson Court Harper House Williamstown, MA 01267ces.williams.edu

Log Lunch Speaker Series

February

2/10 Vermont Energy Parks: A Solar, Wind, and Environmental Asset Gabe Selig, President, Southport Power, LLC

2/24 The Three C’s: Climate, Carbon, and Conservation, Todd Holland, Energy Conservation Project Manager, Williams College

March

3/2 Take It to the Gas Station: Art, Design, and Vulnerability on the Gulf Coast, Aron Chang ‘05, Architectural Designer, Waggonner and Ball Architects

3/9 Reforming Landscape Architecture by Practicing the Liberal Arts Nina Antonetti, Assistant Professor, Landscape Studies, Smith College

April

4/6 Conserving Working Farms and Forests in Vermont Donald Campbell, Southwest Regional Director, Vermont Land Trust

4/13 Toward a New American Pastoralism: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese, a discussion with Brad Kessler, author of Goat Song

4/20 The True Cost of Justice: Imagining Ecological and Social Debt in Latina Fiction, Michelle Joffroy, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith College

4/27 Why Do We Think That Local Food Is Healthy Food, Hanna Saltzman ‘12

May

5/4 Last Lunch is outside! Free lunch for Seniors! Presentation of books to Seniors

Environmental Studies Program 2/9 CES Summer Funding Info Session, 7 pm, Harper House, application deadline, Thursday, March 15, 5 pm 5/9 Tom Hardie III ’78 Memorial Award, submissions due 5/16 CES Spring Picnic, Thursday, 5:45 pm, Harper House, rsvp with kfletcher@williams.edu

6/2 Senior Reception following Baccalaureate, Harper House, families welcome

6/9 Alumni Picnic, 12 noon, Harper House

Log Lunch is held Fridays from 12 -1 at The Log at 78 Spring Street. Reservations may be made byemailing kfletcher@williams.edu by 9 a.m. Thursday. Lunches cost $3.50or $25 for a semester pass ($20 for seniors).

Maple Fest!

Saturday, March 10, 11-2

A maple celebration at Hopkins Memorial Forest. Includes a visit to a working sugar house, an old kettle boiler, tapping of maple trees, tree identification, syrup tasting, pancakes, and more - rain or shine. Join the fun! Van rides available from Chapin, all are welcome to visit the sugar house anytime during the sugaring season. Located at the intersection of Northwest Hill Road and Bulkley

Street.

photo by Joe Dsilva

Amphibians and Reptiles of the

Berkshires

Saturday, April 21, time to be announced

Tom Tyning

photo by Kevin Fleming

Animal TrackingWorkshop

Saturday, February 11, 9-1

Reservations required with Andrew.T.Jones@williams.edu

Public Lectures 2/23 Joel Salatin, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, 7:30 pm, Brooks Rogers Auditorium

3/5 Melissa Checker, Associate Professor, Dept of Urban Studies, Queens College Environmental Racism, 8 pm, Room 6, Griffin Hall

4/26 Dr Paulette Goudge, founder and director of the Mariposa Spanish School and Eco-Hotel, The Challenges of Eco-Living in a Poor Country (Nicaragua), 7 pm, Harper House

Hopkins Forest