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MacLeish Field Station trail development
October 29, 2010
We are in the process of building a single track trail network at Smith's Field Station in West Whately. These trails is envisioned not only as access to research sites by faculty and students, but also as recreational trails for use by everyone in the Smith community for hiking, xc skiing, snowshoeing and mtn biking). Join us to learn how to build sustainable trails and see the local area at the same time. Work times will be short 2-3 hour sessions- either 3-6pm or 4-6pm- back for dinner. Email sjohnson at smith.edu to RSVP, get more info, and find out where to join the group.
MacLeish Field Station, Whately

Events Off Campus

Cultivating Environmental Leadership
October 29, 2010
With Barbara Block, the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University, California. A founder of the tuna research and conservation center at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Professor Block is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Cassani Room, Shattuck Hall, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 pm

Water, Climate and Vegetation: Ecohydrology of a Changing World
November 3, 2010
A talk with Andrew J. Guswa, Smith College Director, Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability, Associate Professor, Picker Engineering Program. Part of New England Faculty Colloquium: Impacts of Climate Change, a biweekly series that explores Impacts of Climate Change through presentations from invited speakers and the ensuing discussion between participants. Topics will partly focus on climate change impacts on the New England environment.
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ELab II room, UMASS
2:30 pm

Ervin Zube Lecture Series
November 4, 2010
Join us for a lecture with Kathleen Lugosch, Professor, Art, Architecture, and Art HIstory, UMASS
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UMass, Amherst, Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Exhibition: Art to Landscape/Landscape to Art
November 5, 2010- January 30, 2011
Weaving together drawings, paintings, and sculptural installations with landscape design, W. Gary Smith creates artistic connections with the landscape. The use of color in his paintings and drawings is extraordinary and visitors will be transported into another world.\ W. Gary Smith, one of North America’s leading landscape designers, specializes in botanical gardens and arboreta, as well as public art installations and private gardens, often weaving together local ecological and cultural themes.
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Church Exhibition Gallery, Lyman Plant House

MacLeish Field Station trail development
November 5, 2010
November 11, 2010
We are in the process of building a single track trail network at Smith's Field Station in West Whately. These trails is envisioned not only as access to research sites by faculty and students, but also as recreational trails for use by everyone in the Smith community for hiking, xc skiing, snowshoeing and mtn biking). Join us to learn how to build sustainable trails and see the local area at the same time. Work times will be short 2-3 hour sessions- either 3-6pm or 4-6pm- back for dinner. Email sjohnson at smith.edu to RSVP, get more info, and find out where to join the group.
MacLeish Field Station, Whately

Presentation of the Major and minors in Environmental Science and Policy
November 5, 2010
Come find out about our major and minor in environmental science and policy, and our minor in marine science and policy! Meet advisers and other students in the program. Lunch provided.
Bass Hall room 102
12:10 pm

From Art to landscape: Unleashing Creativity in Garden design
November 5, 2010
A lecture by W. Gary Smith. Garden designers face some daunting questions: How do I begin the creative process? Where can I find design inspiration? How will I know if my design is successful? Join Gary Smith to explore how to approach these questions as an artist.
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Carroll Room, Campus Center
7:30 pm

The Fall Chrysanthemum Show
November 6, 2010
Come to the Botanic Garden to enjoy the annual show! November 6-21.
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Smith Botanic Garden
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Deserts in a Changing World
November 8, 2010
A lecture by Dr. Jed Sparks, Cornell University. 4 pm tea and cookies 4:30 pm lecture Part of the Smith College Life Sciences Colloquium Lecture Series: Biology, Biochemistry, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Marine Science and Neuroscience.
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McConnell 103
4:00 pm

Pizza Party!
November 9, 2010
Join us to learn more about the Williams Mystic Maritime Studies program- a semester long Smith College approved study-away program.
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Campus Center 204
5:15 pm

Green Team Meeting!
November 11, 2010
The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students dedicated to fostering sustainability at Smith by educating and supporting the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources, attaining the greatest possible efficiencies and preventing pollution. All are welcome to join the team or come to a meeting to propose your ideas to the group.
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Campus Center 102
12:00 pm

Film screening: "Clash of the Continents: End of Man"
November 11, 2010
See Professor Sara Pruss, Paleontologist Extraordinaire, in a National Geographic Documentary. Lunch will be served
Sabin-Reed 101A
12:10 pm

Chrysanthemum Poetry Reading
November 11, 2010
Selected poems read by students in East Asian Languages and Literature 231
Church Exhibition Gallery, Lyman Plant House
3:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Film screening: Fresh
November 5, 2010
Join us for the area premiere of Fresh to benefit the Northampton Community Farm. Tickets are $8. FRESH celebrates the innovative farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. "If Food Inc. was your wake-up all, FRESH is your call to action" (EcoSalon)
Academy of Music, Northampton
7:00 pm

Film: Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War
November 7, 2010
A first activity for the Interfaith Environmental Coalition. In the past the discussions about climate change, alternative or renewable energy, and peak oil have been dominated by scientists and politicians. We believe it is time to bring ethical and religious perspectives to the discussion, especially since it is some of the poorest people in earth who are suffering the most – from the floods in Pakistan and Bangladesh to the droughts in Africa. Join us for the movie and discussion. Everyone is welcome.
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Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse at 121 North Pleasant Street in Amherst
7:00 pm

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ES&P lunchbag: NOAA summer interns report back
November 15, 2010
Join us to hear from more students "in the environment." Three students who spent 10 weeks this summer as paid interns for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at various locations in the U. S. will describe their research experiences. Come hear what they did, what it was like to work as an intern, and find out how you might get involved next summer. Lunch provided.
Bass Hall 102
12:00 pm

Presentation from four schools of public health
November 18, 2010
Admissions representatives from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Yale School of Public Health will review graduate degree program offerings in public health. The presentation will be followed by an opportunity for questions and answers.
McConnell B15
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

"Communicating Climate Change on Television"
November 16, 2010
A lecture by Evan Hadingham, Senior Science editor, NOVA/WGBH How do you translate the abstract science and politics of global warming to television, a highly visual medium that demands a lot of emotion and action? Climate programs tend to fall into predictable genres, ranging from "gloom and doom" exploitations of disaster to "eco-fantasies" about the environmental future. In this talk, Evan Hadingham, Science Editor of the PBS NOVA series, will discuss NOVA's approach to producing shows about global warming, highlighting the special challenges of covering this vital subject. The take-home message is that climate programs can be successful without relying on "disaster porn."
Hasbrouck 138, UMASS Amherst
4:00 pm

Lecture: “Rediscovering the Local in the Global: How to Write a Global History of Environmentalism”
November 16, 2010
Joachim Radkau studies global environmental history as a Professor of History at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. His book, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (2008), received the 2010 Book Award from the World History Association. His new biography of Max Weber, Max Weber: A Biography (2009), hailed as original and creative, explores Weber’s conception of “nature” in his life and thought. There will be a reception following the lecture at 6:00 pm, in the Cassani Lounge, Room 102, Shattuck Hall. For more information on the event, please contact the Environmental Studies Program, (413) 538-2898, or the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, (413) 538-3091.
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Room 101, Dwight Hall, Mount Holyoke College
4:15 pm

Lecture: Animal Behavior, Autism, and Sensory-Based Thinking
November 17, 2010
By Temple Grandin, a renowned leader in the autism and animal welfare movements. Dr. Grandin will discuss her insights into animal behavior and how her autism and visual thinking led to a revolution in animal husbandry and food production. Dr. Grandin established herself through her pioneering work with animals and in designing humane meat-processing facilities. She has done extensive work on the design of handling facilities; half the cattle in the United States and Canada are handled in equipment she has designed for meat plants. The event is free and open to the public.
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Gamble Auditorium in the Art Building, Mount Holyoke College
7:30 pm

Ervin Zube Lecture Series
November 18, 2010
Join us for a lecture by Steve Simpson of Steve Simpson Associates, Falmouth, MA. The last in the Ervin Zube Lecture Series.
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UMass, Amherst, Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm

Stephen Stimson Lecture
November 18, 2010
Stephen Stimson, FASLA, and his firm, Stephen Stimson Associates, is nationally recognized and has won numerous design awards. YANKEE MODERN: Born and raised on a dairy farm, Stephen Stimson’s agrarian heritage has inspired and shaped the landscapes he has created across New England and the country. With a deep respect for the history and craft of the built landscape, he will speak candidly about twenty-three years of practice and the evolution of his firm’s design process and approach, illustrated by distinct projects that range in scale and context. There will be a reception with food and a cash bar immediately following the event at the University Club, 243 Stockbridge Rd. SpPonsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst.
room 105 Hills Building, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm