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Environmental Concentration Capstone Presentations
December 6, 2017
2:45pm Sustainable Food: Agroforestry Design at MacLeish Field Station (Lily Williams and Shannon Paton) 3:15pm Climate Change:The Path to 80%: Strategies for Emissions Reductions in Springfield, MA (Alexandra Davis, Maggie Painter, Molly Peek, Samantha Peikes, and Meghan Suslovic)
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Real Food Challenge Education and Work Party!
December 6, 2017
Want to know more about what the Real Food Challenge is? Interested in the work of RFC Calculator Interns? Just interested in food justice in general? Come on down to CEEDS next Thursday from 5-6pm to learn from the best as to what RFC is and how SSFJ engages with it!
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower-level
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Events at Smith

Honors thesis interim report- Proxy carbon pricing at Smith College:
December 6, 2017
An economic transition strategy to lower carbon emissions through informed decision-making. Senior ES&P major Breanna Parker will give an interim report on her honors thesis analyzing how proxy carbon pricing can be used at Smith as a strategic tool for making the carbon emissions consequences of campus operations more evident in campus policies and decision-making. Lunch Provided
Sabin-Reed 103
12:15 pm

Landscape Studies lecture
December 7, 2017
by Leigh Graham, Department of Public Management, John Jay College. Lecture Title TBA. Part of the LSS 100 lecture series. All welcome.
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

ENV/GEO 150 GIS Project Presentations
December 8, 2017
Student groups will present their semester-long GIS mapping projects in partnership with campus offices and local conservation non-profits. Presentations include: 1) Where does Smith College food come from? Mapping food sources for campus dining halls [Partners: Office of Campus Sustainability; Dining Services] 2) Where does Smith College food go? Mapping the flow of food from dining halls to community organizations and compost facilities [Partners: Office of Campus Sustainability; Dining Services] 3) Assessing invasive species management practices on and around the Smith campus [Partner: Botanic Garden] 4) An interactive web-based map of significant trees on campus [Partner: Botanic Garden] 5) Stone walls and the stories they tell: Mapping natural and cultural history at Graves Farm, Williamsburg [Partner: Mass Audubon] 6) Siting trail signage in the Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke Ranges [Partner: Kestrel Land Trust]. Refreshments will be served.
Sabin-Reed 104 (Spatial Analysis Lab)
11:00 am to 12:10 am

Introduction to GIS- Final Course Project Presentations
December 8, 2017
Students in this semester's class have been working on projects in partnership with campus offices and local conservation organizations. Join us to hear about their work with Dining Services, the Botanic Garden, the Office of Campus Sustainability and Planning, Mass Audubon, and the Kestrel Land Trust. Refreshments will be served.
Spatial Analysis Lab (Sabin-Reed 104)
11:00 am to 12:10 pm

Engineering Design Clinic Mid-year Presentations
December 8, 2017
Students are collaborating on applied design projects with a range of external sponsors - some continuing partnerships, some new. Presentations will be roughly 15 minutes each, following the schedule below. The complete project titles and student names are on the DC website. See link below. Come for a single presentation or stay for the afternoon. 12:30pm PRELUDE (Ford Atrium) EGR 100 Prototypes (Section 03: Bits, Bots, and Thoughts); 1:10pm ACT ONE Welcome SGH - Repair Design for Brick Masonry Building, Bechtel - Drought Resilience in Kenya, UTAS - Statistical Process Control System; 2:00pm INTERMISSION with refreshments + EGR 100 Prototypes (Atrium); 2:20pm ACT TWO Dresser-Rand - 3D-Printed Test Rig Components, NNE - Pharmaceutical Process Simulation, Coleman/ESPC - Inclusive Doll Design; 3:05pm INTERMISSION with refreshments; 3:20pm ACT THREE MRGC - Riverbank Stabilization for Greenway, FloDesign Sonics - Particle Separation Platform, Instrumentation Laboratory - Blood Mixing Device; Closing
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Ford Hall 240
12:30 pm to 4:10 pm

Field Station Friday
December 8, 2017
Get off campus, take a break from the end-of-semester pressure, and reconnect with the natural world at MacLeish! Our field station has it all- scenic views, miles of hiking trails, sites for research and a state-of-the-art living building with tea and wifi. Vans leave from Chapin loading dock at 1, and will be back in time for tea. Sign up with the link below.
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Meet the van at Chapin Loading Dock and head to MacLeish 1:00 pm
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ENV 312 Capstone Presentations
December 12, 2017
Projects: 1) Assessing the Quantity and Disciplinary Distribution of Sustainability Courses at Smith College (Caroline Eyman, Margaret Hewitt, Samantha Peikes); 2) Assessing, Quantifying, and Planning for Invasive Rosa multiflora (Multiflora Rose) Removal (Ellie Mason, Rowan Turner, Ellen Sulser); 3) Stakeholder Perception of Green Spaces: Understanding and Thinking to Help Guide the Landscape Master Plan (Madeleine Meadows-McDonnell, Ariana Banks, Christine Chu); 4) Assessing Smith College’s Unaccounted Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Qiuzi Chen, Julia Franchi Scarselli, Angelica Radke). Vegetarian lunch provided.
Campus Center 103/104
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Community Food Systems Conference
December 6, 2017
December 7, 2017
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project's Community Food Systems Conference will address common underlying themes between food security, social justice and sustainable agriculture including obstacles in urban and rural environments and fostering community empowerment to create and sustain resilient local food systems.
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Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

What the Clean Power Plan Would Have Done
December 7, 2017
with John Larsen. Mr. Larsen will review US climate policy progress and pitfalls over the past decade and provide commentary and analysis on what the future holds for US climate action in the absence of federal leadership. Mr. Larsen is a Director at the Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s US power sector work. He previously worked for the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis and the World Resources Institute’s Climate and Energy Program. His work has been featured in numerous publications including the New York Times and NPR.
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst College
5:00 pm

Being Human in STEM (HSTEM) Salon
December 12, 2017
Join us for our salon! Enjoy refreshments and the company of Humans with a range of STEM experiences as we share progress on the projects we conducted during this 4th iteration of the HSTEM collaborative course.
Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Events at Smith

Landscape Studies lecture
December 14, 2017
with Dani McKahn, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. Lecture title TBA. Part of the LSS 100 lecture series. All welcome.
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

Future Landscape Master Planning- an ELFs presentation
December 18, 2017
Students in Biology and Environmental Science and Policy programs, in collaboration with Botanic Garden and Office of Campus Sustainability staff, have been engaged in a special studies course to explore how ecological principals can be incorporated into future Smith College landscape master planning. The Environmental Landscape Foursome (ELFs for short) – Hazel Edwards ’19, Kate Hanks ’18, Emily Hitchcock ’19, and Elsbeth Pendleton-Wheeler ’19 – have spent the Fall semester reviewing Smith College’s current master site plan (completed in 1995 by Rolland/Towers with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander ’44), exploring trends in environmental campus planning, and seeing how Smith stacks up against other academic institutions. This continues a long standing tradition of Smithies influencing the landscape of Smith College through academics.
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower-level
8:30 am to 9:00 am

New Trails at MacLeish: A Special Studies Presentation
December 19, 2017
Ever wonder where hiking trails come from? Already know and want to hear about someone else's experience? Come hear about the process of designing a new trail at MacLeish Field Station to provide access to Jimmy Nolan Brook. We will provide some trail mix, but bring your own lunch and remember to leave no trace!
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower-level
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

UMass: Holiday Plant Sale
December 15, 2017
Choose from Amaryllis, Holiday cactus, Mixed succulents, Canna lily, Jade, Ferns, Elephant ears, and much more!
Campus Center Auditorium Room: Concourse UMass Amherst Campus
10:00 am

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