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Field Station Friday: Crochet Workshop
March 1, 2024
Join us at MacLeish Field Station for an evening of crochet! We will be making headbands and acorn ornaments. No prior experience necessary; we will teach you the basic stitches and all materials will be provided. Meet at 4:00 pm at Sage Hall Circle for pick up; sign up for a spot in the van at the link below.
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MacLeish Field Station - Meet at Sage Hall Circle
4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire
March 1, 2024
The 2024 Spring Bulb Show Opening Lecture with Dr. Banu Subramaniam, Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Plant worlds are deeply entangled in human worlds. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship in feminist, postcolonial and indigenous studies, the lecture reflects on how gender, race, class, sexuality and nation shape the foundational language, terminology and theories of the modern plant sciences, and how botanical theories remain grounded in the violence of their colonial pasts. Subramaniam wrestles with these difficult origins and lays a roadmap to imagine new biological frameworks that harness the power of feminist thought to reimagine and reinvigorate our love of plants. Preview of the 2024 Spring Bulb Show at Lyman to follow the lecture. This event is wheelchair accessible. For information about disability access or to request accommodations, call (413) 585-2407. To request a sign language interpreter specifically, call (413) 585-2071 (voice or TTY) or e-mail ODS@smith.edu. All requests must be made at least 10 days prior to the event.
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Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
7:30 pm

Lecture with Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser, Dance, Smith College
March 4, 2024
Part of the spring semester Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex, Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

Maple Sugaring with CEEDS!
March 6, 2024
Join CEEDS staff and students for a sugar boil with sap gathered from maple trees at MacLeish. Stop by and sample some fresh sap (how sweet is it straight from the tree, anyway?), take a breath and reconnect with the land as you enjoy a pancake with some locally made maple syrup, and enjoy the hyper-local opportunity to learn more about how this magical sweet stuff is made. Stop by anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.! We can't wait to see you.
Chapin Loading Dock
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Smith Alums in Environmental Government, Law and Policy
March 6, 2024
A friendly conversation with Smith alums about their professional journeys in environmental careers with HANH CHU ‘07, Program Manager, Global Warming Solutions, Mass. Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; ALANA MILLER ‘10, Policy Director, Colorado Climate & Energy, Natural Resources Defense Council; MEGHAN SUSLOVIC ‘18, Offshore Wind Energy Policy Analyst, Maine Governor's Energy Office. Bring your questions and friend! Delicious snacks provided.
CEEDS, Wright 005
4:30 pm

ESG Workshop x Bloomberg Terminal
March 6, 2024
Come learn how you can use the Bloomberg Terminal to explore and extract ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) data! Dinner is provided. Register at the link below.
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Neilson 103
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

We Tried to Warn You, 50 Years of Environmental Activism Via Posters
March 7, 2024
Activism posters and their images, varying from whimsical to apocalyptic, have increased the visibility of environmental problems and partially shaped the bounds of public debate, while highlighting particular issues. Curator Tim Medland will discuss the history of environmental activism posters since the 1970s and aspects of his recent exhibition with this focus at the Poster House, the first and only museum in the USA dedicated to posters, both as historical documents and visual culture. Tim Medland is an independent curator who focuses on the history of visual culture. He holds an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, with a concentration in socially engaged practice. His research interests include the histories of environmental activism, propaganda, transport and migration. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright 005
12:15 pm

Thorns, Swamps and Mountains: Exploring the Value of Botanical Collections in the Digital Age
March 7, 2024
John Berryhill is the Interim Director of the Smith College Botanic Garden. His talk is the first of a three-part botany talk series in honor of John Burk as part of the Spring 2024 Mary Elizabeth Dickason King M.D. Annual Lecture Series in the Life Sciences in Memory of Professor Howard Parshley. Light snacks will be served at 4:15 p.m.; talk to begin at 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
McConnell 103
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Landscapes of Exclusion: A Screening and Book Discussion
March 5, 2024
Join a discussion about the history of public parks in the South, the state park movement, and the segregation of green spaces. The event will highlight William E. O'Brien's award-winning book, Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, with a 15-minute documentary adaptation of the book by filmmaker Ian Forster, produced by the Library of American Landscape History. The screening will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with O'Brien, Forster, and Arthur J. Clement, a preservation architect who attended one of the segregated parks discussed in the film. Register for this free event below:
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Virtual
5:00 pm

Incorporating Air and Water Pollution into the National Income and Product Accounts
March 7, 2024
Maureen Cropper of the University of Maryland will deliver a Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture via Zoom. Dr. Cropper is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the board of directors at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has served as a lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department, chair of EPA’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and chair of EPA’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. In 2016-17 she co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon.
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Webinar - register at link above
9:00 am

Events at Smith

Field Station Friday: Tracking Wildlife
March 8, 2024
Learn how to track wildlife in this hands-on workshop up at MacLeish Field Station! Wear comfortable walking shoes and come dressed for the weather. Meet at 3:30 pm at Sage Hall Circle for pick up; sign up for a spot in the van at the link below.
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MacLeish Field Station - Meet at Sage Hall Circle
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Williams Mystic Info Session
March 11, 2024
Want to learn how one semester can change your worldview? Spend a semester studying away with Williams-Mystic, the coastal campus of Williams College, and investigate pressing world issues through the interdisciplinary lens of America's coasts and oceans! Students of all majors come to the Mystic Seaport Museum from across the country to conduct impactful original research in history, literature, policy, and science. When you're not in the classroom, you will be traveling on expansive and engaging field seminars in various U.S. coastal communities, connecting with stakeholders, scholars, and community leaders in each location. These experiences allow you to study topics like environmental justice, climate change, and food insecurity in an up-close and hands-on way. Learn more at this casual info session. You can contact Jenna Stanley (js39 @ williams.edu) with any questions about the program. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 am

Lecture with Annis Sengupta, Planner, Arts and Culture, MAPC, Boston
March 11, 2024
Part of the spring semester Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex, Graham Hill
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

Exhibit- BUS: A Teacher in Transit
March 13, 2024
Smith College visiting professor of creative writing and Joan Leiman Jacobson Writer-in-Residence Russ Rymer presents an essay in photographs and wall text about the experience of teaching, the nature of reality and perception, and the conjoined arts of science and writing – all told through Rymer’s experience commuting to Northampton on the intercity bus. The ten images in the show, shot with a rudimentary camera during those commutes and blown up to enormous size, capture the magical light show infusing his bus rides, rides Rymer likens to “blasting through space in a kaleidoscope.” The exhibit is presented by the Smith College Office of the Arts, in partnership with the Department of English Language and Literature, and Clark Science Center. The exhibit will be on display from March 13 to May 1.
McConnell Hall Lobby Gallery
8:00 am to 6:00 pm

Sharing Joy of Smith's Greenery: Part One of a Two-Part GIS Workshop
March 14, 2024
Share your favorite greenery on Smith’s campus through this collaborative mapping workshop! Part one will demonstrate ArcGIS Survey123 for public data collection. Part 2 will be a live data collection session mapping your favorite Smith plants!
Sabin Reed 104
4:15 pm to 5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Designing effective environmental and conservation policies
March 14, 2024
Kathleen Segerson of the University of Connecticut will deliver a Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture via Zoom. Dr. Segerson is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental and conservation policies, with applications to groundwater contamination, land use regulation, climate change, agricultural pollution, and protection of marine species. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and a fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm.
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Webinar - register at link above
9:00 am

Nature's Best Hope with guest speaker Doug Tallamy
March 14, 2024
Tallamy, NYT best-selling author and professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware, will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature's best hope.
Mount Holyoke College, Dwight Hall, Room 101
7:00 pm

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Field Station Friday: Freestyle Friday with Optional Guided Hike
March 15, 2024
Enjoy an early spring day up at MacLeish Field Station! Study, picnic, bring a book, or join us for an optional guided hike. Meet at 4:15 pm at Sage Hall Circle for pick up; sign up for a spot in the van at the link below.
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MacLeish Field Station - Meet at Sage Hall Circle
4:15 pm to 6:30 pm

It's Spring Break!
March 18, 2024
March 19, 2024
March 20, 2024
March 21, 2024

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A Scoping Study for a NASA Tropical Forest Terrestrial Ecology Campaign
March 18, 2024
The tropics are experiencing dramatic changes as a result of climate change and land-use change. Shifts in carbon flux dynamics, water cycling, and species composition are resulting in feedbacks with globally important consequences for biodiversity, climate change, and food production. Yet, we also know that the tropical forests are not uniform. Their species diversity, climate, soils, and human impact vary enormously from the Americas to Africa to Asia. As a result, tropical forest ecosystems are already showing evidence of varying responses to climate and land-use change. However, these differences remain highly uncertain and poorly understood. PANGEA is a NASA-funded effort to scope a 6- to 9-year multi-scale campaign in the tropics focused on improving understanding of the heterogeneous responses to climate change, with broad research focus on biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, and food security. We are spending all of 2024 working with the international research and end-user communities to outline a possible campaign in the tropics. In December 2024, we will submit a white paper to NASA detailing our proposal. If selected, the campaign would support coordinated fieldwork and airborne remote sensing data collection that will inform our use of satellite remote sensing and modeling to better understand the change dynamics in the tropics. We are working to coordinate across NASA programs (e.g., carbon cycle science, biodiversity, hydrology, applied science programs on agriculture) as well as with other U.S. and international funding agencies and donors. Although there is no guarantee that NASA will support the recommended project, this is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to assemble multi-disciplinary research communities to align efforts and outline a focused campaign. We will reserve a large portion of time for questions, discussion, and feedback.
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Webinar - register at link above
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

From Environmental Progress to Climate Change Challenges
March 19, 2024
Claire L Parkinson will deliver a Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture via Zoom. Dr. Parkinson is a leading climate scientist who has examined the Earth’s climate system through computer modeling and especially satellite remote sensing, with a particular emphasis on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. She has worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center since July 1978. Among her many prestigious honors and awards, Dr. Parkinson is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Webinar - register at link above
9:00 am