Guest blog submitted by Meera M. Patel. Ms. Patel is a rising senior at Fishers High School, a High Honor Roll student and a Project STEM intern. This summer, Ms. Patel is researching Combined Sewage Overflows, assisting with community based research and spending some of her time interning with Amber Rollings at CEES. Reconnecting to… Read more »
CEES researchers (and IUPUI Department of Earth Sciences faculty) Dr. Lixin Wang and Dr. Pierre-Andre Jacinthe and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Stefani Daryanto published a new paper this month, “Global synthesis of drought effects on food legume production,” in the journal PLOS ONE. Wang et al.’s focus on legumes is of particular importance due to these… Read more »
Thanks to a dissemination grant from the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning, researchers Jennifer Nelson, Jessica Davis, and Sarah Goss from IUPUI’s Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) and the Department of Earth Sciences attended the 6th International Symposium on Service Learning (ISSL) at the University of Indianapolis.
Congratulations, Jessica! We are pleased though a bit sad to share that as of June 1st Jessica Davis has stepped down from Assistant Director at CEES to assume a new role as the IUPUI Campus Director of Sustainability.
As we say goodbye to Jessica Davis who began as IUPUI’s Director of Sustainability June 1st (see separate post), I am happy to announce that Amber Rollings will be fulfilling the role of Interim Assistant Director of CEES for the summer.
The Discovering the Science of the Environment education staff enjoyed investigating Pogue’s Run with the 5th grade students at Paramount School of Excellence this month. The stretch of stream under study is located between Spade’s Park and Brookside Park on Indy’s near eastside, adjacent to the students’ school.
The Spring 2015 Service Learning events were a great success and packed full of environmental fun. During this semester, CEES staff, many student volunteers, and dedicated staff from Indianapolis parks and organizations were able to revive large areas of native Indiana habitat by removing extensive amounts of invasive plant species and performing much needed trail… Read more »
Guest blog submitted by IUPUI undergraduate, Jacki Renforth (jmguyer@umail.iu.edu), a Senior in the Communications Studies Program. Jacki’s news story, which focuses on environmental initiatives at IUPUI and the Earth Day Indiana Festival, is a part of her course final project in J200 – Reporting, Writing, and Editing. Earth Day is over, but not for the… Read more »
Danielle Follette, CEES Staff, and Jacob Burch, CEES Undergraduate Intern, have become quite familiar with the agricultural landscape over the past few months as the April showers are providing data for CEES’ Edge of Field research project. During a rain event, collection of water samples is triggered by water flow volume and collected in ISCO samplers.
Guest blog submitted by IUPUI undergraduate student Michael McCormick (mccormim@imail.iu.edu), Environmental Science Major . I have always been very interested in science, specifically animals and plants. Due to this interest, I decided to pursue an internship with the Department of Public Works Land Stewardship Program. In this internship, I am working to restore native plant vegetation… Read more »