INAEP Scholarships Available. The Indiana Association of Environmental Professionals (INAEP) is accepting applications for their 2018 scholarship program. Multiple scholarships of $1000-$2000 will be awarded to help promote and support the training of the next generation of environmental professionals in Indiana. See the INAEP web site to learn more about the organization and to find further details concerning… Read more »
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2018 Global Big Day
Birding’s 2018 Global Big Day is May 5. 2018 is the Year of the Bird, and this year’s Global Big Day for birding will be May 5 – that’s right: Cinco de Mayo. Get your birding team together and go count birds . . . . for Science! More information can be found on the… Read more »
Project 4 Cancelled Due to Weather
Important Notice for All Those Who Registered for Service Learning Project 4 (Trash Clean Up at the Lilly ARBOR). Project 4, scheduled for Saturday, March 24, is cancelled. The back-up date, Sunday, March 25, has also been cancelled.
Don’t Feed the Geese
Be Gone Fowl Creature! It’s a sure sign of spring when geese are back on campus (and the bird puns take wing).
National Groundwater Awareness Week
March 11-17 is National Groundwater Awareness Week. Groundwater is a precious (and in some locations, finite) resource that accumulates in areas of water-bearing permeable rock known as aquifers.
Invasive Species Awareness Week
It’s Invasive Species Awareness Week! Humanity has done a spectacular (in some cases spectacularly disastrous) job of transporting species around the globe. Any species that did not evolve in a particular location, but is now established in that location, is referred to as being non-native.
Symposium: Insects as Food and Feed
Insects as food and feed – How to save the planet and get protein too! Are you concerned about the environmental impacts of animal agriculture? Have you ever wondered about using insects as an alternative source of protein? If so, the Black Fly Soldier Symposium may be for you.
Service Opportunity: Pollinator Garden
Union Chapel United Methodist Church to Install Pollinator Garden.
Why Birds Matter
2018 declared Year of the Bird! In celebration of the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), 2018 has been declared the Year of the Bird.1,2 For those already enthralled by avian antics, this is welcome news: Birds are receiving the recognition they deserve – huzzah! Those who have only a passing familiarity with birds, on the other… Read more »
2017 FFA Career Success Day Field Trip to Starkey Farms
By Robert Barr. CEES, with support from USDA-NIFA and in partnership with colleagues from the Hendricks County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), the Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), hosted a Future Farmers of America (FFA) Career Success Day on October 26 at Starkey Farms in Brownsburg, Indiana.