Collaborative blog by Jenna Gatzke & Amber Rollings.
For the past year, CEES’ educational outreach team has been working with a total of six schools in both Indianapolis and Eldoret, Kenya (funding appreciably provided by Dow AgroSciences). (more…)
CEES Engages in Cyanobacteria Research
Guest blog submitted by Kira Wiseman. Kira is a recent graduate of the B.S. Environmental Science program. Kira helps in data entry and water sampling processes in order to facilitate cyanobacteria research.
Essential research is being conducted in Indiana, amongst other states, to better understand cyanobacteria species and what causes the production of cyanotoxins. The research helps to address particular issues, such as how cyanotoxins’ effects can and do harm human and wildlife health. (more…)
Lakes Appreciation Month in Indiana
For those of you that have not heard yet, on July 1st Governor Pence signed an Executive Order Proclamation making July 2015 Lakes Appreciation Month in Indiana!
IUPUI students help to meet CEES mission
Here at CEES, we are lucky to have great IUPUI undergraduate and graduate students that assist us in carrying out our mission. This past Spring Semester, we had 19 driven students! Here is a short summary of their efforts and some links to their work. (more…)
ROW | StreamLines
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 Our Waterways (ROW) is a grassroots level enterprise established in 2012, which has a main goal to develop a sense of unity among neighborhoods by promoting cohesive and community- based change in six major Indianapolis waterways as well as in the neighborhoods surrounding them. These waterways include Eagle Creek, Fall Creek, Pleasant Run, the White River, Pogue’s Run, and the Central Canal. These particular waterways were chosen due to their existing community and engagement network. (more…)
Researchers from IUPUI investigate drought effects on legumes
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 protein rich (and tasty) Fabaceae family members being major players for food security for the developing world as well as gaining popularity from increasing healthy-eating-style dieting trends. (more…)
CEES at the International Symposium on Service Learning
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. (more…)
Jessica Davis leaves CEES to become IUPUI’s Campus Director of Sustainability
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. (more…)
Amber Rollings to fill in as Interim Assistant Director
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. (more…)
DSE at Paramount School of Excellence
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. (more…)