Past News:
2007:
Renowned Ethnobotanist Dr. Mark J. Plotkin Gave Talk on "Rainforest Conservation, New Jungle Medicine, and the South Beach Diet." Thursday, February 22, 5:30 p.m.
Law School Library, 4th Floor Faculty Meeting Room. Reception to follow. Open to public.
Abess Center Green Events Calendar
Learn more about our recent schedule of events.
School of Architecture's Center for Urban and Community Design to Host Green Building Symposium ~ January 25-27
Learn more about this event.
2006:
Generous Endowment Names the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy
Learn more about this exciting gift.
mtvU and GE Co-sponsor Ecomagination Challenge ~ Top Award Wins School $25k
Learn more on how to enter the challenge.
CESP Co-sponsored Screening of Al Gore Documentary An Inconvenient Truth
Event took place Thursday, October 26, 5:30 p.m., at the Cosford Cinema
Learn more about this free event.
Global Climate Change Panel Discussion ~ Wednesday, November 1
UM's Sigma Xi Chapter will host this event at the Cox Science Building
CESP Co-sponsors Miami-Dade Coastal Cleanup ~ Saturday, September 16
Learn more about this annual event hosted by the Ocean Conservancy.
Post Reporter's Talk on Everglades Book Broadcast on C-Span's Book TV
Michael Grunwald was at the School of Law on March 23 to discuss his recently published book THE SWAMP: The Everglades , Florida and the Politics of Paradise. Learn more.
CESP Professor Kenny Broad Named 2006 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Learn more about this prestigous award.
For ECS Students - Jobs, Opportunities & Photos
National Council for Science and the Environment - Paid Internships
Learn more about these immediate openings.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Coastal Lobster Project
Learn more about their three job vacancies.
World Wildlife Fund - 2006 Internship Programs
Career Opportunities - and Undergrad Positions - with The Fund for Public Interest Research
Learn more about campus interviews and job descriptions.
2005:
EPA Internship Campus Recruitment Visit
Learn more about how you can interview for the EPA's Student Career Experience Program.
Are you a student interested in climate change?
Learn more about the 2005 International Networking for Young Scientists (INYS) program in Bern, Switzerland.
Member of Congress from South Florida - Rep. Kendrick Meek [D] - is looking for an energetic, detail-oriented Executive Assistant/Scheduler for fast-paced Capitol
Hill Office.
2005-06 Fellows and Faculty Seed Grant Programs
The CESP program is accepting faculty applications on a rolling basis for our Fellows Program and Faculty Seed Grant Program . Both are designed to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research involving the interaction of environmental science and public policy.
ECS 201 Seminar Series Schedule
The speakers for the fall 2004 Contemporary Environmental Issues I course (ECS 201) have been confirmed.
2004:
Politics of the Environment
Lecture Series
October 7 through October 14, 2004
The University of Miami's Center for Ecosystem Science & Policy
will convene a series of lectures on environmental policy surrounding the
presidential debate. Politics of the Environment will bring to campus a
distinguished group of current and former federal environmental policy-makers
to discuss environmental policy issues from drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to protecting the health of our coral reef ecosystems.
Read more...
First Fellow of the University
of Miami Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy
Dr. Daniel A. Griffith (Department of Geography & Regional Studies,
U. of Miami) has been named the first CESP Fellow of the University of Miami
Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy (CESP), and will be in residence
during the Spring 2005 semester. His research project is entitled "Pediatric
lead poisoning: shifting from secondary to primary intervention through
the use of geospatial analysis."
Read more...
Iraq-AWARE
Iraq-AWARE is a joint effort between the Center for Ecosystem Science and
Policy, the Center for Wetlands at the University of Florida, and the University
of Basrah in southern Iraq. The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive
framework for a long-term program to address the competing problems of water
supply, energy generation, wetland loss and ecosystem degradation in the
Tigris-Euphrates watershed. For further information contact Dr.
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm at fmiralles@miami.edu.
The Pew Charitable Trust
The Pew Charitable Trust and the University of Miami announce a new collaboration in marine conservation and sustainable use of the oceans. The Pew Fellows Program, the most prominent marine fellows program in the world, was relocated to the Rosenstiel School in December 2003.
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
UM joins the Punta Cana Ecological
Foundation Association and forms an innovative alliance to study tropical
environments. UM students, faculty and researchers will conduct important
research at a laboratory and field station located on a 10-acre site within
the 2,000-acre Punta Cana Ecological Reserve and adjacent to the Punta Cana
Resort and Club in the Dominican Republic. View
the press release.
