The Water Seminar

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ESRM 429, CFR 529, FISH 529, CEE 500

An Autumn 2011 Seminar Series

Tuesday mornings
Time: 8:30am – 9:20am
Where: 223 Anderson Hall

Different topics each week and open to the public! No registration necessary. Contact drfrench@uw.edu for more information.

Upcoming seminars include:

Oct 11th Salmon Recovery Successes in Nisqually – Jeanette Dorner, Ecosystem and Salmon Recover Directer, Puget Sound Partnership

Oct 18th Microbial Source Tracking: Identifying Sources of Bacterial Pollution – Robert Duff, Manager, Environmental Assessment Program, WA State Department of Ecology

Oct 25th Juvenile Salmon and the Nearshore Habitats of Puget Sound: Looking into the Black Box – Kurt Fresh, Fishery Research Biologist, NOAA Fisheries, NWFSC

Nov 1st Puget Sound Seabird Survey: Science by Citizens – Adam Sedgley, Science Manager, Seattle Audubon

And more to come as the quarter continues…

Global Health Minor Information Session

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Global Health Minor Information Session

The next Global Health Minor information session will be held on Monday, October 3, 2011: 

Monday, October 3, 2011 
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Where: Mary Gates Hall, room 258  

Please join us to learn more about the Minor and discuss undergraduate opportunities in global health.

This will be our first information session of the academic year. We will hold another information session again in November.

Best wishes,
Jennifer & Natasha, Global Health Minor Co-Advising Team

        

Jennifer Lucero-EarleAssistant Director, Global Health Resource Center (GHRC)Department of Global Health, University of WashingtonPhone: 206.685.7418  |  Fax: 206.685.8034Email: jearle@uw.edu•  To Coordinate  •  To Connect  •  To CatalyzeGHRC Web: http://globalhealth.washington.eduView our calendar of events and more:http://globalhealth.washington.edu/about_us/connected.php

[event] – UW Toastmasters Open Houses (public speaking)

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Toastmasters’ can help both students with their public speaking skills – whether they are preparing to give a speech to their peers and instructors for a grade or if they need help articulating questions to their instructors in front of the class. All of these clubs have students as members.

Everyone is welcome: students, faculty, staff and the general public.

University of Washington Toastmasters Clubs
FALL QUARTER OPEN HOUSES OCTOBER 4 – 6,2011Looking to improve your speaking skills?  Improve that next class presentation?  Win that job interview?

Come and visit a campus Toastmasters Club!  Toastmasters is a world leader in helping people improve their speech and impromptu communication skills.  Our clubs focus on helping UW students, staff and faculty become experienced and successful public speakers. Members become more confident in their public speaking skills within 6 months, learn something new every meeting, and have fun in a supportive environment!

There are three University area clubs to choose from:

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TOASTMASTERS
Tuesday, October 4
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Electrical Engineering Bldg, Rm. 403
uwtmclub@gmail.com

PURPLE TOAST TOASTMASTERS
Wednesday, October 5
6;05pm – 7:20pm
(located off-campus, in the Wallingford area)
Seattle First Church of the Nazarene – 4401 2nd Ave NE
purpleto@gmail.com

HUSKY TOASTMASTERS
Thursday, October 6
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Schmitz Hall, Rm. 170
huskytoastmasters@gmail.com

[scholarship] – Critical Language Scholarship / Boren Undergraduate Scholarship

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The Critical Language Scholarship Program (http://clscholarship.org/): this summer program provides fully-funded eight to ten week group-based intensive language instruction and extensive cultural enrichment experiences held overseas at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. Eligibility details and language levels and prerequisites are explained at http://clscholarship.org/applicants.htm.

Applications are now available online, and the national deadline is November 15, 2011.
The Boren Undergraduate Scholarship Program (http://borenawards.org/boren_scholarship) provides up to $20,000 for US undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to US interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded. Most languages are supported, except those of Western Europe. Boren Scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security. Applicants should identify how their study abroad program, as well as their future academic and career goals, will contribute to U.S. national security, broadly defined.  NSEP draws on a broad definition of national security, recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness. Receipt of this scholarship does incur a government service requirement, which for many students provides a valuable foot in the federal employment door.

Undergraduate applicants must apply through UW to be considered for the Boren Undergraduate Scholarship Program. UW’s campus deadline for undergraduate applicants at all three campuses is January 11, 2012 for study abroad programs during the 2012-13 academic year.

The UW Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards will be providing information sessions for undergraduate students interested in these opportunities to help orient them to the programs and application processes:

  • Tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 3:30-5:00pm in MGH 258 (will cover both CLS & Boren)
  • Thursday, October 20, 3:30-5:00pm in MGH 171 (will cover both CLS & Boren)
  • Monday, November 14, 2:30-3:20pm in MGH 171 (will cover Boren only)
  • Wednesday, November 30, 4:30-5:20 in MGH 171 (will cover Boren only)

Both programs are also open to graduate students. CLS processes are identical for both undergraduate and graduate applicants. Boren Graduate Fellowship details are at http://borenawards.org/boren_fellowship. There is no Boren campus application process at the graduate level; the national deadline for the Boren Graduate Fellowship is January 31, 2012. Helene Obradovich in the Graduate School Office of Fellowships & Awards is the point of contact for graduate students interested in this program (helene@uw.edu).

[job] Manager, Global Ocean Legacy (Pew Charitable Trusts)

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[job] Manager, Global Ocean Legacy (Pew Charitable Trusts)

The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life

The mission of The Pew Environment Group is to promote policies and practices that protect the global environment, preserve healthy forests and marine ecosystems. For the past two decades, the Environment group has been a major force in driving conservation policy in the United States, and increasingly internationally. The group’s work is focused on reducing the scope and severity of three major global environmental problems:

  • Transition to a clean energy economy from one based primarily on the burning of fossil fuels.
  • The erosion of large wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity; and,
  • The destruction of the world’s marine environment, with a particular emphasis on global fisheries.

Global Ocean Legacy is a collaboration among six entities (Lyda Hill, Pew Environment Group, the Sandler Foundation, the Oak Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and the Waitt Foundation with additional support from the Tubney Charitable Trusts) to preserve large ocean ecosystems for future generations. The project goal is to identify and secure permanent protection for up to 15 very large no-take marine reserves globally over the a fifteen year period through 2021.

The manager reports to the director of Global Ocean Legacy (GOL) of the Pew Environment Group (PEG).  The manager will be responsible for increasing and managing the international public support for GOL, improving outreach and education regarding GOL and marine reserves and coordinating the GOL story and message across sites to ensure consistency. The position will be located in either Portland, Oregon or Seattle, Washington.

[event] On the Road with Omprakash Volunteer Vance Walstra

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October 5, 2011

4:30PM-6:00PM

Program of the Environment (POE) Commons
012 John M. Wallace Hall (ACC) 
3737 Brooklyn Ave NE

On the Road with Omprakash Volunteer Vance Walstra

Monday, October 3rd, will be the first of 40 action-packed days for Omprakash Volunteer and Grant Recipient Vance Walstra. Vance will be traveling from Seattle, Washington to San Francisco, California on a highly anticipated, first-ever tour to raise awareness for Omprakash – and he’s doing it all by bicycle.  The tour will span three states and cover nearly 1000 miles to deliver over 15 presentations to colleges, universities and high schools along the route. 

 

In 2008, Vance was awarded an Omprakash Volunteer Grant to work with Helping Hands, an education and environmentally-focused Partner in Cusco, Peru. During that trip, he also traveled throughout Peru introducing new non-profit Partners to the Omprakash network. In 2010, Vance returned to Peru to act as a guide for three high-school students interested in creating adocumentary film about Omprakash Partners and the international volunteer experience. In between these trips, Vance traveled to several schools throughout the western United States, giving presentations and collaborating with classrooms and teachers to design and embellish service learning programs.


Now he’s giving back by hitting the road and sharing his volunteer experience with high schools, colleges and universities along the way. 


As Vance put it, “My own experiences through Omprakash have subjected me to an entirely new understanding of our world. I have developed a new faith in human potential that has both empowered and humbled me… Through this trip, I hope to connect the passion and potential of individuals who seek to make a difference in the world, to the people and places where those type of individuals are needed.”


Come hear Vance’s account of his life changing experiences abroad and learn more about Omprakash, the network that made it all possible. Vance will be presenting at the UW on October 5th from 4:30-6PM at the POE Commons. To learn more about the Omprakash Bicycle Outreach Tour- please visit our website or Facebook pages, or follow Vance’s trip via his Omprakashprofile. 

Omprakash is an educational community. 



We facilitate communication, collaboration, and mutual learning within a diverse international network of grassroots projects.  Our free database of global Partners can empower you to volunteer abroad, advocate at home, or enrich your school’s academic curriculum and service-learning programs. We offer volunteer grants to help qualified applicants build lasting relationships with our outstanding Partners, and we enable these Partners to receive tax-deductible donations from their dedicated supporters. The Omprakash network currently supports over 157 Partner non-profits in over 35 countries spanning the globe. In 2011 alone, our Volunteer Grant program has provided over $30,000 to qualified recipients, enabling them to build lasting relationships with our amazing Partners around the world!– 
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Omprakash: Connecting Volunteers, Classrooms, and Communities

Kelly Rula
214.995.1516
Skype: kellyrula
www.omprakash.org

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Mark your calendar now, the UW Study Abroad Fair is happening on Wednesday, October 19 from 10-2 in the Mary Gates Hall Commons!

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