Sports and Sustainability- Nothing in common? Think again.
This Fall Quarter, Program on Environment ENVIR 480 students initiated innovative projects to help ramp up Husky “Green Team” efforts.Please join us on Tuesday November 26th, 2013 for their community presentation and hear about their innovative efforts to evaluate and support sustainability by Husky Athletics.  

University of Colorado, Boulder.
A PhD or MS position available beginning fall 2014 in the Environmental Studies Program (http://envs.colorado.edu) with two years of funding guaranteed to develop a dissertation/thesis related to the CAFOR project (see below for project description). 

Position: PhD Assistantship; Three years of funding available (research and teaching assistantship) with a goal of securing project funding for the duration of the students’ program.
 
Project background: Dr. Christine Vatovec has funding available for one doctoral-level student to conduct environmental health social science research that is related to medical care.  

Recent technology has allowed oil companies to extract oil from tar sands and shale deposits, in Canada and U.S. The risks are wide ranging: from oil spills along rail, marine, and pipeline routes to explosions to train traffic congestion to increased carbon emissions to degradation of habitat.  

This course examines the earth’s past for evidence of extreme climate conditions in order to better understand possible future climate changes. Conditions that occurred during the Neo-Proterozoic (Snowball Earth: 750 to 550 million years ago), the Cretaceous Hothouse (100 million years ago, and Pleistocene Icehouse (1 million years ago) will be compared to the Present Day Greenhouse climate.   

In Winter quarter, six experts on the Earth’s polar regions will present public lectures on the multifaceted ways in which those regions are changing.  The speakers include Arctic biologists Jody Deming and Dee Boersma, acclaimed photographers James Balog and Paul Nicklen, Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and former premier of the Yukon Tony Penikett.  

The Volunteer Habitat Restoration Program is provided through the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed. The program engages youth and adult volunteers in hands-on restoration activities. The internship focuses on learning and understanding the habitat restoration process and assisting with volunteer events.  

Thomas Jenkins
My Air Force-to-UW story starts in late June, 2010. I had been deployed in central Iraq for 3 months to support Air Ambulance operations for the U.S. Army, helping to transport patients north to the military hospital in Balad, Iraq.