USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of February 7, 2011
News from Across the USM Campuses
Feb. 8th - "Sustainability and the College Park Campus" - This lecture
will be held at 5pm,in the Lecture Hall of the School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, on the University of Maryland, College Park
campus. The presentation will be by Dr. Ann Wylie, Vice President for Administrative
Affairs, and Scott Lupin, Director of Sustainability and Associate Director of
the Department of Environmental Safety, for the university, and is a part of
the Sustainable Tuesdays Lecture Series.
Feb.
9th - Ryan Rykaczewski (NOAA/GFDL) - "Enhanced nutrient supply to the California
Current Ecosystem with global warming and increased stratification in an earth
system model." This event is hosted by Victoria
Coles, and is a part of the Horn Point Laboratory Faculty Seminar Series. Seminar will be held on Wednesday at 11:00am in the HPL auditorium
Feb.
10th - Jonathan Thompson of
the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, "The influence
of land use and climate change on forest biomass and composition in
Massachusetts, USA."? This event is hosted by Matt
Fitzpatrick, and is a part of the Appalachian Laboratory Seminar Series. The seminar will be held on Thursday at 3:30pm, in Room
109 of the Appalachian Laboratory.
Feb. 11th - Dr. Colin
Polsky,?Clark University,?Graduate School of Geography?- "Finding a Place for
Lawns in Research on Global Environmental Change." This seminar, sponsored by the Center for Urban
Environmental Research and Education, will be held on Friday at 2:00pm in the
Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County campus, and is free and open to the public. Registration is not
required. Visitor parking passes for the TRC lot may be purchased for $4.00 in
the CUERE office in TRC 102/105 on the UMBC campus shortly before seminar.
Guest
column: A new resource? (By Hilary Staver, The Diamondback Online, 2/7/11)
Conference
looks to clean up Baltimore's harbor: Early
report card gives waterway poor grades (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 2/6/11) [Article quotes Heath
Kelsey of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
Blackout:
Infrastructure 2.0 (By Steven Spinello, The Diamondback Online, 2/3/11)
Teachers
to look at water's health: Research
will focus on the impact climate change and human activities have on bays (By Liz Holland, DelMarVaNow.com, 2/3/11)
[The research is being conducted at a University of Maryland Eastern Shore facility
near Assateague.]
The
connection between blackouts and electricity 'decoupling' (By Tim Brennan,
The Baltimore Sun, 2/3/11) Tim Brennan is a professor of public policy at
UMBC.
University
of Maryland No. 6 on EPA List of Top 20 university 'Green Power Purchasers'
(University News, University of Maryland College Park, 2/2/11)
Loh
vows to see Purple Line through: New president appears willing to compromise on
alignment issue (By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Diamondback Online, 2/2/11)
State of Maryland News
Misleading
electric ads make case for reregulation (By Jay Hancock, The Baltimore Sun,
2/6/11)
Maryland
county caught up in fight over energy extraction method (BY Darryl Fears,
The Washington Post, 2/6/11)
In
Pepco territory, blackouts mean more home generators, more noise complaints
(By Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post, 2/5/11)
Other
harbor cleanups offer lessons to Baltimore: Boston, Washington and Norfolk offer different approaches (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
2/4/11)
We pay a visit to the Baltimore Free Farm, where community
activists are working to promote sustainable living and urban agriculture in a
once-vacant lot in Hampden (NPR
- The Signal, 2/4/11)
BGE
to seek rate increases on more regular basis: Parent Constellation sees drop in quarterly profit (By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun, 2/4/11)
Artist
portrays Baltimore's degraded harbor: 'Empty
Waters' depicts trash, industry on the Patapsco (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
2/3/11)
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