Speakers: Mark Werner, Coordinator, CTO
Title: Classroom Technologies to Maximize Student Learning
In the classroom technologies can often be used to meet educational goals and learning styles that you might otherwise find difficult to reach. In this workshop we will discuss how different technologies can be used to meet different learning styles.
For further information, please call 303-492-4902.
Websites: Graduate Teacher Program
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Speakers: Konrad Steffen, CIRES, University of Colorado
Title: Greenland Ice Sheet and Dynamic Response to Global Warming
Questions: Jan Wilmesmeier
Websites: NCAR
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Title: Hydrologic Sciences Annual Student Symposium
Websites: Water Resources Engineering Seminar
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Speakers: Aimee Merkel, The AIM Mission
Title: The AIM Mission: Examining clouds at the edge of space
Noctilucent, or night shining clouds form 50 miles above Earth and may be linked to climate change. Learn about the AIM mission that studies them.
1234 Innovation Drive, in the East Campus Research Park off of Colorado Avenue.
Parking and lecture are free. For info, contact Erin Wood, 303-735-0962, or visit LASP.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Websites: LASP Events
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Speakers: James Syvitski, University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: The Anthropocene- a new geologic epoch?
Refreshments served at 3:30 on 3rd floor.
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Bonus: Free Pizza! (and organic juice)
All talks are free and open to all students. Join us to set your environmental career in motion! For more information on the talk or series, contact Dale Miller at 303-492-6629
Co-sponsored by: Environmental Studies Program, Career Services, Environmental Center, and CU Environmental Program.
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Speakers: Professor David Mays, Department of Civil Engineering, CU Denver
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Speakers: James Syvitski, University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: The Anthropocene- a new geologic epoch?
Work is underway to determine whether the Anthropocene should be considered a new geological Epoch where the human footprint on the earth surface equals or surpasses the level of other geological climate events, such as that seen in the transition between the Pleistocene and the Holocene. Records in question include near global biostratigraphic markers, such as from the worldwide spread of invasive or non-native species, monoculture ecologies, or from the conversion of much of the planet's dry land to agricultural or industrial use. Other records might be from global climate signals, chemical (e.g. ocean acidification) and radioactive (e.g. nuclear activity) signals, and species extinctions. Human impacts on Earth surface processes are not however spatially or temporally homogeneous. Human impact on sediment production began 3000 years ago but accelerated more widely 1000 years ago. By the sixteenth century, societies were already engineering their environment. Millponds were ubiquitous in the 18th and 19th century and affected the hydrological nature of many rivers. Early twentieth century mechanization has led to global signals of increased sediment flux in most large rivers. By the 1950s, this sediment disturbance signal reversed for many rivers owing to the proliferation of dams, and sediment load reduction below pristine conditions is the dominant signal today. A delta subsidence signal began in the 1930s and is now a dominant signal in terms of sea level for many coastal environments, overwhelming even the global warming imprint on sea level. Humans have engineered how most water and sediment are discharged into the coastal ocean. Hyperpycnal flow events have become more common for some rivers, and less common for other rivers. Bottom trawling is now widespread, suggesting that even continental shelves have received a significant but as yet quantified Anthropocene impact.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 just outside Benson Room 380.
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Speakers: Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut
Title: Resurgence--Successional Dynamics of Tropical Forests
Refreshments at 3:30, talk begins at 4:00.
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