Events

The GES Department invites you to an on-campus nature walk! Members of our Conservation and Environmental Research Areas (CERA) Committee will lead students on campus trails to visit forest patches, the campus pond, and other green spaces. The walk will be held this upcoming Monday, April 29^th at 1pm and is expected to end at 2pm. This event is part of our Earth Day Symposium (more on that soon!) and is open to anyone who is interested – faculty, students, non-GES majors, alumni, and the broader community.

Students will meet at the patio of the ILSB building at 1pm. The walk will end between the Commons Garage and the Physics building.

Registration is not required, but we would like to get a general headcount! If you want to go on our nature walk, select “Going in person” on this post so that we can look forward to seeing you. We really appreciate it!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Molly Finch, student representative of the CERA committee, at mfinch1@umbc.edu.

On Earth Day, April 22^nd, the School of Public Policy will be hosting a climate policy panel. Among the panelists are two members of our GES Department! Chris Blume completed his Master of Science degree last year and was an ICARE student. Erle Ellis is a professor in our department, specializing in sustainable landscapes and global change.

The panel will be moderated by Professor Susan Sterett and will be held at noon in The Common’s Lower Flat area (which is indoors on the first floor). All are welcome to attend!

Next Wednesday at noon, the GES Department will be hosting Dr. Alisha Chan for our bi-weekly seminar series. Dr. Chan received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale; shortly after, she began working at USGS as part of their Water Resources Mission Area. At her seminar, she will be discussing extensive water shortages in drought-prone communities and the environmental injustices they face.

This event will only be available online. We hope to see you there! Here is the link to the Webex room: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m50d36238b13388be15cded7a32dbe978

For those who missed our previous two seminars, their recordings are also linked below.

Dr. Karin Burghardt – Ecological Diversity in Human Landscapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_PsjchwLnE&ab_channel=UMBCSocSci

Ron Kobell – What Harriet Left Behind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nK0lM9Gk48&ab_channel=UMBCSocSci

Dr. Holland will be a guest speaker in Nancy McAllister’s GES 120 class for this session. Dr. Holland will cover the basics on how climate change has impacted different places and people around the world, explore how populations adapt, and review the successes and failures of global policy negotiations on climate change.

The GES department invites you to listen in on Autumn Powell’s thesis presentation. A member of the ICARE program, Autumn has investigated the lacking acknowledgement of Indigenous voices in governmental and environmental institutes. The exclusion of Indigenous narratives has allowed a settler mindset to prevail in much of our current environmental policies. It is important that we work alongside native peoples to bring their environmental knowledge into the mainstream conversation.

Autumn will be sharing her research on Wednesday, April 3^rd at 2pm in Sherman Hall room 015. This event will take place in-person and on Webex via the link on this event post. We hope to see you there!