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Noteworthy News:

Information Session for MS in Sustainability Management program from the Earth Institute and Columbia's School of Continuing Ed: TOMORROW: Thursday, November 19, 6 pm at the Hilton Times Square Hotel. RSVP and for more info. Pending approval by the University Senate, the program plans to accept the first class beginning in fall 2010.

We Still Have a Chance to Save Polar Bears:
Stephanie Pfirman, Chair on-leave this semester, writes on climate change models, receding ice, and the effects of a shrinking habitat on Polar Bears in an article in collaboration with Bruno Tremblay of MGill University in NewScientist.

Don't Miss the Senior Seminar Poster Exhibit in the Tunnel (across from the mail room) to see a selection of 2009 graduates posters. This is a great way to learn more about the Senior Thesis element of our major requirements. Note that this year's Poster Session will be held in April 22, 2010 and it is interesting, fun, and open to everyone!

Limited Enrollment Sign-Ups for Spring Courses are Posted
Outside of 404 Altschul you can add your name to limited enrollment course sign-up sheets: BC3013, Shorelines and Streams/P. Bower; BC3026, Case Studies in Land-use Dynamics/T. Maenza-Gmelch; BC 3032, Agricultural and Urban Land Use/ C. Rosenzweig. Results will be posted Friday, November 20.

Get quick answers to course credit questions about AP credit, credit for SEA Semester and SEE-U and the credit they carry for the Science Requirement and Major and Minor Requirements by checking the Credit and Placement Page. Or go directly to the Programs page for updates in Major Requirements in Environmental Science (majors and minors), Environmental Policy or Environmental Biology.

Final Exam Schedules for Barnard classes and Columbia classes are posted On-Line! Please note that procedures listed on the master schedule DO NOT apply to Barnard students.  If you have exam conflict (two exams at the same time) or exam hardship (defined as three exams within a 24-hour period or four exams within a 48-hour period), please go to the Barnard College Registrar's Office. 

Restoration of Riverside Park as Civic Engagement
Students in Peter Power's Introduction to Environmental Science course volunteered at Riverside Park for the department's annual civic engagement activity. Lab directors Diane Dittrick and Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch led the restoration effort in which hundreds of invasive plant species were removed and more than 2,000 native plants were planted in the park along the wall near 109th Street.

Martin Stute successfully completed The Forest Ride, biking nearly 200 miles in a fundraising bike tour for Black Rock Forest. Check out The Forest Ride website in the forthcoming days for photos and details on this accomplishment. Congratulations Martin and thank you!

Peter Bower and the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) were awarded a joint $249,000 TEAGLE foundation Grant for a collaborative project bringing the Brownfield Action learning tool and College prep to underserved high school students in Harlem, the Bronx and Washington Heights.

Megan McNally '10 awarded American Association of University Women Scholarship for her community service work renovating a foreclosed property and holding workshops on painting, installing glass block windows, organic gardening and building a brick bread oven to residents in a nearby Buffalo neighborhood. Her story was featured on the local news, WIVB with web links and blog. Congratulations Megan and thank you for your work in the community! Those of you interested in scholarship opportunities, check out the AAUW website.

Talia Arbit '10 awarded American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her research project on "testing for the presence of bacteriophages, an important indicator of faecal contamination, in contaminated water in Bangladesh". Aimed at highly competitive students who wish to pursue graduate careers (Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D.) in microbiology, the fellowship included a stipend, as well as membership and travel fees for the ASM General meeting. Please visit http://www.asm.org/students for more information on this fellowship.

Stephanie Pfirman explores boundaries of research and education By collaborating with other researchers, Pfirman examined two of the most famous polar explorers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the Arctic crossing of Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen and the Antarctic Endurance expedition of Briton Sir Ernest Shackleton. Starting by comparing the two in her First-Year Seminar developed with Robin Bell of Lamont-Doherty, Stephanie continued to study their trajectories. She recently collaborated with Bruno Tremblay (McGill) Charles Fowler, (Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research) to continue to study what components effected the outcomes of the two expeditions. Pfirman was funded by NSF's IPY (International Polar Year) for organizing the IPY educational public event at the American Museum of Natural History and most recently, Pfirman, Tremblay and Fowler had their work on the topic published featured in American Scientist (see full article, Nov./Dec. 2009).

Barnard EcoReps:
Check out the EcoReps Newsletter and get involved. For more information about EcoReps or their activities, write to barnardecoreps@gmail.com.

Join our E-Mail List:
Interested in receiving e-mails about course announcements and updates, Environmental events, job opportunities, internships? Those not on our student e-mail list should send an e-mail to Catherine Cook, the Departmental Assistant, with your name, year, major (if chosen, or if not, your interest) and we'll add you to the list.

EarthGoogle is an interesting site to check out satelite photos the world over! (You'll need to download the software to use it if you want to.)

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Senior Seminar Poster Exhibit in the Tunnel


Sign Up for Limited Enrollment Courses outside
404 Altschul


Students in EESC BC1001 volunteered at Riverside Park
for an annual civic engagement activity.


Congratulations and thank you, Martin
for completing the The Forest Ride!


Megan McNally '10 awarded American Association of University Women Scholarship for community service

Talia Arbit '10 awarded American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Take a look at the Sustainability Report and let us know your thoughts--get involved!	The Initial Sustainability Report is posted on the College's website. This project was initiated by our department and lovingly researched by Amanda Rook '08, Alison Powell '09, and Jason Smerdon, our Mellon PostDoc, now LDEO Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at SIPA with in-put from the community and our department.