Center for the Environment

Our spring semester Environmental Science Colloquium will be held on Wednesday afternoons from 4-5 pm at the Boyd Science Center, Room 001. The talks cover a wide range of topics around environmental science and sustainability. The colloquium is available for graduate credit and we also invite the community to come for free. For more information, contact Angela Uhlman. Read on for the complete list of dates and speakers.

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Plymouth State University seeks an integrative environmental analyst with expertise in the economics of and policy related to aquatic ecosystem services for its Center for the Environment (CFE) with a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. Primary duties include, but are not limited to conducting research related to an NSF funded initiative on the interactions among climate, land use, ecosystem services, and society; developing a research program that complements existing strengths in CFE; teaching relevant courses in the MS program in environmental science and policy; mentoring and advising graduate students; and contributing to CFE through service and collaboration. This is a new, tenure-track position to begin in the fall of 2012.

The successful candidate will spend approximately half time engaging with a team of researchers across New Hampshire colleges and universities on a major research project over the next four years. This will provide a unique opportunity for building research capacity at PSU and in New Hampshire around climate, land use, and ecosystem services.

For more information, please visit PSU’s Human Resources website.

Three Center for the Environment graduate students in the MS in Environmental Science and Policy program presented posters at the AGU meeting in San Francisco on December 5-9, 2011. The Sid Lovett Fund for the Center for the Environment provided support for their work.

• Kristin Brandt: “Monthly variability of representative elementary area within the large-basin scale”; pdf of poster
• Christina Maki: “Characterizing River Metal Fluxes to a Northwest Iceland Lake”
• Chris Nealen: “Tree Harvest and Stream Discharge as Controls on the Mobilization of Aluminum in the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire USA”

CFE is inviting applications for the MS program in Environmental Science and Policy. The work of the Center for the Environment (CFE) is primarily focused on the White Mountains and Lakes Region of New Hampshire or in the broader New England region, and applies the environmental sciences and interdisciplinary approaches to important environmental issues. Students will have opportunities to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students, and scientists from other institutions working at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and other academic, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. Individuals from all disciplinary backgrounds will be considered.

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The Center for the Environment (CFE) at Plymouth State University (PSU) seeks applicants for an M.S. graduate research assistant (GRA) in paleoclimatology, with research opportunities in paleolimnology, dendrochronology and geochemistry, the North Atlantic Oscillation and lake sedimentation in Iceland. The GRA will work as part of a trans-disciplinary team of researchers and students from PSU and three other institutions. The team’s expertise in synoptic climatology, paleoclimatology, hydrogeology, paleontology and watershed sedimentology provides the GRA excellent opportunity to interact with a broad cohort of faculty and students on environmental science applications in climate change and to develop interdisciplinary research skills.

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