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Lakes Appreciation Month in Indiana

Submitted by nclercin on Fri, 07/17/2015 - 5:12pm

For those of you that have not heard yet, on July 1st Governor Pence signed an Executive Order Proclamation making July 2015 Lakes Appreciation Month in Indiana!

IUPUI students help to meet CEES mission

Submitted by martinpa on Tue, 06/30/2015 - 1:01pm

Here at CEES, we are lucky to have great IUPUI undergraduate and graduate students that assist us in carrying out our mission.  This past Spring Semester, we had 19 driven students!  Here is a short summary of their efforts and some links to their work...

ROW | StreamLines

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 1:24pm

- Guest blog submitted by Meera M. Patel. Ms. Patel is a rising senior at Fishers High School, a High Honor Roll student and a Project STEM intern.  This summer, Ms. Patel is researching Combined Sewage Overflows, assisting with community based research and spending some of her time interning with Amber Rollings at CEES.

Researchers from IUPUI investigate drought effects on legumes

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 12:48pm

CEES researchers (and IUPUI Department of Earth Sciences faculty) Dr. Lixin Wang and Dr. Pierre-Andre Jacinthe and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Stefani Daryanto published a new paper this month, “Global synthesis of drought effects on food legume production,” in the journal PLOS ONE. Wang et al.’s focus on legumes is of particular importance due to these protein rich (and tasty) Fabaceae family members being major players for food security for the developing world as well as gaining popularity from increasing healthy-eating-style dieting trends.

CEES at the International Symposium on Service Learning

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 10:57am
Service Learning

Thanks to a dissemination grant from the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning, researchers Jennifer Nelson, Jessica Davis, and Sarah Goss from IUPUI’s Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) and the Department of Earth Sciences attended the 6th International Symposium on Service Learning (ISSL) at the University of Indianapolis.

Jessica Davis leaves CEES to become IUPUI's Campus Director of Sustainability

Submitted by martinpa on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 5:04pm

Congratulations, Jessica! We are pleased though a bit sad to share that as of June 1st Jessica Davis has stepped down from Assistant Director at CEES to assume a new role as the IUPUI Campus Director of Sustainability.

Amber Rollings to fill in as Interim Assistant Director

Submitted by martinpa on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 4:24pm

As we say goodbye to Jessica Davis who began as IUPUI's Director of Sustainabiliy June 1st (see separate post), I am happy to announce that Amber Rollings will be fulfilling the role of Interim Assistant Director of CEES for the summer.

DSE at Paramount School of Excellence

Submitted by emj2 on Wed, 06/03/2015 - 3:42pm

The Discovering the Science of the Environment education staff enjoyed investigating Pogue’s Run with the 5th grade students at Paramount School of Excellence this month.  The stretch of stream under study is located between Spade’s Park and Brookside Park on Indy’s near eastside, adjacent to the students’ school.

Spring 2015 Service Learning

Submitted by wardk on Wed, 05/06/2015 - 10:52am

The Spring 2015 Service Learning events were a great success and packed full of environmental fun.  During this semester, CEES staff, many student volunteers, and dedicated staff from Indianapolis parks and organizations were able to revive large areas of native Indiana habitat by removing extensive amounts of invasive plant species and performing much needed trail restoration.  We were able to

CEES Makes a Splash at the Earth Day Indiana Festival

Submitted by davisjg on Wed, 04/29/2015 - 3:46pm

Guest blog submitted by IUPUI undergraduate, Jacki Renforth (jmguyer@umail.iu.edu), a Senior in the Communications Studies Program.

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