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Please join us for a presentation, "Integrative Toxicology: Past, Present and Future" by Dr. Scott Glaberman on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 in the Johnson Center, Room C ( #327) at 12:00pm.
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New Spring 2024 EVPP 4-credit course "Protist Diversity and Ecology" with Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center faculty.
Undergraduate (EVPP 441) and graduate (EVPP 505) level.
Prerequisites: EVPP 201, EVPP 301, BIOL 213, or BIOL 300.
Also see related opportunity for students of this course.
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Big congratulations to our graduate student Tabitha King on being 1 of 2 recipients of the 2023 Ken Brooks Scholarship from the Virginia Water Monitoring Council to attend the 2023 VWMC Conference in Henrico, VA!
Tabitha shares her experience with us below.
Conference highlights: https://vwmc.vwrrc.vt.edu/conferences/
The Undergraduate Research Scholars Program is open for for applications. Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research
Open to ALL Mason undergraduate students!
For more information and to apply:
https://oscar.gmu.edu/students/ursp/
Katharine Hayhoe, one of the world’s most influential climate scientists will present the Beck Environmental Lecture, a preview event to discuss her book:
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.
Katharine Hayhoe, one of the world’s most influential climate scientists, discusses her hopeful book Saving Us.
ATTENTION students!
Mason’s two-day Fall Career Fair is coming up soon! More than 250 employers will be on campus on September 27 and 28 on the lower level of the Johnson Center. Don’t miss your chance to meet employers, connect with alumni, find opportunities, and plan for the future!
Follow to learn more or visit go.gmu.edu/CareerFair
Tracking dragonflies and coyotes in search of nature's secrets. Richard Groover is adjunct faculty at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University and an award-winning filmmaker and author.
https://richmond.com/news/community/mechanicsville-local/in-search-of-natures-secrets/article_b870488c-2d4e-11ee-8162-ab958a0336dc.html
Read Groover's six-year dragonfly study in Hanover County, Virginia:https://virginianaturalhistorysociety.venn.studio/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2023/07/Banisteria_56_Groover_Survey_Anisoptera_Hanover_Battlefields.pdf
For Dr. Richard Groover, it all starts with questions — what, where, why, how?
Join us for a one day interdisciplinary symposium to gain a new perspective on water. Talks and posters will examine water in research, education, art, culture, and society, and highlight current work by Mason faculty, students, and staff and additional external partners and collaborators. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided. Parking is free.
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Register by October 1 to present a poster, give a 12-minute oral presentation, or attend for FREE: https://forms.office.com/r/DL7DEXhzkn
New chapter for the Flora of Virginia app!
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The classification system used by the app provides information critical to conservation and land protection work.
ATTENTION ESP students!
It is one week away from ! Come and discover the community, explore our programs, grab free food, play games, and get exclusive swag!
Register now: science.gmu.edu/scienceconnect
ScienceConnect 2023HomeAdmission CTAsRequest InfoVisitApply Join us for ScienceConnect this September and get to know the Mason Science communityStart off the semester by meeting College of Science faculty, staff, and students while exploring college programs, research, and professional opportunitie...
Breakout session “Nuclear Power and the Energy Transition” at the 2023 Pacific Energy Summit, Seattle, Aug 17-18, moderated by Tom Lutken (The National Bureau of Asian Research) with speakers Jennifer Sklarew (George Mason University), Ali Zbib (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and James Platte (Army University) Science at Mason
ESP assistant professor Jennifer Sklarew served as the lead U.S. researcher and spoke on strengthening the Indo-Pacific region's energy system resilience, energy security in the context of the food-energy-water nexus, and U.S.-Japan cooperation.
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On August 15 2023, in Seattle, NBR hosted a high-level roundtable on U.S.-Japan leadership in Indo-Pacific energy security to analyze the United States’s and Japan’s respective roles in the energy space as APEC host and G-7 president, respectively. Following keynote remarks by Senator Joe Nguy.....
New semester, new opportunities!
If you're looking for a job, fellowship, or internship, please visit our Opportunities page.
We receive many opportunities weekly, sent to our department directly from the recruiting organizations.
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Please join us this Wednesday, Aug. 30 at 2:00pm in Johnson Center Room A for our Graduate Student Welcome and Orientation event!
Learn about Mason resources for graduate students.
Non-ESP graduate students are welcome.
Light refreshments will be served.
It is that time of year again...to recruit Field Interpreters! Enthusiastic students wanted to communicate environmental science to young minds.
Join the team to participate in one of the longest-running and most successful K-12 outreach programs.
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Welcome back, ESP students!
If you're an international student, the LRC INTO George Mason University is a great resource for Mason’s multilingual students to improve their English language and academic skills.
Conversation groups, Blackboard workshops, tutoring, and more!
Sub Navigation Learning Resource Center Learn How to Apply Icon Icon Get Help from Your Advisor Icon Icon Explore Our Programs Icon Icon The Learning Resource Center (LRC) connects Mason’s multilingual students to services and resources to improve their English language and academic skills. The LR...
Attention graduate students --
The Fellowship Application Is Now Open!
Fellows spend 12 weeks at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy. This year's awarded fellowships will run from March 4 - May 24, 2024.
This program is an early career educational and training opportunity. It is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy.
If you're a student looking to secure a work-study position or faculty in need of student wage help for the upcoming academic year 2023-24, then this job fair will likely be of interest.
Want to learn more about the species around the Potomac Science Center (PSC)?
Check out this cool 2023 summer project: https://science.gmu.edu/news/summer-project-native-plants-perec
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During the summer of 2023, Dr. R.
Chesapeake Studies Conference: Bringing Communities Together
September 15-16, 2023
Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland
Info: https://www.chesapeakestudies.org/
Register: https://tinyurl.com/bdehfcyp
Submit a proposal: https://www.chesapeakestudies.org/call-for-proposals
Congrats to ESP alum and adjunct faculty Sujata Poudel on her recent publication in the Journal of Aquatic Plant Management.
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Congratulations to Dr. R. Chris Jones on being awarded a 4-VA@Mason for a Collaborative Research Grant for his proposal: Using Taxonomic, Pigment and Molecular Analysis to Characterize Algal Blooms in the Shenandoah River.
About the grant: https://4va.gmu.edu/grants/
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Big congratulations to all the recipients of a 2023-24 Doctoral Research Scholar Award - most especially, our own PhD student Zach Combs! This opportunity is funded by the Office of the Provost to help graduate students advance and complete their degrees and is awarded on a competitive basis.
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Please see below our 2023 volunteer/internship opportunities for sea turtle conservation and rescue in Greece. 🇬🇷
Sea turtle conservation volunteer programmes. General information & Requirements
There is still time to register! - Summer 2023 EVPP course flyers.
Jason Motley is also a recipient of the ESP Outstanding Undergraduate in Ecological Science Award, as well as the ESP Ambassador Award for helping to represent our department's undergraduate programs at open houses and other events.
https://science.gmu.edu/news/meet-2023-college-science-student-speaker-jason-motley
Hot off the press is the ESP Newsletter, making an appearance again after a long hiatus. This new, full-color publication was put together by Dr. Scott Glaberman and is titled, "ESPecially Noteworthy."
https://science.gmu.edu/news/introducing-especially-noteworthy-newsletter
Please be aware that the deadline to submit your application has been extended to May 30, 2023. The Becker Graduate Research Fellowship is a fantastic opportunity to get a full year of funding, summer included.
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The Career Plans Survey May 2023 is for BOTH graduate and undergraduate students earning their degrees in May and asks them about their plans after Mason. The survey launches May 1 with a direct email to students and will be open for 6 months.
http://go.gmu.edu/CareerPlansMay23
Congratulations to former EVPP 362 student Noah Mack on being offered a Virginia Conservation Fellowship! EVPP 361 and EVPP 362 are taught by environmental policy professor Dr. Younsung Kim, who also supported Noah's VCF application.
The Virginia Conservation Fellowship (VCF) is a prestigious, selective, yearlong work/study program for juniors/seniors of color and other groups underrepresented in Virginia environmentalism.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/vjs/vol74/iss1/2/
Coyote study from ESP adjunct professor Dr. Richard Groover newly published in the Virginia Journal of Science.
Although the coyote (Canis latrans) is native to North America, we have limited understanding of its presence in Virginia. Coyote range expansion is linked to anthropogenic factors, including habitat fragmentation and the extirpation of apex predators. Information on coyote adaptations to Virginia h...
Big shoutout to our ESP Undergraduate Programs Director, Dr. Younsung Kim, ESP Undergraduate Advisor Keanah Turner, and ESP Student Ambassador Jason Motley for promoting our undergraduate programs during this past George Mason University 2023 at Dewberry Hall!
ATTENTION Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University graduate students, please be aware that the application window for the Fall 2023 - Summer 2024 Becker Graduate Research Fellowship is now open. Go to https://science.gmu.edu/academics/departments-units/environmental-science-policy/graduate-programs/graduate-student-funding to download the application instructions. Deadline: May 15, 2023.
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Two DC events!
1) ESP Prof Emeritus Dr. Susie Crate is one of the 19
Fulbright Prgrm Initiative Scholars who are presenting their research at the symposium at Wilson Center
on April 27, 2023, 2-4pm. Register to livestream the event:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/fulbright-arctic-initiative-interdisciplinary-scholarship-and-policy-science-diplomacy-arctic
2) Also open to the public is the Initiative Poster Exhibition at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
on April 25, 2023, 2-4pm which will feature the same 19
Fulbright Prgrm Initiative Scholars - details:
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/events/fulbright-arctic-initiative-poster-exhibition
As Arctic nations continue to take concrete steps to work together and address public policy research questions relevant to addressing shared challenges and opportunities, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative offers a collaborative model for scholarly exchange to help translate theory into practice and p...
Happy Earth Day to all of us who share this planet. Can everyone do a little something today for good ol' Earth?
Reminder for tomorrow's fourth talk of the semester.
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 12:00pm
Laura Sauls (Global Affairs and SIS) will speak to us about the use of spatial technologies as ways of knowledge contestation.
Promoting interdisciplinary conversations and inquiry concerning environmental issues and their social, cultural, historical, political, and economic contexts The Society, Culture, and Environment series seeks to build intellectual community among those at Mason interested in the human and social...
We love to spotlight our students!
Wren Bell is an inspiring and highly motivated ESP alumna working in the field and doing what she loves.
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Prince William County Government, Virginia
NewsHomeNewsAdmission CTAsRequest InfoVisitApply Alumni success - meet Wren BellApr 12, 2023Wren BellImage"Hi, my name is Wren Bell and I graduated from Mason in December 2022 with a major in environmental science and policy concentrating on ecological science with minors in conservation studies and...
Big congratulations to our own Dr. R. Chris Jones on receiving the 2023 Earle C. Williams Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Social Impact!
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4VA Grant Research Lightning Talk tomorrow!
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Dr. Younsung Kim: The talk will help us refine the green infrastructure concept and learn about how to assess its potential to promote urban sustainability.
Summer 2023 course offerings...
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Watch the version with MUSIC ADDED for MORE happiness! 👇 https://vimeo.com/716123671/e0cb019a12 Some pictures of our happy graduating seniors shared by our Undergraduate Program Director, Dr. Younsung Kim, on the occasion of the George Mason University Spring 2022 Commencement. #MasonScience
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