Spatially Connected

Great opportunity to showcase your GIS (or other environmentally-focused) project and win some cash for your work!

PSU's College of Urban & Public Affairs is hosting a Environmental Project presentation/competition.  The competition is open to students from any college.  Click here for details. 

There will be a screening at the Portland Film & Video Festival at the Portland Art Museum this coming Tuesday at 9:30 pm and Saturday at 2:00 pm. Details and tickets at nwfilm.org/festivals/nwfvf/. The Tuesday evening screening will be followed by Q&A with filmmaker Sandy Cioffi.  Sweet Crude is about Nigeria’s Niger Delta - the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since we met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The film confronts issues of human rights, resource control, environmental justice and mainstream media agendas.

 

Presenter: Sarah Thompson (winner of a 2009 ASPRS student research scholarship)

Subject: GIS Applications: Cow Manure, Stream Quality, and Salmon Death

Sarah Thompson will give an intriguing presentation describing methods for employing GIS to solve environmental problems caused by human agricultural practices.  Her research focuses on the detrimental effects of cow manure runoff on stream health and salmon survival.

We will also be announcing awesome opportunities for research and conference travel funding!

Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Time: 3-4pm
Location: Cramer Hall, Room 413

This event is free and all are welcome!

Free refreshments will be provided!

8th ANNUAL
URBAN ECOLOGY and CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM  www.uercportland.org

Monday, January 25, 2010

Portland State University
Smith Center Ballroom
1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

You are invited to participate in the eighth annual symposium hosted by the Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium (UERC).  During the symposium, you will have opportunities to network, build partnerships and exchange information with others concerned about urban environmental issues and the practical application of related ecological and social sciences in the Portland, Ore./Vancouver, Wash. metropolitan region.  The day will be packed with a series of presentations, a poster session, two keynote speakers, raffles, and plenty of time to visit with colleagues.  Join us for a day of sharing,learning and inspiration.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:  The symposium will provide a unique opportunity for people to share information about environmentally-focused research,
projects and programs.  Relevant fields include the biological, chemical
and physical sciences, land use planning, habitat management and
restoration, environmental education and the social sciences.  Abstracts
should focus on sharing results, lessons learned, or information about
opportunities and resources that may be of interest to those working to
advance and apply the sciences related to ecological issues in the greater
Portland/Vancouver region.  Abstracts for presentations, posters, or simply to publish in the proceedings will be accepted through MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2,2009 (EXTENDED).  Please see the UERC web site at  www.uercportland.org for details and the on-line submittal form.

WHAT IS THE UERC?  The UERC is a consortium of people from various
educational institutions, state and federal agencies, local governments,
non-profit organizations and businesses, as well as independent
professionals and students, interested in supporting urban ecosystem
research and creating an information-sharing network of people that collect and use ecological data in the Portland, Ore./Vancouver, Wash. region.  For more information and proceedings from past symposia, please visit the UERC web site.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO REGISTER:  Please visit www.uercportland.org.  To register, fill out the on-line registration form, print it out and send it with your registration payment to:  Alan Yeakley - Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium, Environmental Sciences and Management, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Oregon 97207-0751.  EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  January 8, 2010.

Registration fees*:  $30 Standard rate, $15 Student rate (proof of student status is required with payment).  Fees include lunch for those who register and pay by the early registration deadline.  Registration payment will be accepted by mail through January 18th; registrations will also be accepted at the door as space allows.  To keep the event costs low, no refunds will be given.

*A limited number of fee waivers are being offered, in exchange for
volunteer service, to anyone in financial need.  Fee waiver requests must
be made on your completed registration form by January 8, 2010 in order tobe considered.

Ian Madin (DOGAMI) will present the geology fall seminar on Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 4:00-5:00 pm in 108 Wilkinson Hall.  The title of the seminar is “Lidar in Oregon: New Data Promises Exciting Discoveries and Lots of Fun.”

Refreshments are served prior to the seminar. Everyone welcome!

Dawn Wright (Department of Geosciences, OSU) will present the geography fall seminar on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 from 4:00-5:00 pm in 108 Wilkinson Hall.  The title of the seminar is “Cracks, Creatures and Creative GIS.”

Refreshments are served prior to the seminar. Everyone welcome!