“Head Start” Program for Turtles Sees First Hatchlings in Pioneering Effort to Save Shocking Decline of Reptile in California
September 5, 2008
Sonoma State
Rapidly shrinking numbers of California’s only native aquatic turtle species - the Western Pond Turtle - has sparked the development of a pioneering partnership between Sonoma State University and two Bay Area zoos to save the reptile from extinction in California.
Sonoma State Biology professor Nick Geist successfully hatched the first six young turtles last Friday from 57 eggs collected this summer from an undisclosed Lake County location. Geist and his graduate students, and Oakland Zoo staffers, spent the summer monitoring a Lake County site for mother turtles and followed them to the nests where they collected their eggs.
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Cal Poly Contingent To Bring Sustainable Technology to Malawi
September 4, 2008
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
An interdisciplinary team from the Cal Poly Honors Program is traveling to Malawi in September to teach sustainable rural irrigation practices designed to foster social and economic equality and stability.
The Cal Poly team will assess various strategies and technologies for the likelihood of long-term success given economic, cultural and environmental constraints in the south-east region of Africa.
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Amazon River outflow fights greenhouse gasses
September 4, 2008
San Francisco State
The Amazon River plays a far more significant role in drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously understood, according to a new study by a team of international scientists. Nutrients from the river’s outflow travel thousands of miles past the continental shelf, influencing the carbon cycling in the tropical ocean.
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CSUMB group dives into task: Professor, students head undersea off Florida Keys
September 3, 2008
CSU, Monterey Bay
Dr. James Lindholm has been selected to lead a mission to the Aquarius Undersea Laboratory in November. Three CSUMB graduate students will accompany him, as well as a scientist from the Moss Landing Marine Labs and a high school teacher.
The aquanauts will live underwater for eight days, diving up to nine hours a day to study the movement and behavior of coral reef fish. All will stay in the Aquarius, in a space about the size of a mobile home. It comes equipped with hot showers, a stocked refrigerator and an Internet connection.
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Humboldt State University Humboldt State Now Search: Students Bring New Light to Africa Marketplaces
September 3, 2008
Humboldt State
Peter Johnstone and Kristen Radecsky set out before dusk everyday for a month to walk through Kenya’s marketplaces. The two Environmental Systems graduate students were busy collecting data on kerosene lamps and collaborating with Kenyans on a safer, more economical alternative.
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Professor Explores Ecological Futures
August 27, 2008
Humboldt State
When examining ideas like world ecological degradation and an impending dark age it’s comforting to know there’s still a flickering light of hope at the end of the tunnel. Dr. Sing C. Chew, Ph.D., Humboldt State sociology professor and senior guest researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, recently published the third volume in his world systems trilogy. Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us completes his exploration of ecological degradation and what Chew calls the “recurring dark ages” that have prompted major structural change in the world system. And while Chew’s thesis sees the emergence of a new dark age for our times, he says his theory also offers hope.
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Cal State Fullerton Political Scientist Named Fulbright Scholar
August 27, 2008
Cal State Fullerton political science professor Raphael J. Sonenshein will be watching the first half of the Democratic National Convention from Southern California and the second half from Paris, where he will spend the fall semester as a Fulbright Scholar.
Sonenshein was selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program, which is reserved for “eminent scholars” with significant publication and teaching records. The 40 some appointments awarded each year are among the most prestigious in the Fulbright Scholar Program.
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Medical imaging grants available
August 22, 2008
The Press-Enterprise
By LOU HIRSH
Published: 8/21/2008
Grant providers at Cal State San Bernardino want to put their money behind promising medical technologies that could save the lives of military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those breakthroughs could eventually prevent deaths in civilian hospitals and emergency situations, they say.
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CCAT Recognized for ‘Best Practices’
August 18, 2008
Humboldt State
The Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT), Humboldt State’s demonstration home for sustainable living, recently sent former co-director, Jeffrey Steuben to accept its award for Best Practices in Student Sustainability Program for the California State University (CSU).
CCAT was recognized for Best Practices during the fourth annual awards competition hosted by the University of California, California State University, and Investor-Owned Utility Energy Efficiency Partnership. The awards competition coincides with the annual University of California, California State University, and California Community College Sustainability Conference.
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Disability history: shaping a new field
August 15, 2008
San Francisco State
After two decades of growing interest in the history of disability as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, disability history scholars are grappling with questions about how to develop this emerging field: where to publish research, how to find disability in historical archives and how to interact with related fields of inquiry. Such topics were up for debate at a recent conference on disability history held at SF State.
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