USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of September 9, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
September
11th - Dr. Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware - "Ocean
acidification and its interaction with other multiple stressors in coastal
ocean environments." This event is a part of the Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory (CBL) Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series. The seminar will be held
on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., in the Bernie Fowler Laboratory, Room 1101.
September 13th - Chris Peot,?DC Water
and Sewer Authority?- "Biosolids
Digestion at the DC Water Blue Plains Resource Recovery Facility - Green
Infrastructure and Renewable Energy." Seminar will be held on Friday
at 2:00pm in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County campus, and is free and open to the public.
Registration is not required. Visitor parking passes for the Technology Research
Center lot may be purchased for $4.00 in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105
shortly before seminar.
Horn
Point to present environmental award to Amy Haines (The Star-Democrat,
9/2/13) [This award is sponsored by the UMCES Horn Point Laboratory. Article quotes
Michael Roman, Director of the UMCES's Horn Point Laboratory.]
Daughter
of Bay seeks to honor island's heritage, preserve future: Kelley Phillips Cox
wants public to experience Chesapeake's legacy and creatures as she did - up
close and personal. (By Rona Kobell, Bay Journal, 9/2/13) [Article quotes
Eric Schott, a molecular biologist at the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
State
of Maryland News
Maryland,
EPA, Chesapeake Bay Trust Provide $3.4 Million for Green Infrastructure Program
(AccessDNR - Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 9/4/13)
Bay
health reviewed at field hearing (By Josh Bollinger, MyEasternShoreMD.com,
9/3/13)
Immigration
is an environmental issue (By Tom Horton, The Baltimore Sun - Op-Ed,
9/3/13)
National
and International News
The Flip Side Of Obama's
Keystone XL Delay: Even as President Obama cast a veneer of caution over the
Keystone pipeline's northern half, he quietly expedited dozens of similar
projects (By Steve Horn, Mint Press News as reported by CommonDreams.org,
9/8/13)
Climate
Change Leaves Hares Wearing The Wrong Colors (By Lauren Sommer, National
Public Radio, 9/8/13)
New
NOAA Report Confirms Climate Change Is Intensifying Extreme Heat and Storms
(By Frances Beinecke, Natural Resources Defense Council - Switchboard, 9/6/13)
Climate
change is cleaving the GOP in two: An emerging faction of Republicans thinks
the party should adopt a British Columbia-style tax on carbon (By Geoff
Dembicki, Salon.com, 9/5/13)
'Five Minutes to
Midnight' as Climate Change Endgame Threatens: Irreversible sea level rise,
mass species extinction just around the corner unless immediate action is
taken, warns UN (By Jacob Chamberlain, CommonDreams.org, 9/3/13)
The
Real Reason Kansas Is Running Out of Water (By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
Magazine - Environment, 9/3/13)
Why Global Warming Will Be
Far Worse, Far Sooner, Than Forecasts Predict (By John Atcheson,
CommonDreams.org, 9/3/13)
Crop-munching
pests are traveling north as the climate changes (By John Upton, Grist.org,
9/3/13)
Labor
Day 2050: Global Warming And The Coming Collapse Of Labor Productivity (By
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 9/2/13)
Japan's Plan for
Radioactive Waste Water: Into the Ocean - "I'm afraid that it is
unavoidable to dump or release the water into the sea," confessed Nuclear
Regulatory Authority head (By Andrea Germanos, CommonDreams.org, 9/2/13)
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