USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of May 4, 2009
News From Across the USM Campuses
May 7, 2009 - The
Threat to Polar Bears From Global Warming - Professor Eric DeWeaver, University of Maryland, College
Park. This talk gives an
overview of the USGS reports, and shows how data from climate models,
satellites, radio telemetry, and field studies were combined to assess the
future status of polar bears. In addition, the extent to which polar bear
habitat can be conserved through reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions is
examined in simulations produced from climate change mitigation scenarios (Abstract). Contact: For
more information, email Sumant Nigam. Event will be held in the Computer and Space Sciences (CSS) Building,
Auditorium (Room 2400)?. Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm in the
adjoining Atrium.
Woodland and Farm Owner
Field Tour: Conservation Cost-Share Programs. On Saturday, May 9, Maryland
Cooperative Extension is hosting the Woodland and Farm
Owner Field Tour to educate woodland owners and farmers about forest resource
management and conservation programs available from state
and government agencies. For more information, contact Maryland Cooperative
Extension at 410- 651-6206. Pre-register online at www.umes.edu/1890-mce.
Come out and see how you can benefit from these featured programs. (University of Maryland, Eastern
Shore; Press Release, 5/2009)
2009 Colvin Institute Symposium -
Sustainable
Development: Smart, Adaptive and Green, at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation. Saturday, May 9,
2009, 9:00am-3:30pm?- Architecture Building Auditorium, University of Maryland, College Park. The
symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required. RSVP
for the complimentary luncheon by May 4: kpriya@umd.edu (University of Maryland, College Park - Architecture, Planning and Preservation, News and Events, 5/5/09)
Can
We Save the Environment and the Economy? UMBC will
host Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) on Monday, May 11, for a discussion asking
"Can We Save the Environment and the Economy?" The discussion,
sponsored by the Public Policy Graduate Student Association, will take place at
2 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus. For
more information, contact Anne Roland (anne@umbc.edu)
(UMBC Insights, 4/28/09)
Bay
grass rebound reported: Aerial surveys show 18-percent boost since 2007 (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 4/30/09) [William Denison, Vice President of the University of Maryland Center
for Environmental Science is quoted in the article]
State of Maryland
News
Evaluation
of Chesapeake Goals Killed: EPA Adviser, Others Squashed Review of How Realistic Cleanup Expectations
Are (By David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post, 5/4/09)
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The
climate clash - Our view: Framing the climate change debate as taxes versus new energy
jobs overlooks the core problem of a global environmental disaster in the
making (The Baltimore Sun, Op-Ed,
5/3/09)
Annapolis City
Dock Gets Top Honors (WJZ-TV, 5/3/09)
Company
towns feel stress: Union Bridge, New Windsor grapple with cement company's plan for
4.5-mile conveyor (By Joe Burris, The
Baltimore Sun, 5/3/09)
National and International News
Finding
Space for All in Our Crowded Seas (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 5/4/09)
The
PATH to Dirty Energy (By Bruce Nilles, The Washington Post, 5/3/09)
EPA
Seeks Rules for Utilities' Runoff: Pollutants Scrubbed From Smokestacks Are Being
Diverted Into Waterways (By Juliet Eilperin,
The Washington Post, 5/3/09)
Envisioning
the End of ‘Don't Cluck, Don't Tell' (By Peter Applebome, The New York Times, 4/29/09)
New
York City-sized ice collapses off Antarctica (By Alister Doyle, Reuters, 4/28/09)
Melt
from Andes to Arctic may spur U.N. climate pact (By Alister Doyle, Reuters,
4/28/09)
Clinton says
U.S. no longer AWOL on climate change (CNN, 4/27/09)
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