Sustainable Water Program March 29

The Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Sustainability Present:

Increasing Public Awareness of Water Preservation & Sustainability Using Public Relations, Community Outreach and Education

A panel of industry professionals, educators and BSU staff discuss how they each work to educate consumers on these issues and generate public awareness, including the role public relations plays in community outreach efforts.

Tuesday, March 29th
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Moakley Auditorium


The event is being held in 2 sessions for people who cannot stay for the entire event due to scheduling conflicts.

SESSION I: 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.  - Water Sustainability – Chemicals in Our Water What are the issues? What’s being done? What can we do to help? (Internationally, Regionally, BSU)

SESSION II: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.- Best Practices in PR & Community Outreach & Communication Careers in the Environment Sector

Event MC:  Kim McCoy, BSU, Laboratory Coordinator, RiverNet Watershed Access Lab


Panelists:
Dr. Jabbar Al-Obaidi, BSU, Department of Communication Studies Chairperson, Director of the Middle East Studies Program and Producer of the documentary “Contaminated Drinking Water in Cambodia”

Edward Brush, BSU, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences; Co-Coordinator, Center for Sustainability and Member of the President’s Climate Commitment Task Force

Patricia Delaney, BSU, Environmental Health and Safety Officer, Facilities Management and Planning Office and Member of the President’s Climate Commitment Task Force

Alison Bowden, The Nature Conservancy, Director of the Freshwater Program in Massachusetts

Mark Campanale, Triumvirate Environmental, Client Relations Manager, Marketing and Social Media Manager

Scott W. Horsley, LEED AP Horsley Witten Group, full-service environmental science and engineering firm. Veteran consultant in watershed planning and water resources management.

Japan Relief T-Shirts

CafePress is selling t-shirts in support of Red Cross relief efforts in Japan. The shirts feature a nice map of the country with the word "hope" in Japanese. Ten dollars from each purchase goes to the Red Cross.

To economize on shipping while showing our solidarity as geographers, BSU geography student Ashley Costa is putting together a group order. If you are interested, contact Ashley (a5costa is her bridgew email) and get her the funds by Tuesday, March 29. The cost, to include shipping, is $18. If you round up to $20, any extra bucks will go to one of the many campus-based fund-raising efforts.

Learn more about BSU educational and charitable responses at http://www.bridgew.edu/response/JapanRelief.cfm. The day-long teach-in on Wednesday, March 30 will include at least a couple of the geography and geology faculty members.

GIS Job Upportunity

A graduate of our department is taking a new job, and has let us know -- through Dr. Rao -- about the upcoming vacancy in his place. This mainly GIS position includes both mapping and marketing duties, as outlined below.


Map duties: Custom maps based requests, including:

• Running Demographic Reports
• Producing Thematic based maps on Demo Variables
• Geocoding Retail Locations
• Doing Parcel Overlay Aerials.
• Zoning Overlay Aerials.

Marketing duties:

• E-blasts
• Website updates
• Creating brochures
• Working with Adobe Suite 

Contact:

Richard Pilla, Principal
Paramount Partners
rpilla AT paramountpartners DOT com
781-848-1550 x17
http://paramountpartners.com/

Japan Resources from BSU Asian Studies

Dr. Minae Savas and Dr. Wing-kai To of the Asian Studies Program have posted the following message for the BSU community. Dr. Savas is in the Foreign Languages Department and Dr. To is in the History Department.


Please join us in extending our heartfelt sympathy to the Japanese people for the casualties, injury, and damage they suffered from the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11 and beyond. We have dozens of Japanese students studying at Bridgewater as well as hundreds of alumni and graduates who are from Japan or working in Japan. We are gradually able to establish contacts with many of them and our thoughts are with the well-being of them and their families.

For up-to-date news coverage of the disaster and recovery efforts, you can watch TV news as follows:

Information in English:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

Information in Japanese:
NHK http://ustre.am/vmCj

The Japan Society of Boston has a website devoted to the tragedy and local relief efforts:
http://www.japansocietyboston.org/Earthquake

The Asian Studies program is coordinating with other campus offices to receive donations for relief to the earthquake and tsunami victims. We’ll provide you more information about our campus efforts as soon as they are available.

With deepest sympathy to our friends in Japan at this difficult time,

Minae Savas and Wing-kai To

LACS/PAIS Event -- March 16

LACS/PAIS Event

It would be great to see geography faculty and students -- especially those who have studied or visited Latin America, at this event. Those who took Geography of Latin America last fall will remember that Dr. Shanahan was an excellent guest speaker! In general, these reflections on the literature of the realm can help us to understand its cultural geography.

Incidentally, LACS is soon changing its name to Pan-American and Iberian Studies (PAIS) to reflect the broader scope of studies taking place at BSU.

Storied Lives: New Frontiers in Latin American and Caribbean History and Fiction

We cordially invite you to join us for a LACS symposium featuring brilliant new scholarship from BSU faculty

March 16, 10:00-11:30, Small Ballroom, RCC.

Refreshments will be served.  Open to students, faculty, and staff.

                                 

Featured lecturers are:

"Pushing Gender Boundaries? Dancehall, Migration and Trade in Contemporary Jamaican Culture” – Dr. Diana Fox, Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

"Domestic Relations: Gender, Household, and Nation in Latin American History since 1850" – Dr. Erin O’Connor, Department of History

“La Frontera as Creative Space for Artistas Chicanas” – Dr. Jenny Shanahan, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research

 Moderator: Dr. Leora Lev, Department of Foreign Languages, Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

  

Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Contact Information:  Prof. L. Lev at x2449

DEP Summer Internships - March 15 Deadline

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Summer 2011 Summer Internship Opportunities
Application Deadline: March 15


Our department strongly encourages students to pursue internship and research opportunities because they deeply enhance learning while enhancing prospects for future employment. Students who have not yet done so should visit the Office of Career Services Office and the CSO web site for information about finding and preparing for internships. The office maintains a database of opportunities that students should check frequently.


Thanks to Internship Adviser Debra London for sharing a whole set of internship opportunities that should be of special interest to geography students. A variety of internships are available in various offices of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and geography students are well-positioned to apply for several of them. Internships are not paid, but academic credit can be earned. 


Please note the application deadline immediately after Spring Break.

Contemporary Slavery: March 2

It is estimated that there are at least 27 million people living in slavery around the world today.

The Social Justice League at BSU has organized an informative presentation combining guest and student speakers, theatrical performances, slide shows, brief film clips, and discussion to raise awareness about the issue of modern day slavery.

AMIRAH Boston, an organization that provides shelters for females refugees in the Boston area, will join us to present about their work and how they have been helping thousands of women who have been displaced from their homes due to human trafficking, slavery, and other related causes.


Wednesday, March 2
7:00 PM
Moakley Center Auditorium
Bridgewater State University
This event is sponsored by the Social Justice League and the Christian Fellowship at BSU. Learn more at the event page on Facebook.

Coffee, Sustainability, and a Catchy Tune

In late 2010, students in BSU's Master in Public Administration program interviewed Dr. Hayes-Bohanan about coffee and sustainability. For those who watch the entire interview, there is an amusing treat at the very end.

GIS position

Overview:
FM Global is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM Global helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles.

Responsibilities:
Entry- to mid-level GIS Specialist to work as part of a GIS team. Participate in corporate projects and related activities to provide assistance in advancing the utilization of GIS technologies, processes and procedures. Take a proactive role in representing and promoting the GIS vision within the company. Assist with a variety of GIS applications and projects, assist in selecting and acquiring the appropriate geospatial data and technology for spatial analysis. Participate in the development of corporate GIS web and desktop tools by providing programming assistance for delivered tools and provide technical/operational support.

Qualifications:
Associate Degree/Diploma/Certificate in GIS, Geography, or a related discipline with a strong focus in GIS. 4+ years GIS Specialist experience, including data development, analysis, and cartography. Knowledge of GIS related concepts, products and geospatial industry. Basic knowledge of programming utilizing Visual Basic and/or VB.NET a plus. Must have strong project and time management skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, and organizational skills.

Apply for this job online:
https://jobs-fmglobal.icims.com/jobs/3340/job

Geographers of Coffee

L-R: Geography majors Anne Williams and Nicole Petit;

Geography minors Ryan Dexter-Hansen and Nikki Sauber;

Geography Professor James Hayes-Bohanan

BSU geographers posed with a relief map in the museum at the Parque Nacional Volcán Masaya yesterday, near the end of the department's fifth study tour in Nicaragua. The subject of the study tour is the Geography of Coffee, which integrates human and physical geography. The trip included visits both to active volcanoes Masaya and Cerro Negro and dormant volcanoes in the heart of the coffeelands of Matagalpa and Jinotega.

As the students in the course learned, fine coffees are found on rich, volcanic soils throughout the world.