Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero will be among those participating in the
upcoming "Women in Politics" workshop to be hosted by the Department of
Political Science. It has been organized by Dr. Jana Morgan.
The event will be held April 10-11 in the Toyota Auditorium. It is free and open
to the public! Complete information can be found here
http://polisci.utk.edu/womenpolitics/index.php
The workshop will kick off with a roundtable discussion and Q&A session at 8:00
pm on April 10. Featured speakers will include Rogero and several prominent
scholars who will talk about the roles women play in politics.
The research workshop portion of the conference will take place on April 11,
and speakers will present and discuss several research papers related to the
theme of gender and politics.
The conference is sponsored by the Haines-Morris Endowment, the Department
of Political Science, the Department of American Studies, the Department of
Global Studies, the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and
the Department of Women’s Studies.
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Also, don't forget April 10, 3:30 - 5 pm -- E&E Forum on "Shale Gas
Development Impacts on Surface Water Quality in Pennsylvania."
Abstract: Concern has been raised in the scientific literature about the
environmental implications of extracting natural gas from deep shale formations,
and published studies suggest that shale gas development may affect local
groundwater quality. The potential for surface water quality degradation has
been discussed in prior work, although no empirical analysis of this issue has
been published. The potential for large-scale surface water quality degradation
has affected regulatory approaches to shale gas development in some US
states, despite the dearth of evidence. This paper conducts a large-scale
examination of the extent to which shale gas development activities affect
surface water quality. Focusing on the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, we
estimate the effect of shale gas wells and the release of treated shale gas
waste by permitted treatment facilities on observed downstream
concentrations of chloride (Cl−) and total suspended solids (TSS), controlling
for other factors. Results suggest that (i) the treatment of shale gas waste by
treatment plants in a watershed raises downstream Cl− concentrations but not
TSS concentrations, and (ii) the presence of shale gas wells in a watershed
raises downstream TSS concentrations but not Cl− concentrations. These
results can inform future voluntary measures taken by shale gas operators and
policy approaches taken by regulators to protect surface water quality as the
scale of this economically important activity increases.
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