Hi everyone,

 

The first pooled conservation science lab meeting of the new school year will take place next Thursday 08/31, 2.30-3.30 in the Toyota Auditorium at the Baker School.

 

Pooled conservation science lab meetings take place about once a month and provide a chance for faculty, students, staff and visitors interested in conservation science to come together and talk about ideas and ongoing projects. It is a highly interdisciplinary gathering and people from 5 or 6 departments, several institutions and many different research groups routinely participate. It’s also not a seminar series – it’s a lab meeting environment, a place where people are encouraged to shop ideas and works in progress. If you are interested in conservation topics and want to know more, come along and check it out sometime!

 

With it being the first time we will meet this year, we intend for next week’s gathering to serve as a chance to meet one another and get an idea of what each other is interested in. To that end, please come ready to introduce yourself and say a little about what you are interested in. We’ll also include a little look ahead at what conservation science related activities are coming up this semester (see below for some opportunities).

 

If you are in and around Knoxville, we encourage you to come along in person to these events. We will also stream pooled lab meetings live on zoom for those who are remote – how well it works likely depends on just what the activity is that week and what room we are in. For next week, we’ll use this zoom link https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/819597610 – (full zoom call in details at the end of this message).

 

I hope to see many of you on Thursday.

 

Paul Armsworth

 

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POOLED CONSERVATION SCIENCE LAB MEETINGS THIS SEMESTER

 

08/31, 2.30-3.30 Introductory meeting, Toyota Auditorium, Baker School

 

09/14, 2.30-3.30 New faculty member Emine Fidan of BESS will lead part of the discussion. Will also include an overview discussion of some of the conservation science activities housed in UTIA. Meeting in has 401 Plant Biotech.

 

10/26, 2.30-3.30 New faculty member Gaby Perez Quesada of AREC will lead part of the discussion. Meeting in has 264 Brehm Animal Science

 

11/02, 2.30-3.30 Rick Gerhold of CVM will lead part of the discussion. Meeting room: TBC

 

OTHER UPCOMING CONSERVATION SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AT UT to be aware of

 

09/01, 12.40-1.40 in SERF 307 Virginia Dale, EEB is giving the EEB departmental seminar

 

09/15, 12.40-1.40 in SERF 307 Brandon Peoples from Clemson is giving the EEB departmental seminar

 

09/18 UTK’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment will hold its annual conference (ISSE Annual Research Conference | Institute for a Secure & Sustainable Environment (utk.edu))

 

09/28, 1-2.30. Varsha Vijay of the Science Based Targets Network is talking in the Baker School Energy and Environment Forum on how businesses are trying trach their impacts on nature. Toyota Auditorium. We may run this year’s first professional development discussion for conservation science interested students as part of Varsha’s visit.

 

10/12, 1-2.30. The Baker School Energy and Environment Forum will be a panel discussion exploring socioecological vulnerability of the Southern Appalachians. Toyota Auditorium

 

10/21, all day event. The Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law conference will take place in the Law school. (Tennessee Environmental Law – Connecting the Environmental Law Community in Tennessee)

 

10/26-27 The Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment and CURENT are hosting a workshop on Energy and Environmental Justice

 

WEBINARS

 

09/23, SC CASC, SE CASC, and USFS are offering a virtual workshop on Extreme Disturbances and Climate Change: Threats to the Southeast. Learn more and register.

 

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Paul R. Armsworth,

Professor,

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,

University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Armsworth Lab: http://www.armsworthlab.com

UT Conservation Science Group: https://consci.utk.edu