Saturday, June 9, 2012

Two upcoming opportunities for teachers and students.

From the CT Invasive Species Working Group:

"The Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group (CIPWG) will be holding its biennial Invasive Plant Symposium on Thursday, October 25, 2012 in Storrs, on the campus of the University of Connecticut.  As a part of that symposium, CIPWG will be hosting a poster display area. 

The theme of this year’s symposium is Getting Real About Invasive Plants: Prioritize, Strategize, Mobilize.  Posters may be developed around research projects, examples of invasive plant field projects, successful programs relating to invasive plants, or other initiatives that will be instructive to those in attendance at the symposium.  Typical attendance at CIPWG symposia has been in the vicinity of 400 people.  The audience tends to be highly diverse, and includes everyone from practicing landscape professionals to enthusiastic invasive plant volunteers to university researchers, students and professors.  The symposium is an important learning crossroads where ideas and information are exchanged among a broad group of people. 

They are particularly interested in encouraging the participation of students at the high school, college and graduate school level."

See their website at www.hort.uconn.edu/cipwg/2012Symposium/2012symposium.html for more information.

From Forest Watch:

"Forest Watch, is holding four three-day teacher professional development courses in New England this summer. FOREST WATCH is a proven program with students conducting basic and applied research on forest ecosystems in New England while learning biology, chemistry, and physics concepts.  In addition to impacting students and teachers, FOREST WATCH has made a number of important scientific findings over the past 20 years.

For more information about FOREST WATCH go to: http://www.forestwatch.sr.unh.edu/index.shtml

The Forest Watch program is funded in part by the New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium, located at Univ. of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space."

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