Dear Marmam folks,
I’m delighted to share with you the first public
announcement of the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Environmental
Studies and Sciences (AESS). The meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon in
mid-June, and details are given in the message below from the conference
chairs. AESS is a new professional organization with broad interests in
interdisciplinary environmental and natural resources problem solving. There is
a good deal of possible crossover between AESS interests and those of the
Marmam community, and so I wanted to share with you this invitation.
The message below invites you to participate in setting the
agenda for the 2010 AESS meeting. More than 300 people attended the
organization’s first annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin in 2009, which
was a great combination of discussions, themed symposia, plenary sessions,
field trips, and social events. The Portland meeting promises an even more
robust agenda and we hope you will consider becoming involved and attending. It
would be wonderful to foster collaboration between the marine mammal
conservation community and the large and diverse community of professionals in
environmental studies and sciences (speaking as someone who works in both worlds!).
Please let me know if you have any questions, and apologies
for cross-postings.
All my best to you for a happy and healthy holiday season!
Cheers,
Rich Wallace
On behalf of the AESS Outreach & Membership Committee
--
Richard
L. Wallace, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor
Environmental
Studies Program
Ursinus
College
P.O.
Box 1000
Collegeville,
PA 19426
(610)
409-3730
(610)
409-3660 fax
Dear Colleagues,
The Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)
is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher
education, designed to serve the needs of environmental scholars and scientists
who value interdisciplinary approaches to research, teaching, and
problem-solving. Founded in 2008, the Association seeks to provide its
members with the latest environmental information and tools to create better
courses, strengthen research, develop more satisfying careers, harness the power
of a collective voice for the profession, and enjoy each other’s company
at national and regional meetings.
A major aim of AESS is to encourage interdisciplinary
understanding of environmental science, policy, management, ethics, history,
and all of the other vital contributions of traditional disciplines. From
its beginning, the Association has been envisioned as a community of
environmental scholars and scientists, not a confederation of disciplines.
Fundamental to its members’ embrace of higher education is the notion
that broad advances in environmental knowledge require disciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to research and learning.
On behalf of the AESS Program Committee and Site Arrangement
Committee, we are pleased to announce the launch of the AESS 2010 Conference
website, which is being hosted temporarily by Lewis and Clark College.
The conference will be held at Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR, June
17-20.
The theme for our 2010 AESS Conference is Many Shades of
Green. The theme reflects the growing diversity of the environmental movement
and the spread of “green” thinking into new and more varied venues.
A bewildering profusion of green ideas are working their way through global
politics and discourse as new groups enter into –– and challenge
–– the traditional environmental movement. The term
“green” can itself mean many things: corporations may label
themselves green by adopting energy conservation, “carbon-friendly”
products, and recycling/reuse strategies, while individuals and organizations
may embrace widely differing green principles, ranging from eco-consumerism to
eco-spirituality to eco-anarchism. Debates over technology, population,
politics, equity, and regulation increasingly divide not just pro- and
anti-greens, but greens themselves. We welcome proposals that engage with this
proliferation of difference, contention, and innovation in green rhetoric and
practice.
The AESS Program Committee is trying something new this
year. We would like to provide an opportunity for the ESS community to help
shape the organization of the 2010 AESS Conference at Lewis and Clark. To
accomplish this bottom-up approach, we are breaking up the call for sessions
and presentations into a two-step process:
Step 1: Call for session proposals (deadline Feb 1, 2010)
Step 2: Call for presentation abstracts (deadline Mar 30, 2010)
Please visit the AESS
2010 Conference website for further information.
We strongly encourage members of AESS, prior to the February
1 session proposal deadline, to participate in the discussion forum on session
ideas (explained in detail on the conference website) to explore possibilities
for sessions, including paper presentations, workshops, panel discussions,
roundtable/facilitated discussions, and field trips.
If you are not already a member of AESS, please consider
joining. It’s inexpensive: Professional $30, current student
$15, current student with AESS mentor $10. For more information about
membership, please visit the AESS website.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any
questions. We look forward to seeing you all in Portland next June!
All the best,
Phil Camill
Chair, AESS Program Committee
Rusack Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental
Studies
Program Director, Environmental Studies
Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
Jim Proctor
Chair, AESS Site Arrangements Committee
Professor and Director, Environmental Studies Program
Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR