USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum

2011 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program

Please read the attached file, and distribute it to your juniors and seniors. The submission deadline for students is October 15, 2010. This program garnered significant visibility and success over the last four years. It seeks to provide an opportunity for students studying agriculture to attend the 2011 Agricultural Outlook Forum in the Washington, DC area.

Please see the following website for more information, as well as details of the past program:

http://www.usda.gov/oce/forum/diversity/diversity_program.htm

Gmail - FW: International Internship - wyman.bruce@gmail.com

FROM: Wendy Fink, Associate Director of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources

RE: International Internship Opportunity

Knowing of your interest in providing undergraduate and graduate students international opportunities, I have attached a copy of a pamphlet from the German Academic Exchange Service which offers internships at both the undergraduate and graduate level for students in science and engineering.

Wendy Fink

Associate Director of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources

Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

1307 New York Avenue, NW

Suite 400

Washington, DC 20005-4722

Office: 202-478-6021

Email: wfink@aplu.org

Web: www.aplu.org

Undergraduate research grants

Subject: GSA Southeastern Section - Undergraduate Student Research Grants, New 2011 Deadline

The Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America will continue its undergraduate student research grant program, but is making changes to the application deadline.

Applications for the 2010 program are due October 1. These grants will be awarded in December.

Starting in 2011, applications will be due April 1. Although students will be notified by sometime in May, these awards will not be made until July 1.

This change affects undergraduate students only.

Grant applications and details of the application process are available at:http://www.geosociety.org/sections/se/students.htm

Additional information may be obtained from Donald Neal, SE GSA Secretary-Treasurer (neald@ecu.edu or 252-328-4392) or Jonathan Mies (Jonathan-Mies@utc.edu or 423-425-4404).

Jonathan Mies

Volunteers Needed- Beach Restoration on the Cameron Shoreline

See http://crcl.org/

From: Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana coalition@crcl.org

Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Subject: Volunteers Needed- Beach Restoration on the Cameron Shoreline

Register Now The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and the Gulf Coast Soil and Water Conservation District invite you to participate in a 3-day beach restoration event on the Cameron shoreline at Constance Beach. The beach borders and protects acres of marsh habitat and is being threatened by erosion caused by the Gulf of Mexico. In an effort to restore this area, we will plant 15,000 plugs of bitter panicum and seashore paspalum which will assist in the stability and growth of dunes on the beach.. In addition, the project will also create wildlife habitat, increase species diversity and provide a seed source for natural regeneration. This project is being completed through partnerships with Cheniere Energy, NOAA’s Community-Based Restoration Program, Restore America's Estuaries, Gulf Coast Soil and Water Conservation District, Louisiana Vegetative Planting Program, and the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana. Where: Constance Beach on the Cameron shoreline (maps will be sent to volunteers prior to the event) When: September 16, 17 and 18, 2010 9:00 am to approximately 3:30 pm We are also looking for volunteer 4-wheelers and trailers. If you are able to volunteer this equipment, please email coalition@crcl.org. All planting equipment (gloves, shovels, dibbles, etc.) will be provided. Sunscreen and insect repellant are recommended and will be provided. Lunch and drinks will also be provided to all volunteers. Note: This project requires outdoor physical activity and volunteers should expect to get dirty. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. All volunteers must be registered online or call the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana at (888)-LACOAST. Additional information, including directions to the project site, will be provided to registered volunteers via email prior to the event.

Meeting Notice – 2010 South Louisiana Survey Control Project

Meeting Notice – 2010 South Louisiana Survey Control Project

The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is preparing a project that in a few weeks will re-observe a subset of the 330 survey control marks updated in the NGS 2006 Height Modernization project for South Louisiana (epoch 2006.81). The field portion of this project will be carried out by NGS contracted personnel and observations are due to start soon after Labor Day 2010. Along with this subset of marks, NGS is affording an opportunity to any interested parties to update additional marks and have them published in the NGS Integrated Data Base (IDB). The interested parties must collect their GPS data during the same time period as the NGS contractors, and gather the other related mark information (description, etc.). After providing this information to NGS, we will then perform the processing and adjustment portion of the control mark publishing process (Blue Booking). The NGS will be holding meetings in five cities across south Louisiana to let people know what we are doing and why, and what is required for someone to participate in this project. Meetings are planned for New Orleans, Houma, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Lake Charles.

Meeting Specifics

Date: Friday August 27, 2010 Time: 8:30 – 11:30 AM Location: Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Room, 1015 Pithon St., Lake Charles, LA 70602

Meeting Room on 1st floor and parking is across the street.

Contact: Denis Riordan, National Geodetic Survey, Denis.Riordan@noaa.gov

Coastal GeoTools conference

http://geotools.csc.noaa.gov

Coastal Education & Research Foundation conference

You are invited to help us develop a comprehensive, intellectually rich and rewarding event. The conference organizers plan to convene sessions that promote new understanding of the interactions of socioeconomic and ecological systems along the coasts. CERF 2011 will explore the theme Societies, Estuaries and Coasts: Adapting to Change.

Please assist us by proposing an oral session, poster session, combined oral/poster session or a workshop for CERF 2011.

Please submit online at http://cerf2011.abstractcentral.com/

Deadline is September 17, 2010 at 11:59 PM PT

If you cannot submit a session proposal, you can still contribute to the scientific program by encouraging your colleagues and students to do so.

Sincerely,

The CERF 2011 Scientific Program Committee

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