Upcoming Events

***Join us for an End of the Year Celebration and Awards Ceremony Friday, June 14, 2013 from 1-3pm in Smith Memorial Student Union room 238.

Department News

Dr. Robert Scheller received the Sigma Xi Outstanding Scientific Researcher Award in Earth and Environmental Sciences.   

Corinne Handelman has received PSU's Student University Service Award!

Matthew Duveneck has been nominated for PSU's Student Academic Achievement Award!

Ted Hart has been nominated for PSU's Student Community Engagement Award!

Dr. Dave Ervin co-authored “Commercial Science, Scientists’ Values, and University Biotechnology Research Agenda” in Research Policy that has received the Fred Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award for 2013 by the Rural Sociological Society.

Meredith Jordan recently received a Sigma Xi grant to help fund her summer research at Dorena Lake, Oregon. She will be conducting a mesocosm experiment to look at the combined effects of temperature and eutrophication on the bioaccumulation of mercury in freshwater zooplankton, and to see how these factors will affect biomass and community composition at the base of the food web.

ESM PhD student Amy Truitt was accepted by the NSF for the 2013 East Asian Pacific Science Institutes for Australia.  She will be working with Dr Jeremy Brownlie at Griffith University from June to August to investigate whether Wolbachia, an endosymbiotic bacteria, provides its butterfly hosts with viral resistance.

Rob Scheller, along with co-investigators Mark Johnson (EPA-Corvallis, OR), Steve LeDuc (EPA-DC), and Melissa Lucash, received a $192,000 grant to extrapolate LiDAR and carbon data to predict and manage the consequences of climate change in Pacific Northwest forests.

Job Announcements

The Department of Environmental Science and Management at Portland State University seeks a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor to begin September 16, 2013. For full job description please click here Assistant Professor. 

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