Stony Brook Events
Thursday, April 16
Do It in the Dark
Student Renewable Rock Concert
7:00 pm
Mendelsohn Quad
Power runs on clean energy. Educational info on safe sex practices. Sponsored by the Environmental Club.
Friday, April 17
Earthstock Opening Festival
Academic Mall (Rain Location is Wang Center)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Pride Patrol Campus Beautification
Advance registration required.
Contact Christine Quinn at 632-6320.
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Earthstock Festival
Educational displays and exhibitors
Andean Flutists
Aztec Dancer Performances
Street Performers
Peat Moss & the Fertilizers
Faculty & Student Music Performances, SAC Stage
Drumming Circle with Audience Participation
Traveling Wilderness Museum
11:00 am
Pre-College Seminar for HS Students
SAC 302
For participating middle-school and
high-school students
11:30 am to 3:00 pm
Peat Moss and the Fertilizers, Main Stage
12:15 pm
Opening remarks
Remarks
by President Shirley Strum Kenny
Green Pledge Recitation
1:00 pm
Reduce, Reuse, Relay
Staller Terraces
Register your team from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
2:00 pm
Rubber Duck Races
Adopt a duck and race it down the “stony brook”
2:30 pm
Ice Cream Social
3:30 pm
Film Screening: A Sea Change
Wang Theater
Documentary Ocean Climate Change and
Ocean Acidification
6:30 pm
Stony Brook Green Drinks
University Café
Networking event for those in the Green Industry
and Academia
Earthstock Environmental Exhibition of Student Research
Wang Lobby
The URECA exhibition will showcase undergraduate research and creative activity associated with all aspects of the environment including environmental history; population and cultural issues; art, sculpture, dance, and music with an environmental theme; ecology and evolution; preservation and conservation of nature; environmental pollution and restoration; environmental medicine and human health; atmospheric science; oceanography and fisheries; earth system science; climate change. For more information, call 632-7114.
7:30 pm
Provost's Lecture
Earthstock Keynote Speaker Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Live from Australia: "The Coral Reef Crisis"
Wang Theater
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is the director of the Center for Marine Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the biology and conservation of coral reefs, particularly on how global climate change affects the sustainability of coral reefs in the future. Recent UNEP estimates have put the loss of reefs by the year 2100 at 30-50% of currently healthy coral reefs. Professor Hoegh-Guldberg’s laboratory on the southern Great Barrier Reef has become a focal point for studies trying to understand the basis of stress in reef-building corals. This spans the effect of nutrients, global warming and chemical impacts like cyanide. His work in this area spans ecology, remote sensing, physiology and molecular studies. Visit his blog Climate Shifts >>
9:00 pm
WUSB Concert: Acoustic Sounds of Jack’s Waterfall
University Cafe
Saturday, April 18
Return Unwanted Medicines
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Setauket Firehouse
Collection and proper disposal of old, unused or unwanted Medicines. Sponsored by Stony Brook University Medical Center, New York Sea Grant and Stony Brook University
Lacrosse the Environment
7:00 pm
LaValle Stadium
Division I Men’s Lacrosse: Stony Brook vs. Binghamton. Sponsored by SB Athletics Department.
Sunday, April 19
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Why Nuclear Energy Should Not Be An Option
7:00 pm
Earth & Space Sciences Building, Room 001
Lecture by Michael Mariotte,
Nuclear Information and Resource Services
www.geo.sunysb.edu/our-environment
Monday, April 20
It’s Like Riding a Bike
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
SAC Commuter Commons
Learn bike maintenance and repair tips and get a chance to learn more about great places to bike on Long Island Sponsored by Free Wheel Collective and Commuter Student Services.
The Ecology of Faith
4:30 pm
SAC Room 306
Film screening and discussion of different faith’s perspectives on the important of environmental sustainability. Sponsored by the Interfaith Center.
Farming the Future: Farm Life on Long Island
5:30 pm
Endeavour Hall, Room 120
Viewing of award-winning film and follow-up discussion of Organic Farming
The film Farming the Future: Farm Life on Long Island celebrates the more than three-century old family farmer way of life, examining the challenges of farming in suburbia and exploring solutions that can help farmers remain on the land. The one-hour documentary weaves interviews, historical photographs and contemporary footage to sew a vibrant tapestry of Long Island's farming legacy from a historical, cultural, and economic perspective.
Tuesday, April 21
Lecture
The Links Between Shellfish Pathogens, Global Warming, and Coral Diseases
12:00 pm
SAC Room 302
Speaker: James Cervino, PhD,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Reduce Your Environmental Tire Track
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Commuter Commons, SAC 144
Educational effort to inform commuter students on ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Sponsored by Commuter Student Services and SB Environmental Club.
Honoring Dr. Ashley Schiff: The Ashley Schiff Park Preserve
1: 00 pm to 2:00 pm
Click here for info on the Preserve.
The Ashley Schiff Park Preserve was dedicated by first Stony Brook
University President John Toll and former US Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall in 1969 to honor Stony Brook political scientist and
environmental activist Professor Ashley Schiff. The Preserve serves as a
field site for many courses as well as home to several rare and
endangered species of wildlife. Learn about the history of the park
and current efforts to secure permanent protection of the preserve as "Forever Wild." The documentary Stand: The Story of the Ashley Schiff
Park Preserve by SBU student Amy Jensen will be shown as part of the
program.
Moderator: Sharon Pavulaan, Co-President, Friends of the Ashley Schiff Park Preserve
Panelists:
Dorothy Schiff Shannon, widow of Ashley Schiff
Malcolm Bowman, Professor of Oceanography and Distinguished Service Professor
Gilbert Hanson, Professor of Geosciences and Distinguished Service Professor
Frank Myers, Professor, Political Sciences
Adam Laybourn, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolution
James Mickley, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolution
The Baked Apple: Metropolitan New York in the Greenhouse
3:30 pm
SAC
Ballroom A
Panel Presentation and discussion on the implications of global climate change on New York City & Long Island. Moderated by Howard Schneider, Dean of the School of Journalism, Stony Brook University.
Panelists:
Malcolm Bowman, SoMAS Oceanographer; Head, Stony Brook Storm Surge Research Group; member of New York Panel on Climate Change
James Cervino, Pace University Department of Biology and Health Sciences and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; member of NYC Climate Change Adaptation Task Force
Brian Colle, SoMAS meteorologist and member of Stony Brook Storm Surge Group
Douglas Hill, SoMAS engineer, author of The Baked Apple: Metropolitan New York in the Green House, published by the NY Academy of Sciences; member of Stony Brook Storm Surge Group
David Major, Columbia University Earth Institute, Center for Climate Systems Research; member of New York Panel on Climate Change
Wednesday, April 22
Lecture: Off-Shore Wind Energy
12:30 pm
Endeavour Hall, Room 120
Speaker: Kevin Pearce , Blue Water Wind LLC
Lecture: Sustainabile Artchitecture, Engineering & Design
4:00 pm
Wang Theater
Speaker: Peter Caradonna, Green Building Architect.
Sponsored by the HERA Club.
Friday, April 24
Film: The Day After Tomorrow
3:00 pm, Humanities 1006
Discussion moderated and led by Malcolm Bowman
Events schedule subject to change.