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NEW ITEMS
(Current items remain in the Digest until they happen so don’t forget to peruse the web listing in case
you missed something in the previous week.)
Institute Events
1. PhD Prospectus Defense: Leah Gibbons
2. Sustainability After School: Green Living Magazine Presents: #EcoEventsAZ Bon Voyage/Wrap
Reveal Party
3. MS Defense: Jazmine Barkley Russell
Other Events - On Campus
4. 3-D Astronomy Shows at Marston Exploration Theater
5. Green Devil Network Garden Workday
Other Events - Off Campus
6. History of the Future Film Series: They Live
News and Announcements
7. How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war
8. Ban on trans fat takes effect in US, but global eradication could be tough
9. Mexico collaboration takes aim at obesity
Other Jobs
10. Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative Program Manager, Conservation Cropping Systems
Initiative, Indiana Conservation Partnership, northern Indiana
11. Hydrologic Aid/Technician, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho
12. Research Associate, Biosystems And Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Lenawee, MI
13. Land Use/Environmental Planner II - Sustainability, County of San Diego, CA
14. Sustainability Student Worker, Sun Devil Dining/Aramark, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
15. Conservation Program Manager, Minnesota Land Trust, St. Paul or Duluth, MN
16. NSF Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Urban Systems Lab, The New School, New York, NY
17. 2019 Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Research
18. Adopt-A-Park – Priority Co-Lead (volunteer), Arizona Sustainability Alliance, Phoenix and Tempe,
AZ
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EVENTS
Institute Events
NEW!
PhD Prospectus Defense: Leah Gibbons
(Wednesday, June 27, 2018) Leah Gibbons will defend her prospectus Regenerative Community
Development: A Framework and Assessment Tool for Co-creating Thriving Living Systems. Faculty,
students and the general public are invited. At 2:00 p.m. in room 481, Wrigley Hall, Arizona State
University, Tempe campus. More information.
NEW!
Sustainability After School: Green Living Magazine Presents: #EcoEventsAZ Bon
Voyage/Wrap Reveal Party
(Wednesday, June 27, 2018) Don't miss this event celebrating a sustainable road trip across the
American West. Millions of Americans will be hitting the road this summer, but not everyone will be
making an epic, and sustainable journey in a cutting-edge electric vehicle. Join Green Living Magazine,
and the School of Sustainability as they bid 'bon voyage' to the father and son team of John and Neo
Martinson. From 4:00-7:30 p.m. at AUTOWITS, 7224 E. McDowell Rd, Scottsdale, AZ. More
information and registration.
Cinema Politica Free Film Screening: The House I Live In
(Wednesday, June 27, 2018) From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the
senator, the inmate to the federal judge, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN offers a penetrating look inside
America’s longest war - the War on Drugs - revealing its profound human rights implications. Doors
open at 6:30 p.m.; film begins at 7:00 p.m in room 101, Wrigley Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe
campus. More information and registration.
NEW!
MS Defense: Jazmine Barkley Russell
(Monday, July 2, 2018) Jazmine Barkley Russell will defend her MS thesis Monitoring Algal Abundance
and Water Quality in Arizona Reservoirs Through Field Sampling and Remote Sensing. Faculty,
students and the general public are invited. At 10:00 a.m. in room 481, Wrigley Hall, Arizona State
University, Tempe campus. More information.
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Other Events
On Campus
NEW!
3-D Astronomy Shows at Marston Exploration Theater
(Saturday, June 23, 2018) The Marston Exploration Theater is located on the Arizona State University
Tempe campus in the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV. The theater employs
Definiti SkySkan Planetarium technology utilizing 4K projection systems that render Earth and Space
Science themes in 3-D stereographic vision. They offer four different 3-D shows. From 2:30-3:30 p.m.
at the Marston Theater, ISTB4, Arizona State University, Tempe campus. More information and tickets.
NEW!
Green Devil Network Garden Workday
(Wednesday, June 27, 2018) Join the Green Devil Network to learn about herb gardening best
practices at the Tempe campus herb garden. Attendees receive hands-on experience and network with
others who share the same passion for sustainability. From 7:00-8:00 a.m. at the Student Services
Building, Herb Garden, Arizona State University, Tempe campus. More information and RSVP.
Off Campus
Local First Arizona - Green Team Educational Outing: Sustainable Fashion
(Saturday. June 23, 2018) The apparel industry has some dirty "not-so-secret" secrets when it comes
to its impact on the planet. Water pollution, toxic chemicals in materials and textiles ending up in the
landfill are big issues, and unfortunately things are getting worse due to increased worldwide demand
for cheap clothes. Personal stylist and sustainable fashion expert Loren North will share her knowledge
about where your clothes come from, the impact they have on the environment and alternatives to fast
fashion. Loren's styling mentality is to teach you how to use items in your closet, then look at
purchasing second hand or from sustainable brands. After her presentation, we'll be invited to join
Loren at A Second Look, where she will share her strategies and give you tips on shopping at second
hand shops. Thanks to our partners, this event (from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) is free to attend & open to
all. Space is limited, please RSVP to Helene@localfirstaz.com. More information.
Smartscape 101 Fall 2018
(Monday, July 9-Wednesday, August 6, 2018) Smartscape is a training program specifically for provide
education on a wide range of topics encountered in the landscape industry. Smartscape is endorsed by
the Arizona Landscape Contractors' Association (ALCA) and the Arizona Nursery Association (ANA).
Upon graduation from the course, graduates receive a certificate of completion from the University of
Arizona and a chance to market themselves as a Smartscape professional by listing their contact
information in the Smartscape Online Directory at www.smartscape.org/directory. Class will be held on
Mondays and Wednesdays from July 9th through August 8th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Contact Kirti
Mathura, the Smartscape Program Coordinator, with any questions or concerns. (602) 827-8206 or
kmathura@email.arizona.edu. More information and registration.
Pac-12 Sustainability Conference
(Thursday, July 12, 2018) Consistent with its reputation as the "Conference of Champions," the Pac-12
is the first collegiate sports conference to convene a high-level symposium focused entirely on
integrating sustainability into college athletics and across college campuses. The Pac-12 Sustainability
Conference signals an elevated approach to enhancing sustainability efforts within collegiate athletics
departments, designing new collective initiatives, and sharing best practices to transform college sports
into a platform for environmental progress. Arizona State University is hosting a session,
“#GreenGames: Leveraging Collaboration with Arizona State University's Sustainability and Athletics
Departments to Reach New Audiences” and there will be other presenters from ASU as well. To be
held at the Byron R. White Club, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO. Conference website for more
information or you can contact Adrienne Foster.
NEW!
History of the Future Film Series: They Live
(Thursday, July 19, 2018) This summer, Film Bar and Arizona State University's Center for Science
and the Imagination are going back to the future. This second installment of The History of the Future
film series rounds up another set of delightfully schlocky, thought-provoking films from decades past.
With introductions and comments from scholars and experts, we'll examine stories about the future
from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and think about how accurate those visions turned out to be. From
7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Film Bar, 815 N. Second St, Phoenix. More information and tickets.
Health in Buildings for Today and Tomorrow: Making Connections Conference
(Monday-Tuesday, July 19-20, 2018) Green buildings are among the fastest growing industries in the
world, representing a $260 billion market in the United States in 2015. But while sustainable buildings
comprises 20 percent of new construction, these practices lack adoption in certain markets and face
the challenge of including best practices in healthy building design. Attendees in the 2018 Health in
Buildings Roundtable Conference will engage across sectors and disciplines to develop actionable
strategies that incorporate innovative efficiency and design techniques, new building materials, healthy
building design, and sustainability standards across multiple building types. At the NIH Campus
Natcher Center, 45 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD. More information and registration.
24th Annual IAJBS World Forum and 2018 CJBE Annual Meeting at Seattle University
- Innovation for Sustainability
(Sunday-Wednesday, July 22-25, 2018) Now more than ever, organizations need to innovate to stay
relevant in a dynamic, global environment. The theme of the 24th World Forum is consistent with the
World Forum’s ten year focus on sustainability. Today, sustainable enterprises not only require
innovative business practices in product design, partnerships, logistics, marketing, accounting, and
finance; sustainable enterprises themselves have created new norms for what counts as innovation in
business and hold the promise of redefining what effective business strategy looks like in the 21st
century. The conference will take place at Seattle University, Seattle, Washington. More information.
Geography 2050: Powering Our Future Planet
(Thursday-Friday, November 15-16, 2018) Geography 2050 is a multi-year, high-level strategic
dialogue among thought leaders from academia, government, and the world of business. Organized by
the American Geographical Society (AGS) in 2014, the purpose of this continuing dialog is to facilitate
discussion of the major forces that will shape our planet’s future. Undoubtedly, energy will be one the
most important factors influencing geopolitics, environmental quality, transportation routes, military
conflicts, standards of living, world economies, food production, technical innovation, and the mass
movement of people. Speakers will include U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse; former BP Presidents
for America and China; former President of Shell Oil America; CFO of National Renewable Energy
Laboratory; Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Energy; Director of the Julie
Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; and many others The theme of this year’s Geography
2050 Symposium is Powering Our Future Planet. Currently a call for posters and lightening
presentations. For questions on posters (deadline June 18) and lightening presentations (deadline
August 20) please contact Martin (Mike) Pasqualetti, Chairman of the Symposium. The meeting will be
held in New York City. More information and registration.
9th National Summit on Coastal and Estuarine Restoration and Management
(Sunday-Thursday, December 8-13, 2018) Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) and the Coastal States
Organization (CSO) are proud to host the 9th National Summit on Coastal and Estuarine Restoration
and Management in Long Beach, California. The six-day Summit will explore cutting-edge issues in
coastal restoration and management, and will be comprised of a community restoration event, field
sessions, plenary sessions, expert presentations, special evening events, workshops, a poster hall,
and an award-winning coastal exposition hall. We hope that you will share in our excitement for this
new collaboration as we bring to you the largest national gathering of the restoration and coastal
management community. To be held at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long
Beach, California. More information.
Leverage Points 2019: International Conference on Sustainability Research and
Transformation
(Wednesday-Friday, February 6-8, 2019) Humanity sits at a crossroad between tragedy and
transformation, and now is a crucial time for sustainability research. Radical approaches are needed in
sustainability research and praxis if they are to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Inspired by the
work of Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system", this conference will
explore the deep leverage points that can lead to sustainability transformations, asking: how do we
transform ourselves, our science, our institutions, our interventions and our societies for a better
future? We hope that this conference will help us move from incremental to transformational change;
extend our thinking about complex sustainability challenges and deepen our collective and
transdisciplinary research practices. To be held at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany. The call
for abstracts is open until 30 June 2018. More information.
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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW!
How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war
(from GreenBiz.com)
Many economists expect the President’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to increase what
American companies and consumers pay for those metals and the goods made from them. Dozens of
companies already have said they will have to fire workers or even go out of business. And, as the
retaliatory tariffs Canada, Japan, Mexico and other countries have announced underscore, the U.S. is
heading for a trade war with the nation’s closest allies. Read more.
NEW!
Ban on trans fat takes effect in US, but global eradication could be tough
As of this past Monday, all food in the U.S. must be made without trans fat, the culmination of a
multiyear campaign to eradicate the harmful ingredient. The World Health Organization recently
launched a campaign calling for trans fat to be eliminated from the global food supply by 2023, but
from the business side, that might not be easy, according to Lauren Chenarides, an assistant professor
at the Morrison School of Agribusiness at ASU. Read more.
NEW!
Mexico collaboration takes aim at obesity
An ASU emerita professor is working to help fight obesity by exposing a rarely talked about, sneaky
contributor to weight gain: bad sleep. ASU Now talked to Carol Baldwin, a distinguished veteran nurse
with the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, who travels to the University of Guanajuato in
central Mexico twice a year as part of an ongoing partnership to educate Mexican health professionals
about the impact of sleep disorders. Read more.
Summer School - Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research
Interdisciplinary sustainability research, e.g., on land-use or adaptation to climate change, is
increasingly confronted with the difficulties of embracing complexity while building and testing theories
that synthesize such complexity into actionable theories. Comparative case studies are frequently
employed for this task. However, rigorous comparative approaches are yet frequently hampered by (I)
a high heterogeneity of cases that limit generalization, and (ii) multiple epistemic perspectives (e.g.
from institutional economics, geography or modelling) that are not easily integrated. In recent years,
archetype analysis has been evolving as an approach to deal with this twofold challenge. The summer
school provides a cutting-edge introduction to archetype analysis by internationally leading experts.
The approach will be trained by hands-on applications, accompanied by an introduction to and training
of suitable analytical methods (Qualitative Comparative Analysis or Cluster Analysis), and further
developed. At the Resource Economics Group, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Application deadline is
June 29, 2018 for class October 8-12, 2018. More information.
Multi-State Salinity Coalition Student/Professor Scholarship to the 2019 MSSC Annual
Salinity Summit
The MSSC will contribute $2,500 in value to the student/professor selected. Each applicant must be a
full-time undergraduate or graduate student in water resources-related degree program. Students must
be enrolled in a program relating to water resources for the 2018-2019 academic year. Application
deadline is June 29, 2018. More information.
Arizona Department of Water Resource Drought Program
May 2018 drought summary is online.
May Southwest Climate Outlook
The May 2018 Southwest Climate Outlook is online.
CLIMAS Podcast: June 2018 - Dealing with Drought, Monsoon Outlooks, and the
Magical Monsoon Mystery Tour
Tune into the Southwest Climate podcasts on iTunes or Southwest Climate Change Network.
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OPPORTUNITIES
Institute Job Openings
Faculty Associate Pool
To review and apply to this position, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/50723. The application
deadline is June 25, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. If not filled, reviews will occur every two weeks
thereafter until the search is closed.
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Other Jobs
Senior Environmental Project Engineer, City of Fitchburg, WI
Application deadline June 24, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative Program Manager, Conservation Cropping
Systems Initiative, Indiana Conservation Partnership, northern Indiana
Application deadline June 29, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Hydrologic Aid/Technician, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho
Application deadline June 29, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Research Associate, Biosystems And Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Lenawee, MI
Application deadline June 29, 2018. More information.
Project Scientist, Watershed Hydrology and Carbon Transport, University of
California-Merced, Merced, CA
Application deadline June 30, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Land Use/Environmental Planner II - Sustainability, County of San Diego, CA
Application deadline July 2, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Sustainability Student Worker, Sun Devil Dining/Aramark, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ
Application deadline July 10, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Conservation Program Manager, Minnesota Land Trust, St. Paul or Duluth, MN
Application deadline July 22, 2018. More information.
NEW!
NSF Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Urban Systems Lab, The New School, New York,
NY
Application deadline August 15, 2018. More information.
NEW!
2019 Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Research
Application deadline September 7, 2018. More information.
Assistant/Associate Extension Professor in Climate Science, Department of Soil,
Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Review of applications begins September 14, 2018. More information.
NEW!
Adopt-A-Park – Priority Co-Lead (volunteer), Arizona Sustainability Alliance, Phoenix
and Tempe, AZ
More information.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Diversity and Community Engagement,
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
More information.
Secretary, Board of Directors, Arizona Sustainability Alliance
More information.
Conservation International Internships
Intern, RAP (rapid assessment program). More information.
Intern, Science reporter. More information.
Empire Innovation Professor, Institute on Research and Education in Energy,
Environment and Water, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York,
North Campus
More information.
Forklift Operator, Recycle 1, Phoenix, AZ
More information, contact Quetzaly Aguilar. Submit applications.
Housing Programs Assistant (INTERN), Housing Authority of Maricopa County, Peoria, AZ
More information.
Maintenance Planner, Recycle 1, Phoenix, AZ
More information, contact Quetzaly Aguilar. Submit applications.
Maintenance Technician, Recycle 1, Phoenix, AZ
More information, contact Quetzaly Aguilar. Submit applications.
Natural Resources Technician, Summit Lake Paiute Tribe, Sparks, NV
More information.
Environmental Planner/Project Manager, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.,
Tempe, AZ
More information.
Program Coordinator II (Sustainable Communities), Institute for Local Governments,
Sacramento, CA
Job announcement and more information.
Program Director (Volunteer), Arizona Sustainability Alliance, Phoenix, AZ
More information.
Program Manager, Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, Phoenix, AZ
More information.
Professor (all ranks) in Cross-Cutting (Energy Systems), The Polytechnic School.
Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus
More information.
Sustainable Food Systems – Priority Co-Lead (volunteer), Arizona Sustainability
Alliance, Phoenix, AZ
More information.
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