Opportunities for Students

Opportunities for Students - Winter 2011

Most recently updated 3/2/11 - Please email additional suggestions to me at gwjones@bellevuecollege.edu

* A signed Field Trip Waiver Form is required for all College students! Contact your instructor for a copy. *

RED BOLD DATES on this page are for the current month -- Date-specific events are listed for...

January 6 (2 events)	February 3	March 3
January 8	February 5	March 10
January 12	February 9	March 12 (2 events)
January 15 (2 events)	February 10	March 19 (2 events)
January 17 (2 events) = MLK Day	February 12 (2 events)
January 20	February 15
January 22 (2 events)	February 17
January 23	February 18
January 27 (2 events)	February 19 (3 events)
January 29 (4 events)	February 24
	February 26

On the Bellevue College Campus

1/6/11, 6:00-8:00pm:

Is sustainability really good for business? Can it be profitable? Or even make your business more competitive? -- Sustainable Business Speaker: Kevin Wilhelm CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting

The new Sustainable Business Practices program is proud to host a speaker's series on Thursday nights from 6 - 8 pm in B204; information is below. There is some room available! Please RSVP to Marika Reinke (mreinke@bellevuecollege.edu) if you would like to attend. Check out the course schedule for this quarter at: http://bellevuecollege.edu/winterschedule/bsust and consider enrolling in an introductory course.

Come and hear the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting, Kevin Wilhelm speak about his experience with the triple bottom line this Thursday, January 6th from 6 - 8 pm in B204. Kevin Wilhelm is the country’s preeminent consultant on business sustainability and climate change. As CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting he leads clients in developing profitable and sustainable business strategies. Kevin draws on his fourteen years of corporate experience ranging from Fortune 500s to renewable energy start-ups to deliver practical solutions that benefit the bottom line. He is the author of Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability & Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy, a market-based call to action to stop global warming. He also chairs the Clean Energy Committee for the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and writes a monthly column for Sustainable Industries. Kevin teaches sustainable business at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and has been an adviser to City University-Seattle’s Sustainable Business MBA program. Kevin is both an avid outdoors person and a rabid sports fan. So if he’s not hiking, biking, kayaking, or skiing with his wife or friends, then you can bet he’s either at a Seattle Sounders game or at home watching a college football game or US soccer match.

Class Field Trips
Open to Registered Bellevue College Students
(with Trip Leader's Permission and Signed Liability Waiver Form)

1/29/11, Alki intertidal organisms field trip (evening, time TBA) -- A low tide on a Saturday provides good viewing of intertidal organisms. Alki Point is in West Seattle. Contact Ocean 101 instructor Lia Slemons at liaslemons@gmail.com for permission and instructions.

2/12/11, Dash Point shoreline features field trip (time TBA) -- Dash Point is in Federal Way. Contact Ocean 101 instructor Lia Slemons at liaslemons@gmail.com for permission and instructions.

3/12/11, Alki Point intertidal organisms field trip (afternoon, ~3-6pm, time TBA) -- A low tide on another Saturday provides good viewing of intertidal organisms. Alki Point is in West Seattle. Contact Ocean 101 instructor Marina Brandon at marina.brandon@bellevuecollege.edu for permission and instructions.

3/8/11, Cougar Mountain "glaciers and fossils and coal (oh my!)" field trip (10:00am-12:30pm) -- Cougar Mountain is in Bellevue/Issaquah. Contact Environmental Science 100 & Ocean 101 instructor Gwyneth Jones at gwjones@bellevuecollege.edu for permission and instructions. Field trip handout is here (PDF).

At your convenience -- Seattle Aquarium or Woodland Park Zoo or Cougar Mtn Zoo

Seattle/Bellevue/Tacoma/Everett Area Lectures & Films

10 Thursdays, 1/6/11 through 3/10/11, 4:30pm at UW-Seattle (reception to follow)

Ocean Acidification: Effects on Fisheries and Oceans

The public seminar on ocean acidification runs weekly starting this Thursday (January 6) through March 10 at 4:30 on the UW campus. The speaker list is impressive and includes both international and local experts: chemical, biological, policy perspectives. The Route 271 buts runs right from BC to UW. Location: Fishery Sciences Auditorium, 1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle. For more information, contact: Trevor A. Branch, 206-221-0776, tbranch@uw.edu

1/6 = Ocean Acidification: Global Warming's Evil Twin (Richard Feely, Senior Scientist, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
1/13 = Lessons Learned from Acidification in Freshwater Ecosystems (John Smol, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, Department of Biology, Queens University)

1/20 = Curbing Carbon Pollution—Legal Solutions (Miyoko Sakashita, Oceans Director, Center for Biological Diversity)
1/27 = Do the Dollars Make Cents?: Economic Impacts of Acidification on Fisheries (Scott Doney, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
2/3 = Behavioral and Ecological Consequences of Acidification on Fish (Philip Munday, Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Australia)
2/10 = Souring Oceans, Dissolving Shellfish and the Cure for Cowardly Lions (Brad Warren, Director, Productive Oceans Partnership, a program of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership)
2/17 = Can an Acerbic Congress Deal with Acidic Oceans? (Brian Baird, US Congressman)
2/24 = Organismal Responses to Acidifying Oceans: Migration, Acclimation, Adaptation, or Death (Gretchen Hoffmann, Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara)
3/3 = Science, Media, and Messaging (Sven Huseby & Barbara Ettinger, Producer and Director, "A Sea Change")
3/10 = Can Fish Fight Back?: Carbonate Production in an Acidic Ocean (Rod Wilson, Professor, Integrative Animal Physiology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, UK)

1/15/11, 8:00pm at Benaroya Hall, Seattle:

Michael Pollan, Author of Omnivore's Dilemma and Food Rules

In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution

Real food--the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize as food--is being undermined by science on one side and the food industry on the other, both of whom want us focus on nutrients, good and bad, rather than actual plants, animals and fungi. The rise of "nutritionism" has vastly complicated the lives of American eaters without doing anything for our health, except possibly to make it worse. Nutritionism arose to deal with a genuine problem--the fact that the modern American diet is responsible for an epidemic of chronic diseases, from obesity and type II diabetes to heart disease and many cancers--but it has obscured the real roots of that problem and stood in the way of a solution. That solution involves putting the focus back on foods and food chains, for it turns out our personal health cannot be divorced from the health of the soil, plants, and animals that make up the food chains in which we take part. In this talk, Pollan explores what the industrialization of food and agriculture has meant for our health and happiness as eaters, and looks at the growing national movement to renovate the food system.

http://www.nwassociatedarts.org/events/pollan for tickets

1/23/11, 2:30pm-5:00pm at University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle

Sven Huseby & Barbara Ettinger, Producer and Director

"A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish" (film)

Join us for a public screening of this award-winning documentary about our changing oceans - The moderator (who is teaching Ocean 101 at BC this quarter!) calls the film "a frank (but optimistic nonetheless) documentary". Sunday, January 23, 2011: 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Refreshments; 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Film screening and Q & A. University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd Street, Seattle. Guest Panel:
• Lia Slemons, University of Washington, School of Oceanography (Moderator)
• Edward Miles, Professor Emeritus, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
• Richard Feely, Senior Scientist, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
• Brad Warren, Director, Productive Oceans Partnership (part of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership)
• John Guinotte, Marine Biogeographer, Marine Conservation Biology Institute
The film is suitable for school-age children. Childcare will be available for young children.
Sponsors: University District Ecumenical Parish and the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group. Donations accepted (to help with UDEP’s costs for the event). For more information please contact: liaslemons@gmail.com

2/19/11, 12:00pm-12:45pm at Highline Community College:

People For Puget Sound’s Director of Science Doug Myers

Ocean Acidification - Climate Education Speaker Featured

People For Puget Sound’s Director of Science Doug Myers discusses how increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affects basic ocean chemistry and what that means for the Puget Sound. "Ocean chemistry is complex and estuaries like Puget Sound have characteristics that could either magnify or buffer the effects of ocean acidification," says Myers. "Like other aspects of climate change, change is the only thing that stays constant."

At Highline Community College Marine Science & Technology Center, Des Moines.
Contact Doug Myers, dmyers@pugetsound.org, (360) 754-9177

Volunteer Events and Field Trips!

Ongoing: Thursdays, 12:00pm-2:00pm - Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland - Juanita Bay Park Volunteers meets most Thursday afternoons, weather dependent, at Juanita Bay Park - 2201 Market St, Kirkland. For more information contact Nona Ganz, nonaganz@verizon.net, 425-822-1618.
1/8/11, 10:00am-2:00pm - Terminal 105 Planting at Terminal 105 Park, Seattle - Featured Restoration family event - Contact Suzanne Tomlinson, restoration@pugetsound.org, (206) 456-3813 - Come help restore wildlife habitat in the heart of Seattle’s industrial area. The juxtaposition of our industrial center with the culturally and environmentally important Duwamish River is a special site to see. Terminal 105 used to be a street end that collected trash and supported virtually no wildlife. In 1995 it was transformed into a tidally-influenced wetland that provides shelter and food for wildlife like ospreys, great blue herons, bald eagles and juvenile fish. This is a Port of Seattle public park on one side of the wetland and a restoration area on the other side. We’re expanding the site further down the river and need your help to remove invasive weeds and plant native vegetation. We’ll be there rain or shine so dress for the weather (rain gear in case of bad weather or sunglasses and a hat if it's sunny). Wear your sturdiest, most waterproof foot gear (sneakers, hiking boots, etc. No sandals). Wearing long trousers and long sleeves is advisable since we will be in the weeds. Bring a water bottle, lunch, and work gloves (if you have them). We provide tools and gloves. This is a family friendly event. No experience necessary. Children 10 and under must have one-to-one adult supervision. Minors attending without a parent or guardian must contact the event coordinator prior to the event to receive a special release form that must be completed to participate. Please RSVP for directions and so we know how many tools and snacks to bring. Cosponsored by Port of Seattle and People For Puget Sound.
1/12/11, 7:30pm-8:30pm - Elliot Bay Pier Peer Exploration at Elliot Bay Marina, Seattle - Featured Education family event - Contact Ann Butler, abutler@pugetsound.org, (360) 754-9177 - Have you seen the marine creatures that live in the dark, night waters of Puget Sound? Join us to find out what lives just beyond your usual view. This is a unique opportunity to peer at the exciting nightlife off the pier at Elliot Bay Marina. Come see what marine creatures we can attract by putting lights into the water off the pier. We’ll look for sea stars, nudibranchs, mussels, fish, shrimp and crabs. People For Puget Sound members free; non-member adults, $10. Advance reservations are required; space is limited. PLEASE RSVP to save your spot. This is a family-friendly event but we advise parents not to bring children under 8. All children must by supervised by an adult. Please dress for the weather (and damp docks) and bring your own flashlights. Read: 6/3/10 Kitsap Sun: Night Exploration of Hood Canal Attracts Sea Creatures, Kids". Watch the Pier Peer Video on YouTube.
1/15/11, 8:00pm-9:00pm - Commencement Bay Pier Peer Exploration at Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock St., Tacoma - Featured Education family event beach walk - Contact Gabby Byrne, gbyrne@pugetsound.org, (360) 754-9177
Fall in love with Puget Sound again, or for the first time! A fun and exciting way to help Save Our Sound! Join People For Puget Sound naturalists out on the docks for a night time adventure. We’ll see the food web in action! We may be joined by giant marine worms, colorful sea slugs, sea stars, larval fish, jelly fish and maybe even the luminescent squid! AND –you never know when the harbor seal might swing by for a snack. Pier Peers at the Foss Waterway Seaport are free to members of People For Puget Sound or Foss Waterway Seaport. People who become new members of Foss Waterway Seaport will have the $10 event fee deducted from the cost of membership. Non-member adults, $10. Advance reservations are required; space is limited. PLEASE RSVP to save your spot. This is a family-friendly event but we advise parents not to bring children under 8. All children must be supervised by an adult. Please dress for the weather (and damp docks) and bring your own flashlights. Read: 6/3/10 Kitsap Sun: Night Exploration of Hood Canal Attracts Sea Creatures, Kids". Watch the Pier Peer Video on YouTube.
1/17/11, 10:00am-3:00pm - Cotton Hill Park MLK Day of Service Restoration Event at Cotton Hill Park, 110th Ave NE & NE 98th St, Kirkland - Green Kirkland Partnership; Highlands Neighborhook and UW REN. Contact Karen Story, karen@tinyisland.com
1/17/11, 10:00am-2:00pm - Maury Island Marine Park MLK Day Restoration Event at Maury Island Marine Park, Vashon-Maury Island - Featured Restoration family event - Contact Suzanne Tomlinson, restoration@pugetsound.org, (206) 456-3813 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is a perfect day to give back through volunteerism. Bring your family, group or even just yourself out to Vashon Island to enjoy views of Mount Rainier while you plant native trees and remove invasive weeds on the shoreline. Join the ongoing restoration of Maury Island Marine Park with People For Puget Sound at this King County park to re-establish a native plant community. Past gravel mining activities left the park bare and vulnerable to weed invasion. We hope you can grab the ferry and join us at this beautiful location on Puget Sound. Maury Island Marine Park is located on the southeastern shore of Maury island between Point Robinson and Gold Beach. The park’s 1.35 miles of shoreline is bounded by East passage and is part of the longest stretch of undeveloped shoreline in King County. Come learn more about the park while getting your hands dirty helping to restore it! We’ll be there rain or shine so dress for the weather (rain gear in case of bad weather or sunglasses and a hat if it's sunny). Wear your sturdiest, most waterproof foot gear (sneakers, hiking boots, etc. No sandals). Wearing long trousers and long sleeves is advisable since we will be in the weeds. Bring a water bottle, lunch, and work gloves (if you have them). We provide tools and gloves. This is a family friendly event. No experience necessary. Children 10 and under must have one-to-one adult supervision. Minors attending without a parent or guardian must contact the event coordinator prior to the event to receive a special release form that must be completed to participate. Please RSVP for directions and so we know how many tools and snacks to bring. Ferries access Vashon/Maury Island from Fauntleroy Ferry in West Seattle and Point Defiance Ferry near Tacoma. Cosponsored by King County Parks and Recreation and People For Puget Sound.
2/18/11, 10:00am-1:00pm - Planting Party on the Pilchuck near Lake Stevens - Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force. Come lend a hand planting a few plants on the Pilchuck River on Friday, Feb. 18th from 10 am–1 pm. We need about 5 volunteers to help us wrap up the final planting at this restoration site. Please bring lunch, water, and dress for the weather (layers, raingear). We will bring tools and gloves. Contract Kristin (kristin@stillysnofish.org) for more information or to sign up. Please note: We won’t have a port-a-potty for this event.=
3/19/11, 10:00am-1:00pm - Volunteer Planting along Jim Creek near Arlington - Lend a hand to improve the streamside forest along this important tributary to the South Fork Stillaguamish River. This will be our second planting at this site, so you can see how the plants from the previous planting are doing. Come prepared to get muddy – we’ll plant potted plants and livestakes in a mucky wetland adjacent to Jim Creek. Knee boots are recommended. We will provide tools and snacks to keep you going. Contact Cara for more information or to sign up for this planting - 425-252-6696 or cara@stillysnofish.org.
3/19/11, 9:00am-12:00pm - Cotton Hill Park Restoration Event at Cotton Hill Park, 110th Ave NE & NE 98th St, Kirkland - Green Kirkland Partnership; EarthCorps Partnership and UW REN. Sign up online at http://www.earthcorps.org Contact Lina Rose, (206) 322-9296, ext. 225, linaearthcorps.org

...And more opportunities from People for Puget Sound:
- 1/22: Hood Canal Pier Peer Exploration -- Jan 22 night dockside exploration of Hood Canal waters with marine naturalists
- 1/22: Jetty Island Planting Party -- Jan 22 volunteer restoration work day at Everett's favorite island
- 1/27: Storming the Sound North 2011 -- Jan 27 environmental educator workshop in La Conner
- 1/29: South Sound Pier Peer Exploration -- Jan 29 night dockside exploration with marine naturalist in Olympia
- 1/29: Jetty Island Planting Party -- Jan 29 volunteer restoration work party on Everett's favorite island
- 1/29: Terminal 107 Planting -- Jan 29 volunteer work party along the banks of the Duwamish River
- World Wetlands Day - Feb 5 volunteer work party restoring Union Slough north of Everett
- Elliot Bay Pier Peer Exploration - Feb 9 night dockside adventure in Seattle led by marine naturalists
- Hood Canal Pier Peer Exploration - Feb 12 night dockside adventure with trained naturalists in Hood Canal
- Environmental Lobby Day 2011 - Feb 15 2011 annual environmental citizens lobby day in Olympia
- Ocean Acidification - Feb 19 talk by Doug Myers on the threat of increased carbon dioxide on Puget Sound
- Commencement Bay Pier Peer Night Adventure - Feb 19 night dockside exploration led by marine naturalists
- South Sound Pier Peer Exploration - Feb 26 night dockside adventures with marine naturalists in Olympia
- Maury Island Marine Park Restoration - Mar 12 volunteer work day restoring the shoreline of Maury Island
- Spring Fundraiser Luncheon Featuring Dr. Sylvia Earle - Apr 6 talk by the eminent marine scientist, plus the 2011 Magnuson Awards

Local - Volunteer or Explore

Bellevue Environmental Stewardship Opportunities - http://www.bellevuewa.gov/environmental-volunteering.htm
Bellevue Stream Team - http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/stream_team.htm
Friends of the Cedar River Watershed - http://www.cedarriver.org/events/volunteer-events
Green Kirkland Partnership - http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/depart/parks/Green_Kirkland_Partnership.htm
Heron Habitat Helpers - http://heronhelpers.org
Issaquah Stream Team - http://www.ci.issaquah.wa.us/Page.asp?NavID=1856
Ivy OUT - http://www.ivyout.org/volunteer.htm
King County Native Plant Salvage Program - http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/stewardship/volunteer/plant-salvage-program.aspx
King County Salmon Watcher Program - http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/animalsandplants/salmon-and-trout/salmon-watchers.aspx
King County Natural Resources and Parks Newsroom - http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/dnrp/newsroom.aspx
King County Volunteer Opportunities - http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/stewardship/volunteer.aspx
Mountains to Sound Greenway - http://mtsgreenway.org/volunteer
People for Puget Sound - http://pugetsound.org/connect/events
Sammamish River Stewards - http://www.ci.woodinville.wa.us/Play/VolunteerSRS.asp
Save Lake Sammamish - http://www.scn.org/savelake
Seattle Aquarium - http://www.seattleaquarium.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=229
Stilliguamish-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force - http://www.stillysnofish.org
UW Botanic Garden Rare Care Program - http://courses.washington.edu/rarecare/Volunteer2.html#Training
UW Herbarium - http://depts.washington.edu/wtu/volunteers.htm
Washington Ecology Volunteering and Action Projects - http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/ee/vol.html
Washington Native Plant Society - http://www.wnps.org/cps/volunteer.html
Washington Nature Mapping Project - http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/ee/vol.html
Washington Shore Stewards - http://shorestewards.org
Washington State Parks - http://www.parks.wa.gov/volunteers
Washington Trails Association - http://www.wta.org
Washington Waters - http://www.ecy.wa.gov/washington_waters
WSU Beach Watchers Program - http://www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu/regional/index.php

Listservs Etc

BBC Science & Nature - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn
Bioneers - http://www.bioneers.org/campaigns/food-farming-1 and http://www.bioneers.org/radio
Grist - http://www.grist.org
Mother Nature Network - http://www.mnn.com
Planet Ark/Work Environment News - http://planetark.org/enviro-news/signup.cfm
Science Daily - http://www.sciencedaily.com
Sightline Institute - http://www.sightline.org

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