Spring 2015 Summary

This Spring semester has been a busy one here at TIE.  We’ve hosted speakers, a book signing, sponsored symposia, and environmental activity across the three campuses of Tufts and beyond.  Here’s a quick look back at our activities:

• Hosted Marcus Lange from University College Cork and the UMASS Boston Coasts and Community with IGERT students for research discussion and networking luncheon on Water and Security.
• Supported Environmental Studies Lunch and Learn events, including one on “The african elephant poaching crisis.”
• WSSS Students attended and presented at MIT Water Night
• TIE Director Antje Danielson presented a workshop to Research-track WSSS Students
  

  TIE represented at World Water Day 2015

  on using a systems thinking approach to help conceptualize their research topics.

• On World Water Day, TIE tabled at the BeCause Water World Water Day event, and several TIE and WSSS students attended, and networked with groups from Earthwatch, Initative:Eau, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the EPA, Water for Good, the New England Water Innovation Network (NEWIN) and many more.

• WSSS Students held their 6th annual symposium: Fluid Boundaries: Integrated Solutions to Today’s Water Challenges. The event featured speakers from the Cape Cod Commission, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, WaterAid, the Clearwater Initative, and many more.
• Tufts Environmental Alumni hosted their 4th annual Environmental Career Networking Night, drawing over 30 alumni and 60 students together!
• WSSS Students visited the Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUASHI) and learned about how their powerful Water Data Center is making hydrology research more powerful for researchers around the world, including Tufts students.
• Hosted author and eco-psychologist Per Espen Stoknes for a reading on “Why Climate Guilt Doesn’t Help,” supporting his book “What we think about when we try not to think about global warming.”
• Sponsored the MIT Water Workshop, “Reframing Complex Water Challenges.”

That’s just a snapshot of the events we put on this spring.  Across the university, students and faculty are producing wonderful environmental research sponsored by our TIE and WSSS Fellowships, or made possible by the connections they’ve found in our programs.  Our P-track WSSS Students also completed their practica on the Bahamas, the Malden River, and Cape Cod.  Be sure to check out the amazing Green Infrastructure Guide website developed by the Cape Cod group.