EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SPRING 2023 RAST-HOLBROOK

LUNCH SEMINAR



DR. AMY MYRBO “BUILDING BETTER BROADER IMPACTS (AND EVALUATION) FOR NSF PROPOSALS”

April 20, 2023, at 11:30 a.m.

102 Mining and Minerals Research Building

Dr. Amy Myrbo will be giving a workshop on Thursday April 20, at 11:30am in the 102 Mining and Minerals Research Bldg. This brown bag seminar is titled “Building better broader impacts (and evaluation) for NSF proposals”. Flyer for this brown bag is attached, and she will also give an afternoon talk demonstrating the principles highlighted during the workshop.

Please join UK EES and G3 for another installment in our Rast-Holbrook seminar series on Thursday, April 20, at 4pm in 303 Slone Research Bldg. Dr. Amy Myrbo will join us and present on sulfate pollutants in freshwater systems. You may also schedule a 30-minute visitation with Dr. Myrbo https://calendly.com/edlo/visit-with-dr-amy-myrbo

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EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SPRING 2023 RAST-HOLBROOK LECTURE SERIES

DR. AMY MYRBO “THE DANGERS OF ADDING SULFATE TO FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS”

April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.

303 Slone Research Building

Abstract:

Sulfate, which is usually considered innocuous, is a powerful pollutant (leading to release of nutrients, DOC+DIC, and mercury) when added to fresh water by human activities. In addition, sulfate discharge leads to sulfide in lake sediment pore waters, which can change aquatic plant ecosystems. The issue is particularly important in the Laurentian Great Lakes region, where wild rice, an aquatic grass that is highly culturally significant to Native peoples, is threatened by mining, municipal wastewater discharge, and other human impacts.

 

Bio:

Amy Myrbo (Amiable Consulting, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota) is a research development professional, specializing in geoscience diversity and equity, program evaluation, and strengthening NSF geoscience proposals. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the St. Croix Watershed Research Station. She currently serves as external evaluator on NSF awards totaling more than $26 million. Her academic research centers on lake sediment biogeochemistry and sedimentology; at present she works with Native American natural resource managers on the histories and present conditions of wild rice lakes, on the numerous dangers of adding sulfate to freshwater lakes, and on the effects of road salt on urban lake ecosystems. She serves or has served on committees and in leadership for the American Geophysical Union (DEI Task Force and Committee, Land Acknowledgment Task Force, Indigenous Action Committee) and Geological Society of America (Limnogeology Division, local organizing committees), as an associate editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology, and on the Board of the EarthLife Consortium Foundation. She helped develop and operate the NSF-funded multi-user facilities LacCore and the CSDCO (now CSDF) for 17 years, serving as Director of Outreach, Diversity, and Education from 2014-2019.

Celebrate 100 years of Political Science at the University of Kentucky! The Centennial Celebration Reception features Master of Ceremonies Sherelle Roberts (current Political Science Ph.D. candidate) from WKYT’s Let’s Talk Kentucky and Keynote Speaker Nancy Humphrey Grayson (Political Science ’97), President of Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky, and announces the Political Science Distinguished Alumnus honoree. Refreshments provided.

Check out our webpage for the event!

Dr. Christopher Vulpe | Vulpe Lab

Bio: 

Chris Vulpe, MD, PhD. is a Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville in the Center for Environmental

and Human Toxicology. Dr. Vulpe received his MD and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Vulpe’s group uses systems level approaches in eukaryotes from yeast to people to identify the functional

components that respond to and modulate the consequences of environmental stressors. Most recently, his laboratory is utilizing genome wide and targeted CRISPR screens to understand the mechanisms of toxicity of environmental chemicals. Dr. Vulpe is an author or co-author on >175 papers in peer reviewed journals and books. His group uses functional, genomic, and genetic approaches to provide insight into mechanisms of toxicity in diverse model systems including human models such as human cell culture, organoids, and rodents, as well as ecologically relevant organisms such as Daphnia magna.

 

By Richard LeComte 

LEXINGTON, Ky. --

Kurt Rademaker, an archaeologist and University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology alumnus, will present a colloquium titled “On the Trail of Early South Americans in the Andes” at noon Friday, April 14, in the Young Library Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The talk is co-sponsored by UK’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Human Evolution and Virutal Archaeology Lab. 

Rademaker is an assistant professor at Michigan State University. He is interested in human-environment dynamics, the initial settlement of South America, adaptations in extreme environment and hunter-gatherers. After graduating from UK, Rademaker worked as a professional archaeologist in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Basin regions of the United States with several private and federal entities, including the USDA Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior.  

Between 2014 and 2015, he was awarded the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Research Prize in Germany. His current work, primarily in Peru, involves transdisciplinary collaboration with earth science colleagues to produce high-resolution paleoenvironmental records and with biological anthropologists and paleogeneticists to study how humans have adapted to live in high-elevation mountain regions, some of the most challenging environments on Earth 

“When and by which routes did people first enter South America and successfully adapt to diverse environmental zones?” Rademaker said. “Was the earliest dispersal along the Pacific Coast? How did people first explore and ultimately settle the high-elevation Andes? These intractable questions have challenged archaeologists for decades. In this talk I will review 20 years of my team’s research, including fieldwork at archaeological sites from the high Andes to the Pacific coast and analytical approaches from landscape to molecular scales.” 

2023 Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture winner Eric Eisner (Yale University) presents his award-winning essay, "Jewish Rights on Middle Ground: Race and the Religious Test in Antebellum Maryland."

The presentation will take place via Zoom. Please click the following link to register for this special event!

https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FR8l4qeLRB64l-R36LiDnw#/registration

Biography:

Eric Eisner is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. He has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPhil in American history from the University of Cambridge. His work has appeared in Southern Jewish History and the Journal of Religious History.

About the talk:

The 1826 Maryland Jew Bill allowed Jewish men to hold political office and positions of public trust. Historians have previously situated the Jew Bill in the politics of Maryland and as part of the religious and legal history of the United States, but they have not considered the importance of race. Maryland, a slave state that also possessed the nation’s largest free Black population, was the country’s “middle ground,” and the state’s racial politics form a necessary context to understand Jewish rights and the redefinition of citizenship in Maryland and the United States.