Graduate Students Organize Environmental Conservation Symposium

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Graduate students in environmental conservation will conduct the first Environmental Conservation Graduate Student Symposium (ECoGSS) on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 26-27 in 170 John W. Olver Design Building.

The event includes keynote speaker Chris Neill, an environmental conservation alumnus and senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, who will spark on “Agriculture, Climate and the Future of the Amazon.”

The rest of the program is made up of student talks (five-minute “lightning” and 15-minute traditional) and panels on urban ecology and storytelling in environmental science.

The event allows graduate students in a diverse and interdisciplinary research community to share their knowledge in environmental science while practicing presentation and public speaking skills and receiving feedback from peers and faculty.

Organizers hope this becomes an annual event. The public is invited.

View the full ECoGGS program here.