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Calendars of Environmental, Outdoor and Natural History Events, Programs and Meetings Community Events, Programs and Meetings College and University Seminars, Talks and Meetings   Calendar of Community Events, Programs and Meetings Regular (more or less) Monthly and Weekly Events and Meetings Week Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 . . Missourians for Safe Energy, 7:15 pm, 804C E. Broadway. Smart Growth Coalition,7:15 pm, County Govt Bldg; Chouteau Grotto , 7 pm, Casteel Building, 1518 Business Loop . . . 2 . Native Plant Society - odd months, 7 pm, UU Church . . . . Wild Ones, 10 am, loc varies 3 .Interfaith Care for Creation 2:30 to 4:30, July, Sept, Nov,Jan, Mar,May - mntwelch@yahoo.com . Sierra Club, 7:30 pm, Hillel 1107 University Ave. Audobon Society, 7:30 pm, UU Church 2615 Shepard Blvd. Community Garden Coalition, 7 pm, Library . .   4 . .Columbia Energy Environment Commission 7 pm, Daniel Boone Bulding . . . . Weekly . Columbia Farmer's Market, Mar-Nov, 4-6 pm, 1701 W. Ash Boone Co Famer's Market May-Oct, 4-6 pm 1005 W. Worley . Columbia Farmer's Market, Mar-Nov, 4-6 pm, 1701 W. Ash Boone Co Famer's Market May-Oct, 4-6 pm 1005 W. Worley . . Columbia Farmer's Market, Mar-Nov, 8 am - noon, 1701 W. Ash; Boone Co Famer's Market May-Oct, 1005 W. Worley   2010 Community Events, Programs and Meetings (all are Free and Open to the Public unless otherwise noted) Last updated, March 7, 2010 Ongoing - Home Performance with Energy Star - Save an average of 29% on utility bills by participating in an assessment and upgrades (at least partially covered by grants) of your home's heating and cooling systems - http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/WaterandLight/Home_Performance/homeperformance.php Ongoing - Bike Skills Classes - Columbia - http://www.getaboutcolumbia.com/calendar Ongoing - Boone's Lick Master Naturalists seeking volunteer projects - do you need volunteers with naturalist credentials? contact Meredith Donaldson mjdonlsn(at) aol.com for information on qualifying for a master naturalist project March 1, 8 and 15 - CARP: Columbia Aquatic Restoration Project - Mondays 6:00 to 8:30 pm at the ARC, 1701 W. Ash - learn about lake and pond ecology then assist city horticulturalist with organized projects - http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Volunteer/Opportunities/carp.php March 6 - Boone County Summit for Stream Teams - 9 am to 2 pm, Boone Electric Coop, 1413 Rangeline, Missouri - rsvp by February 19 contact Amy Meier at 73-522-4115 ext 3166 or amy.meier@mdc.mo.gov March 9 and 18 - Volunteer Training for Rock Bridge Memorial State Park - 6 to 9 pm at the Park Office - http://rockbridge.missouri.org/volunteer/index.php March 10 - Intro to Urban Hens - 7 pm MU Ag Bldg Room 2-10 - http://columbiaurbanag.org/newsroom/calendar.shtml • March 12 -14 - 6th Annual Life Sciences and Society Symposium: From Art to Biology and Back Again - http://muconf.missouri.edu/artbiology/ March 12 -14 - Sixth Annual Life Sciences and Society Symposium: From Art to Biology and Back Again - MU Campus - A focus on the provocative new work arising from intersections between the life sciences and art. The conference will highlight emerging areas of research and practice across and between disciplines, examining biological contexts of our response to art and aesthetic contexts of our response to scientific visualizations, as well as the twenty-first century art that has found inspiration at their convergence. In the process, the talks will inquire into the relationship between artistic and scientific invention-http://muconf.missouri.edu/artbiology/ March 13 - Anniversary Breakfast for Rock Bridge Memorial State Park - 8:30 to 10:30 am, Applebee's on Broadway - http://rockbridge.missouri.org/ March 13 - Big Muddy Tree Planting - 7;45 am at the Big Muddy Refuge - http://www.moriver.org/ March 14 - Soil Cycle Workshop - 10 am to 1 pm, Peace Nook, 804 C East Broadway (enter through alley door) - http://columbiaurbanag.org/newsroom/calendar.shtml March 16 - Water Quality Monitoring Talk - 7 pm, Columbia Public Library - http://www.moriver.org/ March 16 - Resource Challenges Facing Our Parks, Bill Bryan, Director of Division of State Parks - 7:30 pm at the Hillel Foundation, 1107 University Ave - http://missouri.sierraclub.org/osage/meetings.htm March 16-17 - Greening Missouri Homes - Jefferson City - http://www.mucse.missouri.edu/news.php?var2=152&x=1 March 17 - Projects at Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area - 7:30 pm, UU Church, 2615 Shepard Blvd, Audubon March 19 - 21 - Show Me Sustainability Conference - University of Missouri, Columbia - conference for college and high school students to share information and strategies for greening their campuses - http://showmesustainability.org/ March 20 - Columbia Farmer's Market Opens - 8 am to noon, next to the ARC and West Jr. High at Clinkscales and Ash- http://farmersmarket.missouri.org/ March 20 - "Forests and greenhous gases: A science primer" - 10:30 to 11:30, Monsantor Auditorium, Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Campus - Steve Pallardy, MU, How do earth’s forests both add to and remove greenhouse gases like CO2 from the atmosphere? How do scientists measure CO2 flux of an entire forest? Can forests play a role in ameliorating greenhouse gas emissions? - http://satscience.missouri.edu/satscience_2004/schedule.html March 21 - 27 - MU Local Food for Local People Food Drive - http://www.students.missouri.edu/~sustainmizzou/calendar.html March 24 - Wildlflower Walks - Wednesdays at 5:30 pm at the Devil's Icebox in Rock Bridge Memorial State Park March 27 - Hands-on Coop Building - 1 - 5 pm, 214 St. Joseph St. - http://columbiaurbanag.org/newsroom/calendar.shtml April 3 - Boone County Farmers Market opens - 8 am to 12 pm - http://www.boonecountyfarmers.com/ April 4 - Kite Flying Day - noon to 2 pm, Douglass Park Ball Field, kites available for kids who don't have one - http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/ParksandRec/Activities_and_Programs/special_events.php April 5 - Bike Ride - Coopers Landing, Katy Trail in the afternoon - contact Greg Leonard 573-443-8263 or greg.leonard@missouri.sierraclub.org - http://missouri.sierraclub.org/osage/ April 9 & 10 - Healthy Community Policy Summit - http://www.pednet.org/advocacy/healthy-environmental-policy-initiative.asp April 15 - 16 - Annual Missouri State FFA Convention - MU Campus - http://cafnr.missouri.edu/calendar/ April 18 - Festa Palooza - noon to 3 pm at Flat Branch and 4th and Cherry Streets - http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/ParksandRec/Activities_and_Programs/special_events.php April 24 - Cleanup Columbia - http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Volunteer/Opportunities/clean-up_columbia.php April 25 - Columbia Earth Day - noon to early evening, MU Peace Park and Downtown Columbia (rain date May 2) - http://www.columbiaearthday.org/ May 1 - "How to power a dust mite" - 10:30 to 11:30 am, Monsanto Auditorium, Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Campus - Dave Robertson and Jae Kwon, MU, Scientists and engineers are now creating machines smaller than a dust mite. MU scientists are taking advantage of the fact that the energy density from radioactive decay is a million times greater than what is available from chemical and solar processes to create the tiny batteries required to power the world’s smallest machines - http://satscience.missouri.edu/satscience_2004/schedule.html October 20 - Campus Sustainability Day -----Runge Conservation Nature Center Calendar - http://www.mdc.mo.gov/areas/cnc/runge/ ----Missouri Department of Conservation Central Region events - http://mdc.mo.gov/areas/central/     Calendar of College and University Seminars, Talks and Meetings Regular (more or less) monthly and weekly seminars and meetings during the Fall and Winter Semesters Week Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 . . . . . . 2 . . . Sustain Mizzou - 7 Stewart 100 . . . 3 . . . . . . 4 . . . Sustain Mizzou - 7 Stewart 100 . . . Weekly . MU Soil, Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences - 4pm, 123 ABNR . .MU Ecol & Evol Seminars 3:30, 106 LeFevre, Fall Semester MU Conservation Biology Sem 4:30, alt program, disc group MU Forestry - 3pm, 123 ABNR MU F& W - 3:30 pm, 2-6 Ag . MU Colleges and Departments that occasionally host environmentally related seminars Anthropology - http://anthropology.missouri.edu/events.html Biology - http://www.biology.missouri.edu/ CAFNR (incl F&W, Forestry, SEAS) - http://cafnr.missouri.edu/calendar/ College of Engineering - http://www.engineering.missouri.edu/calofevents.html Geography -http://www.geog.missouri.edu/about.shtml Geology - http://geology.missouri.edu/eventsnews.html Rural Sociology - http://www.ruralsociology.missouri.edu/ Columbia College Events Calendar - http://www.ccis.edu/newsroom/events.asp Stephens College Events Calendar - http://www.stephens.edu/news/stephensevents/monthly/   2010 Seminars, Talks, Workshops, Deadlines Last updated, March 7, 2010 Still taking applications - Alternative Spring Break at the Grand Canyon - Session 2 March 28 - April 3 - http://www.thesca.org/serve/internships/special-programs/alternative-spring-break Ongoing until March 27 - MU Recyclemania - A national recycling competition among American colleges and universities - last year we were 93rd in per capita recycling, 14.27 lbs per person. http://www.cf.missouri.edu/ls/recycle/murecyclemania.html Ongoing Spring 2010 - "Last Child in the Woods" - 9 am Fridays (with some exceptions) in 218a Tucker Hall, MU - discussion of Richard Louv's book on the disappearance of nature from chilren's lives - contact Julia Earl for the schedule jee9rb (at) mail.missouri.edu Ongoing - MU Student Sustainability Survey - sponsored by the MU Office of Sustanability, this survey seeks to get baseline information on students beliefs, attitides and behaviors about the environment - send students to http://studentvoice.com/umc/studentsustainability09 March 12 - Landscape Modeling with LANDIS and Landform Measurement with Site Index in the Missouri Ozarks - 4 pm, 210 ABNR - Jeff Schneider and Jason Villwock March 12 - Trivia in the Wild Challenge - 6 pm, Bradford Research and Extension Center, fundraiser for scholarship fund, $120 for table of 8 or $15 per individual - Contact Laura Hertel, hertell@missouri.edu, 882 1730. March 12 -14 - Sixth Annual Life Sciences and Society Symposium: From Art to Biology and Back Again - MU Campus - A focus on the provocative new work arising from intersections between the life sciences and art. The conference will highlight emerging areas of research and practice across and between disciplines, examining biological contexts of our response to art and aesthetic contexts of our response to scientific visualizations, as well as the twenty-first century art that has found inspiration at their convergence. In the process, the talks will inquire into the relationship between artistic and scientific invention-http://muconf.missouri.edu/artbiology/ March 16 -" Getting by with a little help from their friends?" - 3:30 pm, Monsanto Auditorium, Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Campus - Jennifer Geib, University of Missouri March 19 - Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Fish Fry - 10 am to 1:30 pm, ABNR Courtyard- Contact Kyla Berendzen, kmb4kd@mail.missouri.edu March 19 - A Proposal for a Missouri Department of Conservation Forest Initiative Program for Private Lands - 4 pm, 210 ABN, MU Campus March 19 - 21 - Show Me Sustainability Conference - University of Missouri, Columbia - conference for college and high school students to share information and strategies for greening their campuses - http://showmesustainability.org/ March 20 - "Forests and greenhous gases: A science primer" - 10:30 to 11:30, Monsantor Auditorium, Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Campus - Steve Pallardy, MU, How do earth’s forests both add to and remove greenhouse gases like CO2 from the atmosphere? How do scientists measure CO2 flux of an entire forest? Can forests play a role in ameliorating greenhouse gas emissions? - http://satscience.missouri.edu/satscience_2004/schedule.html March 23 - "Nest predators in mid-western forests" - 12:30 pm, 8 Tucker Hall - Andrew Cox, University of Missouri March 26 - Schnabel Woods: New Data from a Familiar Place - 4 pm, 210 ABNR,MU Campus April 9 - Energy Balance Models as a Tool for Understanding Stream Temperature - 4 pm, 210 ABNR, MU Campus April 15-16 - Missouri State FFA Convention April 16 - Imperious Surface as a Predictor of Human Population and The Use of Landsat Data to Access Fire Severity in Northeast China - 4 pm, 210 ABNR, MU Campus April 20 - "Keeping salamanders on the right course: Managing golf courses to maximize stream salamander diversity in the southern Appalachians" - 12:30 pm, 8 Tucker Hall, MU - Mark Mackey, University of Missouri April 20 - "In the company of crows and ravens" - 3:30 pm, Monsanto Auditorium, Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Campus -John Marzluff, University of Washington-Seattle April 23 - Willingness to Pay for Certified Wood Products and Future of Columbia's Food and Energy Supply - 4 pm, 210 ABNR, MU Campus April 30 - Seed Bank and Send Rain of Cyclobalanopsis chungii Natural Forest in southeast China and The Importance of Understanding the Connectivity of a Wetlands and Streams - 4 pm, 210 ABNR, MU Campus May 1 - "How to power a dust mite" - 10:30 to 11:30 am, Monsanto Auditorium, Bond Life Sciences Center, MU Campus - Dave Robertson and Jae Kwon, MU, Scientists and engineers are now creating machines smaller than a dust mite. MU scientists are taking advantage of the fact that the energy density from radioactive decay is a million times greater than what is available from chemical and solar processes to create the tiny batteries required to power the world’s smallest machines - http://satscience.missouri.edu/satscience_2004/schedule.html