Meetings and Conferences
CUERP Meetings
CUERP invites you to attend our monthly meetings. CUERP affiliated faculty, staff and students participate in sharing updates of on-going projects, discuss new initiatives, and announce special events.
The fall 2008 meeting schedule will post shortly.
CUERP Meeting Notes
We invite you to review our meeting minutes to learn about our projects.
Seminars are a part of the CUERP monthly meetings. Each seminar brings meeting participants the opportuntiy to learn about exciting research taking place in the region and Loyola faculty research projects.
Please take a moment to review previous seminar topics and guest speakers.
"Environmental Sustainability through Student-Faculty-Community Partnerships: Moving Research to Action" presented by Professor Richard Drew Bowden, Chair, Executive Committee, PA Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, Department of Environmental Science, Alleghany College
Photo: Installation of an urban garden.
"Measuring Human Impacts on Riverine Ecosystem Function" presented by Professor Emma Rosi-Marshall, Assistant Professor, Departments of Biology and Natural Science, Loyola University Chicago.
Photo: A river in Illinois.
"Research and Monitoring Activities of Surface Waters in Lake County, Illinois" presented by Michael D. Adam, M.S., Senior Biologist, Lakes Management Unit, Lake County Health Department.
Photo: New development taking place around a small lake.
"Environmental Incentives: the Psychology of Motivation" presented by Stephanie Stern, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago.
Photo: Local Steward with volunteers at a prairie restoration/monitoring site.
Conferences
CUERP collaborates with scientists, policy makers and teachers from all levels of government, other universities, K-12 schools, NGOs and the private sector. Ideal opportunities for CUERP faculty, staff, and students to meet and collaborate with experts are to attend conferences held in the region. Many of the conferences CUERP attend relate to the exploration in environmental research, education, policy and advancements of technological tools for research projects.
GreenTown: The Future of Community
Loyola University Chicago's Sustainability Committee members attended the conference, GreenTown: The Future of Community and listen to architects, regional municipal representatives and officials, and planners discuss applicable designs to create eco-effective communities.
Wild Things: A Chicago Wilderness Conference for People and Nature
CUERP is an Executive Council Member of Chicago Wilderness and participates in many membership activities. A team of CUERP faculty, staff, and students attended and volunteered at the Wild Things Conference in March 2007. The day-long conference featured more than 80 sessions drawn from real-life experiences related to habitat management, botany, neighborhood and backyard ecology, education, zoology and many more topics. An educational experience for all.
Focus the Nation: Launching a National Initiative
Loyola students committed to creating a sustainable unversity and beyond attended a Focus the Nation workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan on February 17, 2007. Students and faculty from the Great Lakes region came together to discuss and explore issues related to climate change under the guise of the project Focus the Nation. This one year initiative is calling for universities and other institutions throughout the United States to engage in course work and activities to heighten the social implications and responsibilities of climate change and its impact. The outcome of the project will encourage policy and political decision-makers to implement effective environmental and energy policies at the local, regional, and national levels.
Soils and Restoration Ecology Symposium
Several CUERP faculty, post doctorate researchers and students attended DePaul University's symposium in December 2006. The symposium provided three days of research presentations that discussed complex issues related to soil and ecology and the practice of restoration ecology such as global climate change and rates of leaf-litter decomposition, the influence of topography and plant species on soil carbon recovery, and soil variability.
Chicago Wilderness CONGRESS: Inspiring Regional Conservation
In November 2006 at Northwestern University, CUERP attended the Congress to exchange ideas, reflect on past work, and discuss future possibilities. There were five tracks participants selected from that discussed water and watersheds, land and management and planning, ecology and restoration, social outreach and education, and regional concerns.
Urban Ecology: Celebrating Ten Years of Chicago
Held at the Chicago Botanic Garden in October 2006, this research symposium gathered national and local researchers to present topics related to a variety of urban ecosystem issues. The audience spent the day learning about topics related to the gene flow in remnant Bur Oak savannas, habitat fragmentation on plants due to evolutionary effects and participants learned how the most common urban wildlife, Fox and Gray squirrels compete.