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Welcome To EEOS

The University of Massachusetts Boston is "The Environmental Campus" of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system, and the Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department (EEOS) is the campus' premier interdisciplinary environmental department. EEOS was officially established in September of 2004, from the merger of Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences (EEOS), Earth and Geographic Sciences (E&GS) and the undergraduate Environmental Studies Program (uESP). EEOS, together with another newly-formed entity, the campus-wide Center for Environmental Health, Science and Technology (CEHST), are the two cornerstones of the University's vision for national preeminence in environmental research and academic programs.

math imageThe Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department (EEOS) integrates the natural and social sciences to generate and apply new knowledge about the quality of our environment and the sustainable use of its resources. It focuses on promoting integrated science, planning, policy, and education for understanding earth-system processes and managing the impacts of urbanization on linked watershed and coastal marine systems. The department's strong interdisciplinary makeup (natural and social sciences within the same department) and its focus on linked watershed-coastal systems are unique in the country.

Department facilities include the Applied Geographical Information Science (GIS) Center, the Center for Estuarine and Coastal Observation (CECO), the Trace Element analysis Facility, and the Laboratory of Theoretical, Computational and Observational Oceanography.  In addition, the Department houses specialized laboratories for earth, ocean and environmental sciences, including state-of-the-art facilities for GC/MS, CHN analysis, forensic environmental analysis, hydrogeology, coastal geology, environmental toxicology, stable isotope sample preparation, benthic ecology and zooplankton analysis, as well as inshore/near shore research vessels.

 

NEWS....

Welcome back EEOS students for the Fall 2009 semester...

Welcome to the new students: Jason Olavesen, Karen Simpson, Hannah Dean, Nicoletta Vianello, Sherry Banks, Nicole Henderson, Jeremy Williams, Eric Freeburg, Chris McIntyre, Rachel Dicker, Afis Alao

 

A Look in the past with laser Precision

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185143625/bctid1561650086

Scientists and surveyors team up to catalogue every inch of the Paul Revere site, above and below ground. The organization that runs the Paul Revere House aims to expand its historic North End site to include a neighboring property Revere once owned, creating more space for school groups and the thousands of others who make the pilgrimage each year to the starting point of one of the American Revolution's best-known episodes.....Read more on the Boston Globe ...

 

EEOS Association

A link to the EEOS Graduate Student Association is now available on this site.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

Upcoming Events:

Operation Wallacea

Find out about opportunities for short-term expeditionary study abroad experiences with UMB faculty and the tropical conservation research organization Operation Wallacea.

Click here for more information.

 

Fellowship Opportunities:

COSEE-China

A chance to travel to Beijing for an international COSEE planning meeting in March, 2010.

Click here for more information.

Research News:

  • Ground penetrating radar and historical properties-Dr. Allen Gontz and students, working in Lexington MA are the secrets held inside the walls of the Monroe Tavern...click here for video
  • Sept. 24, 2009 Dr. Ellen Douglas will serve as a member of the American Water Resources Association panel "Beyond Stationary: Climate Change and water resources management" in Washington DC
  • Aug. 2009 Green Boston Harbor website goes live-click here for more information

Internship Opportunities:

US Geological Survey - Northborough MA office (http://ma.water.usgs.gov) seeks a summer intern for Summer 2009 to work on a national synthesis project on potential sources, fate and transport and potential effects of chloride in surface- and ground-water resources in the conterminous U.S. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible.  Send a resume followed by a transcript to Greg E. Granato, ggranato@usgs.gov

Cumulative Entertainment and Impingement Impact in MA. click here

Submerged Cultural Resources Internship Mastone. click here

 

National Life Jacket Wear Rate Study 2009

JSI Research and Training Institute, a non-profit research organization, has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Coast Guard to collect data on life jacket wear rates across the country.  2009 will be our 12th year of data collection for this project.  This posting concerns teams that we are recruiting for our Pennsylvania activities.  One team of two people each will be needed for data collection each weekend during July and August.  Each team will observe twice at 2 lakes over the course of a weekend.  The team positions itself unobtrusively on land at each site for blocks of 4 hours: one member observes activity through high-powered binoculars, while the other records the information on data collection sheets.  The team members switch roles often. There is no interaction between JSI’s observers and the public.

Candidates for these positions should ideally demonstrate experience in research and an affinity for outdoor recreation.  They should have experience with boating activities.  They should demonstrate a willingness to work in the outdoors for periods of up to 10 hours a day and not have any severe allergies to sun exposure or insects.  They should not have sensitivity to nausea when looking through binoculars for long periods of time.

Team members are paid $100 for each site, as well as meal, lodging and travel expenses.  JSI project staff will train all team members and supply all necessary equipment and data collection tools.

Participants will be recruited to work in teams of two who live near each other.  Team members can be friends or spouses, but both team members will need to meet recruiting requirements.  The team will need to have access to a car in good working order, or one team member will need to be at least 25 years of age so that a car can be rented.  Teams must be available to work for at least 4 full weekends during the two month period of July and August, both Saturday and Sunday, and be able to attend a training in Boston, date TBD in June 2009.   They must be eligible to work in the US.  They must have at least one working cellular phone and consistent access to an electronic mail address in order to communicate with project staff.

To apply for this position, send an email application to Heather Lisinski with the following information for each team member: your relationship to each other; a statement about your past experience with research, outdoor recreation and boating; your age; your access to a car or whether you would need to rent a car; your complete residential address(s) during the June-August 2009 period, telephone numbers and email addresses.  Also a statement as to your reasons for being interested in working on this study.

For more information please contact:

Heather E. Lisinski
Research Associate/Project Manager
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA  02210
(617) 385-3683 direct office phone
(617) 482-0617 fax
hlisinksi@jsi.com

 

News Archive

  • 2009 Dr. Ellen Douglas publishes "The impact of agricultural intensification and irrigation on land-atmosphere interactions and Indian monsoon preciptation - A mesoscale modeling perspective" in Global and Planetary Change doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.12.007
  • 2009 Dr. Ellen Douglas served as a panelist for the Climate Change symposium
  • 2009  EEOS students and faculty to present research at the 2009 Northeastern Section Geological Society of America Meeting
  • 2009  Dr. Ellen Douglas discusses the impact of global warming on Boston .... click here to view
  • 2009 EEOS students present to Campus Master Planning Committee their vision for a "green" campus ... click here for presentation
  • EEOS Assistant Professor John Duff moderated a panel discussion on "International Law of the Sea" at the United Nations-Nippon Foundation Law of the Sea Fellowship in Tokyo, Japan on April 13, 2009. Prof. Duff also delivered a presentation on US Ocean Policy at the meeting.
  • EEOS GIS Specialist Helenmary Hotz was awarded a Public Service Grant for "Integrating GPS and GIS to Develop a Geographic Education Model for ALternative High Schools." Other members of the team are Prof. John Looney, Prof. Curtis Olsen and PhD Candidate Jun Zhu. GPS units will be provided through the Location in Education program, sponsored by Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA).
  • Francesco Peri, a Masters student in the Computer Science Department and an Employee in the EEOS Department has been awarded the Randall Malbone Fellowship by the Computer Science Departmnet. The fellowship was endowed by his parents in his honor. The fellowship is awarded each year to one or more students, usually graduate students based on their superior academic performance. This year we awarded three Melbone Fellowships, including one to Francesco. Francesco is graduating with a perfect 4.0 GPA and has been an outstanding student in our program
  • The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences is pleased to announce the Son ca Lam is the recipient of the 2009 Grace Paley Award. She has served as a core member of Asian American Studies Outreach (AASO). She is also pursuing a double major in Environmental Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies.
  • Wiki for the GIS courses added-all GIS staff and students can participate http://St-helens.geogsvr.umb.edu/wiki
  • Congratualations to Dr. Chen and the CESN team for receipt of a $462,249 grant from the Department of Energy
  • Gwen Richards (EEOS undergraduate honors student) and Dr. Juanita Urban-Rich presented a poster "Windows Around the World" at the Northeast Undergraduate Research Development Symposium at the University of New England in Biddeford Maine in March.

  • EEOS Undergraduate Students receive prestigious scholarships

    Jennifer Tuccinardi and Sara Salome, EEOS undergraduates, are recipients of the 2009 New England Geospatial Information & Technology Association scholarships. Only two scholarships were awarded this year and both went to UMass Boston EEOS GIS students. Jennifer Tuccinardi was awarded the Ed Forrest Scholarship, a $2000 cash award and a paid internship at National Grid in Lowell, MA. Sara Salome was awarded the Hank Emery Scholarship, a $2000 cash award. Sara will also be doing a paid internship at NSTAR, Dorchester, MA.

  • EEOS scientists Meng Zhou and Yiwu Zhu are participating in an exciting cruise in the Southern Ocean to study the behaviors and interacts of humpback whale and krills (http://www.harbor1.umb.edu/SOwhale09.htm). This is part of an NSF funded collarborative project between UMB and researchers at Duke University.

Icebreaker in route to Anarctica

  • Summer 2009- Dr. Ellen Douglas' paper in Journal of Hydrology makes a big splash click here for more information
  • Dr. Anamarija Frankic and students work to restore Boston Harbor rivers one oyster at a time...click here for information.

  • Dr. Ellen Douglas has been invited to serve on the Commonwealth’s Coastal Zone and Ocean Subcommittee which provides input and advice to the Advisory Committee charged with the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act.  Dr. Douglas was identified as a key individual to provide insight and expertise into this process.  Dr. Douglas and members of the subcommittee will analyze strategies for adapting to the predicted impacts of climate change in the Commonwealth.