The Center for the Study of Environmental Change serves as a node for the coordination of educational, research and outreach activities related to the environmental effects of Earth's changing climate. By supporting the study and understanding of these effects in the local and global environment, the Center will promote a more just and sustainable society, in keeping with the Jesuit mission of Le Moyne College.

 

Center Research

The concern over and study of global climate change has pervaded nearly all aspects of environmental research in recent years. CSEC is sponsoring projects that add important new data to our understanding of how the global environment is changing in response to climate change. At present, most of our research focuses on processes of soil formation, in particular, on rates of floral colonization and carbon storage. The environmental analysis labs at Le Moyne are equipped with a JEOL JSM-6510LV Scanning Electron Microscope, Bruker D-2 Phaser X-Ray Diffractometer and a LECO TruSpec C/N. Financial support for some of these facilities and activities has been provided by NSF and HSBC. 

For a description of our research activities in Costa Rica, Iceland and Hawaii, please visit the CSEC Research page here.

The following links may provide useful information

 

Science News

• BBC: On-line service from the BBC for a European flavor to the news
• New York Times: The Time presents well-written science feature stories on a regular basis
• RealClimate: A climate blog maintained by REAL scientists. See what they are saying.
• Nature: daily science news items are posted on the website for this British weekly science journal
• Scientific American: Website for the popular science magazine
• Science: the American Association for the Advancement of Science also publishes a weekly science journal and maintains a Web site with daily news postings
• Science Daily is a private commercial science news site with daily updates
• National Geographic: news on science and the environment
• Environmental News Network: a private commercial site for general environmental news
• Science Centric: another private commercial site for science news
• The Scientist: a private site specializing in the life sciences
• Encyclopedia of Earth: Describes itself as "Wikipedia with quality control"
• Solutions for a Sustainable Planet: a new print/digital periodical on sustainability issues.
• New Scientist: a site for the commercial print publication. May require for registration for free access. 

 

Global Warming Action Sites

• Focus the Nation: A week-long nation-wide teach-in for global warming
• National Teach-In: An alternative global-warming education movement (founded by the original organizer of Focus the Nation).
• New York Interfaith Power and Light: A terrific grass-roots faith-based initiative to fight global warming
• IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change): This is the home site for the UN sponsored panel that produces the periodic climate change assessment reports (available as downloads from this site).

Other Resources for Educators

New - NOAA Climate Services Portal: this is an excellent portal-based site with links for climate data, climate news, and a variety of grade-specific educational resources and activities.

NOAA Climate Program Office: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a site that has lots of useful information for teachers, including educational information on climate in general, hurricanes, tornadoes. They also have travel and workshop opportunities, such as arctic cruises.

Annenberg Media's Learner.org site has free educational resources for educators at every grade level in almost every discipline! I personally have used the Earth Revealed video series in my college Geology classes for years. If you haven't already, register and browse the site.

Project Budburst: Interested in getting involved with environmental ir climate science? This is a nationwide volunteer effort to gather a wide variety of data. A perfect way to get students involved!

 

Learn about the Environmental Science Systems major (BS degree)

Learn about the new major in Environmental Studies (BS degree)
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College commitment to sustainability