USFWS Career Day - April 13
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A couple of HCCS members were lucky to spend Friday the 13th learning from and networking with the executive team of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service at their regional office in western Massachusetts. USFWS is the main agency within the US government tasked with conservation efforts. They help preserve ecosystems and species through both maintaining numerous wildlife refuges throughout the country, and working with landowners to manage invasive species and protect endangered ones. After learning about what each department of FWS does - from acquiring land to expand refuges, to managing media presence, to ensuring protected flyways for migratory birds - we had the chance to chat with several members of the executive team and several graduate students from UMass-Amherst over lunch. We then toured Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge, on the Fort River Trail, the first trail at a wildlife refuge that is completely handicap-accessible. We learned about the design and construction of the trail and how FWS ensures that people of all abilities can engage with nature. To wrap up the day, we visited the Richard Cronin Aquatic Resource Center, where FWS's research team is working to establish captive breeding programs for threatened and endangered freshwater mussels and tiger beetles. A big thank you to Northeast Regional Director Wendi Weber and all of her team for making this amazing event possible!
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Inducted Class of Fall 2017
These individuals have been recommended by their project leaders for official induction as a result of their excellent work and dedication to their projects and to the organization throughout the last semester. We warmly welcome these new members to HCCS!
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Shannon Beattie '20
Arielle Blacklow '21 Stephan Casper '21 James Caven '21 Abraham Dada '21 Jack Daley '21 Graham Friedman '21 |
Maxwell Ho '21
Belinda Hu '21 April Johnson '18 Sophia Mautz '21 Matthew Miller '21 Caleb Rak '21 Caleb Schwartz '20 |
Serena Shah '21
Josh Stern '21 Meaghan Townsend '21 Imani Weeks '21 Margaux Winter '21 Michael Wong '18 Anthony Zhong '21 |
HCCS Members Featured in Harvard Gazette
A recent Harvard Gazette article has highlighted 5 Harvard undergraduate women who spent their time researching climate change and sustainability over the summer. We love seeing the good our peers are doing for the environment, and are especially proud that HCCS members Sabrina Devereaux '18 and Amy Li '20 were featured in the piece for their work in Madagascar and Hawai'i respectively! To read the article, click the link above, and to read Amy's blog post about her time at the Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute, click here!
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HCCS Retreat to Harvard Forest
On the weekend of Sept. 30th - Oct. 1st, HCCS held our first annual retreat to the Harvard Forest! Click on the photo to read about it on the blog.
We're excited to have had the chance to get off campus and bond this weekend, and we're even more excited for our budding partnership with the Harvard Forest for a project this semester and hopefully more in the future!
Summer Blogs 2017
Summer has ended and HCCS members are returning home to Boston from all over the globe. Check out our new summer blogs to see what some of them were up to in the months of vacation!
Paris Climate Agreement Petition
On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. In response, a growing number of university presidents took initiative to commit their institutions to a pledge of governors, mayors, and businesses across the country to uphold the agreement's greenhouse gas emissions targets.
Harvard University, however, was noticeably absent in this pledge, and so the Harvard College Conservation Society submitted a letter to President Faust asking her to likewise commit Harvard to this growing movement. To read the letter co-signed by a long list of student organization leaders, Click Here. And see the national movement at http://secondnature.org/grand-coalition-statement-paris-agreement/
Harvard University, however, was noticeably absent in this pledge, and so the Harvard College Conservation Society submitted a letter to President Faust asking her to likewise commit Harvard to this growing movement. To read the letter co-signed by a long list of student organization leaders, Click Here. And see the national movement at http://secondnature.org/grand-coalition-statement-paris-agreement/