Earth Systems Community

Congratulations to the Earth Systems Class of 2024!
We are proud of you all.
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🌍🌏💚💚🌍🌏 CONGRATULATIONS 🌍🌏💚💚🌍🌏

Earth Systems undergrad, Vivian Leilani Shay's Capstone program titled "Questions for a Tree" 🌳 was her contribution to Stanford's Class of 2024 time capsule, a tradition dating back to 1896.

Congratulations Viv!!!👏🏼🌳🎉

This is the first time that the Earth Systems Program has had something in the time capsule! wooo hoo

WAIT, WHAT?

OK, now that I have your undivided attention, YOU HAD BETTER LISTEN.

YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. IF SLOSHBALL GOT YOU FROTHED, THEN YOU BETTER HOLD ON TO YOUR LITTLE HAT, EARTHSYSTER.

Because . . .

EARTH SYSTEMS SENIORS will be talking about their AH-MAZING CAPSTONE PROJECTS TODAY TODAY TODAY from 1:30-6 PM in Y2E2 300.

WAIT, CAPSTONE? What the heck is that? Well, my friend you had better come find out, and you had better come ready to have your MIND entirely BLOWN.

COME HEAR the UNBELIEVABLE, yet entirely true story (would I lie to you?), about one SENIOR who ACTUALLY wrote her own PLAY. Yeah, I know, not even kidding. This is a TRUE FACT.

COME HEAR about WILD WOMEN, SALMON, EDUCATIONAL GARDENS, ECO-EMOTIONS, COYOTE CONVERSATIONS . . .
AND SO MUCH MORE

WOOT WOOT CAPSTONE CAPSTONE CAPSTONE SyMPoSiuM

and there will be yummy things you can eat too!

Can't make it to Y2E2 room 300, you can watch it on Zoom too:
https://tinyurl.com/ESCapstoneS24

💚🌎💚🌎💚 ATTENTION ES 2024 GRADS! 💚🌎💚🌎💚

You are all invited to attend the annual Graduating People's Party on Thursday, June 13th, from 2-4pm in the Earth Systems Lounge (Y2E2 room 131).

Bring your family and friends for some catered food & drinks. We will also be giving you your grad gift! 💚🌎👩‍🎓🌎🧑‍🎓🌎💚

Earth Systems Senior Capstone Symposium

Join us on June 5th from 1:30-6pm in Y2E2 room 300! Feel free to drop in during the symposium and encourage others to join us.
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On behalf of the Earth Systems Program, I wanted to send a note to express my gratitude for your mentorship of students working on Master's and Honors theses in the Earth Systems Program this year.

I'd like to warmly invite you to our program's honors and Master's thesis symposium, which will take place next Tuesday, 6/4, from 3 to 5 PM in Y2E2 299. Please feel to drop in at any time during the symposium and encourage others in your lab groups to join us.

Warmly,
Richard

Come watch Stanford Talisman
🌱🌸 Flourish 🌸🌱

Having made new music, seen far-away shores, and learned to keep wonder with us always, Stanford Talisman caps off the year with a joyous celebration of perseverance, growth, and blossoming.

Bring a picnic blanket and some friends, and join us on:
Memorial Day (Monday, May 27th) at Meyer Green from
8 - 9 PM!

RSVP HERE: https://partiful.com/e/I9ikirWDawxVpXi41Lie

EJ Teaching Workshop

WHERE: Stanford Educational Farm
WHEN: May 31st @ 1-4 PM

Are you interested in learning about environmental justice (EJ) education strategies and how you might integrate them into your teaching? Join the Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group at the Farm
Please RSVP (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegQfR_ibCab7wOzFzeYnm6btLnEQOS0K9r9YIAGmz8TOCwVQ/viewform) by Friday, May 17th at 11:59 pm.
Questions? Email Brandon Reynante ([email protected]).

Week 8 Social: Gratitude Cards!

WHERE: Earth Systems Office (Y2E2 131)
WHEN: Wednesday, May 22nd @ 12-3pm
Graduation season is upon us! Join us in crafting and writing some beautiful “thank you” notes for your professors, friends, and supportive staff!

To top it off, Thai food will be served at noon for lunch. We are excited to see everyone for our last in-office social of the year!

Native American Stories – Greg Sarris: A Reading, Conversation & Book Signing

WHERE: CEMEX Auditorium
WHEN: Tuesday, May 21st @ 7:30 - 9:30 PM

Greg Sarris, tribal leader, university professor, playwright, producer,and award-winning author, published The Forgetters a boundary-pushing new work that explores themes of memory, survival, connection, and environmental preservation.

Greg Sarris will read from his astonishing new collection of stories that weave together elements of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories with the contemporary world. Following the reading he will have an illuminating conversation with another of Stanford’s noted writers and teachers, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. The evening will culminate in a book signing.

Register here: tinyurl.com/Greg-Sarris

Climate Justice in the Courts: Landmark Ruling in Held v. Montana

WHERE: Explore Energy House (Junipero)
WHEN: TODAY 6-7:20pm
WHAT: In Montana, 16 youths filed a lawsuit to hold the state government to take the hazards and harms of climate change into account in state decisions. In the summer of 2023, the Montana Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment in their favor, upholding the right to a healthy environment enshrined in Montana’s Constitution. This is your opportunity to engage with one of the plaintiffs (Grace Gibson-Snyder, now at Yale) and lead counsel, Mat dos Santos with Our Children's Trust. Both are making history!

MAY 22, 3-5 PM: 2nd Annual Stanford Food Institute Research Symposium!

REGISTER HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDRW5JM0XeucdQCfG-ntB1xoEnxRpNMLQK8Yoc15laJ5e-Sg/viewform

WHAT? 2nd Annual R&DE Stanford Food Institute Food Systems Research Symposium: Advancing Food Systems Change at Stanford and Beyond. The event will feature interactive tables of food systems research and projects, and we are excited to have 35+ projects from nearly 100 presenters representing a diverse and inspiring array of projects. The vibe is dynamic and fun, like a food systems science fair, and will include topics ranging from urban agriculture, soil health, rice cultivation, traditional ecological knowledge, antimicrobial resistance, compost, and aquaculture to plant-based diets, institutional procurement, food-related GHG emissions, farm-to-table summer camp, teaching kitchens, food allergies, food waste reduction, tribal food sovereignty—and much, much more! You'll also have the chance to enjoy delicious food inspired by the featured projects.

WHEN AND WHERE? May 22, 2024 at Paul Brest Hall, from 3-5 PM. The first hour from 3-4 PM will be a speed networking event, and the open Research Symposium will occur from 4-5 PM.
WHO? Stanford students, faculty, staff, and community members working to advance food systems change at Stanford and beyond, as well as members of the public!
WHY? Enjoy this an interactive, exhibition-style event bringing together research from undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni across the university who are conducting research in food systems and agriculture in order to: build community, showcase their work, and foster collaboration.

This event is open to the public and free to attend. However, space is limited, so be sure to register by May 20, 2024, to reserve your spot.

You're invited to the Lagunita Interpretive Signage Unveiling Celebration!!!

Have you ever wondered...
Why is there (or isn't there) water in Lagunita?

What species live at Lagunita?

Why do we care about California tiger salamanders?

How have people interacted with Lagunita in the past and how do they interact with Lagunita today?

Why are we calling it "Lagunita" instead of "Lake Lag"?


All these questions, and more will be answered by the new interpretive signage that has been created over the past year in collaboration with over 45 Stanford students and staff! Please join the Stanford Conservation Program in celebrating the installation of these new signs at our June 1st party!

Meet us at the Lagunita BBQ Pit any time from 11am to 2pm on Saturday, June 1st. We will have a stewardship activity, live music, corn hole, coloring books, food, merch raffle, and staff members available to answer your questions about Lagunita!

Accessible versions of our signage will also be available at https://conservation.stanford.edu/lagunita

Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/jguHoVcviZkyegjF6

Please tell your friends!!

Hope to see you there,
Maddy Bernstein
she/her or they/them

Stanford Conservation Program

Earth Systems M.S. 2023
Computer Science B.S. 2020

https://stanforddaily.com/2024/05/16/inside-the-push-to-end-legacy-admissions-preferences-at-stanford/?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_content=May-16-2024?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_content=May-16-2024

Great event happening this weekend!

53rd Annual Stanford Powwow- Empowering Indigenous Women, May 10-12, 2024

“Keepers of the Flame: Learning to be in Relation to Fire”

WHERE: Hartley Conference Room (Mitchell Building)
WHEN: May 3rd @ 11:30-1 PM
WHAT: Please join the ESS Department, EJ Working Group, & SDSS DEI office for a lunch presentation by UC-Davis Professor Beth Rose Middleton this Friday!

This event seeks to deepen respect for Indigenous fire practitioners, shed light on the benefits of prescribed fire and regenerative land stewardship — and nurture personal, place-based understandings of fire.
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/keepersoftheflame

EJ Teaching Workshop

WHERE: Stanford Educational Farm
WHEN: May 31st @ 1-4 PM
WHAT: Are you interested in learning about environmental justice (EJ) education strategies and how you might integrate them into your teaching? Join the Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group at the Farm
Please RSVP by Friday, May 17th at 11:59 pm.
Questions? Email Brandon Reynante ([email protected]).

COLLAGE with Earth Systems!

WHERE: ES Lounge (Y2E2 131)
WHEN: Thurs May 9 @ 12-3pm
WHAT: Join us for some delicious food (burritos!) while cutting and pasting your week 6 cares away! We’ll have everything you need to fuel your wildest collage dreams, so come on by!

Are you interested in learning about environmental justice (EJ) education strategies
and how you might integrate them into your teaching?

Come to the EJ teaching workshop hosted by the Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group on Friday, May 31st from 1-4 pm at the Stanford Educational Farm.

Please RSVP by Friday, May 17th at 11:59 pm.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegQfR_ibCab7wOzFzeYnm6btLnEQOS0K9r9YIAGmz8TOCwVQ/viewform

Questions? Email Brandon Reynante ([email protected]).

Earth Systems coterm student, Mitchell Zimmerman: With a love of animals and a dedication to climate issues, Mitchell Zimmerman stewards the ecosystems across Stanford’s land for an impact that’s as widespread as it is personal.

Grounded in impact With a love of animals and a dedication to climate issues, Mitchell Zimmerman stewards the ecosystems across Stanford’s land for an impact that’s as widespread as it is personal.

Earth Systems Senior, Acacia Lynch is enthusiastic about farming, food systems, and inviting others into these efforts in the field and the classroom.

Envisioning better food systems Acacia Lynch is enthusiastic about farming, food systems, and inviting others into these efforts in the field and the classroom.

Rooted Words “Enough”

WHERE: Stanford Educational Farm
WHEN: May 1st @ 5:30

WHAT: Come suffice with an adequate band of writers, farmers, students, teachers and others as we read selections from our own writing to welcome the spring. All genres welcomed, all efforts celebrated, light refreshments provided. Contact Tom Hayden ([email protected]) with questions, or simply meet us at the farm, sheltered under the spreading branches of the blue oaks.

An invitation from your Earth Systems DEI Liaisons:

Dear ES Friends,

Please join the ES program & SDSS DEI office for a fireside chat with Environmental Justice Lecturer, Dena Montague!

This event promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of how innovative approaches to science, technology, and engineering can catalyze radical social change in various domains — including (but not limited to) energy production, natural resource management, democratic education, and the Afrofuturist imagination.

A catered meal will be provided!!!!
RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/fmoa52v0

LOCATION: Y2E2 Room 300

Once many years ago there was a game…Some say it involved a ball…a kickball to be exact…to play a very special game…it made its return from the dead last year…

Some say it was called SLOSHBALL!!

SLOSHBALL RETURNS AGAIN THIS EARTH DAY!!

Earth Systems will be playing SLOSHBALL next Monday, April 22nd, starting at 5 PM on Roble Field. Get there slightly before 5!

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING PROOF OF AGE (21+) WITH A VALID ID. WE WILL PROVIDE WRISTBANDS TO PLAYERS AGES 21+ IF YOU WOULD LIKE SLOSH. HOWEVER, YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE 21 TO PLAY—AMPLE EANABS PROVIDED!

Frequently asked questions:

What is sloshball?

Noun. sloshball (uncountable) A drinking game resembling softball or kickball but with players having to drink beer from a keg when passing a base!

What are the rules of sloshball?
Rules: https://localwiki.org/davis/Sloshball

Dear Friends!

We are thrilled to announce the third film in our ✨💦 Environmental Justice Film Festival at Stanford University 💦✨series! It is with great excitement that we invite you to the screening of "Marcher sur l'eau," a documentary film delving into a Niger tribe's quest for access to water deep beneath the parched earth.

WHEN: Thursday April 25th, 2024, 5:30PM

WHERE: Roble Hall Theater, 374 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305

RSVP: https://lu.ma/ejfilmfest_abovewater

Join us for an evening filled with not only an impactful film but also free food, engaging activities, and a stimulating panel discussion. Our esteemed panelists include the filmmakers, distinguished guests from the African Film Festival, and voices from our vibrant Stanford community.

This film screening is a part of the inaugural ✨💦Environmental Justice Film Festival at Stanford University!💦 ✨ Our festival is more than just screenings; it's a platform for dialogue and community action, showcasing extraordinary films that highlight climate change and racial equity, with a focus on the voices, leadership, experiences, and solutions of frontline communities.

With such an exciting lineup, we anticipate a full house! Be sure to RSVP ASAP to secure your spot.

Thank you on behalf of our EJ Film Festival fam,

Emily, E'jaaz, Dena, Ximena, Zulie, Tanvi, Cat, and Adam

If you're entertaining the possibility of doing an honors thesis in Earth Systems next year (or in the future), please come to our information session on Tuesday, 4.16.24 at 12:30 PM on Zoom.

I'll answer your questions about the honors application process—and anything else honors-related. In the meantime, you can learn more about how to apply for the ES Honors Program here (https://earthsystems.stanford.edu/academics-admissions/undergraduate-program/earth-systems-major/honors-program).
Applications are due on 4.30.24.

Warmly,
Richard

Zoom link to honors info session: https://tinyurl.com/ESHonors24

Join us on TODAY from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Tresidder Clubhouse Ballroom to hear Evan Mandery (http://www.evanmandery.com/) speak about how elite colleges perpetuate cycles of inequality and learn how institutions like Stanford can do better. RSVP HERE:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfITSyOAItcsa0i-o2EvqjCjs4JG8ExFjpfBCi-QvoLapAzKQ/viewform?pli=1