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Description from the University of South Carolina Press: Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects the environment, and preserves the distinctive quality of life and cultural [...] Dr. Beymer-Farris comes to Furman from the University of Illinois, Urbana Chanpaign where she completed her Ph.D. in Geography. As the new Sustainability Science hire in the EES Department, she will teach Principles of Sustainability Science (SUS 120) and Social Systems (SUS 241) courses this year. In teaching these courses, her role will be [...]
The South Carolina Geological Survey recently published the Geologic map of Campobello, South Carolina (GQM 51). It is available to the public at: http://www.dnr.sc.gov/geology/publications.htm#gqm This publication is the result of geologic mapping done in Summer 2010 by Earth and Environmental Sciences majors Alyssa Wickard and Rhonda Chan Soo, supervised by Dr. Ranson [...]
Brannon Andersen, Bill Ranson, Suresh Muthukrishnan, and our newest faculty member, Betsy Beymer-Ferris (starting in August), attended a Mellon Foundation funded travel seminar in sustainability that visited Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark, and Freiburg, Germany. A total of 18 faculty from 8 different colleges participated in this program. The group met with city [...] The department of Earth and Environmental sciences is excited to announce that we are now on Facebook. If this doesn’t excite you, then hear this – Dr. Garihan now has a Facebook page too. If you don’t believe me, go and search. Well, we have posted lots of photos from the good old days [...] This program will begin with intensive six-week course work at Furman, followed by a five-week residential experience at Madras Christian College (MCC) in Chennai, India. This will then be capped with a 4 week travel program from south to north India. The Fall 2011 courses offer an array of closely connected and interdisciplinary pursuits including, [...] Dr. Brannon Andersen, a faculty member since 1994, has received a 2010 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Distinguished Mentor Award. The award is co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Furman University, and is awarded to faculty who have an exceptional track record in mentoring undergraduate research students and who have been a champion [...] John M. Garihan just published the Geologic map of the Landrum 7.5-minute quadrangle with the support of the SC Geologic Survey. It is available to the public through the SCDNR website, along with 12 other 1:24,000 scale maps mapped by J. Garihan and W. A. Ranson in upstate South Carolina. These GQM and MS series [...] Dr. Garihan and Dr. Ranson lead a group of 8 students on a field trip to study the Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Geology starting from Virginia and ending at the Adirondacks in Upstate New York. Their trip highlights include among other things, a study of mountain top removal and its impacts, geology and geomorphology of [...] |
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