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Faculty Anouncements
2012
April 2012
Prof. Esther Peters presented "What is Really Killing the Caribbean Acroporids?" at the 37th Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop in Lake Placid, NY, in the special session "As The Ocean Turns: How Environment Affects Coral Health" organized by Dr. Drew Harvell.
Prof. Esther Peters (with Drs. Roxanna Smolowitz and Taylor Reynolds) contributed the chapter "Neoplasia" to the book, Invertebrate Medicine, 2nd Edition, edited by Dr. Gregory Lewbart. The book won a Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA)'s Textbook Excellence Award (Texty).
Prof. Chris Parsons was elected a Fellow of the Society of Biology.
February 2012
Prof. Chris Parsons was the convener of the 2nd workshop "One hundred questions of global importance for marine conservation" held on at George Mason University, 18-19 February 2012.
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed the Scientific Program Chair of the 26th International Congress on Conservation Biology, to be held in Baltimore in 2013.
2011
November 2011
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed to the Chair of the 3rd International Marine Conservation Congress, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2014.
June 2011
Prof. Chris Parsons was co-editor of a special isue of the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin entitled "Cetaceans and military sonar: a need for better management" (Vol. 63 Issues 1-4)
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed a national delegate for the U.K. for the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (held in Tromso, Norway).
May 2011
Megan Draheim, PhD was the co-convener of the focus group "Marine-Based Human Wildlife Conflict: Moving towards Best Practices" held on at the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress, 14-18 May 2011, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Prof. Chris Parsons was the convener of the workshop "One hundred questions of global importance for marine conservation" held on at the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress, 19-20 May 2011, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.April 2011
Prof. Chris Parsons was co-editor of a special issue of the journal Bulletin of Marine Science entitled "Making Marine Science Matter" (Vol. 87 Issue 2).
January 2011
Prof. Chris Parsons was re-elected as the President of the Marine Section for the Society for Conservation Biology for a second consecutive term, the first time a section president has been elected twice. Prof. Parsons was also appointed to the Board of Governors for the Society for Conservation Biology for a second term.
2010
November 2010
Prof. Chris Parsons was invited to become a member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management.
October 2010
Prof. Chris Jones received the David W. Rossell Quill Award (pic below)
Prof. Dann Sklarew received the Sustainability Hero Award.
August 2010
Prof. Judith Skog assumed the duties of president of the Botanical Society of America at the society annual meetings July 30-August 4, 2010 in Providence, Rhode Island, where she gave her president's address. The mission of the Botanical Society of America is to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere. There are approximately 3,200 professional members of the society representing countries worldwide. The society publishes The American Journal of Botany which has been named one of the top 10 journals of science in the past 100 years by the Society of Scientific Librarians. In addition, the society offers Planting Science, a learning and research resource, bringing together students, plant scientists, and teachers from across the nation to engage in hands-on plant investigations.
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed an Associate Editor of the new Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
Prof. Dann Sklarew has been appointed Mason's Fellow of Sustainability Studies for 2010-2012.
July 2010
Profs. Esther Peters and Robert Jonas taught "Diseases of Corals and Other Reef Organisms" at Mote Marine Laboratory's Tropical Research Laboratory on Summerland Key, FL, July 31-August 8, 2010. Dr. Peters also presented the "Coral Tissue Slide Reading Workshop" at the lab July 25-30. Both courses provide introductions to the field of pathobiology of marine organisms and can be taken for credit through GMU.
June 2010
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed a national delegate for the United Kingdom
for both the Scientific Committee and the Conservation Committee of the
International Whaling Commission (which was held in Agadir, Morocco).
Prof. Nicole Darnall, has been named 2010 Associate Editor, Academy of Management, Organizations and the Natural Environment.
Prof. Nicole Darnall will continue to serve as Economic and Social Research Council/Social Science Research Council Collaborative Visiting Fellow in summer 2010. She will present her research at the Group of Organizations & the Natural Environment Conference in Milan, Italy.
May 2010
Prof. Nicole Darnall was appointed Associate Faculty Member of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University.
Prof. Nicole Darnall has been named 2010 Erasmus Mundus International Scholar by the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Programme in Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management. The award will fund her research on the demand for corporate green strategy at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University (Lund, Sweden), and Central European University (Budapest, Hungary).
March 2010
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed a Program Chair for the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress, to be held in Victoria, British Columbia, May 2011.
Prof. Chris Parsons was appointed to the organizing committee for the First International Marine Conservation 'Think Tank,' to be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2011.
January 2010
Prof. Allison Macfarlane was selected to be one of the 15 members of the White House Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, that will determine how to manage the nation's nuclear waste.