Upcoming Events
October 23, 8:15 in DPC
Artists Speak About Their Collaborative Installation, co-sponsored by Voices
Sharon Wyrrick is an installation artist working in and across theater, opera, dance, and mixed discipline performance. Jane Ingram Allen is a sculptor, installation artist, and hand papermaker. Sharon Wyrrick and Jane Ingram Allen are collaborating to create a multi-layered installation inspired the great beauty and diversity of butterflies and the obsession of famous butterfly collectors. t will be part biography, part travelogue, and an extended treatise on evocations of this creature - flights of the imagination, fragility of life and the environment, and transformation. The work will incorporate handmade paper structures, text, video, lighting, and sound.
Did You Know . . . ?
. . . that St. Mary’s River Project (SMRP) students measure nutrients in our river’s water to determine if there are extreme amounts. Surplus nutrients cause excessive algal growth, which can result in no-oxygen conditions that kill fish.
Drawing by Elizabeth Black '08
St. Mary's Project Spotlight
“The first lines of the foreword in A Sand County Almanac read, ‘There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.’ In a way, I think this is Aldo Leopold confessing that ultimately he writes for himself, to reconnect with the wild things that inspire him. Leopold’s book inspired this group of twelve essays, which were written with the explicit goal of learning from this county, this river. What I have found is that at the root of human nature are all the things that exist around it.”
Dana Christianson
Student Resources
St. Mary's River Project (SMRP) | SMRP Club | St. Mary's Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) | Helpful Links
St. Mary's River Project (SMRP)
The St Mary's River Project provides college students with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the field, classroom, and laboratory. Monitoring water quality of the tidal and non-tidal portions of the St. Mary's River and adjacent tributaries, students affiliated with the project gather data from ten sites in the river. Students may choose to work for credit or on a voluntary basis. For information about the project and available opportunities, see the SMRP website.
SMRP Club
The SMRP Club provides an educational program in which St. Mary's College student volunteers visit local elementary schools to teach about regional ecology and environmental issues. The program promotes awareness and stewardship of the St. Mary's River Watershed and the Chesapeake Bay. Club members teach at three schools in St. Mary's County: Greenview Knolls, George Washington Carver, and Piney Point. Contact Madeline Eberhardt meberhardt@smcm.edu or Shane Hall sdhall@smcm.edu for more information about what the club does and how you can join.
St. Mary's Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
SEAC is as student club that is part of a national network of grassroots organizations whose aim is to �uproot environmental injustices through action and education.� SEAC is one of the most active clubs on campus, and it serves as an information clearinghouse and networking group as well as leadership in environmental activism on campus and in the Mid-Atlantic region.
*Logo created by Bonnie Veblen '09*
Helpful Links
- Campus Climate Challenge
- Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)
- CCAN blog
- Energy Action Coalition
- It's Getting Hot in Here
- Sierra Student Coalition
- EcologyFund
- The Rainforest Site
