Author Archives: carey@uoregon.edu

A StoryMap featuring Glacier Lab Work to Build a Just Climate

Since 2021, when the Just Futures Institute at the University of Oregon was formed with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, students like Dara Craig and Sijo Smith in the Glacier Lab have been working on an initiative related to climate justice and Tribal communities. The project extended work that Mark Carey and Kathy Lynn had been doing since 2012 through the Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Initiative. But with the Mellon funding to support graduate students full time, and with the impetus through the Just Futures Institute to expand work on racial and climate justice in the Pacific Northwest, graduate students within and beyond the Glacier Lab have spent the last three years working much more substantially than ever on these issues.

A new StoryMap called “Engaging Graduate Students in Building a Just Climate: Stories and Reflections from a Climate Justice Initiative” explains how this work has expanded and continued, thanks to student energy and leadership. Designed by Glacier Lab Master’s student Sijo Smith, the StoryMap highlights the work that she and fellow Environmental Studies graduate students Dara Craig and Dehlia Wolftail have done for this climate justice initiative since 2021, including their  reflections and takeaways from the project.

Click here to view the full StoryMap and learn more!

Greenland Fjords Research on the RV Tarajoq

Mark Carey joined the rest of his multidisciplinary Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) research team for ice-ocean-society research in east Greenland during August 2023. Their project, funded by the National Science Foundation’s NNA program, is called “Global changes, local impacts: Study of glacial fjords, ecosystems and communities in Greenland.” A recent article in Oceanography gives an overview of the project that runs through 2026, while the August 2023 NNA Newsletter explains the research activities.

This summer was the first time they jointly conducted fieldwork together. Being on the ship together for more than two weeks solidified the group and inspired many conversations about collaboration, interdisciplinary research, and connections with communities and Greenlandic partners.

They set sail in early August from Reykjavik, Iceland, on the RV Tarajoq, an oceanographic and fisheries research vessel owned and operated by the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. Their goal: study the Sermilik fjord system and the continental shelf ocean through multidisciplinary approaches that involved collaboration across the team of physical and biological oceanographers, fisheries biologists, glaciologists, climate modelers, and social scientists.

A principal goal of the cruise was scientific research to understand fjord dynamics, circulation, and human dimensions. For the last decade or so, scientists have come understand the way warm ocean water enters the fjords and melts the glacier outlets of the Greenland Ice Sheet. But fjord circulation is complex, and the team strives to understand life in the fjord as well as the physical system. This requires many disciplinary approaches. It also involved communication with and input from communities along the fjord, especially a schoolteacher from Tiilerilaaq.

Another key objective was collaboration and building relationships through shared field research experiences. Carey has recently argued that multidisciplinary teams can thrive and improve research when they spend time together in the field, learn each other’s research methods, and share unstructured and informal times together that often spark some excellent collaborative ideas (see Alagona, Carey, and Howkins, 2023). On this Greenland cruise, Carey worked the noon to midnight shift on the ship, assisting with oceanographic data collection and learning new fields and research practices. The teamwork and shared experiences—and new friendships—has laid an ideal foundation for continued collaboration and fresh insights into the ice-ocean-society dynamics of the fjord system.

 

Carey will continue work on this project back at the UO, working closely with undergraduate Glacier Lab members Mira Cross and Olivia Black. They are focusing on fisheries policy and management, public perceptions of Greenland fjords, and the human drivers of change within fjords. Carey is working to build relationships with Greenlandic scholars and communities as well. After all, Greenland priorities and plans must ultimately shape the research. Next steps will thus involve on-the-ground learning in Greenland and from Greenlanders, with the goal of further expanding collaboration beyond the terrific current partners at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards

Call for Applications (deadline May 19, 2023)

 

Summer 2023

Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards

 

Overview

 

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for undergraduate students at any level to design and conduct full-time Summer 2023 humanities-oriented research on topics related to ice, climate, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia).

 

Glaciers are of course icons of climate change. But they also play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, hydropower, alpine recreation, conservation, coastal and marine ecosystems, water supplies, public lands management, livelihoods, identities, and food security. Proposed research could focus on any of these topics, and many others, as long as it is connected to ice, the humanities, and environmental justice.

 

The goal of these Research Awards is to help students develop, conduct, and finish a research project. Ideally, the research proposal will be created with guidance from a faculty mentor. However, if you have a project idea, but not a faculty mentor, then contact Professor Carey who runs the UO Glacier Lab to help.

 

An exciting component of this Research Award is completion of a final product by the end of Summer 2023. There is flexibility in these final products. Most students will choose to write a research paper. But others may decide to develop a museum exhibit, or an art installation, or a studio project, or to publish a journalism article. Options are endless but must be agreed upon with your faculty mentor at the outset, so expectations and goals are transparent.

 

Eligibility Criteria

 

  • Projects may come from any discipline but should be connected to the humanities, environmental justice, and ice/climate
  • Applicants must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2023
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants may not be paid to conduct research through other internal UO research support programs during Summer 2023, though they may have academic-year support
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if the research involves work with human subjects

 

Award Expectations

 

  • Commit full-time effort to conducting research during Summer 2023
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2023
  • Complete a research paper or agreed-upon final product (exhibit, studio, art, etc.) by the end of Summer 2023
  • Meet with the other award winner and Professor Carey at least 3 times during the summer
  • Share the results of the research project at the May 2024 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work resulting from the Summer 2023 research
  • Notify Professor Carey of any publications, public exhibits, or conference presentations resulting from the research project

 

Award Details

 

This Research Award provides $4,000 during the Summer of 2023. The award will be paid out in two equal installments, one at the end of Week 5 of Summer and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research paper/product has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

 

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

 

Application Procedures

 

Submit an application with the following components:

 

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter must also include a statement affirming that you meet eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project description in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to ice, humanities, and environmental justice; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll produce and your plan for completing it during summer
  • a resume
  • a letter of recommendation from your faculty mentor, which should include their commitment to mentor your project during Summer 2023

 

Application Deadline: May 19, 2023

 

Application Submission

 

Submit applications to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Faculty mentors should also send their letters of support directly to Mark Carey.

 

Questions

 

Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

New Course Development Grant for Ice & Environmental Justice

Call for Applications (due May 20, 2022)

$4,500 Course Development Grant for a New Course Related to Ice and Environmental Justice in the Pacific Northwest

If you’re thinking about developing a new course related to environmental justice—and particularly if it connects to the Pacific Northwest and to snow, ice, glaciers, or glacier-fed waterways—then consider applying for a new course development grant ($4,500 stipend plus OPE). This grant is available thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

The goal of this larger Mellon “Pacific Northwest Just Futures” grant is to advance research and education on social and environmental justice issues in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia). There are many ways to bring these issues into a new course, and instructors from all disciplines, in all units, and all UO colleges are eligible to apply. Environmental justice courses related to ice could go in many different directions. Arctic residents including in Alaska rely on thinning sea ice for their homelands, hunting, fishing, transportation, cultural identity, and everything. Permafrost thawing is forcing some coastal communities to relocate and affecting vital infrastructure. Shrinking glaciers in Oregon and Washington play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, Tribal rights and treaties, hydropower, alpine recreation, coastal and marine ecosystems, public lands management, livelihoods and economies, identities, and food security.

Proposed new courses could focus on any of these topics and ice types (sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, permafrost, snow), and many others, as long as the course is connected to ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest. A new course in environmental ethics could include substantive new content on the Pacific Northwest and/or the cryosphere, while a new Earth Sciences course on hazards could add an environmental justice component, or a Law School course on water in the Northwest could bring in glaciers that feed those waterways, or an Indigenous environmental studies course could increase new content on environmental hazards and justice in Oregon.

One $4,500 course development grant will be awarded this spring/summer 2022, with the expectation that the course will be taught before Fall 2023 (so anytime during the 2022-2023 academic year, or in Fall 2023).

Eligibility and Priorities

This course development grant is designed to help an instructor create a new course or substantially overhaul an existing course with new content and structure. All UO instructors and faculty are eligible—from any unit, discipline, department, or college. Anyone who teaches their own courses can apply. Priority will be given to courses that will likely be taught at the UO more than once, rather than a one-time course offering. A course that has strong environmental justice, ice, and Pacific Northwest content will also be prioritized over a course with only minimal attention to these topics. Priority will also be given to a course that offers innovative pedagogy and interdisciplinary approaches. The proposed course must be taught by Fall 2023.

Award Details

The course development grant provides a $4,500 stipend to the instructor and covers the associated OPE. The award will be paid in two equal installments: first, at the outset of course development (in summer 2022); and, second, at the beginning of the term when the course is first offered.

Application Deadline: May 20, 2022

Application Instructions

To apply, email the following materials to Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu):

  • Cover Letter that provides (1) your contact information, (2) course specifics including proposed course number, title, and expected enrollment; (3) timing of when you will first teach the course (term/year) and frequency of course offering thereafter; (4) course approval status, or steps required for approval, to assure the course can be taught as proposed
  • Course Overview explaining: (1) the course rationale, objectives, and topics; (2) any pedagogical innovations; (3) course plans including potential readings, assignments, topics to cover, etc.; and (4) ways the course addresses ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest
  • Department/Unit Head Approval: finalists will be asked to have their unit head confirm that the course offering and plan for continued teaching align with unit-level approvals and planning

Questions: For questions about the award and process, contact Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu), who runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society and is based in the Environmental Studies Program and Geography Department. Funding for this course development grant comes from his “Ice, Society, and Climate Justice” dimension of the Mellon “Just Futures” grant.

Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards

Call for Applications (deadline May 11, 2022)

 

Summer 2022

Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards

 

Overview

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Environmental Studies Program/Geography Department) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for undergraduate students at any level to design and conduct full-time Summer 2022 humanities-oriented research on topics related to ice, climate, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia).

 

Glaciers are of course icons of climate change. But they also play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, hydropower, alpine recreation, conservation, coastal and marine ecosystems, water supplies, public lands management, livelihoods, identities, and food security. Proposed research could focus on any of these topics, and many others, as long as it is connected to ice, the humanities, and environmental justice.

 

The goal of these Research Awards is to help students develop, conduct, and finish a research project. Ideally, the research proposal will be created with guidance from a faculty mentor. However, if you have a project idea, but not a faculty mentor, then contact Professor Carey who runs the UO Glacier Lab to help.

 

An exciting component of this Research Award is completion of a final product by the end of Summer 2022. There is flexibility in these final products. Most students will choose to write a research paper. But others may decide to develop a museum exhibit, or an art installation, or a studio project, or to publish a journalism article. Options are endless but must be agreed upon with your faculty mentor at the outset, so expectations and goals are transparent.

 

Eligibility Criteria

  • Projects may come from any discipline but should be connected to the humanities, environmental justice, and ice/climate
  • Applicants must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2022
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants may not be paid to conduct research through other internal UO research support programs during Summer 2022, though they may have academic-year support
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if the research involves work with human subjects

 

Award Expectations

  • Commit full-time effort to conducting research during Summer 2022
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2022
  • Complete a research paper or agreed-upon final product (exhibit, studio, art, etc.) by the end of Summer 2022
  • Meet with the other award winner and Professor Carey at least 3 times during the summer
  • Share the results of the research project at the May 2023 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work resulting from the Summer 2022 research
  • Notify Professor Carey of any publications, public exhibits, or conference presentations resulting from the research project

 

Award Details

This Research Award provides $4,000 during the Summer of 2022. The award will be paid out in two equal installments, one at the end of Week 5 and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research paper/product has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

 

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

 

Application Procedures

Submit an application with the following components:

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter must also include a statement affirming that you meet eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project description in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to ice, humanities, and environmental justice; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll produce and your plan for completing it during summer
  • a resume
  • a letter of recommendation from your faculty mentor, which should include their commitment to mentor your project during Summer 2022

 

Application Deadline: May 11, 2022

 

Application Submission

Submit applications to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Faculty mentors should also send their letters of support directly to Mark Carey.

 

Questions

Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Student and Faculty Winners of Climate Justice Awards

Two UO students and two UO faculty won the 2021 awards for research and teaching related to ice, society, and climate justice in the Pacific Northwest, with funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation through the Just Futures Institute.

Students Jessica Gladis and Anna Mattson won the 2021 Undergraduate Summer Research Awards. Jessica’s project involved research on “Hermeneutic phenomenology: How perceptions of place form differing attitudes towards agency and climate change” focused on the Mount Rainier region to uncover climate values and experiences with glaciers. Professor Barbara Muraca (Philosophy/Environmental Studies) served as her faculty mentor. Anna’s project focused on “Glaciers, salmon, and environmental justice in Cordova, Alaska,” from a journalistic and storytelling perspective. Her faculty mentor was Professor Torsten Kjellstrand (Journalism).

Faculty members Casey Shoop and Gordon Sayre won the 2021 Course Development Grants for Ice and Environmental Justice. Professor Casey Shoop plans to teach a Clark Honors College course on “The Ice Archives,” which will grapple with how “glacial ice is both a medium of storage and the material of storytelling.” The course will ask students to explore not only how ice records the past but how stories, meaning, and even injustices are embedded in ice and what we say about glaciers. Professor Gordon Sayre plans to teach an Environmental Studies/Folklore course on “Ice and Fire in the Cascades: Memory, Energy, Recreation.” This course, to be taught in Spring 2022, aims to put knowledge about “glacial and geophysical deep time into a productive relationship with the modern timescales and methodologies of folklore and environmental humanities.”

More course development and student research awards will be offered for Summer 2022, so stay tuned for future calls. Congratulations to Jessica, Anna, Casey, and Gordon!

New Course Development Grants for Ice & Environmental Justice

Call for Applications

Course Development Grants for New Courses Related to Ice and Environmental Justice in the Pacific Northwest

If you’re thinking about developing a new course related to environmental justice—and particularly if it connects to the Pacific Northwest and to snow, ice, glaciers, or glacier-fed waterways—then consider applying for a new course development grant ($4,500 stipend plus OPE). Three of these grants are available thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

The goal of this larger Mellon “Pacific Northwest Just Futures” grant is to advance research and education on social and environmental justice issues in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia). There are many ways to bring these issues into new courses, and instructors from all disciplines, in all units, and all UO colleges are eligible to apply. Environmental justice courses related to ice could go in many different directions. Arctic residents including in Alaska rely on thinning sea ice for their homelands, hunting, fishing, transportation, cultural identity, and everything. Permafrost thawing is forcing some coastal communities to relocate and affecting vital infrastructure. Shrinking glaciers in Oregon and Washington play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, Tribal rights and treaties, hydropower, alpine recreation, coastal and marine ecosystems, public lands management, livelihoods and economies, identities, and food security.

Proposed new courses could focus on any of these topics and ice types (sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, permafrost, snow), and many others, as long as courses are connected to ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest. A new course in environmental ethics could include substantive new content on the Pacific Northwest and/or the cryosphere, while a new Earth Sciences course on hazards could add an environmental justice component, or a Law School course on water in the Northwest could bring in glaciers that feed those waterways, or an Indigenous environmental studies course could increase new content on environmental hazards and justice in Oregon.

There are three $4,500 course development grants available during the next two years, so depending on the number of funded courses in this round, there may be another call for applications next year.

Eligibility and Priorities

These course development grants are designed to help instructors create new courses. All UO instructors and faculty are eligible—from any unit, discipline, department, or college. Anyone who teaches their own courses can apply. Priority will be given to courses that will likely be taught at the UO more than once, rather than one-time course offerings. Courses that have strong environmental justice, ice, and Pacific Northwest content will also be prioritized over courses with only minimal attention to these topics. Priority will also be given to courses that offer innovative pedagogy and interdisciplinary approaches. Proposed courses must be taught within the next two academic years.

Award Details

The course development grant provides a $4,500 stipend to the instructor and covers the associated OPE. The award will be paid in two equal installments: first, at the outset of course development (for this round, in summer 2021); and, second, at the beginning of the term when the course is first offered.

Application Deadline: May 19, 2021

Application Instructions

To apply, email the following materials to Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu):

  • Cover Letter that provides (1) your contact information, (2) course specifics including proposed course number, title, and expected enrollment; (3) timing of when you will first teach the course (term/year) and frequency of course offering thereafter; (4) course approval status, or steps required for approval, to assure the course can be taught as proposed
  • Course Overview explaining: (1) the course rationale, objectives, and topics; (2) any pedagogical innovations; (3) course plans including potential readings, assignments, topics to cover, etc.; and (4) ways the course addresses ice, environmental justice, and the Pacific Northwest
  • Department/Unit Head Approval: finalists will be asked to have their unit head confirm that the course offering and plan for continued teaching align with unit-level approvals and planning

Questions: For questions about the award and process, contact Mark Carey (carey@uoregon.edu), who runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society and is based in the Clark Honors College and Environmental Studies Program. Funding for these three course development grants comes from his “Ice, Society, and Climate Justice” dimension of the Mellon “Just Futures” grant.

Ice & Environmental Justice Summer Undergraduate Research Awards

Call for Applications

Summer 2021

Ice and Environmental Justice Undergraduate Research Awards

 

Overview

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Mark Carey (Honors College/Environmental Studies Program) is able to offer two $4,000 Summer Research Awards for University of Oregon undergraduate students at any level to design and conduct full-time Summer 2021 humanities-oriented research on topics related to ice, climate, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia).

Environmental justice research on ice could go in many different directions. Arctic residents including in Alaska rely on thinning sea ice for their homelands, hunting, fishing, transportation, cultural identity, and everything. Permafrost thawing is forcing some coastal communities to relocate and affecting vital infrastructure. Shrinking glaciers play a role in farming and irrigation, environmental hazards like outburst floods and avalanches, salmon and fisheries, hydropower, alpine recreation, conservation, coastal and marine ecosystems, water supplies, public lands management, livelihoods, identities, and food security. Proposed research could focus on any of these topics and ice types (sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, permafrost, snow), and many others, as long as it is connected to ice, the humanities, and environmental justice.

The goal of these Research Awards is to help students develop, conduct, and finish a research project. Ideally, the research proposal will be created with guidance from a faculty mentor. However, if you have a project idea, but not a faculty mentor, then contact Professor Carey to help. An exciting component of this Research Award is completion of a final product by the end of Summer 2021. There is flexibility in these final products. Most students will choose to write a research paper. But others may decide to develop a museum exhibit, or an art installation, or a studio project. Options are endless but must be agreed upon with your faculty mentor at the outset, so expectations and goals are transparent.

 

Eligibility Criteria

  • Projects may come from any discipline but should be connected to the humanities, environmental justice, and ice/climate
  • Applicants must be returning to the UO as an enrolled student for Fall 2021
  • Applicants must obtain a commitment from a faculty member to supervise their summer research project (contact Professor Carey if you have a project but not a faculty mentor)
  • Applicants may not be paid to conduct research through other internal UO research support programs during Summer 2021, though they may have academic-year support
  • Applicants must secure research approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) if the research involves work with human subjects

 

Award Expectations

  • Commit full-time effort to conducting research during Summer 2021
  • Maintain regular interactions with the faculty mentor during Summer 2021
  • Complete a research paper or agreed-upon final product (exhibit, studio, art, etc.) by the end of Summer 2021
  • Meet with the other award winner and Professor Carey at least 3 times during the summer
  • Share the results of the research project at the May 2022 UO Undergraduate Symposium
  • Acknowledge the Andrew Mellon Foundation in all work resulting from the Summer 2021 research
  • Notify Professor Carey of any publications, public exhibits, or conference presentations resulting from the research project

 

Award Details

This Research Award provides $4,000 during the Summer of 2021. The award will be paid out in two equal installments, one at the end of Week 5 and the other at the end of the Summer once the final research paper/product has been approved by the faculty mentor and Professor Carey.

Please Note: If you are receiving federal financial aid, this award may affect your financial aid eligibility because the Summer Research Award counts as aid rather than compensation for employment. Students who receive federal aid have a responsibility to understand these federal and UO rules and to report all awards earned to the UO Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

 

Application Procedures

Submit an application with the following components:

  • a cover letter with all your contact information, student ID number, major, GPA, and your faculty mentor name, department, and email address. This cover letter should also include a statement affirming that you meet eligibility requirements and agree to fulfill all award expectations
  • a project description in an approximately one-page single spaced proposal that explains: (a) the justification for the project; (b) the proposed research questions; (c) the expected results; (d) the relationship of the project to ice, humanities, and environmental justice; and (e) your qualifications for this research
  • research plan and timeline, which should also name the type of final product (paper, art installation, etc.) you’ll produce and your plan for completing it during summer
  • a resume
  • a letter of recommendation from your faculty mentor, which should include their commitment to mentor your project during Summer 2021

 

 

Application Deadline: May 7, 2021

 

 

Application Submission

Submit applications to Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

Faculty mentors should also send their letters of support directly to Mark Carey.

 

Questions

Contact Professor Mark Carey at carey@uoregon.edu

 

 

New Postdoc Position in Ice, Society, & Resilience

Ilulissat Icefjord, Aug. 2019. Photo by Mark Carey.

Thanks to a new $156,226 grant from the University of Oregon that Dave Sutherland (Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies) and Mark Carey (Environmental Studies, Honors College) have received from the Resilience Initiative Seed Funding Program, Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation, they are able to fund a new postdoctoral fellowship as part of their collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on “Resilience, ice and society: Probing the timescales of human interactions with cryospheric change.”

Postdoc Description. This University of Oregon funded project aims to explore glacier fluctuations from both a physical science perspective and societal lens. What is the impact of cryospheric change and ice loss on local communities in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska region? How do we reconcile the long-term trends in glacier change with observed short-term variations, and how do the short-term changes affect various social groups differently? To make progress on these questions, this project will develop a more nuanced, time-focused approach to glacier change, examining the impacts of ice change on various marine and land-based ecosystems, as well as analyze how different human communities and individuals are affected by the timing of specific changes in socio-cryospheric systems across the greater Northwest region. The project is jointly led by a physical scientist (Dave Sutherland) and social scientist (Mark Carey), who will both co-mentor the postdoctoral fellow for this integrated, interdisciplinary research.

Position details. This is a two-year position to begin as early as Summer 2020. The salary is $50,004 per year (plus benefits, such as health insurance), with an additional $2,000 per year in research funds provided.

Review of applications will begin on February 17, 2020.

Click here for application instructions and the full position advertisement.

New Research Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Team Teaching

Thanks to a new Williams Council Instructional Grant, Mark Carey will be teaming up with UO oceanographer Dave Sutherland (Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies) and UO literature scholar Casey Shoop (Clark Honors College) to conduct summer 2019 research together in Greenland and to co-teach a Spring 2020 course on “Arctic Icebergs.”  Their project will pilot innovative teaching practices while allowing students to examine how Arctic icebergs move from Greenland fjords to the global imagination. Through new courses, team-taught by these three professors (one each from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities), Arctic icebergs will be used as a case study for teaching about larger environmental issues. This problem-based teaching experiment will incubate first in the Clark Honors College and then scale up for the College of Arts and Sciences to focus on real-world scenarios and collaborative undergraduate research.  Team-teaching on Arctic Icebergs will complement Carey’s ongoing scholarship — including his nearly completed book — on the multifaceted and longstanding human experience with icebergs in the North Atlantic Ocean.