Upcoming Events

August 31 - September 6, 2025

Sep

Dark Sky Cooperative’s Quarterly CONNECTIONS

Conference/Seminar

TODAY’s TOPIC: Professional Support for Dark Sky Communities Part 1: Finding common ground, examples from Colorado and Oregon The focus of this session will be on the process of gaining community support, including that of local decision-makers and elected officials, to find common ground regarding the protection and maintenance of dark night skies. Connecting a purpose with the community’s vision, collecting data and using language that is appropriate and meaningful, developing lighting codes that can be followed, and designing activities that improve the public’s awareness of the types of outdoor lighting in their environment are all important steps. Invited speakers include: Hilary Lewkowitz, Director, Destination Development & Sustainability, Colorado Tourism Office, and Program Coordinator, Colorado Dark Sky Certification Mentor Program Katie Payer, Destination Development Contractor, Colorado Tourism Office Dr. Bill Kowalik, Board Chair and founding board member, DarkSky Oregon Michael McKeag, Chapter Director, DarkSky Oregon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Sep

Natural Resources Seminar Series: Jessica Schad, Director of CANRI, USU

Conference/Seminar

Come listen to USU's Jessica Schad as she discusses her research on tracking Utahns' views on key environmental issues using the Utah People and Environment Poll (UPEP). Jessica Schad is the director of the Community and natural Resources Institute and is a professor in the School of Social Sciences.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Sep

QANR Graduate Student Hiking Social

Social/Networking

We will be taking a nice walk/easy hike starting from First Dam. Afterwards, we will be meeting up at The Owl around 6:00/6:30. Come join us and get to know others in our newly merged college. Family, roommates, and friends welcome to join as well! Just be aware that The Owl is 21+.

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | More Info

Sep

EcoLunch

Social/Networking

Ecolunch is a weekly lunch for grad students in the various ecology and natural resources related departments where we host activities, discussions, and workshops. All QANR and Ecology-Center graduate students are invited to attend.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Sep

LAEP Speaker Series: Eckart Lange, Landscape Representation for Communicating Future Environments

Lecture/Readings

Landscape architects and environmental planners are shaping our shared future. A core competence of landscape architects and environmental planners is spatial thinking and visual communication. We create plans and designs of envisioned changes.

These outcomes of analytical and creative processes are shared among cognate disciplines that represent expertise from the natural and built environment generally, as well as within specialist groups, such as fellow landscape architects and environmental planners.

Often, the wider public is required to be included in this communication process because of compulsory participation in decision-making.

Since hundreds of years, landscape architects and environmental planners have used analogue techniques to communicate such plans and designs. Only since recent decades digital technology has become commonplace and visual representations are now ubiquitous. They have become part of our everyday life.

This presentation will give an overview of how we communicate our plans and designs. Including several case studies, it will highlight the limitations and opportunities in landscape representation for engaging with stakeholders.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Fine Arts Visual | More Info

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