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The food, health and land connection, November 10-11
California physician Dr. Preston Maring will be in Iowa to discuss links between food, health and the environment and shares his passion for local food. Maring is Associate Physician-in-Chief at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland and maintains a part-time obstetrics and gynecology practice. In 2003, he helped start a weekly farmers market at the hospital, a feature now offered at 30 other health care facilities in six states. He has his own blog that has weekly recipes for fresh produce and gets about 50,000 page views each month.
He will speak in Iowa City and Cedar Falls on November 10 and in Ames November 11. His visit is sponsored by the Leopold Center, the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa, and the Center for Health Effects of the Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa. For details, check the Leopold Center web calendar, www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/events.htm.
Questions? Contact Rich Pirog, (515) 294-1854, rspirog@iastate.edu.
Learning from the Floods of 2008,
December 8
The Leopold Center and the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa are hosting a day-long workshop at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center in Ames. "Learning from the Floods of 2008: Practical Strategies for Resilience" will look at what happened as a result of the floodwaters and why, and discuss ways to protect Iowa's farming systems, urban systems and river systems. Register on the conference web site: www.flood.leopold.iastate.edu/
Hypoxia in the Gulf, October 16
The Leopold Center sponsored this conference to look at the latest research on water quality and monitoring in Iowa. Presentations and other information from "Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications and Strategies for Iowa" will be posted on the conference web site as they are available.
Keynote speakers and panelists included Darrell Brown, chief of U.S. EPA Coastal Management Branch; Jerry Schnoor, co-director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa; Joan Iverson Nassauer, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan; Dean Lemke, chief of the Water Resources Bureau of the Iowa Department of Agriculture; Richard Leopold, director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources; and Craig Cox, Midwest vice president of the Environmental Working Group.
Successful workshop
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| Part of the workshop included hands-on instruction at the ISU organic plots. |