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Bowdoin Daily Sun A daily look at Bowdoin and the world Home Whispering Pines Alumni Faculty Students Sports Arts & Culture A Bowdoin Investigation: Can a Maine Marsh Survive Rising Seas? August 15, 2017 By Doug Cook Leave a Comment As Satya Kent ’19 steers a small motor boat down a narrow channel in Maine’s largest marsh in Scarborough, her passenger, environmental scientist Peter Lea, points to the muddy banks rising up steeply on either side. The high banks look something like a cross-section sliced from a chocolate lover’s multi-layer cake: they have clear strata of deep-brown mud. Those are essentially former editions of the salt marsh as it has been growing and keeping pace with sea level rise,” explained Lea, an associate professor of earth and oceanographic science at Bowdoin. The bottom visible layers were likely formed 1,000 to 2,000 years ago. Read the full story on Bowdoin News. Filed Under: Bowdoin , Environment , Students ‘Maine’s Most Unique Geological Exhibit’ To Honor Professor Arthur M. Hussey August 15, 2017 By Doug Cook 1 Comment The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum rock garden in Bethel formally opens August 18. The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum in Bethel is dedicating a new rock garden to former Bowdoin geology professor Arthur M. Hussey. Described by the museum as Maine’s most most unique geological exhibit,” the garden officially opens at 6 p.m., Friday August 18, 2017, and will feature twenty-two truly amazing geological specimens from around the state (and one mammoth specimen from outer space!)” Hussey taught at Bowdoin for thirty-nine years and died last year. He was 85. Read more in Bowdoin News. Filed Under: Bowdoin , Faculty , Maine , Science & Technology Jeff Joseph ’19 Joins Harvard Cancer Research Project August 14, 2017 By Doug Cook Leave a Comment Jeff Joseph ’19 at Harvard this summer A teen went from playing soccer in the streets of a third-world country to attending a research program at Harvard in a seven-year span,” Jeff Joseph wrote in his application last winter for one of Bowdoin’s summertime fellowships . It certainly helped that as a boy growing up in Haiti, Joseph nurtured a passion for mathematics along with a love of soccer. Joseph moved from Haiti to Florida when he was 12 and kept up both interests, eventually landing at Bowdoin. In the spring, he received notice that he had won a funded internship grant — the Peter Buck Student Internship Fund — from Bowdoin Career Planning to do biostatistics and epidemiology research at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health this summer. Read the full story in Bowdoin News. Filed Under: Bowdoin , Health , Science & Technology , Students Michael Mascia ’93 Named Board President of Global Conservation Group August 14, 2017 By Doug Cook Leave a Comment Michael Mascia, the senior director of social science for the nonprofit Conservation International, has been named board president for the Society for Conservation Biology, the field’s pre-eminent professional society. Mascia graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and European studies from Bowdoin in 1993, and earned a Ph.D. from Duke University in environmental politics and policy in 2000. In a recently published Q&A , Mascia noted, We live on a human-dominated planet. People are defining what the future will look like, for better or for worse. Thus, conservation is an inherently social process with social implications. It’s not just what we conserve but how we conserve it that matters.” Read more in Bowdoin News. 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