[SEMCO] Undergraduate Students to Present Research Results at MBL Symposium, December 18

[Gina Hebert]

Undergraduate Students to Present Environmental Science Research Results at MBL Symposium , December 18 

The public is invited to attend a symposium featuring the research results of 23 undergraduate students who are participating in the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Semester in Environmental Sciences (SES) program. The symposium will be held from 8:15 AM to 4:00 PM on Friday, December 18 in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole. 

Students will discuss their independent research in 15-minute presentations. Research topics with a local focus include a study of the migration of pharmaceuticals through the groundwater and soils of Cape Cod, the impact of oysters on the fate of nitrogen inputs to estuarine sediments, and the performance of permeable barriers in the removal of nitrogen from contaminated ground water. A full schedule can be found at mbl.edu/events/2015-ses-symposium/ 

Now in its nineteenth year, the SES program is designed to immerse undergraduate students in an intensive semester of hands-on ecological science. MBL scientists serve as faculty for the program and teach not only the fundamentals of ecosystems science, but discuss their current research, which touches on important issues of global change. 

In addition to coursework, students spend more than 20 hours each week in the lab and field learning state-of-the-art techniques for measuring biogeochemical processes in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and participate in a science-writing seminar designed to illustrate how the results of scientific investigations can be effectively transmitted to the public. 

More than 50 colleges participating in the MBL consortium in Environmental Science have approved SES for credit. Students from non-affiliated colleges and universities receive credit through Brown University, with which the MBL is affiliated in other academic programs. 

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The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery and improving the human condition through research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago. 


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Gina Hebert 
Senior Publicist / Development Communications 
Marine Biological Laboratory 
7 MBL Street 
Woods Hole, MA 02543 
Tel: 508-289-7725 
Fax: 508-289-7934 
www.mbl.edu | @MBLScience | blog.mbl.edu 

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