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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi all:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Welcome to spring semester! <span style="color:black">
CSU Stanislaus is celebrating Earth Day with an entire week of activities, April 20-24. This includes our feature speaker, Mark Arax, author of the book,
<i>The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water Across California</i> on Wednesday April 22, 6-8 PM, along with many other activities.
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">We are also excited to be organizing a campus-wide afternoon of Climate Action Talks (and other Activities) for Monday April 20, 12-5 (MSR 130).</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">We are inviting all members of the campus community--students, faculty, and staff--to participate in this multi-disciplinary lecture series</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> focused on the
climate crisis. We would like these presentations to focus on California and the Central Valley, and to include a challenge and solution. All topics and all disciplines are welcome, from Art to Zoology. These will be 5 minute ‘lightning talks”, highly focused
PowerPoint presentations. <span style="color:black">Please consider giving a talk or having your students give a talk. This could be focused on research, teaching, or other.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">See website below for ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://app.cerkl.com/org/story.php?id=8124898"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">https://app.cerkl.com/org/story.php?id=8124898</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">If you have any questions or would like to discuss a possible presentation topic, please email me:
</span><a href="mailto:JSankey@csustan.edu"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">JSankey@csustan.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Please send your PowerPoint slides (5 slides max), saved as a pdf file to Julia Sankey at
</span><a href="mailto:Jsankey@csustan.edu"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Jsankey@csustan.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> by midnight Wednesday
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">April 1</span>. Presenters will be contacted by Friday
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">April 10</span> with a program, listing the order of the presentations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Please pass this on to other interested people. (Note, if you are non-CSUS, consider this your invitation to participate and present</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thanks for participating and looking forward to this event!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Julia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julia T. Sankey, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor, Paleobiology/Geology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">California State University, Stanislaus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One University Circle; Turlock, CA 95382<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">209-667-3090; <a href="mailto:JSankey@csustan.edu">JSankey@csustan.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey">https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New Book-The Giant Spike-toothed Salmon:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0978940490/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me">https://www.amazon.com/dp/0978940490/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me</a>=<o:p></o:p></p>
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