Jarvis Summer Field School

National Science Foundation Summer Science Institute...

Field Methods for Environmental Science

Sections for high school early credit and transfer college students

We have been busy creating a new museum based field school here at Jarvis in the East Texas Natural History Collection. Our funding came through rather quickly and unexpectedly to teach this field methods course this summer. We are basing it in Environmental Science courses and practical experience that will produce a poster or perhaps even a publication for students.

Please download and read our brochure by clicking here

Tuition, room and board are covered and even small stipends available to cover the student expenses.

Here is a link to the Poster file - please distribute it, post it and use it to get student interest.

The NSF Summer Science Institute classes run from June 9 - July 18, 2013.

We have four excellent faculty members who will be joining us for this six week course.

Dr. William Godwin     Associate Professor, Curator ETNH, Jarvis Christian College
B.S., Stephen F. Austin State U., PhD, Texas A&M U.

Research: Insects of East Texas, endemic scarab beetles. Facilitating access by a wide variety of re-searchers to unusual habitats of East Texas; managing the East Texas Natural History Collection.

Dr. David Cole      Senior Fisheries Biologist, Cirrus Ecological Solutions

 B.A. Minnesota State U. ; M.S., Ph.D., Utah State U.

Research: All aspects of fish studies related to management of dams in the western U.S. and specifically management of the endangered June Sucker in the Jordan and Provo Rivers, Utah. Electrofishing, telemetry, population estimation.

Ms. Melissa Patterson    Intern, Education Department, Botanical Research Institute of Texas

B.S., Texas State U.; M.S., California State U. Chico; PhD candidate Texas Christian U.

Research: Rare plant conservation; habitat, germination and population genetics of endemic plants. Experience producing field guides to plants and teaching botanical terminology, and construction of dichotomous keys. Field guides are a valuable resource for research scien-tists and students. Plant identification is an important job skill in many environmental science professions.

Ms. Antoinesha Hollman    
Instructor, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Jackson State
U. Mississippi. B.S., M.S .Jackson State.

Research: Bioinformatics data management for biological systems and modeling in microbiology.

Dr. Alice Hempel    Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD

Research: Botany, specifically plants of arid lands and those adapted to unusual soil conditions. Plants of saline prairies in eastern Texas are especially interesting because of their endemism and potential for phyto-remediation projects repairing industrial sites.

The focus of the Summer Field school will be the unusual saline prairies and their associated wetlands in Wood County.

We will have a whole host of our East Texas Natural History Collection Research Associates who will come  to give talks, conduct workshops or collect data on their research projects. Students will be offered the chance to assist and learn as a part of the program.

Please send a link to any students you know who desire credit/experience in these fields. The program offers
6 hours college credit in ENVR 1401 and BIOL 4491 for early admission high school (in separate cohort)
Or currently enrolled college students (Junior - Senior standing) who can transfer credit back home.

You can download the application form here. Application Form - Download

Please contact:
Dr. William Godwin

Curator, East Texas Natural History Collection

Director of NSF Summer Science Institute

Jarvis Christian College

Hawkins, Texas

936-556-2289
wgodwin@jarvis.edu

JARVIS HOSTS SCIENCE CONFERENCE

THE RARE HABITATS OF EAST TEXAS
May 16-17-18, 2013

The East Texas Natural History Collection at Jarvis Christian College will host the Texas/Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria and special conference on the Saline Prairies of East Texas.

Presentations in Meyer Auditorium, May 17 beginning at 8am.

Featured Speakers will include:

Dr. Jason Singhurst, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will present up-to-date information on rare, endangered and threatened plants of this unusual habitat.

Dr. Kim Norton, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, will talk about the rare flora of glades and how they relate to salines.

Dr. Craig Rudolph, Jarvis Research Associate and US Forest Service endangered species biologist, will talk about saline springs of U.S. National Forests and review the famous Esteline Salt Spring fauna of crabs and barnacles.

Dr. William Godwin, East Texas Natural History Collection, will update us on the distribution of naturally saline habitats and the discovery of several noteworthy new prairies.

Conference participants will have special access to privately owned sites on May 16 and 18 including Grand Saline Morton Salt mine, Grand Saline salt marshes and flats, Steen Saline in Smith County and Joy Global Prairie in Gregg County.

Registration $120, Friday talks only $15. Special accommodations made for volunteer note-takers on the field trips and or students.














Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu or jason.singhurst@tpwd.state.tx.us

DOWNLOAD SECTION:

Please Click HERE to download the Conference Schedule. It is in a Word.docX format.

To download a Registration Form Please Click HERE

To Download the Poster - Click HERE

Please download the Calendar files to add these events to your digital Calendaring System.
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Spring 2013 events at the ETNHC

Here is the 2013 Spring Calendar
for the East Texas Natural History Collection at Jarvis Christian College - Hawkins Texas.

FEBRUARY:

JARVIS WRITERS GUILD

Feb 28 (Thursday) 3pm ETNH Gallery Room 101 Frost Hall. Jarvis Writers Guild. Meeting to share experiences and resources for writing. Remarks by Dr. Henry Hood on environmental writers, centered on Rachel Carson, author of “Silent Spring”. Brief remarks by Dr. William Godwin on biologist/author Daniel Lay and his impact on the literature of conservation in Texas. The gallery currently has Mr. Lay's wildlife paintings on display through March.
Members of the community who are interested in the synergy and enthusiasm gained by associating with other writers are encouraged to attend.

Contact Dr. Anne Christine-Hoff. ahoff@jarvis.edu
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MARCH: 

WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

March 8 (Friday) 2pm. ETNH Conference Room 101 Frost Hall. Wood County Historical Society will meet in the ETNH museum to view historical and cultural holdings. These range from mid-19th century East Texas pottery to extensive land records, to the entire collection of photographs by May Stith, Mineola commercial photographer from 1935 to 1950's. This collection includes several photos of Jarvis operations in the 1930's.

Contact Lou Mallory of the Wood County Historical Society gmallory@suddenlink.net
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 GOODBYE TO THE PAINTINGS OF DANIEL LAY - TEXAS' FIRST ECOLOGIST

March 14 (Thursday) 6pm ETNH Gallery Room 101 Frost Hall. Museums and galleries always have openings. We are instituting the closing because many people miss the opening and then the exhibits seem to fade away. Well this is your last chance. Special presentation...Goodbye to the Art of Daniel Lay. Since October, Jarvis Christian College has hosted this exhibit of paintings and other art by Texas' first and most influential wildlife biologist. They will be taken down and replaced with the photographs of Mr. Woodrow Starkey in late March. Come see paintings by the man who nominated the first endangered species in Texas, who assisted Rachel Carson with "Silent Spring", who re-introduced beavers back into East Texas in 1939....essentially the person who more than any other, has had a hand in forming the woods, water and wildlife of Texas over 80 years of work. Special talk on the significance of this work by Dr. William Godwin and Dr. Craig Rudolph, US Forest Service.

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu
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A LAND OF DEEPEST SHADE: PHOTOGRAPHY BY WOODROW STARKEY

March 21 (Thursday) 6pm ETNH Gallery Room 101 Frost Hall. Opening of Woodrow Starkey’s large format photographs of rare and beautiful habitats in Wood County; Soutendijk Bog, Steen Saline, Edmore Creek Overcup Woods, Virgin Bottomlands along the Lake Fork Creek. Refreshments served. Remarks by Mr. Starkey himself at 7pm.

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu
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THE GLADDEST THINGS: BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION BY BART SOUTENDIJK

March 21 (Thursday) 6pm ETNH Gallery Room 101 Frost Hall. Opening of Bart Soutendijk’s exhibit of Wood County wildflowers. Bart Soutendijk’s journey has taken him from childhood in Holland to the edge of Soutendijk’s bog near Hainesville, in Wood County. He and wife Liz live near Jarvis with the northern-most pitcherplant bog in Texas in their front yard. Their bog with its rare carnivorous plants, is one of the most remarkable natural features of the area and Bart has made a beautiful record of its diversity with his botanical images. Soutendijk’s art is concurrently on display in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and his illustrations have been used by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in their series of floras. Soutendijk will be on hand to discuss his artistic methods.

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu
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MUSEUM OPEN HOUSE FOR JARVIS FOUNDERS DAY

March 23 (Saturday) Frost Hall. 9am to 4pm. Open House for East Texas Natural History Collection during Jarvis Christian College Founders Day. The collection will feature special exhibits of East Texas nature photography (including the Jarvis nature trail) by Woodrow Starkey. Mr. Starkey will be on hand to discuss his work. Other exhibits from the general collections include fishes of East Texas by Jarvis student Mr. Idris Fahmi, Butterflies and moths of East Texas by Jarvis Research Associates Robert Nuelle, Jr. and Robert Nuelle, III.

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu
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APRIL:

FIELDWORK ON REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF EAST TEXAS

April 6 (Saturday) 11am to 4pm. On the grounds of the ETNH and Goodwin Nature Trail/wetland boardwalk. Herpetology Field Work...the Reptiles and Amphibians of East Texas. The East Texas Natural History Collection at Jarvis Christian College will host the herpetology field class of Dr. Travis LaDuc, UT Austin. Members of the public are welcome to see the results of the class fieldwork collecting the snakes, lizards, salamanders, sirens, frogs, toads and turtles of our region.

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu
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LUNA MOTHS, JEWELS OF THE EAST TEXAS WOODS

April 12 (Friday) (dependent on weather) 8pm-midnight. Goodwin Nature Trail and wetland boardwalk.  Jarvis Research Associates, Robert Nuelle, Jr. and Robert Nuelle, III will set-up mercury vapor lights at the middle of the nature trail boardwalk and show interested persons the most magnificent member of our lepidopterous fauna...the Luna Moth...Actias luna. Come prepared to walk in comfort on the boardwalk. Other moths and insects of the area will also be abundantly present. We may also see the Polyphemus moth and others. Please bring flashlight, dark clothing and ear protection recommended. A scarf or ear muffs will be handy as there will be large numbers of flying insects attracted to the bright lights.

Read about our last time doing this at Deborah Paris’ blog http://lennoxwoods.blogspot.com

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu
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LUNA MOTHS, JEWELS OF THE EAST TEXAS WOODS

April 13 (Saturday) (dependent on weather) 8pm-midnight. Mineola Nature Preserve. Jarvis Research Associates, Robert Nuelle, Jr. and Robert Nuelle, III will set-up mercury vapor lights and show interested persons the most magnificent member of our lepidopterous fauna...the Luna Moth...Actias luna. Come prepared to walk in the dark. Other moths and insects of the area will also be abundantly present. We may see the Polyphemus moth and others. Please bring flashlight, dark clothing and ear protection recommended. A scarf or ear muffs will be handy as there will be large numbers of flying insects attracted to the bright lights.

Read about our last time doing this at Deborah Paris’ blog http://lennoxwoods.blogspot.com (dependent on weather)

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu

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MAY

JARVIS HOSTS SCIENCE CONFERENCE ON RARE HABITATS OF EAST TEXAS

May 16-17-18 The East Texas Natural History Collection at Jarvis Christian College will host the Texas/Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria and special conference on the Saline Prairies of East Texas. Presentations in Meyer Auditorium, May 17 beginning at 8am. Dr. Jason Singhurst, TPWD, will present up-to-date information on rare, endangered and threatened plants of this unusual habitat. Dr. Kim Norton, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, will talk about the rare flora of glades and how they relate to salines. Dr. Craig Rudolph, Jarvis Research Associate and US Forest Service endangered species biologist, will talk about saline springs of U.S. National Forests and review the famous Esteline Salt Spring fauna of crabs and barnacles. Dr. William Godwin, East Texas Natural History Collection, will update us on the distribution of naturally saline habitats and the discovery of several noteworthy new prairies. Conference participants will have special access to privately owned sites on May 16 and 18 including Grand Saline Morton Salt mine, Grand Saline salt marshes and flats, Steen Saline in Smith County and Joy Global Prairie in Gregg County.

Registration $120, Friday talks only $15. Special accommodations made for volunteer note-takers on the field trips and or students.

Contact Dr. William Godwin wgodwin@jarvis.edu or jason.singhurst@tpwd.state.tx.us

Calendar: Right-Click here to Download 

Please download the Calendar files to add these events to your digital Calendaring System.