Earth Systems Community

Earth Systems Community The Earth Systems Program is an interdisciplinary environmental science major and coterminal masters program.

Earth Systems website: https://earthsystems.stanford.edu/

Earth Systems LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3683436&trk=my_groups-b-grp-v

Earth Systems wiki: http://earthsystems.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Earth Systems Textbook Exchange: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsoN6UV2_yP2dDlNeE81NkJoc3dFem82M3lvbVNyTnc&usp=sharing

🌎 An Earth Systems Program Event 🌎Everyone is welcome to attend the Earth Systems Honors & Masters Thesis Symposium. 🎉WH...
05/29/2026

🌎 An Earth Systems Program Event 🌎

Everyone is welcome to attend the Earth Systems Honors & Masters Thesis Symposium. 🎉

WHEN: Wednesday, June 3rd
TIME: 1:30 - 5pm
LOCATION: Y2E2, room 299
HYBRID OPTION Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/esthesis26

Come for one or all presentations. Light snacks will be provided.

"The Earth Systems Senior Capstone and Reflection, required of all seniors, provides students with opportunities to synthesize and reflect on their learning in the major. Students participate in guided career development and planning activities and initiate work on an independent or group capstone project related to an Earth Systems problem or question of interest. In addition, students learn and apply principles of effective oral communication through developing and giving a formal presentation on their internship. Students must also take EARTHSYS 210P, Earth Systems Capstone Project, in the quarter following the Senior Capstone and Reflection Course.

(EarthSys210P) Students work independently or in groups to complete their Senior Capstone Projects. They will participate in regular advising meetings with the instructor(s), and will give a final presentation on their projects at the end of the quarter in a special Earth Systems symposium."

🌎 An Earth Systems Program Event 🌎Everyone is welcome to attend the EarthSys149/249 Wild Writing class public reading f...
05/29/2026

🌎 An Earth Systems Program Event 🌎

Everyone is welcome to attend the EarthSys149/249 Wild Writing class public reading from enrolled students. 🎉

DATE: Wednesday, June 3rd
TIME: 9:30-11:20am
LOCATION: O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
555 Fremont Rd.
Stanford, CA 94305

Light snacks will be provided.

"What is the wild? What is our relationship to nature, and why does this relationship matter? We will interrogate these questions through the work of influential, diverse, primarily American environmental writers who have given voice to many ways of knowing the wonder, fragility, complexity, and power of the natural world and have inspired readers to act on behalf of social-environmental causes. This course centers the work of diverse voices, including Indigenous, Black, and Chicana writers, enabling us to consider some of the many ways that people have understood and experienced nature throughout history and the relevance of these manifold ways of knowing to our conceptualizations of nature today. Students will develop their responses to the question of what is the wild and why it matters through a series of synchronous and asynchronous in-the-field writing exercises that integrate personal narrative and environmental scholarship, culminating in a ~3000-word narrative nonfiction essay. This course will provide students with knowledge, tools, experience, and skills that will empower them to become more persuasive environmental storytellers and advocates."

🌎 An Earth Systems Program Event 🌎Everyone is welcome to attend the Earth Systems Senior Capstone Symposium. 🎉WHEN: Mond...
05/29/2026

🌎 An Earth Systems Program Event 🌎

Everyone is welcome to attend the Earth Systems Senior Capstone Symposium. 🎉

WHEN: Monday, June 1st
TIME: 11-3pm
LOCATION: Y2E2, room 299

Come for one or all presentations. Light snacks will be provided.

"The Capstone project provides an opportunity for students to build new skills, combine their interests in a way they haven't yet done at Stanford, work with community partners, and create a tangible deliverable."

Are you interested in water justice, urban development, community-based research, or financing projects in Africa?Join u...
05/21/2026

Are you interested in water justice, urban development, community-based research, or financing projects in Africa?

Join us on Friday, May 29, 2026, as we discuss these topics with Professor Charisma Acey. Lunch will begin at 1pm, followed by a lecture at 2:30pm in Huang 305.

RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/57gs5TMRDkmb32rV7

Dr. Charisma Acey is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. Her teaching, research, and service-learning courses have focused on addressing barriers to sustainable development. She has studied interactions between humans and the environment in urban spaces around the world, with a focus on environmental justice and the sustainability of local and regional food systems. Her work also covers equitable participation in local governance and development, with an emphasis on how communities finance public water and sanitation services sustainably.

🌎 🎉Earth Systems Program Event 🎉 🌎Tlakilte! Good evening! I hope your hearts are well, I am writing to invite you all to...
05/15/2026

🌎 🎉Earth Systems Program Event 🎉 🌎

Tlakilte! Good evening!

I hope your hearts are well, I am writing to invite you all to …

Fronds: Environmental Anthology’s Volume 4
Launch Party!!!

Time: 6 - 8pm

Location: O’odonohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
(555 Fremont Rd, Stanford, CA 94305)

Date: Wednesday May 20, 2026

About Fronds:

Fronds is a Stanford community based environmental anthology. We are dedicated to uplifting the community’s voice and fighting for environmental justice through storytelling. Our storytelling encompasses essays, poems, fiction, photographs, drawings and more!

Environmental justice is a key value of our work. We define environmental justice (EJ) broadly, but at its core we mean a positive movement for actions and policies that fight environmental racism and uplift the voices of historically marginalized groups. Environmental stories take place everywhere and anywhere: where we work, play, live, sleep, eat, and rest. Works that engage with racial and labor justice are environmental justice, too.

Our definition of "Stanford community” is very broad. We welcome people who live nearby, alumni recent and old, current students, staff, faculty, postdocs, and more. The goal is to create a publication that demonstrates the power of environmental storytelling to advance just and sustainable futures by showcasing creative and visionary ways to imagine, intervene, witness, transform and rebuild a more just world.

Read this volume’s Blurb:

"Welcome to the 2026 edition of Fronds, an anthology produced by the Environmental Storytellers Collective. In our fourth volume, you’ll find poems, photographs, art, shortstories, essays, and so much more from 27 contributors — all interrogating what it means to live in today’s age of environmental crisis. From every corner of the Stanford community, they ask: how does our environment shape us? And how can we be kinder in shaping it, in turn?”

Hope to see you there! Please reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions or concerns!

Take care,
Malinalli M. Diaz and Tanvi D. Gupta

🌍 DEADLINE TODAY, 5/12/26 @ 11:59pm 🌍On behalf of the Earth Systems Program, we're excited to invite you to apply for th...
05/12/2026

🌍 DEADLINE TODAY, 5/12/26 @ 11:59pm 🌍

On behalf of the Earth Systems Program, we're excited to invite you to apply for the EARTHSYS 10 Teaching Assistant positions for Fall 2026-27!

This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with an amazing teaching team, inspire the next generation of Earth Systems students, and make a meaningful contribution to Stanford’s educational mission.

Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, May 12th

The full role description is available here:
ES10 TA Job Description
Application Materials linked here:
ES10 TA Application Form
ES10 TA Recommendation Form

We’re excited to see your applications! Please reach out to me or Anneli Chow if you have any questions.

Ishrita Pol: [email protected]

Anneli Chow: [email protected]

🌎 Hosted by Haas & Valley Verde🌎 🌱🌱 HAPPENING TOMORROW - WED, 5/13 🌱🌱Come by the Haas Center this Wednesday from 3:00pm-...
05/12/2026

🌎 Hosted by Haas & Valley Verde🌎

🌱🌱 HAPPENING TOMORROW - WED, 5/13 🌱🌱

Come by the Haas Center this Wednesday from 3:00pm-4:00pm for a midterm study break to make microseed kits and eat Chick-fil-a! These are small grow at home kits allowing people to easily grow fresh, nutritious greens indoors. We are supporting Valley Verde and their mission to fight food insecurity while advancing food justice and community food sovereignty.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSel-sxz5sC7_KkGf7eTD-cXw5oKTEYQJwPAHZWuaR0yK51Z6A/viewform

🌎 Sponsored by: Stanford Global Health, Haas Center, Center for Human Rights/International Justice, Language Center Cent...
05/12/2026

🌎 Sponsored by: Stanford Global Health, Haas Center, Center for Human Rights/International Justice, Language Center Center for Latin American Studies 🌎

Join us for a community barbecue for Stanford affiliates interested in immigrants, refugees, and other displaced people. This is a space for everyone to connect, learn from each other, and share resources - and enjoy delicious food! This is a collaboration from the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Haas Center for Public Service, Center for Human Rights and Immigration Justice, Language Center, and Center for Latin American Studies.

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026
Time: 12:00-2:00 pm (PT)
Location: Lake Lagunita (approximate address: 300 Lane L, Stanford)

For questions, please email Vivian Brates and FATB: [email protected]
[email protected]

Please RSVP so we can get enough food for all!
👉 Link:

🌎 Hosted by Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma 🌎Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)...
05/12/2026

🌎 Hosted by Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma 🌎

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) Lecture

"People-Centered Conservation: Now More than Ever"
Secretary Wade Crowfoot
California Natural Resources Agency
Wednesday May 20, 2026
3:30 - 4:00 PM Reception at Sun Field Station
4:00 - 5:00 PM Lecture and Q&A

All events in the JRBP ('O'O) Lecture Series are free and open to the public.
Speaker bio: Wade Crowfoot serves as California’s Natural Resources Secretary, leading efforts to conserve California’s environment and natural resources as a member of Governor Newsom’s cabinet since 2019. Secretary Crowfoot oversees an agency of over 25,000 employees spread across 26 departments, commissions, and conservancies. His agency is charged with stewarding California’s forests and natural lands, rivers and water supplies, coast and ocean. It also protects natural places, wildlife and biodiversity, and helps direct the state’s world-leading clean energy transition.

Secretary Crowfoot is leading efforts to achieve Governor Newsom’s ambitious environmental vision, including a commitment to conserve 30 percent of California’s land and coastal waters by 2030. He oversees billions of dollars of public investment to protect people and natural places from climate change impacts, and has led efforts to navigate California’s record-breaking droughts, floods, and wildfires. Secretary Crowfoot has also initiated a new era of partnerships with California Native American Tribes and is shifting how the agency operates to better support all California residents and communities.

Link to the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) Event Page: https://jrbp.stanford.edu/events/secretary-wade-crowfoot-people-centered-conservation-now-more-ever

Recordings of events are available by speaker agreement and as funds allow.

🌎Co-organized by VPA Interdisciplinary Arts Programs ( https://arts.stanford.edu/learn/interdisciplinary/?utm_source=Art...
05/08/2026

🌎Co-organized by VPA Interdisciplinary Arts Programs ( https://arts.stanford.edu/learn/interdisciplinary/?utm_source=Arts+at+Stanford&utm_campaign=4ac2d7f6e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f71855044a-4ac2d7f6e7-311164865 ) and the Cantor Arts Center ( https://museum.stanford.edu/?utm_source=Arts+at+Stanford&utm_campaign=4ac2d7f6e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f71855044a-4ac2d7f6e7-311164865 ) 🌎

Hello, Stanford Interdisciplinary Arts Community,

Spring arrives much the same, as always. Life feels like the folds of a curtain, holding different shades and depths within them. Some of us are rushing forward; others briefly lose track of time in the evening breeze.

Amid the rush of everyday life, we can still lie on the grass in the spring sunlight and pretend we have disappeared from the world, leaving time out to dry beneath the sun. Between the shadows of trees and the sound of birdsong, we can feel the warmth of our breathing, and in the movement of the seasons, come to see ourselves and others anew.

Today we want to highlight a campus event perfect for spring: the InterPlay salon, co-organized by Stanford VPA Interdisciplinary Arts Programs and the Cantor Arts Center. If you’ve been looking for new creative directions lately, or simply want to refresh your mind a little, come spend an evening in this interdisciplinary salon full of inspiration and unexpected encounters.

This edition features theater director Michael Rau, whose work explores AI and digital media performance; art historian Patrick R. Crowley, whose research focuses on Roman ghosts, portraiture, and media archaeology; filmmaker and educator E’jaaz A. Mason, who works on community-based environmental storytelling; and artist Kerri Conlon, whose large-scale sculptural installations explore identity and the built environment. Let your imagination move freely through a playground of different disciplines.

To learn more: https://thethirdplace.is/event/InterPlay_May?utm_source=Arts+at+Stanford&utm_campaign=4ac2d7f6e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f71855044a-4ac2d7f6e7-311164865

To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event. For questions, please contact [email protected] or Christina Linden, [email protected].

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