Focus Frostburg

Similar to the 2008 Focus the Nation, Focus Frostburg is a day of learning on sustainability and climate awareness that is open to FSU students, employees, and the community.

On April 21, 2009, 50-minute presentations were scheduled in the Lane University Center on the hour every hour from 8:30am until 4pm. The event wrapped up with a President's Picnic in Chesapeake Dining Hall.

Planning for Focus Frostburg 2010 will begin in fall 2010. For questions or comments about event planning, email us.

Presentations - Some of the presentations listed below include links in PDF format.

8:30 am: Opening remarks

9:00 am:
- Local Mountain Agriculture: Wild Foods, Agroforestry, and Farming
- Environmental Stewardship in the Face of Global Cooling
- Residential Rain Gardens
- The Changing FSU Landscape: Implications for Carbon Sequestration

10:00 am:
- Water Oxidation by Metal Complexes: Storing Solar Energy
- Promoting Green Behavior
- FSU Recycles

11:00 am:
- Working Toward Environmental Justice
- Healing the Land in Fantasy:"Lord of the Rings" to "Princess Mononoke"
- The Aesthetic Value of Natural Environments
- Latest Findings in Climate Science

12:00 pm:
- Conserving Water and Looking and Feeling Great
- Ecological Restoration: FSU's Arboretum
- Sustainability: Tools for Winning Minds and Stimulating Action

1:00 pm:
- Writing about the Environment
- Are Our Outdoor Spaces Safe? Creating a Secure Green Campus
- Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming: The Skeptic's View

2:00 pm:
- Cities, Suburbs, and the Quest for Sustainable Communities
- Tragedy of the Commons Simulation
- Bioterrorism, Human Health, and the Environment

3:00 pm:
- Water Resource Impacts of Natural Gas Production: the Marcellus Shale
- Industry, Ecology, and the Cuyahoga Fire
- China: Environmental Challenges and Opportunities
- Raising Green Children: Further Perspectives