[Plsfaculty] FW: SAVE THE DATE: Oasis Initiative

[Brian Larkins]

From: Jessie Hanna Clark [mailto:jhc at email.arizona.edu] 
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 4:59 PM
Subject: SAVE THE DATE: Oasis Initiative

 

Sonoran Desert Oasis Initiative:     Save the Date!

J.P. Jones III, Dean of the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
and Joaquin Ruiz, Dean of the College of Science, invite you to save the
date of November 15 for a special presentation on a Sonoran Desert Oasis
Initiative.  We have just confirmed grant support for a visit from
representatives of UNESCO's International Traditional Knowledge Institute.
Pietro Laureano and his associates wish to propose a branch of their
Institute and a reconstruction of a New World desert oasis, to be
tentatively located in Tucson and affiliated with the University of Arizona,
Pima County, City of Tucson, and other southern Arizona organizations.  The
Oasis proposal is endorsed by Francesco Bandarin, Director of UNESCO's World
Heritage Centre and Assistant Director-General for Culture.  

The University will host an inaugural event for the Oasis Initiative at 4 pm
on Tuesday, November 15, in the Steward Observatory (Room N210) on campus,
to be followed by a reception.  The Oasis Initiative provides a unique
opportunity to integrate the natural and cultural assets of our area to
develop a world-class institute and associated science tourism attraction in
the heart of our city and the Sonoran Desert. 

Please share this invitation with appropriate members of your organization.
Further details will follow.

Support provided by the UA Water Sustainability Program, the Institute of
the Environment, and the Renewable Energy Network through the Water,
Environment Energy Solutions Program.

 

 Oasis Initiative Organizing Committee:

                                   

J. P. Jones III, Dean, College of Social and Behavior Sciences

Joaquin Ruiz, Dean, College of Science

Suzanne Fish, Arizona State Museum, School of Anthropology

Paul Fish, Arizona State Museum, School of Anthropology

Gary Nabhan, Southwest Center

Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Biosphere2

Lauri MacMillan Johnson, School of Landscape Architecture

Jonathan Mabry, Tucson Historic Preservation, Santa Cruz Valley Heritage
Alliance

Linda Mayro, Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation, Pima
County

Roger Anyon, Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation

Julia Fonseca, Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation

Janos Wilder, Tucson Restaurateur

                                     

 

 

 

 

Jessie Clark

Research Assistant

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Office of the Dean

jhc at email.arizona.edu

 

 

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