Events

Upcoming events

• Weekly Coffee & Chocolate Breaks Every Thursday @ 11:30am
• 3rd-floor break room in Newins-Ziegler
  • Come enjoy a weekly break and re-energize with your fellow graduate students! This is your chance to meet students from other labs. Bring your ideas, questions, and encouragement for your peers in the graduate experience!
• Ugly Sweater Holiday Party & Bake-Off! Join FGSO for a non-denominational holiday party at Shane's house! Cozy up in your ugliest sweater and make merry with your forestry friends! Bonus points for tree related sweaters! Satchel's pizza will be provided, but bring your own adult beverages!
• The party will also include a competition for holiday desserts! Sign up here with your entry: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XPADxAyvs92TwKB0faJy4oDXVSGEpQv6SoapflkNug/edit?usp=sharing
  • Happy Holidays from FGSO!
• High Ropes Course at Lake Wauburg Spring Semester, 2019 (tentative)
  • We are plannin to go out to Lake Wauburg again to do the High Ropes Challenge Course as a group. All graduate students in SFRC are welcome to join us! We'll choose a date, send out the announcement, and start collecting names. There will probably be a limited number of participants, so sign up early!
• SFRC Spring Celebration - March 15th & 16th, 2019
• SFRC Forestry Graduate Student Symposium - March 29th, 2019

Past events

Coffee & Chocolate Fall 2018

First Thursday Happy Hour at The Midnight

Lake Wauburg Challenge Course

Past events

• Great Invader Raider Rally Saturday, January 28, 2017

The Great Invader Raider Rally, formerly, and possibly more popularly, known as the Great Air Potato Round Up, is an annual one day, volunteer-powered ecosystem restoration project, trash clean up and post-event celebration. Organized by the City of Gainesville, it engages over 1,000 volunteers in 25-30 city parks and natural areas across the city. From 9 to 11am, volunteers will remove hundreds of pounds of trash and invasive plants, successfully liberating native ecosystems from invaders! When the morning work is finished, volunteers will gather at Morningside Nature Center between 11am and 1pm for a celebration to honor the volunteers--both from that morning and those who have continually volunteered throughout the year. For more info, see: http://www.cityofgainesville.org/ParksRecreationCulturalAffairs/NaturalResourcesandPrograms/NatureHeritageEvents.aspx

• Ichetucknee Springs Canoe Trip (11/19/16)
  • There are many places to go canoeing and kayaking in Alachua County, but Ichetucknee Springs is a particular gem. The headwaters of the spring are completely enclosed inside Ichetucknee Springs State Park, so the water is very clear and the ecosystem is in great condition. This is a great place to see native plants, birds, and -sometimes -even manatees! We'll be going on the morning of a football game when the river is likely to be less crowded. The van will be doing a pick-up at Newins-Ziegler at 9am and another pick-up at the Starbucks at 43rd Street and 53rd Avenue around 9:15. Total cost for the trip is $10, which covers transportation and boat rental. Bring your own lunch for a picnic afterwards.
• Wood Job! (movie) (11/4/16)
• 5:10pm in Pugh Hall room 170
  • This Japanese movie is a coming-of-age comedy about a young man who impulsively signs up for a year-long training course as a lumberjack. Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi, 2014, 116 minutes. Should be a fun way to get a glimpse of what forestry is like in Japan!

Newins-Zeigler BBQ

• Flatwoods 5k at Austin Cary Forest (10/30/16)
  • This is not an FGSO event, but many grad students may be interested. The Flatwoods 5K is run just after sunrise on the natural, scenic limerock loop road around the Austin Cary Forest. The race is chip timed and the course is accurately measured, with mile markers. There is a water station at halfway, and post-race refreshments. If you register online, the cost is $10 (for the race) plus $10 (if you want a shirt). If you register late in person, the cost is $20 (for the race), and no shirts will be available.
  • The registration page is here: https://runsignup.com/Race/FL/Gainesville/Flatwoods5K
• ARGO's Tropical Aquaculture Lab Tour (10/28/16)
  • The SFRC fisheries grad group, ARGO, arranged a tour of the Tropical Aquaculture Lab in Ruskin. Please let them know if you are interested in attending. Transportation and lunch will be provided. This is a great opportunity to meet other faculty and students that you may not normally interact with! The facility is also pretty amazing!
• Fall Festival for the Environment (10/8/16)
  • Learn about our local ecosystems while enjoying live music and food trucks, win raffle prizes from local businesses, enjoy the fall weather and support the 2017 Great Invader Raider Rally! This may also be a good time to chat with local environmental groups about internships, volunteer opportunities and jobs!
• Introduction to Austin Cary Forest (8/16/16)
  • One of the truly great resources available to SFRC grad students for teaching, research, and extension is Austin Cary Forest, our 2,040 acre forest located northeast of Gainesville on Waldo Road. Before the start of fall term, 2016, we took a trip out there to look at some burn sites and other research areas. Hopefully this will become an annual event for incoming students!