Field House Museum

is Middlebury’s Virtual Sports Museum. The exhibits on this site were generated by students in a Winter 2013 course, “Designing a Field House Museum,” in collaboration with faculty, archivists, athletic administrators, and representatives of Sasaki Associates, the architectural firm charged with designing the new Field House. Each exhibit offers a thematic approach to Middlebury sports history. A separate exhibit features interviews with Middlebury coaches and administrators. Finally, we have created a timeline of Middlebury athletics.  Please feel free to comment on any of the exhibits, or contact us directly.

 

People Holly Allen, Assistant Professor of American Studies Students in WT2013 AMST1007 class

Related Links http://sites.middlebury.edu/fieldhousemuseum/

In Spring 2011, nine students enrolled in FMMC 285 Sustainable Television: Producing Environmental Media, collaborating to produce a 50-minute television program on environmental issues. Watch the entire episode below, or scroll down for individual segments:

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Middlebury College has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2016. As the largest private landowner in Addison County, there is tremendous potential for land management practices to contribute to the goal of carbon neutrality. As part of an effort to understand how carbon sequestration varies among the different forest types on College-owned lands, we monitored carbon uptake in the Battell Research Forest, an old-growth hemlock forest in East Middleury, VT. As expected for an old-growth forest, the Battell Research Forest contains substantial pools of carbon in live and dead biomass. The size of the woody debris pool was substantially larger at the Battell Research Forest than in secondary forests at Breadloaf. We conclude our presentation with a proposal for how to implement an ongoing carbon monitoring protocol on College-owned forest lands.

People Sama Winder Meghan Blumstein Elizabeth Davis Max Odland Lauren Sanchez Oliver Weisser Researchers Andrea Lloyd Sponsor & Professor of Biology

Related Links Multi-Cohort Management Project Carbon Neutrality at Middlebury College United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 2011. Kyoto Protocol. MiddLab: Changes in the leaf area index (LAI) due to ice storm damage at Harvard Forest

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Team Middlebury College has earned the opportunity to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, a competition which challenges students from around the world to design and build 100% solar-powered homes. In September 2011, our student-led team will be one of 20 finalists to erect a complete, fully-functioning, net zero-energy home on the National Mall in Washington D.C., facing competitors like Team China and Team California. The competition is a chance for our team to redefine the future of residential energy use and home design, and to educate large audiences about sustainable living. It is also an opportunity for students studying different disciplines to come together, work as a team, and gain real life experience that will prove invaluable when entering the job market. Currently, our team is comprised of more than 80 students from 20 different majors. We tackle challenges from how to use computer modeling to optimize a home’s energy system to how to educate the Middlebury community about green building. At the end of March, we began constructing our vision of the New England farmhouse, Self-Reliance, which is designed for a Vermont family of four. It features a green wall and ample public living space, as well as locally sources, environmentally friendly materials.

People Spring Symposium Presenters Benjamin Brown Chester Curme Astrid Schanz-Garbassi Melissa Segil Presenters Faculty Advisors Andrea Murray Architecture Faculty Advisor & Visiting Lecturer in Architecture, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP Ashar Nelson Construction Faculty Advisor & Visiting Asst. Professor of Architecture

Related Links Middlebury College Solar Decathlon Team Official Web Site Project on MiddSTART Facebook Page Follow the team on Twitter Flickr Stream YouTube Channel National Competition U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon YouTube Channel

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What is the state of urban industrial land use in Russia today? Why did the 2001 Land Code reforms fail, and what is more, why does successful reform have yet to be instated? What are the economic effects of ineffective land reform in Russia, and are there legal or other effects, as well? Most importantly, which amendments need to be considered in order to create effective Russian land policy?

People Casey Mahoney & Jessica Stevens Researchers William Pyle Associate Professor of Economics and Project Sponsor

Related Links “The land question” Belykh, Anton. “Surveyor” Gorelik, Olga. “Changing land into its electronic form” “Land cadaver” “Land is looking for an owner” Vasil’eva, Yuliya. “Perpetual land – for three years”

Downloads View the full poster. More resources, with descriptions are collected on our project blog.

People Scott Zolkos Researcher Ray Coish Professor of Geology and Research Advisor

Related Links Fiske, R.S., Rose, T.R., Swanson, D.A., Champion, D.E., McGeehin, J.P. 2009. Kulanaokuaiki Tephra (ca. A.D. 400-1000): Newly recognized evidence for highly explosive eruptions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai’i. GSA Bulletin, vol. 121 no.5/6, pages 712-728. Swanson, D.A., and Christiansen, R.L. 1973. Tragic Base Surge in 1790 at Kilauea Volcano. Geology, 1:83-86. Undergraduate Research

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For this project I returned to Old Providence for almost a month over J-term with a Garmin GPS to ground-truth information I had acquired from CORALINA (the government-sponsored Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina) and to create my own more accurate dataset. I recorded data for all of the roads, dirt roads, sidewalks and trails on the island, as well as important waypoints, and compiled a map of this information, populated areas, the biosphere reserve, and English nomenclature—which I fact-checked with native islanders.

People Alison DeGraff Cartographer and Researcher

Related Links Old Providence and Santa Catalina Map Old Providence and Santa Catalina Brochure

Downloads DeGraff, Old Providence Polylines, Waypoints, and Nomenclature DeGraff, Old Providence Hillshade CORALINA, Old Providence Contour Lines, Gullies, and Populated Areas CORALINA, Old Providence Biosphere Reserve

One of the presenters for TEDxMonterey was Kelley Calvert, a MIIS alumna and faculty member. Kelley spent the summer of 2009 on a cross-country road trip exploring the nation for signs of hope and change. This was no ordinary journey; she traveled via a twenty-year-old retrofitted biodiesel Jetta. This adventure has inspired her book, Hope Walks into a Bar Looking for Change, a fast-moving tale on the open road that attempts to learn if hope can emerge from change. The cross-country journey and the process of documenting her experience inspired her TEDxMonterey talk where she encouraged participants to add their hope to her online map.

People Kelley Calvert Author, Assistant Professor & Writing Center Director Lynn McDonald Postgraduate Fellow in the Teaching & Learning Collaborative

Related Links TEDxMonterey Conference Interactive Hope Map

Downloads Read Chapters from Hope Walks into a Bar Looking for Change

A high mortality of seeds and seedlings has been documented in areas of high conspecific adult density as a result of increased predation and disease. Although this phenomenon has received significant attention in the scientific literature, the long-term evolutionary and ecological impact of density-dependent seedling mortality remains poorly understood. The purpose of the present study is to determine the population-level impact of density-dependent seedling mortality on heavily exploited big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla).

People Chris Free Researcher Matt Landis Faculty Sponsor

Related Links Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna Undergraduate Research Office Senior Work Fund

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Tim Parsons, the College’s Horticulturalist developed an interactive map of all the trees on campus. In Tim’s Urban Forest class, his students took the tree population and ran it through modeling software called iTree to look at carbon sequestration, pollution abatement, etc. Students in other classes have used the map for tree identification. For example, a student recently contacted Tim because she was looking for Cherry trees to evaluate for a plant community ecology class.

People Tim Parsons College Horticulturalist and Project Lead Bill Hegman GIS Specialist Katie Clagett and Chris Rodgers LIS GIS Interns

Related Links BIOL 1003: Trees in the Urban Forest Campus Tree Map Updated Campus Tree Map FAQs Case study in Teaching with Technology

Downloads Google Earth Campus Tree Map Heritage Elm Collection Memorial and Class Trees