Anne Pandey has been named one of the National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellows for 2009. She has been working with Dr. Kyle Brown, Dr. Rick Willson, Michelle McFadden and Cristina Halstead on the Climate Action Plan for Cal Poly. Her work for the Fellowship period will be focused on helping to complete the Climate Action Plan and promoting it to the campus community and beyond.Anne will conduct a survey of faculty on campus to gain a better understanding of the specific courses that address climate change issues as well as the ways in which faculty members are addressing the issues in courses not specifically about climate change. This will be useful if Cal Poly decides to add a general education course about climate change and could be a first step in developing the curriculum for such a class.
In addition, Anne hopes to start taking immediate, short-term action by developing and presenting a program on climate change for incoming freshman during orientation in Fall 2009 and begin development of an on-line sustainability resource library.
Finally, she will be promoting the climate action plan for the university through campus and community outreach. She is currently planning an event about the climate action plan for Earth Day at Cal Poly hosted in part by the campus Green Team and ASI; she will be presenting on the climate plan at an Earth Day event at Citrus College and will develop a lesson or presentation addressing climate change at a local elementary school through her work with their sustainability committee.
