Alexia can’t make it to Monday’s meeting so she has forwarded an update from her meeting with Housing about the Eco Olympics.

As a part of B.K. Sharma’s research methodology, he will need a sample and will test it at the zero minute, 1 minute, 5 minute, 30 minute, 60 minutes, and 240 minute interval.

Japan is now implementing floating solar farms, on large bodies of water.  The water keeps the panels cooler than ambient temperature, so they are more efficent.

Rain gardens and barrels needed for study

We will be conducting a study regarding the ability of residential rain gardens and rain barrels to harbor mosquitoes. We are looking for households with rain gardens or rain barrels to participate in the study. The study will involve a brief survey regarding use and approximately one visit per month throughout the summer. Please email stormwater@life.illinois.edu to participate.

Catherine Elizabeth Wangen . Department of Entomology

We recently started testing (about mid-April) in our PAR (Pennsylvania Residence Halls).  Joe Glass, our Superintendent of Building Services will follow up with you.  I am interested in the independent testing. - John Humlicek

From: Illinois Provost [mailto:provost@illinois.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 7:08 PM
To: dddh-l@listserv.illinois.edu
Subject: Call for New Provost's Fellow Positions: 2016-2017

Dear Deans, Directors, and Department Head/Chairs,

Please share this announcement with your faculty, and consider making nominations yourself.  Note that nominations are requested by May 16, 2016.

The Provost’s Office seeks candidates for two Provost Fellow positions beginning in Fall 2016. 

The Provost Fellows Program is designed to develop leadership skills at the campus level for some of our most accomplished tenured faculty.  Fellows participate in a range of mentoring and learning opportunities, collaborate with colleagues in the Provost's and Chancellor's Offices and in other academic and administrative offices across campus, and assume leadership roles on critical campus strategic initiatives and projects, designed in conjunction with fellows' individual interests and longer-range career goals.

Our current Provost Fellows are:

• Professor Lauren Goodlad, Department of English
• Professor  Kelly Ritter, Department of English
• Professor Rosa Milagros Santos, Department of Special Education

We will focus on recruiting fellows interested in sustainability and special projects, as summarized below:

• Provost Fellow for Sustainability. The position will focus on the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) and the Fellow will play a leadership role in the sustainability initiatives related to campus space and facilities.  There may also be opportunities to participate in a variety of project based efforts, as well as standing committees which include faculty, staff, and students. 
• Provost Fellow for Special Projects. The position will focus on efforts to develop policies and guidelines emerging from campus budget reform discussions, explore strategic and curricular innovations, and realize our diversity and inclusion goals.  There will also be opportunities to help campus improve hiring and staffing policies and processes.

Provost Fellow appointments are for one year at 50% time, with some support for summer activities.  Fellows must be tenured faculty members. 

Deans and Department Heads/Chairs may nominate faculty members by sending their names and a short statement of their qualifications to provost@illinois.edu. Your assistance in identifying distinguished faculty with interest in leadership roles is critical to the success of this program.

Faculty members can self-nominate by sending a curriculum vitae and a short statement of professional goals to provost@illinois.edu. For self-nominations the Office of the Provost will seek the endorsement of the candidate’s dean and unit head/chair. 

Nominations are requested by May 16, 2016.

More information can be found on the program website:

http://provost.illinois.edu/fellows/index.html

If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact Vice Provost Abbas Benmamoun (benmamou@illinois.edu). 

Best,

Ed

Edward Feser

Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost

https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/355381

Facilities and Services and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment will host an Arbor Day celebration from noon to 1 p.m. April 29, on the Quad near Noyes Laboratory. Associate Chancellor Mike DeLorenzo will kick off the celebration by reading the Arbor Day proclamation. Attendees will be able to help plant the tree and take part in a trivia contest.

This week the team met to discuss how solar could be applied in a variety of different ways. We also talked about energy distribution and generation on some new buildings being constructed on campus. 

This week the EnGen SWATeam met to discuss some past recommendations that we have made, and also to consider ideas for future ideas that we would like to forward up the working group. 

http://thetab.com/us/illinois/2016/04/13/need-talk-destroying-campus-1408

Mikayla

Professor Scott Willenbrock shared this link with photos from the installation of solar on his home. http://www.newprairieconstruction.com/solar-panel-installation. 

A group of faculty, students, and staff are looking into the options for an Electrification Study for campus.  This would be a study that goes through the formal "Feasibility Study" process at F&S, starting with a "Qualifications Based Selection" or QBS.

The Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP), completed in 2010, identifies several goals related to energy production and distribution on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus. The iCAP called for a detailed study of the University's Energy and Utility systems. That study is now ongoing and is intended to be interactive with the sustainability goals of the iCAP. The University is working with a multi-disciplinary consulting team to study the requirements and opportunities necessary to safely and reliably meet the current and future campus energy needs. The areas of study will examine factors including safety, system reliability, environmental impacts, environmental permit requirements, cost, budget constraints, pending/likely changes in legislation and regulations related to energy utilities, fuel costs, industry trends, innovative technologies and sustainability. Note that the study is limited to the Utility enterprise. Comments regarding improvements in transportation and buildings should be made directly to the sustainability office.

To that end, we are reaching out to the broader campus community to understand what ideas you have in mind that might help the University community meet our energy-related iCAP goals and objectives. If you have specific ideas we would love to hear from you. Please use this form to offer suggestions.

Energy conservation is considered the easiest and most cost-effective way to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Opportunities for conservation on campus are great. In order to reduce emissions, the Climate Action Plan has laid out potential energy savings on campus in areas such as lighting, building commissioning, fume hoods, behavioral change and incentives, and information technology. All of these areas are prospective energy saving components and can contribute to a more sustainable campus.

More specifically, the iCAP said the University would implement decentralized energy billing at the college level in 2011, attain a 30 percent reduction in total building energy use (excluding the National Petascale Computing Facility) by fiscal year 2020 as compared to fiscal year 2008, and attain a 30 percent reduction in associated building related emissions. The iCAP also said that appropriate maintenance levels would be allocated to ensure that energy reductions are sustained.

the Indy airport solar array is 17.5 MW AC.  

Today, iSEE reps joined a call with the Big Ten & Friends Sustainability group, to check in on the data collection efforts.

Dave Hardin submitted a small project to replace about 35 obsolete thermostats and about 55 steam valves. There are several valves that are leaking through and heating the spaces, resulting in increased utility usage, as well as occupant discomfort. While we are doing this work, we will install a main isolation valve on the steam entrance line that is control by outside air temperature. Steam distribution goes around campus and turns the steam on/off twice a year for cooling and heating season, and with our lovely Illinois weather we could have significant temperatures swings that result in simultaneous heating and cooling situations. This isolation valve will eliminate those issues as well as provide a more comfortable building for the occupants while transitioning through season changes.

Marianne Downey met with Morgan Johnston and Brent Lewis on April 20 and showed them the location recommended by David Stone for the butterfly/pollinator planting (between the Uni Gym and Hue House). Brent thought it was a good spot.

They also discussed that the Math House and the Hue House have to be demolished for the butterfly plant project at the Uni High could begin.

Marianne has asked David Stone and Japhia Ramkumar, for their advice as to the size of planting and what plants should be planted.