CSES Student Club
The Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Student Club at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville aspires to...
- attract and help students discover and develop leadership abilities
- make and secure lasting friendships
- increase school spirit and philanthropy and
- provide service to the community.
Considering these objectives, the clubs students desire to demonstrate that club members can make a positive difference, while enhancing educational opportunities for students majoring in crop management, soil and environmental sciences.
Through goal oriented planning and undergraduate research, the CSES Student Club:
- promotes stewardship of soil, water, and vegetation and
- provides holistic, educational opportunities, in a "living laboratory setting, to
- strengthen academic learning.
- Club Officers
- Top 10 Reasons to Join the CSES Student Club
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Accomplishments
- Projects
Meeting Times: Monthly meetings are held on Wednesday in PTSC 007.
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Club Officers
2009 CSES Student Club Officers and Advisors
President - Chris Cotton
Vice-President - Rachel Arthur
Secretary/Treasurer - Bryant Baker
Advisors: Drs. Mary Savin, Pengyin Chen, and Charles West
Top 10 Reasons to Join the CSES Student Club
1. Make friends with people who share your interests.
2. Learn about the CSES department and the University.
3. Interact on a personal level with faculty.
4. Go on hiking and canoe trips, cookouts, etc.
5. Participate in community projects, such as preservation of the clubs adopted wetland.
6. Gain leadership skills and experience effectively managing an organization.
7. Travel to national meetings of the ASA/SSSA/CSSA.
8. Interact with students at other universities by hosting visiting groups or attending regional club meetings.
9. Learn about professional opportunities.
10. Include membership on your resume and network for future jobs.
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The CSES Student Club volunteer opportunities:
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- 2008 SASES National Poster Presentation Contest - 1st Place
- 2007 SASES National Poster Presentation Contest - 1st Place
- 2006 SASES National Poster Presentation Contest - 1st Place
- 2006 Volunteer Group of the Year by the City of Fayetteville
- CSES Student Club registered as a Student Organization
- Received funding through Associated Student Government for purchasing gardening tools to remove Japanese Honeysuckle
- Applied for Student Research Grant to conduct soil and water quality analyses
- Increasing membership
- Strengthening student-faculty relationships
- Second place finish in student club poster competition sponsored by the American Society of Agronomy
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Projects
Fayetteville Adopt-A-Park Program The CSES Student Club adopted Bryce-Davis Park in the Spring of 2002.
Bryce-Davis Wetland Development Project:
The club has adopted a local wetland situated in a new subdivision in Fayetteville, AR. The club is coordinating its goals with the city in an effort to assess, rehabilitate and beautify the wetland by removing an invasive species and returning the area to its native vegetation. The CSES Student Club looks forward to the successful completion of the wetland project and its opportunities and challenges.
The area that the club is enhancing is the western half, while the eastern portion of the area is being developed as a city park.
| Proposed Concept Plan | Pre-developed Bryce-Davis Park |
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The CSES Student Clubs involvement is vital to the short- and long-term goals of the development of Bryce-Davis Park.
Short-Term Goals
Obtain funding and grants for undergraduate research
Increase community involvement and awareness of the wetland
Long-Term Goals
Removal of Japanese Honeysuckle
Club Research Goals
Assessment of the Bryce-Davis wetland is composed of three research interests of students and faculty.
Hydraulic Soil Mapping
Vegetative Mapping
Water Quality Testing
Accomplishments
Construction of an observation deck
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| Seed Kits Seed kits are assembled and distributed to areas schools as a club fund raising activity. |
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Educational Day - Raise awarness and educate students and citizens of Fayetteville about biofuels and biofuel production by having speakers, giving presentations, giving demonstrations of biofuels in use, and planting biofuel crops for observation
Sustainability Initiative - Helping the University become more self sustanible by composting yardwaste and other on campus waste to give to the organic farm. The organic farm will be selling its produce to the university.
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