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Dean Bierbaum, professors contributing to influential IPCC report on climate change
Three SNRE researchers have been selected to contribute climate-change adaptation research and analysis to the fifth climate assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Dean Rosina M. Bierbaum is serving as a review editor for a chapter on global climate adaptation decision-making. Professor and Associate Dean for Research Arun Agrawal is lead author of a chapter on climate effects on livelihoods and poverty. Associate Professor Maria Carmen Lemos is lead author of a chapter on climate-change resilience and sustainable development.
From about 3,000 nominations globally, 831 scientists were selected as authors and reviewers. Read more ...
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Summer 2010 contents of Inside Dana:
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Message from the dean
While summer is traditionally a time of relaxation (and field work!), it has been anything but inside the Dana Building. Construction projects are under way to help us accommodate an ever-expanding student body and four new faculty. Applications are up 40 percent in the past three years! As a result, we're anticipating a fall graduate enrollment of about 475, including about 150 incoming students joining us at the BioStation orientation. Many other school updates were covered in the spring issue of Stewards. But we also will be communicating our progress at a series of fall alumni outreach events. Seven such meetings or receptions are scheduled starting next week (Aug. 3) in Pittsburgh and extending through Homecoming Oct. 14-15. Please make time to stay connected with SNRE, whether in person at an event or through our robust suite of social networking tools. In the meantime, grab a book and enjoy the dog days of summer.
Rosina M. Bierbaum, professor and dean |
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SNRE school and alumni events
- Aug. 3: Michigan Ecology Mixer: Alumni Reception in Pittsburgh (during Ecological Society of America annual conference)
- Aug. 15: Alumni and Friends Reception in Atlanta (during American Sociological Association annual conference)
- Sept. 10: Alumni Reception (during American Society of Landscape Architects' annual conference)
- Sept. 24: Alumni Reception, Washington, D.C. (in the atrium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science building)
- Oct. 1: Alumni and Friends Meeting (during North American Association for Environmental Education annual conference)
- Oct. 15: Class of 1960 and Emeritus Reunion and Homecoming Luncheon
Visit the SNRE calendar of events
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Featured research
In partnership with U-M's STEM-Africa Initiative to coordinate research efforts in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math with educational institutions in Africa, the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute launched an Integrative Experiential Learning and Research project at the 48,000-acre Mpala Wildlife Conservancy and Research Center in Kenya. The objective is to study the region's natural and human systems to promote sustainable conservation in Kenya's Laikipia region, one of the world's most economically challenged and biologically diverse areas. The initiative has multiple, complementary components, including a master's project by SNRE students and a course co-taught by two SNRE faculty.
Learn more at the Graham website
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Former SNRE Professor Harrison (Harry) Morton is looking to hear from former students and colleagues. The retired professor of forest pathology and urban forestry lives north of Ann Arbor in Brighton on Winans lake. His email is hlmorton@umich.edu.
Joshua Kweller (M.S. '07, LAW '07) joined the Colorado Springs office of Hogan Lovells in the Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment practice. He focuses on general litigation matters, with an emphasis on the environment and natural resources.
Aviva Glaser (M.S. '10, M.S.W '10) is lead author of The Price of Pollution: Cost Estimates of Environment-Related Childhood Disease in Michigan, a major report released this week. A coalition of health and environmental groups released the report, which examines direct and indirect costs for four childhood diseases linked in part or whole to environmental toxicants. Glaser is agricultural program coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation. Send your updates to Kevin Merrill in the alumni office via e-mail (merrillk@umich.edu) or regular mail: School of Natural Resources and Environment, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, University of Michigan, 440 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041.
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