A national land-use study chaired by SNRE Professor Dan Brown today is calling for a new generation of modeling techniques and even more interdisciplinary and data-driven approaches.
Inés Ibáñez, a forest ecologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan, has received a $750,000 award from the National Science Foundation to study forest dynamics under global change.
Members of incoming classes at the School of Natural Resources & Environment are up north through Thursday to learn more about how to succeed in their programs and to meet fellow classmates.
U-M researchers received a $2 million federal grant to identify and test naturally diverse groups of green algae to produce next-generation biofuels.
The Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) has earned the highest certification available under a new University of Michigan program that encourages office teams to create more sustainable work environments.
Hua Cai, a second-year doctoral student at SNRE, has won three awards for a poster presentation on research using travel patterns of taxis in Beijing, China. Her work examined the real-time trajectories of 10,375 taxis for one week to explore the impacts of individual travel patterns to plug-in hybrid electric vehicle acceptance, electrification rate, and associated implications on greenhouse gas emissions.
The poster (download .pdf below) is titled "Characterizing Individual Travel Patterns through Big Data Mining."
Joan Nassauer, SNRE Landscape Architecture professor, discusses the benefits and limitations of “blue infrastructure” in dealing with the city of Detroit’s stormwater overflow challenges.
President Obama unveils his national plan to combat climate change this afternoon. U-M has several experts who will be available immediately after to comment.
Bradley Cardinale, an ecologist and faculty member at the School of Natural Resources & Environment, has been elected to serve on the Science Committee for a new international research initiative called Future Earth.
Sara Meerow, a doctoral student at the School of Natural Resources & Environment, is a recipient of the 2013 Marshall Weinberg Population, Development, and Climate Change Fellowship. The fellowship provides support to a University of Michigan student conducting research on a topic that combines research into population, development and climate issues.