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The second exhibit in the Art & Environment Gallery is "Drawing on Nature," featuring work by Joe Trumpey, a U-M professor. He is an associate professor of art at the School of Art & Design and an associate professor of Natural Resources at SNRE. He also serves as director of international engagement for Art & Design. Trumpey earned his A.B. in art and biology from Wabash College and his M.F.A. in medical and biological illustration from the University of Michigan.

Washington, D.C., United States of America - August 31, 2011: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the edge of the Tidal Basin on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Tourists circle the monument in late summer, less than a week after it opened.

Dorceta Taylor is delivering the annual MLK Lecture at the School of Natural Resources and Environment as part of the school’s Dean's Speaker Series. Taylor is a professor of Environmental Justice at SNRE. She also is founder and director of the Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Initiative, which aims to increase diversity in environmental organizations as well as the broader environmental movement. It also promotes greater diversity in leadership in the environmental field. Her lecture is titled "Race, Poverty, and Access to Food in America: Resistance, Survival, and Sustainability." It begins at 5 p.m. in Room 1040, Dana Building.

COP18

This past week, my master’s project team attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar. By most accounts, the week was a huge success. We presented a poster at Forest Day, represented Michigan at our booth, made scores of professional connections, and were praised by one organization as being “the most employable people at the conference”—a compliment that went immediately to our heads and into the “W” column against Yale and Duke. I left the conference feeling invigorated, with a stack of business cards in my suitcase and (offset) carbon in my wake. It wasn’t until after I arrived back in Ann Arbor on December 3rd and went for a run outside in shorts and a tank top that I realized our metrics of ”˜success’ for attending the conference might have been a bit distorted.

Attention SNREds! 

It’s that time of the year; please join the greater SNRE community this Friday, December 7th as three Master’s Project teams present their final reports during the Master’s Project Symposium (1040 Dana).  This is truly an exciting event.  The students involved in these projects have spent countless hours on these intense, interdisciplinary projects, which are the cornerstone of the SNRE professional-school program. Brief descriptions of each of the three projects are below. 

Sustainable Food Systems Lecture: Jennifer Blesh

Jennifer Blesh is a post-doctoral researcher in agronomy at the Federal University of Mato Grosso in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. She earned her Ph.D. in soil and crop sciences and a master of science degree in soil science, both from Cornell University. She also has a bachelor of science degree in ecology from the University of Geogia.

When: Tuesday, Dec. 4; 4-5 p.m.
Where: Room 1040, Dana Building

Long-eared owl outside the Dana Building. Photo by Sara Cole

SNRE students don't need to travel to Saginaw Forest to see wildlife it seems. Behavior, Education and Communication student Sara Cole walked outside the Dana Building last week and saw something out of the corner of her eye. There, in the pines between Dana and the Chemistry Building, was a roosting long-eared owl.

SNRE at COP18

We have arrived in Doha, Qatar—a city rising from the desert and, rather ironically, from oil revenue—for the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP18). While expectations for an international climate change agreement are tempered this COP, 2012 is significant in that two of the negotiating tracts—the Kyoto (KP) Track for signatories of that protocol and the Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA) Track for developed countries taking “mitigation actions” outside of Kyoto—are expected to close this year.

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