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2013 MBGNA Awards; application deadline 5:00 pm, 1/25/2013

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01/08/2013
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Diana Woodworth

Cash prizes and awards are made each year to encourage and recognize creative work and scholarship related to the mission of the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum (www.mbgna.umich.edu). Only currently enrolled University of Michigan undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Preference is given to students who have not won previously.

All applications and nominations are due by 5:00 pm Friday, January 25, 2013.

Nanette R. LaCross Prize(s) and William D. Drake Prize(s)

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Marie Lynn Miranda discusses one remaining, albeit relatively minor, source of lead exposure: leaded aviation gasoline.

Miranda discusses lead exposure with Environmental Health Perspectives

Marie Lynn Miranda, professor and dean at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, was interviewed by Environmental Health Perspectives regarding her research into children’s exposure to leaded aviation gasoline.

The interview, with host Ashley Ahearn, was turned into a podcast as part of the journal’s The Researcher’s Perspective series.

Master's Project Symposium

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. 

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Dan Brown, Ph.D.
Publication Date: 
2012

Oswald, E.M., Rood, R.B., Zhang, K., Gronlund, C.J., O’Neill, M.S., White-Newsome, J., Brines, S.J., Brown, D.G. In Press.  An investigation into the spatial variability of near surface air temperatures in the Detroit, MI metropolitan area.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0127.1

Citation type: 
Journal Article

Spatial Agent-Based Models: Principles, Concepts, and Applications

Dan Brown, Ph.D.
Publication Date: 
2012

Parker, D.C., Brown, D.G., Filatova, T., Riolo, R., Robinson, D.T., and Sun, S. 2011. Do land markets matter? A modelling ontology and experimental design to test the effects of land markets for an agent-based model of ex-urban residential land-use change. In A. Heppenstall, A. Crooks, L. Lee and M. Batty, editors. Spatial Agent-based Models: Principles, Concepts and Applications, pp. 525-542.

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Chapter in book

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