In this internship, Tyson worked in Air Quality Assurance looking at regulatory compliance.
Conservation Ecology
President Mary Sue Coleman higlighted several programs of the School of Natural Resources and Environment in her address yesterday unveiling the progress and new goals behind the university's sustainability initiatives.
Naomi Hamermesh mainly assisted with two different projects at MTRI.
As an intern working jointly with the Watershed Planning and Ecological Assessment programs in Anne Arundel County, Alicia had the opportunity to work on overlapping projects collaborating with both programs.
During this internship, Kathryn Bomey worked with the invasive species department at The Nature Conservancy's Vermont chapter.
Lauren Maloney's internship was with Slow Food Huron Valley in Ann Arbor, MI. Slow Food Huron Valley is a local chapter of Slow Food USA.
In an op-ed article appearing this month in NOLA, SNRE Professor Don Scavia talks about the Gulf of Mexico dead zone: its natural and political causes and two possible paths to resolve the annual problem. This year's zone, at 6,800 square miles, would have been larger if not for Tropical Storm Don stirring the waters.
Faced with increasing risks of intense storms, heat stress, clean water availability and economic hardship, municipal leaders are seeking high-quality, location-specific analyses to help plan for climate change impacts. That is the focus of a new $1.2 million University of Michigan research project called the Great Lakes Adaptation Assessment for Cities.
SNRE student Melissa Antokal (M.S./MBA '12) was recently in Kenya to complete a team master'project with other students. On behalf of their client the Mpala Wildlife Foundation, the graduate students researched and analyzed issues around sustainable growth and responsible energy consumption. In a blog post, Antokal writes about how the adage "Location, location, location," used commonly during her previous work in the real estate industry, is also a useful guiding principle for sustainability and growth in the developing world.
This summer, Danielle Forsyth worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Michigan Department of Natural Resources to develop a GIS-based decision support tool.