Russell Martin interned with the Conservation and Environmental Programs Division (CEPD) of the USDA Farm Service Agency.
Conservation Ecology
Nerissa Rujanavech interned with The Nature Conservancy Colorado and was responsible for the development of a conservation plan for a 1.3 million acre grassland in southeastern Colorado.
Michigan Sea Grant today awarded a total of $409,417 to researchers from three Michigan universities. The research will focus on Michigan's coastal and Great Lakes issues involving wind power and restoring natural river flow in the Clinton River watershed. The funding will sustain three-year research projects and is contingent upon annual appropriations from Congress. The grant funds are leveraged by an additional $254,457 from non-federal sources, including state and university partners.
For the second consecutive year, The Journal of Great Lakes Research has given its annual award for best peer-reviewed paper to a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. Thomas Johengen received the 2009 Chandler-Misener Award for a paper titled, "Stimulation of Lake Michigan plankton metabolism by sediment resuspension and river runoff." He co-authored the paper with fellow researchers Bopaiah A. Biddanda and James B Cotner.
University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar fishery. The scientists' latest forecast, released today, calls for a Gulf dead zone of between 7,450 and 8,456 square miles---an area about the size of New Jersey.
David Allan, professor and acting dean of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, will be honored Sunday (May 17) for outstanding contributions to all fields of benthic science with the "Award of Excellence" from the North American Benthological Society. The 1,500-member international organization is conducting its 57th annual meeting this year in Grand Rapids, Mich.í‚ Benthic science refers collectively to all aquatic organisms that live on, in or near the bottom (substratum) of water bodies, and the bottom environment itself. This includes organisms inhabiting running and standing waters, and also applies to organisms from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
Jennifer Lee Johnson is a Ph.D student in the School of Natural Resources and Environment. She employs interdisciplinary theory and methodology from anthropology, political ecology, gender studies, history and fisheries science to analyze the interconnections between ecological social change in the Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa. Jennifer has also conducted case study research on marine ecosystem-based management in the Wadden Sea in Northern Europe, the West Coast of the United States, the North American Great Lakes and on the East Coast of Africa.
Entering year:
2008
Doctoral Track:
Resource Policy and Behavior (RPB)
Don Zak, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, will deliver the Francis Clark Distinguished Lectureship at the 2009 Soil Science Society of America meeting. The lectureship is the highest award given by the society for pioneering work in soil biology and biochemistry. His lecture will be delivered Nov. 3 at the International Annual Meetings of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). That event is Nov. 1-5 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa. It brings together more than 3,500 people from 50-plus countries representing academia, government and private industry, including a large contingent of undergraduate and graduate students.