Professor Bradley Cardinale PhD, whose work focuses on the challenges of protecting biodiversity, has been working to point out the far-reaching ramifications of the bill. He, and 133 other PhD-level professors representing 13 Michigan universities, have signed this letter urging Gov. Rick Snyder to veto SB 78 should it reach his desk.
Veterans participating in extended outdoor group recreation show signs of improved mental health, suggesting a link between the activities and long-term psychological well-being, according to results of a U-M study.
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.
SNRE doctoral candidate Daniel Miller and colleagues at the University of Georgia and elsewhere have identified the most underfunded countries in the world for biodiversity conservation. They found that 40 of the most poorly funded countries harbor 32 percent of all threatened mammalian biodiversity.
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.
Three of six new postdoctoral scholars joining the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program this fall will work out of SNRE. Together, the six will address some of the world's most pressing sustainability challenges.