Two SNRE faculty members were part of teams awarded research grants by the new University of Michigan Water Center. There were 12 grants awarded totaling nearly $570,000, to support Great Lakes restoration and protection efforts.
Five researchers at the School of Natural Resources and Environment received funding under a new University of Michigan program to promote interdisciplinary work. The funded projects are examining the challenges facing resource-constrained environments and sustainable transportation.
The Global Challenges for a Third Century (TCI) program, as the initiative is called, funded fewer than 15 percent of submitted proposals.
Brad Cardinale, School of Natural Resources and Environment's associate professor and director of the school's conservation ecology program recently had an opinion piece about biodiversity and its impact on humanity published in the professional magazine, The Scientist.
Cardinale focuses on increasing evidence that suggests that loss of the Earth's biological diversity will compromise our planet's ability to provide the goods and services societies need to prosper.
