The School of Natural Resources and Environment today announced the 2012-14 Michigan cohort of Wyss Conservation Scholars. The Wyss Foundation supports two students each year at four different universities nationwide to recognize future leaders in nonprofit and public sector conservation, with a focus on the Western United States.
Recognizing the declining health of the world’s oceans, policymakers, managers and scientists have called for expanded efforts at ecosystem-based management in marine and coastal systems. To provide guidance for these efforts, an interdisciplinary team of researchers over the last four years has developed a set of case studies that highlight lessons learned from marine ecosystem-based management (MEBM) projects around the globe.
Strategies to meet the leadership and management challenges facing environmental groups is the focus of a special symposium Friday, March 16, at the University of Michigan. The "Conservation Forward: Environmental Leadership in Action" symposium concludes with a keynote address by John Ehrmann (M.S. '81, Ph.D. '7), who has pioneered the use of collaborative decision-making processes for more than two decades at the local, national and international levels. The symposium also features expert-led panel discussions on topics such as urban sustainability, energy, state and federal policy, ecosystem services and landscape-scale conservation. The discussions will give managers and leaders at southeast Michigan conservation groups the chance to learn new techniques and strategies to help their organizations.
Eight SNRE students who are either Duke Conservation Fellows or Wyss Conservation Scholars returned this week from an annual retreat held each year for members of the programs. The retreat, held at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, W.V., was again facilitated by SNRE Professor Steven Yaffee, who also serves as the school's director of the Duke and Wyss scholars program.
The Wyss Foundation has awarded fellowships to two students at the University of Michigan' School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) as future leaders in Western land conservation issues. The 2010 Wyss Scholars (listed with their SNRE field of academic study) are Martha Campbell (Sustainable Systems) and David O'Connor (Conservation Biology).
Eight students at the School of Natural Resources and Environment have been named Doris Duke Conservation Fellows as future leaders in nonprofit and public sector conservation. "More Michigan fellows were named than was the case at any of our peer schools, a wonderful outcome that reflects the stellar qualities of our students and the commitment of the School to the program," said Steven L. Yaffee, an SNRE professor and director at the SNRE-based Ecosystem Management Initiative, which administers the Duke Fellows program at the University of Michigan.
SNRE students associated with two of the school's most prestigious fellowship programs convened at a retreat this weekend to discuss the organizational and political challenges facing leaders and NGOs this election season.
The Wyss Foundation has awarded fellowships to two students at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) as future leaders in Western land conservation issues. The 2009 Wyss Scholars, both first-year master's students, are: Nicholas Deyo (Landscape Architecture), who graduated with a degree in ecology from the University of Montana, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa and worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula; and Clayton Elliott (Environmental Policy and Planning), who graduated with degrees in environment and economics from the University of Wyoming and has worked for the Wyoming State Legislature.
Professor Michael J. Wiley has been named the Theodore Roosevelt Chair of Ecosystem Management at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE). Wiley, who has taught at the school since 1987, was nominated by fellow SNRE faculty and recommended by an internal screening committee. The announcement was made today by Rosina M. Bierbaum, dean of the school. "I'm honored that my peers recommended me and thankful to the committee members who reviewed the nominees," Wiley said. "I hope that during my tenure as the Roosevelt Professor, I can bring more attention to the science and policy of ecosystem management."