The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting research by SNRE Professor Don Zak that may help finally answer how human production of nitrogen are shaping forests and the future of Earth’s climate.
A project led by SNRE Professor Dave Allan is among eight Great Lakes restoration and protection projects receiving $2.9 million from the U-M Water Center.
Inés Ibáñez, a forest ecologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan, has received a $750,000 award from the National Science Foundation to study forest dynamics under global change.
U-M researchers received a $2 million federal grant to identify and test naturally diverse groups of green algae to produce next-generation biofuels.
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.
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.
Spring floods across the Midwest are expected to contribute to a very large and potentially record-setting 2013 Gulf of Mexico "dead zone," according to SNRE's Don Scavia and colleagues.
A two-hour seminar and panel discussion May 30 features SNRE Professor Michael Moore. The event explores the drivers of decreased lake levels and the management and economic implications.
About 80 students from Detroit’s Western International High School gathered to conduct a biodiversity survey on Belle Isle with the help of U-M students representing multiple schools and programs, including graduate students from the School of Natural Resources & Environment.
SNRE faculty Ming Xu and Don Zak are among the U-M editors working on a new online journal exploring issues of sustainability.