The Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report and CBS Detroit reported on Associate Professor Andrew Burton‘s research on the ability of trees to find the nitrogen they need despite increasing levels of carbon dioxide. See Trees.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce Finishing Fellowship recipients for the fall and spring semesters.
The fellowships provide support to PhD candidates who are close to completing their degrees; they are available through the generosity of alumni and friends of the University.
They are intended to recognize outstanding PhD candidates who are in need of financial support to finish their degrees and who are also contributing to the attainment of goals outlined in The Michigan Tech Plan.
Recipients from the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science are:
Fall 2011 – Amber Roth, PhD candidate in forest science
Spring 2012 – Lindsey Shartell, PhD candidate in forest science, Neil V. Hakala Endowed Fellowship
Congratulations!
Marjorie is now leading the day-to-day implementation of the Reforestation Initiative at NRG, including new capital contracting and an expanded NRG Forest Restoration Team. She comes to Natural Resources from Central Forestry, where she was the Street Trees Planting Manager for Manhattan with responsibility for planning, design and budgeting, as well as contract management.
Marjorie received her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Albany and her master’s degree in Forestry from Michigan Technological University. Her past field experiences are highlighted by stints as a ranger in Yosemite National Park and work with the Peace Corps in Nepal.
Michael Falkowski has received $12,012 from the Regents of the University of Idaho for a one-year project, Remote Sensing for Biomass Inventory and Assessment in Idaho, USA.
Global Wildlife Resources is offering a 3-day wildlife handling course May 8-10, 2012 at the Country Village in Ishpeming near Marquette, Michigan. This class is one of the most extensive chemical immobilization courses in North America and includes hand-on labs with animals. It has been invaluable to state, federal, and tribal wildlife professionals, zoo caretakers, game farms, animal control officers, and college students. Full details at http://www.wildliferesources.org/training-courses/
Associate Professor John Vucetich is the author of a blog, Scientist at Work, published January 16, 2012 in the New York Times online. The blog is the first of a series on the annual Winter Study of the wolves and moose of Isle Royale. Read the article: NY Times.
Assistant Professor Evan Kane , co-PI Rod Chimner and co-PI Tom Pypker have recieved $560,115 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year project, Collaborative Research: PEATcosm: Understanding the Interactions of Climate, Plant Functional Groups and Carbon Cycling in Peatland Ecosystems.
Associate Professor Victor Busov, Assistant Professor Oliver Gailing and Post Doc Yordan Yordanov received the following news that their recent proposal has been funded: The review panel of the AFRI Biology of Agricultural Plants Program has announced that that your proposal entitled “Role of Lateral Organ Boundary Transcription Factors in Regulation of Wood Formation in Poplar, has been recommended for funding by the review panel. We will be able to fund the proposal at 100% of your request at $499,916 for three years.
It was selected in one of the toughest nation-wide competitions ever in the history of the program with over 400 submitted proposals.
Congratulations Victor, Oliver and Yordan!
Congratulations to Master of Forestry students Eric Dunnack, Conor Bell, Ken Kettler, Kara Oikarinen, Mike Premer, Joanna Rogers, for winning the second place award for their poster titled Varying Levels of Known Causal Factors and the Possibility of Epicormic Branching on Acer saccharum.
This group of students presented their poster at the Society of American Foresters National Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii in November 2011. The project was funded by McIntire-Stennis. They are advised by Professor Jim Pickens.
The School has selected four candidates to be interviewed for the position of Dean of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. Learn more about each candidate on our dean search page: Dean Search