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CFRES Faculty Tara Bal Elected Society of American Foresters Vice President

Published November 13, 2024

Tara Bal kneels and inspects the forest floor outdoors on a sunny day. — Tara Bal inspects the forest floor as part of her research on the impact of non-native earthworms on northern hardwood forests. Bal was recently elected Society of American Foresters vice president.

Tara Bal, assistant professor of forest health in the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, was elected vice president of the Society of American Foresters (SAF). The organization represents foresters and natural resources professionals, helping them promote thriving forests by bringing the best science, the best practices, and the best people together. Bal said the organization represents a community that ultimately supports sustainable forests and sustainable forest management, and one she has been a part of since she was a student.

New Funding

Published August 20, 2024

By Heather Powers

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Evan Kane (CFRES/ESC) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $283,645 research and development co-op joint agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The project is titled “Stamp Sand Phytoremediation for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.”

New Funding – Roth

Published February 7, 2014

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Amber Roth has received $25,000 of funding from the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory to coordinate the Midwest Landbird Migration Monitoring Network. For this award, Roth will write and edit the Midwest Landbird Migration Monitoring Network Strategic Plan in collaboration with the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory. Along with the grant, comes Roth’s new title of Midwest Landbird Migration Monitoring Network Coordinator . The strategic plan will lay out a road map for coordinating bird monitoring and research efforts toward objectives of the Midwest Coordinated Bird Monitoring Partnership (http://midwestbirdmonitoring.ning.com/). The goal of the plan is to provide guidance for improving usage of data generated by the network of partners across the Midwest to better address priority migration information needs at the regional scale.

New Funding – Kane

Published September 21, 2012

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Assistant Professor Evan Kane (SFRES/ESC) has received $123,698 from the US Forest Service for, “Response of Forest and Peatland Ecosystems to Environmental Change.”

New Funding – Juneau and Tarasoff

Published September 6, 2012

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Graduate student Kevyn Juneau (SFRES/ESC) and Co-PI Assistant Professor Catherine Tarasoff (SFRES) have received $5,000 from the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, for “The Ecology and Control of the Invasive Species, Cirsium Arvense, Canada Thistle.”

New Funding – Nagel and Powers

Published September 5, 2012

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Associate Professor Linda Nagel (SFRES/ESC) and Co-PI Research Engineer Matt Powers (SFRES/ESC) have received $80,000 from USDA Forest Service for “National Instruction of Advanced Climate Topics.”

New Funding – Falkowski

Published May 24, 2012

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Assistant Professor Michael Falkowski has several new projects that have recently been funded.

Fuel Consumption and Carbon cycling in northern peatland ecosystems: Understanding vulnerability to burning, fuel consumption, and emissions via remote sensing of fuel moisture and radiative energy.
Program: NASA Terrestrial Ecology
PI: Michael Falkowski
Michigan Tech CoPIs: Evan Kane, Eugene Levin
MTRI CoPIs: Mary Ellen Miller, Nancy French, and Laura Bourgeau-Chavez|
Collaborating Institutions: Rochester Institute of Technology; University of Idaho; Florida Atlantic University
Amount: ~$650,000

Enhancing Tools and Geospatial Data to Support Operational Forest Management > and Regional Forest Planning in the Face of Climate Change
Program: NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science
Title: Enhancing Tools and Geospatial Data to Support Operational Forest Management and Regional Forest Planning in the Face of Climate Change
PI: Michael Falkowski
Michigan Tech CoPIs: Linda Nagel; Robert Froese
Collaborating Institutions: US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; Portland State University; University of Idaho
Amount: ~$350,000

Remote sensing of conifer and mesquite encroachment into lesser prairie-chicken habitats
Agency: Natural Resource Conservation Service
PI: Michael Falkowski
Michigan Tech CoPIs: Joseph Bump
Amount $95,000

new Funding – Busov

Published April 25, 2012

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Associate Professor Victor Busov has received $499,916 from the US Department of Agriculture for a project: Role of LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY Transcription Factors in Regulation of Wood Formation in Poplar.

New Funding – Yuan and Wei

Published April 24, 2012

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Research Assistant Professor Yinan Yuan and Assistant Professor Hairong Wei have received $149,888 from the US Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, for a project, Systematic Identification and Characterization of Overlapping Sense/Antisense Gene Loci in Populus Genome.

New Funding – Nagel

Published April 24, 2012

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Linda Nagel has received $61,712 from the USDA Forest Service for Lake States Silviculture Module of the US Forest Service National Advanced Silviculture Program.

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