Research Archives

New Funding – Falkowski

Published May 24, 2012

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

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

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

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.

New Funding – Chimner

Published April 24, 2012

Assistant Professor Rod Chimner has received $31,328 from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for Enhancing Aquatic and Wetland Habitat Along the Portage Waterway.

New Funding – Nagel

Published March 27, 2012

Associate Professor Linda Nagel has received $131,305 from the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for a project, “National Advanced Silviculture Program Six of the US Forest Service, Ecological Systems Module.”

Three students earn SURF Awards

Published March 20, 2012

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program will support 20 students from across the University with funds from the Vice President for Research and the Honors Institute. The total funding for this summer’s program is $66,000. From the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, the following students were recipients:

Student	Major	Advisor	Proposal
Lauren Manninensssssss	Forestrysssss	Tarasoff & Kane	A comparison of the carbon sequestration potential of C3 vs C4 grasses in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Jarrod Nelson	Forestry	Thomas Pypker	A comparison of stemflow precipitation volume and nutrient content between red maple (acer rubrum) and black ash (fraxinus nigra)
Justina Silva	AEES	Erik Lilleskov	Enzyme activity in changing peatland plant communities and their effect on carbon cycling

New Funding – Pypker

Published February 16, 2012

Thomas Pypker has received $4,322 for the first year of a potential three-year, $14,176 project from the for “Carbon-Water Cycling in the Critical Zone: Understanding Ecosystem Process Variability Across Complex Terrain.”

Finishing Fellowship Recipients Announced

Published February 9, 2012

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!

New Funding – Falkowski

Published February 7, 2012

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.

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