Adam Wellstead (SS) co-authored “Structural-functionalism redux: adaptation to climate change and the challenge of a science-driven policy agenda” in Critical Policy Studies.
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Don Lafreniere (SS) co-authored a paper, “The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility” in Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History published by the University of Calgary Press.
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LouAnn Wurst is the principal investigator on a project that received $6,550 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. The project is titled “Archaeological Collection Cooperative Management Ottawa and Hiawatha National Forests“.
Sean M. Gohman, PhD candidate in the Department of Social Sciences’ Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program, was awarded the 2016 Vogel Prize during the meeting of the Society for Industrial Archeology’s annual conference in Kansas City, MO.
Each year the Society for Industrial Archeology recognizes outstanding scholarship in the field of industrial archaeology with the Robert M. Vogel Prize. Named for the founding and distinguished member Robert Vogel, the award honors the author of the best article to appear in the society’s journal IA within the past three years.
Gohman’s awarded article, “It’s Not Time to Be Wasted: Identifying, Evaluating, and Appreciating Mine Wastes in Michigan’s Copper Country,” describes work Gohman did for the Keweenaw National Historical Park’s Advisory Commission to survey and evaluate extant mining waste deposits on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Though perhaps not aesthetically pleasing, these wastes have stories to tell about operational scale and environmental impact that structures may not as easily convey and these stories should therefore not be overlooked.
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The Kansas City Star quoted Assistant Professor Steven Walton (SocSci) in an article about the Society for Industrial Archeology’s annual meeting in Kansas City and tours of historical industrial sites. The Society for Industrial Archeology is based at Michigan Tech. See the article here.
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A new study focused on solar-hybrid energy systems using cogeneration, photovoltaics and battery technology and its potential impact in the Upper Peninsula was picked up by several media outlets including Solar Thermal Magazine, Phys.org and e! Science News.
The research was conducted by Abhilash Katamneni (CS), Richelle Winkler (SS), Joshua Pearce (ECE/MSE) and Lucia Gauchia (ECE/ME).
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Audrey Mayer (SS/SFRES), was interviewed on Public Radio station KJZZ from Rio Salado College and Maricopa Community Colleges in Tempe, Arizona.
The story “Does the Endangered Species Act Benefit More Than Just Endangered Species?” by Mark Brodie aired Tuesday.
You can listen to the story here. Mayer’s segment begins at the 4:49 mark.
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Chelsea Schelly (SS) is co-author of the article “To Frack or Not to Frack: Perceptions of the Risks and Opportunities of High-volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States,” published in Energy Research and Social Sciences.
Amanda Kreuze, who completed her MS in Environmental and Energy Policy in 2015 was a co-author.
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Steven Walton (SS) contributed the chapter “Heavy Artillery Transformed” in “Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War” (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2016) by Barton C. Hacker (editor). The volume developed from a conference of the same name at the Smithsonian in 2012.
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J. Brad Barnett (PhD Candidate, SS), published a paper, “An evaluation of the UK’s use of SFM standards to procure solid woody biomass for electricity generation using sustainable bioenergy criteria”, in Biofuels, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 1-11.
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