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Hybridization and the U.S. Endangered Species Act: Policy Guidance or Agency Discretion?

Published November 23, 2016

Jennifer Lind-Riehl ’15, Audrey L. Mayer (SS), Adam Wellstead (SS) and Oliver Gailing (SFRES) published a paper entitled “Hybridization, agency discretion, and implementation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act” in Conservation Biology. You can find the paper here.

Robins Publishes Book on Early Twentieth Century Cotton Trade

Published November 17, 2016

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Jonathan E. Robins has published a new book, “Cotton and Race across the Atlantic,” part of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora series of the University of Rochester Press. The book shows how economics, politics and racial ideologies shaped the development of cotton agriculture in Africa and America in the early twentieth century.

Click here for more information on the book.

Wellstead Co-Authors Paper on Policy Experimentation

Published November 15, 2016

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Adam Wellstead co-authored a paper “Canada’s Regional Adaptation Collaboratives and Adaptation Platform: The importance of scaling up and scaling down climate change governance experiments” in Climate Services. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880716300383

Wellstead Co-Recipient of Sam Richardson Award for Best Paper Published

Published November 2, 2016

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Adam Wellstead (SS) and Dean Carson (Charles Darwin University) are winners of the 2015 Sam Richardson Award for the best paper published in the 2015 volume of Australian Journal of Public Administration. The paper was titled “Government with a Cast of Dozens: Policy Capacity Risks and Policy Work in the Northern Territory.”

Vaidya and Mayer Publish a Critical Review of the use of Millennium Development Goals in Nepal

Published October 24, 2016

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Audrey Mayer and Ashma Vaidya, who recently completed her PhD degree requirements in environmental and energy policy, published an article “Critical Review of the Millennium Project in Nepal” in Sustainability 2016, 8(10), 1043; doi:10.3390/su8101043

Scarlett Helps Try to Locate Haymarket Riot Time Capsule

Published October 18, 2016

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by Jenn Donovan

It all began with the labor movement’s fight for an 8-hour work day.

In Chicago’s Haymarket Square in 1886, a peaceful demonstration turned deadly when a bomb was thrown. In the chaos that followed, panicked police started shooting indiscriminately, killing seven of their own officers and at least four workers.

In the wake of the Haymarket Riot, eight members of the labor movement were arrested. After a questionable trial, seven of the leaders were sentenced to hang. Two sentences were commuted by the governor, and one defendant committed suicide in jail, while four men were hanged. While the public outrage at the violence created a “red scare” in the United States that set back the cause of the eight-hour day, the martyring of innocent labor leaders galvanized union organizers around the world. May Day celebrations around the world still commemorate those executed because of Haymarket.

Now, 130 years later, 21st century technology and a group of determined historians and archaeologists are bringing the historic Haymarket Affair back into people’s awareness. And Michigan Tech industrial archaeologist Tim Scarlett is playing a small part.

In 1892, leaders began erecting a monument to the Haymarket martyrs at their graves in Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, a suburb of Chicago. Before the monument was raised the following year, they buried a time capsule under the cornerstone, containing letters written by the martyrs themselves, family photos, newspaper articles printed at the time and documents from labor unions.

As decades and generations passed, the time capsule was forgotten. Read the full story.

Schelly and Banerjee Publish on Soft Energy

Published October 17, 2016

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Chelsea Schelly (SS) and Aparajita Banerjee, who recently completed her PhD degree requirements in environmental and energy policy, published “Soft Energy Paths Revisited: Politics and Practice in Energy Technology Transitions” Challenges 2016, 7(2), 16; doi:10.3390/challe7020016

From Tech Today.

On the Road: Durfee Travels to Iceland

Published October 14, 2016

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Mary Durfee (SS), participated in the Polar Law Symposium and Arctic Circle held in Akureyri and Reykjavik, Iceland, October 5-9, 2016. She gave a paper, “Free Trade: The Expected Impacts of TTIP and CETA on the Arctic” and chaired a panel devoted to Sovereignty and Its Contestation at the Poles.

Michigan Technological University sponsors US Forest Service Passport in Time Site

Published October 13, 2016

By Heather Powers

In August 2016, the Hiawatha National Forest partnered with Michigan Technological University sponsored a Passport In Time (PIT) project at the former logging settlement of Coalwood. The site was occupied by Finnish Immigrant families who cut cordwood for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company between 1900 and 1912. One goal of the project was to assess the damage caused by recent looting activities.

In an image provided by PIT, Professor LouAnn Wurst instructs members of the PIT Crew.

G.R.A.C.E Project Featured in National GIS Publication

Published October 6, 2016

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Keweenaw Time Traveler and National Park Service received media attention for their NSF-ITEST GRACE Project collaboration in Directions Magazine, a national GIS periodical. The article, G.R.A.C.E Project team creates ‘time machine’ with GIS, outlines some of the detail of the summer career education program that brought local high school students to work with the KHNP and the Keweenaw Time Traveler team as paid interns.

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