Timothy Scarlett is the principal investigator on a research project that received $20,000 in a co-op/joint agreement from the National Park Service, Isle Royale National Park. The project is entitled “A Proposal for Archaeological Testing at the Ghyllbank Townsite (20.IR.0224), Isle Royale National Park, Keweenaw County, Michigan.” This is a 16-month project.
From Tech Today.
The Department of Social Sciences would like to congratulate the 2015-2016 graduates from our Environmental and Energy Policy (EEP), Industrial Archaeology (IA), and Industrial Heritage and Archaeology (IHA) graduate programs.
Audrey Mayer co-authored a paper titled “How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science and Policy” in BioScience. Mayer will appear on the podcast BioScience Talks (bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com) on June 8, 2016.
ScienceCodex, a science news website, published an article about Mayer’s BioScience journal article on the need for policymakers to pay attention to landscape ecology to make informed decisions for managing climate change, land use and urbanization.
Read more in a guest blog by Mayer in MTU’s Unscripted: Science and Research.
We’re living in a time of rapid environmental change. What will future environmental historians think of us? What events will become turning points that might make the future more sustainable–or less sustainable?
Students in Professor Langston’s undergraduate US Environmental History class at Michigan Tech created timelines that explore compelling current events. Some of these events may have the potential to change our shared environmental futures.
Welcome to environmental histories of the future! Please explore the website at http://environmentalhistoriesofthefuture.weebly.com/ and share it with your friends.
Matt Durocher (MS IA) and Kevin Brefka (Anthropology) presented a new online mapping tool to the Calumet Historic District Commission at their monthly meeting. The tool will allow the Commission to more effectively manage the historical assets in the district as well as use the tool to provide important building information to prospective developers. The tool was created for their class project in Professor Don Lafreniere’s GIS for Social Sciences class. You can see the tool at http://calumethdc.keweenawhistory.com
Jonathan Robins has been awarded a grant from the Pasold Research Fund. The grant supports publication of photographs in Robins’ forthcoming book, “Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic,” University of Rochester Press. The Pasold Research fund, a UK-based charity, supports research into the history of textiles.
Adam Wellstead was a co-author in the paper “To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy:Reduce Ambiguity as Much as Uncertainty” in Public Administration Review.
Professor Don Lafreniere along with Professor Sarah Scarlett (SS) and PhD Candidate (IHA) John Arnold have been awarded $259,882 from the National Endowment of the Humanities for a project entitled “Copper Country Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure.” The project will be known publicly as the “Keweenaw Time Traveler.” Learn more at keweenawhistory.com
From Tech Today.
Jonathan Robins has been awarded the 2016 Dean’s Fellowship by the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. His proposal, titled “Bacon from Trees and Hogless Lard: Vegetable Fats and the Globalization of Food,” examines the changing role of animal and vegetable fats in the modern diet and the effects of food choices on human societies and the environment. The $6,500 award will support six weeks of research in Cornell University’s archival collections.
From Tech Today.
By Allison Mills –Michigan Tech News
March 25, 2016—
A study published this week in Sustainability explores the possibility for the arts to help sustain a shrunken industrial city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Community identity is a key part, and anyone who has walked down 5th Street in Calumet knows the weight of history and change. Click here to read the full article.