Portage Library Hosts Environmental Assessment Presentation about Torch Lake
The Portage Lake District Library will host a panel discussion about the “Impacts of Legacy Mining on Torch Lake” on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m.
Michigan Tech faculty members Noel Urban (CEE), Carol MacLennan (SS) and Judith Perlinger (CEE) will give a three-part presentation on Torch Lake and will answer questions from the audience afterwards.
Adam Wellstead (SS) has co-authored “The Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Policy Advisory Systems: Policy Formulation and the Tools of Policy Appraisal,” in Public Policy and Administration. It is available online.
doi: 10.1177/0952076714524810
Hugh Gorman, professor of environmental history and policy, won one of two second prizes awarded for GAIA Best Paper Award 2013, “Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance.”
GAIA Best Paper Award
One Gold, Two Silver
GAIA’s Editorial Board also agreed on two second prizes. They were awarded to Thomas Jahn, Wissenschaft für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung braucht eine kritische Orientierung and Hugh S. Gorman, Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance.
Guest article: Minewater Geothermal on the Keweenaw Peninsula
On December 12, 2013, a group of student researchers from Michigan Technological University presented their report on “Exploring the Social Feasibility of Minewater Geothermal in Calumet.” The students, led by Prof. Richelle Winkler, had spent their Fall semester devising and implementing a study to aid the Calumet community in the process of deciding whether and how we might best use this untapped resource.
Social Sciences graduate student Emma Schwaiger (IAH) and Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Ankita Mandleia (EEP) will present “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understand Pollution: PCBs in Torch Lake,” which describes some aspects of their work (with professor Carol MacLennan, et al.) on the Torch Lake project– that seeks to document the historic mine production of copper and PCB waste. The presentation will be held Friday, March 28, at 4 p.m., in AOB 201.
Guy Meadows (GLRC) and Carol MacLennan (SS) have received $199,406 from the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget and Environmental Quality, for a research project titled ” Source Identification of PCBs in Torch Lake.”
From Tech Today.
The Cliff Mine Archeology Project Blog
Site Description—Part 1
What was (and is now) the ‘Function/Use’ of the Cliff?
The Classification of the Cliff Property
Temporal Boundaries
First Things First: Defining Boundaries
What is the National Register of Historic Places?
The blog is back. Happy 2014!
Payments to Upstream Landowners to Protect Water Downstream: How Well is that Working
Two researchers from Michigan Technological University have joined with natural and social scientists from three other universities and the US Forest Service to study the impact of Mexico’s water payment program.
“Our findings will help governments, non-governmental organizations, the World Bank and others who might promote programs like these to design their programs to be as effective as possible,” said Alex Mayer, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Tech and co-principal investigator (PI) on Tech’s part of the research.
The project is highly interdisciplinary, Mayer added. That’s why his co-PI is Kathleen Halvorsen, a professor of natural resource policy at Michigan Tech.
“We want to know what the landowners and the communities downstream from them know about watersheds and pollution,” Halvorsen explained.
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Jennifer Donovan.
Adam Wellstead (SS) has published “Responding to a Forest Catastrophe: The Emergence of New Governance Arrangements in Southern California” in ISRN Economics Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 982481.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/982481
From Tech Today.
Solar energy for Greek houses
Dr. Chelsea Schelly is launching a new project in the next month that will give college students in the Houghton-Hancock area the opportunity to test out a small solar generator paired up with a large solar panel mounted directly to their house.
As a sociologist, Schelly is studying the way students think about solar energy once they have exposure to this solar technology.
Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode, by Lucas Wilder.