Don Lafreniere, project leader for the GIS Resources and Applications for Career Education project (GRACE) was interviewed for a story on GRACE by the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette. Read the story here.
Erin Pischke (SS PhD graduate/Post Doc), Barry Solomon (SS Emeritus) and Adam Wellstead (SS) recently published “A Historical Analysis of US Climate Change Policy in the Pan-American Context” in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
Last Friday the Tech Board approved the proposal for a new bachelor’s of science degree in sustainability science and society offered by the Department of Social Sciences. Click here for the front page Daily Mining Gazette piece on the new degree.
A $63,000 grant provided by the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) program will allow researchers from Michigan Tech University and the Western Upper Peninsula Planning & Development Region (WUPPDR) “identify strategies to help public power utilities provide their customers access to solar energy” in the Villages of Baraga and L’Anse according to the story by UPMatters.com published on February 22, 2018. The research team includes Chelsea Schelly (MTU), Brad Barnette (WUPPDR), Bob Lafave (Village of L’Anse/MTU), Emily Prehoda (MTU), Roman Sidortsov (MTU), and Richelle Winkler (MTU).
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Chelsea Schelly is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $36,943 research and development contract with WPPI Energy. Richelle Winkler is the Co-PI on the project “Community Solar in Rural Communities.” This is a 20-month project.
Research by Sarah Scarlett (SS) and Dan Trepal, a PhD student in Industrial Heritage and Archeology, was featured in the Detroit Free Press. The article describes how the Keweenaw Time Traveler can be used to understand how Copper Country towns have changed over time.
Industrial Heritage and Archeology PhD graduate John Arnold and Don Lafreniere (SS/GLRC) published the article: “Creating a Longitudinal, Data-driven 3D Model of Change Over Time in a Postindustrial Landscape Using GIS and CityEngine,” in the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development.
Don Lafreniere (SS/GLRC) recently published the “Routledge Companion to Spatial History (Routledge, UK, 2018, 636 pp.), which he co-edited with Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, UK) and Don Debats (Flinders University, Australia).
Lafreniere also co-authored three chapters of the 28-chapter volume: “Introduction” (chapter 1), “Following Workers of the Industrial City across a Decade: Residential, Occupational, and Workplace Mobilities” (chapter 14), and “‘A city of the white race occupies its place’: Kanaka Row, Chinatown, and the Indian Quarter in Victorian Victoria” (chapter 15).
Angie Carter recently published the co-written article, “Public Action for Public Science: Re-imagining the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture” in Capitalism Nature Socialism Vol. 0, Iss. 0, 2018 in a special ecofeminism edition. The article analyzes community based efforts to rebuild the Center after its defunding by the State legislature.