Adam Wellstead (SS) has published “Beyond the black box: Forest sector vulnerability assessments and adaptation to climate change in North America” in the journal Environmental Science and Policy Vol. 35, No. 3.
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C2E2 Endowed Equipment Awards Announced
Vice President for Research David Reed has announced the following Century II Campaign Endowed Equipment Fund (C2E2) awards at the recommendation of the C2E2 Committee.
In the Department of Social Sciences, Chelsea Schelly was awarded $5,000 for Bringing Small-scale Distributed Solar Technology to Campus.
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Emma Norman (SS/GLRC) presented the keynote address at the University of Nevada–Reno’s World Water Forum titled “Governing Water across Borders: How Problems can Solve Innovative Solutions.”
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The 10th Annual Student World Water Forum took place on Friday, November 22, 2013.
Kathleen Halvorsen (SS/SFRES) has received a $200,000 grant to study interdisciplinary science teamwork associated with investigating the socioecological impacts of bioenergy development.
The InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research issued the call for Interdisciplinary Science Integration Grant proposals that study the integration of social and natural sciences.
Read more at Tech Today, by Danny Messinger.
Professor Barry Solomon (SS) has published a new book, “Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean,” New York: Springer, 2013.
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$1.45 Million Study to Address the Northbound Flow of Airborne Toxins
Half of the people in Greenland have toxic levels of PCBs in their blood. A harmful cocktail of contaminants, including mercury and dioxin, has led to fish consumption advisories in all of the Great Lakes, including Superior.
The team members are undertaking a three-pronged research effort. First, they will estimate where the pollutants originate, describe the natural systems that transport them north, and identify where the pollutants finally land. Their models will offer predictions through the year 2050 and will account for the affects of climate change and changes in land use and cover and government policy relating to ASEPs.
In addition to Judith Perlinger, scientists collaborating on the project are Noel Urban of Michigan Tech’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Shiliang Wu, who has dual appointments in Michigan Tech’s Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences/Civil and Environmental Engineering; Emma Norman of Michigan Tech’s Department of Social Sciences and Great Lakes Research Center; Hugh Gorman, Michigan Tech’s Department of Social Sciences; Joan Chadde-Schumaker, Michigan Tech’s Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences and the Western UP Center for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education; Noelle Eckley Selin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Engineering Systems Division and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Daniel Obrist of the Desert Research Institute’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences; Henrik Selin of International Relations at Boston University; and Juanita Urban-Rich, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Department of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Marcia Goodrich.
Social Sciences Brown Bag Presentation Tuesday
The social sciences department’s noon brown bag series presents, “Reflections of a Fair Historian: The Joys of World’s Fair Scholarship,” by Robert Rydell, Montana State University. The talk will take place Tuesday, Nov. 19, at noon in Chem-Sci 104b. Please contact Rebecca Graff with any question, rsgraff@mtu.edu
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Social Sciences Lecture Nov. 19
Robert Rydell, Michael P. Malone Professor of History and director, MSU Humanities Institute, Montana State University, will discuss “From Architecture to Zippers: World’s Fairs and the Invention(s) of the Modern World,” Tuesday, Nov. 19, 5 p.m., MUB Alumni Lounge.
Beginning with London’s Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851) and continuing into our own time, the Shanghai World Expo (2010), world’s fairs have shaped the modern world. After briefly examining the history (and future) of world’s fairs, Professor Rydell will explore how a series of technological inventions and innovations that debuted at world’s fairs made the world modern. Visited by well over a billion people since 1851 (the Shanghai fair alone attracted 70 million), world’s fairs mapped mental and cultural landscapes and, not incidentally, made progress seem like great fun especially when it came at the expense of “others.”
If you have any questions regarding our events, please contact: Rebecca Graff, rsgraff@mtu.edu
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Associate Professor Mary Durfee will give the talk “’Mind the Gap: Conflicting Legal Rules in the Arctic,” Friday, Nov. 15 at noon in Academic Office Building 201.
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Carol Griskavich, graduate student, Industrial Archaeology, “The Other Calumet: Steel and Subinterns in Southeast Chicagoland, Summer 2013,” Wednesday, Nov. 13 at noon in Academic Office Building 201.
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