Adam Wellstead (SS) has published “The neglect of governance in forest sector vulnerability assessments: structural-functionalism and ‘black box’ problems in climate change adaptation planning,” in Ecology and Society 18(3): 23 (2013).http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss3/art23/
From Tech Today.
Carol MacLennan (SS) presented a paper, “Working Sugar in Hawai`i: Labor and Environmental Change in Remote Oceania” at the European Society for Environmental History biennial meeting in Munich, Germany, on Aug. 22.
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Jonathan Robins (SS) has published “Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire,” in Jonathan Curry-Machado (ed.), Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
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Bioenergy Must Be Sustainable
The National Science Foundation is funding a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to help researchers, policymakers, industry leaders and others investigate the effects of mass biofuel production on human communities and natural systems. The Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI) manages the RCN program at Michigan Tech.
Partnerships for Research and Education (PIRE) is another NSF-funded project that grew out of RCN. PIRE,’s lead researcher is Kathleen Halvorsen, a professor of natural resource policy at Michigan Tech. The PIRE team is studying impacts from bioenergy production in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the U.S. and Argentina.
“We’re working to fill the research gaps in bioenergy production so we can maximize the benefits and minimize the negative impacts,” Halvorsen explains. “Another thing we want to do is improve policy in these countries to support the research and development of bioenergy.”
Read more at Laboratory Equipment.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is providing short video course tours made by faculty with winning courses in the first Creative Canvas Course Contest (C-4). Richelle Winkler had a winning Canvas course for SS3315. The video tours are recommended by the CTL as a Tip of the Week.
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PI Judith Perlinger (CEE/CWS) and Co-PIs Shiliang Wu (GMES/CWS) and Emma Norman (SS/CWS) have been awarded a $1,450,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation for “CNH: Managing Impacts of Global Transport of Atmosphere-Surface Exchangeable Pollutants in the Context of Global Change.”
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Carol MacLennan (SS) has received $6,200 from the Keweenaw National Historical Park for a 20 month research project “Oral History of Torch Lake Copper Reclamation, 1940-1970.”
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Celebrating 150 years
Events marking Hancock’s sesquicentennial year continue
The celebration for the 150th anniversary of Hancock has included talks and presentations on subjects such migration, influential people and significant events, and the next four months will include a continuation of those concepts.
On Oct. 8, Anderson said local historian Larry Lankton will give a talk at the FAHC (Finlandia’s Finnish American Heritage Center) on Hancock’s contribution to the development of the Portage Lake region.
“We had a lot of industry in the city, too,” he said.
There were saw mills and other industrial businesses, many of which supported the copper mines.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Kurt Hauglie.
Digging for copper predates European settlers in the Keweenaw by 7,000 years
Susan Martin, retired professor from the Michigan Technological University Department of Social Science, has written a book about the use of copper by ancient people in the Lake Superior region.
She said the title of the book, “Wonderful Power,” was a term used by a 19th century Ojibwa man to describe copper.
Jo Urion, Keweenaw National Historical Park historian, said park officials work with tribal members whenever work is planned on properties that are eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including archeological sites.
Jessica Koski, mining technical assistant for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, said copper has traditionally been an important part of Ojibway/Anishinaabe people of the Keweenaw, and it still is.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Kurt Hauglie.
Timothy Scarlett (SS) has received $10,000 from the Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission for a 20-month long research project “2013 Public Archaeology at the Cliff Mine.”
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