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Plenty of lithium to go around
The question was never if lithium was a good element to use in car batteries. Because of its high-energy density and the fact that it is the lightest solid element, lithium is the clear choice for...
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Waking the dead zones
Don Scavia, an ecologist and environmental engineer who has studied coastal dead zones for 25 years, says that the science and technology associated with solving the problem of hypoxia in oceans and...
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A grass-rooted steward
It’s difficult to pick a favorite spot in paradise, but SNRE Professor Bob Grese, the recently reappointed director of the Arb and Matthaei Botanical Gardens, has one.ArbGreseFaculty
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Quiz: Know Your Forest
Saginaw Forest and the Department of Forestry at U-M were both established in:A. 1878B. 1903C. 1950Most of the tree species growing in Saginaw Forest are Michigan natives.TrueFalseIn 1906, annual...
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Measuring the environmental impact of bioenergy
When it comes to life-cycle analysis, Ming Xu and Shelie Miller, two assistant professors at SNRE, aren’t taking the easy way out. Life-cycle analysis (LCA), a tool used to assess the environmental...
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Butterfly Guy
“I do a lot of stuff, but I never trivialize nature,” Phil DeVries once told a producer who was goading him to get goofy about caterpillar-ant mutualisms. Ironically, the blow-up demonstrated just the...
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From ugly schoolyard to learning gardens
What if K-12 students had design ownership over the schoolyards where they spend much of their time—the ability to shape their own landscapes? What would they create? M’Lis Bartlett, a landscape...
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Starting Up
Some dream careers are simply figments of the imagination—until they’re not.A few years ago, Hannah Erickson (M.S. ’13), hadn’t heard of biochar. Today, she is pyrolyzing food scraps into a soil...
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Regaining ground, recalling tradition
Several new initiatives at the School of Natural Resources and Environment are engaging the school with the Great Lake Region’s first natural resource managers. Nick Reo (B.S. ’97, M.S. ;02), a...
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Anthropologist takes time for tea, SNRE
The research of Sarah Besky is both flavorful and tailor-made for the interdisciplinary rich environment of the School of Natural Resources and Environment.Sarah BeskyMichigan Society of Fellows
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