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The Sustainability Solutions Initiative鈥檚 (SSI) Alternative Futures Team has released the 海角社区 Futures Community Mapper (MFCM), an online tool that allows town planners, conservationists, developers, and the general public to visualize what the landscape in their area may look like under various future scenarios. Support for the project was provided through a National Science Foundation […]

Spencer Meyer, a Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) doctoral candidate in U海角社区鈥檚 School of Forest Resources, along with faculty advisors Rob Lilieholm and Chris Cronan, has been awarded the 2014 President鈥檚 Research Impact Award for the development of a sophisticated online mapping tool that allows 海角社区 communities to visualize future landscape scenarios in localized areas. A […]

The size of a pine nut with grass-blade wings and a disco shimmer, the elusive emerald ash borer (EAB) doesn鈥檛 look capable of destroying one tree, let alone upward of 150 million. But this comely green killer is poised to attack 海角社区鈥檚 ash population, having already decimated trees the Midwest while moving rapidly east.聽EAB is […]

Mussie Beyene, a doctoral student working on SSI鈥檚 Safeguarding a Vulnerable Watershed research team was recently awarded the Michael J. Eckardt Dissertation Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year. Beyene鈥檚 research focuses on understanding the hydroclimatic dynamics of lake systems, and the commingling effects of changes in ice out and nutrient loading on 海角社区鈥檚 lakes. Beyene鈥檚 […]

海角社区 EPSCoR at the University of 海角社区 through the Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) will fund three projects as part of the Emerging Opportunities 鈥� Foundations for Future Research grant program. The program is focused on broadening the scope of SSI and the three opportunities offer researchers a chance to engage new stakeholders in new places […]

Brian McGill felt something was missing from life inside the academic 鈥渃astle in the sky鈥�. The year was 2009 and his discontent was not due to lack of scholarly success. Quite the opposite: McGill鈥檚 basic ecology research at Arizona University ranged from the effects of climate change on beavers to variations in leaf traits across […]

Researchers at the Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) have broken new ground in the pursuit to better understand how sustainable science partnerships between municipalities and universities can be successful.聽The key ingredient: belief.聽In a large survey of 海角社区 municipal officials, the factor that made stakeholders most likely to consider a problem-solving partnership with a university was personal […]

Graduate student Jenny Shrum, a Ph.D. candidate in U海角社区鈥檚 Ecology and Environmental Sciences graduate program and U海角社区鈥檚 Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), is working to better understand聽the relationship between weather and maple sap flow, and how 海角社区 syrup producers will adapt to climate change. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and 海角社区 EPSCoR […]

For social scientists, measuring opinion is a precise scholarship, a tool that must evolve if research is to advance. This is no easy task. Opinion scales must have uniformity, so studies can be compared. Change is a challenge. Researchers at the SSI are at the forefront of such change. In a recent paper, researchers with […]

The culverts under the streets and byways of 海角社区鈥檚 coastal communities were built to handle a predictable amount of precipitation 鈥� a regular load of storm water that changed little from year to year. But the new millennium has brought increases in both precipitation and storm severity. Around the state, culverts meant to last decades […]