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approaches for understanding global change at all scales using
the tools of both the social and bio-physical sciences.
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research and expertise to inform both public and private
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MSU-Zhejiang University Partnership
The second class of students from ZJU arrived in August and started classes this fall. A reception was held on Friday August 28 at the Center so the the incoming students could meet with the returning ones, as well as with their faculty mentors, friends from ZJU, and some of the MSU staff who assisted with all the logistics of the program. The website for the MSU-ZJU 3+1+x program has been launched at www.globalchange.msu.edu/~zjumsu
In this picture, about half of each class of 3+1 students and some of their friends gather with Dr. Qi in the Manly Miles Building lobby.
Standing, back row L-R: Huiqing Huang,
Binlei Gong
, Jiaguo Qi, Junyan Tang, Jarong Guo, Yang Wu.
front row: Yali Wei, Xing (Cindy)Tong, Rui (Emma) Li, Shuyi (Sophia) Chen, Ray Chen, Guanhong Xie.
Seated: Fangjin Ye. Not pictured:
Ying Fu, Chenxiao Ling, Ying Tang, Xiaozhong Xia, Hui Xu
June 30, 2009 marked the third year of participation in this popular event. Center Faculty member Manuel Colunga Garcia, Researcher Jenni van Ravensway and Geography Master's Candidate Lindsay Campbell introduced the group of 40 combined youngsters and their grandparents to the Center's Work.
  Lindsay Campbell &
Jenni van Ravensway
New Awards
- 2009 United States Department of Agriculture, CRIS: "Limiting Bird Damage to Fruit Crops: A Planning Program to Identitify Research Directions for the Future", Catherine Lindell, Primary Investigator.
- 2009. National Science Foundation: "Bird and Bat Effects on Arthropod Densities and Herbivory in Tropical Forest Restoration Sites", Catherine Lindell Primary Investigator for PhD Candidate Emily Morrison's Dissertation.
- 2009. National Areonautics and Space Administration: "China's Urbanization and its Sustainability under Future Climate Change", Peilei Fan, Primary Investigator; Joe Messina, Nathan Moore and CGCEO alumnus Jianjun Ge, co-Investigators.
- September 2008 National Science Foundation, Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Globalization and the Connection of Remote Communities: Environmental Implications", Daniel Kramer and Gerald Urquhart, co-Primary Investigators.
Recent Workshops
Dr. Qi was an organizer for the NASA Workshop. "Monitoring land cover, land use and fire in agricultural and arid regions of Northern Eurasia", being held in Almaty Kazakhstan at the time of this writing.
In late July, Qi attended the international workshop on Semi-arid study held in Changchun of Jilin Province, China, presenting on the NEESPI program and Carbon Change under Climate Change
He also presented an overview of integrative methods in land use change studies based on his work at the International Symposium on Modern Ecology which was held at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou China in June. The theme of the symposium focused on large-scale ecology and sustainability.
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