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CBS DETROIT: Following Phragmites Home: MTU Uses Satellite Data to Map Invasive Species in Great Lakes
December 17, 2012 >>>

MICHIGAN TECH NEWS: Following Phragmites Home: Scientists Use Satellite Data to map Invasive Species in Great Lakes Wetlands
December 17, 2012 - Phragmites australis, an invasive species of plant called common reed, grows rapidly into dense stands of tall plants that pose an extreme threat to Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Early treatment is the key to controlling Phragmites.>>>

Tech Tour Day Two: Solar Power, Star Trek Replicators, New Drugs At Michigan Tech
October 15, 2012 - CBS Detroit
Solar power, Star Trek replicators, new antiviral drugs, more green energy, and a research showplace for the Great Lakes. >>>

MTRI: Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) Research Projects Posters Presented at Michigan Tech’s Campus October 2012
October 12, 2012 - MTRI Poster Session
MTRI: Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) poster presentations were on display in the Atrium of the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building where numerous faculty and students had the chance to study them. >>>

MTRI Senior Scientist, Nancy H.F. French was recently published in American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Earth and Space Sciences (Eos) international newspaper
McKenzie, D., French, N.H.F. and Ottmar, R.D. (2012), "National database for calculating fuel available to wildfires," EOS, 93, 57-58. >>>

MTRI Research Scientist, Jessica McCarty, participated in the International Meeting on Open Burning and the Arctic:  Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation Approaches
St. Petersburg, Russia, 8-9 November 2010 (Just Released, January 2012)
In early November 2010, over seventy policymakers, scientists, activists, and academics from Russia, Europe, and North America met in St. Petersburg, Russia for a two-day conference to discuss the causes and impacts of set fires in forests, peatlands, croplands, and steppe in Northern Eurasia and North America. >>>
Link to the Cropland Burning in the Russian Federation website. >>>

STATE: Conservationists from EMU, state officials discuss invasive plant species Phragmites
November 5, 2011 - The Ypsilanti Courier
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez of Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor spoke about mapping the plants in the coastal Great Lakes by using satellite imaging radar.
The project, which is funded through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center and the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, focuses on the distribution and expansion of the plant throughout the Great Lakes Basin.
The Michigan Tech Research Institute is developing the mapping portion of the project that will identify current and potential phragmites locations on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes basin through the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar data and results from numerous field studies. >>>

Michigan Tech Researchers to Study Atmospheric Aerosols at PICO Mountain Research Observatory
October 18, 2011 - Michigan Tech News
In 2001, an atmospheric research station was established on the top of Mt. Pico, an extinct volcano in the Azores.  Mt. Pico is the highest point in the Portuguese island chain and the only spot in the mid-Atlantic where the air is high enough to escape the effects of the ocean environment.  >>>

MTRI: Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) Research Projects Posters Presented at Michigan Tech’s Campus October 2011
October 7, 2011 - MTRI Poster Session
MTRI: Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) poster presentations were on display in the Atrium of the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building where numerous faculty and students had the chance to study them. >>>

MTRI Researchers are in a Cooperative Agreement with USGS Great Lakes Science Center using radar detection to monitor invasive Phragmites in the coastal Great Lakes

This project, developed and initially funded by the USGS – Great Lakes Science Center, is focused on looking at Phragmites distribution and expansion throughout the Great Lakes basin. Recognizing MTRI’s expertise in satellite data analysis, and more specifically imaging radar analyis, USGS employed MTRI to cooperatively work on the mapping component of this project. The USFWS became involved to provide additional support.

Michigan Tech News - September 2010
WWJ-950 - September 2010
Phsorg.com - September 2010

Watch the "life in the field" video submitted to the American Geological Institute contest, winning third place - August 2010

Michigan Tech and MTRI Researchers Study Bridge Health
April 6, 2010 - HOUGHTON
Using never-before-used technology, researchers at Michigan Technological University hope to monitor the health of bridges from a distance .

In a $2.8 million project, Tess Ahlborn, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, will lead a team of two dozen Michigan Tech researchers, all working to identify and develop the best remote-sensing technologies for monitoring the health of bridges at a distance.>>>

Senate committees highlight invasive species impact on Great Lakes

LANSING — The Senate Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee and Senate Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Recreation Committee held a joint hearing today to highlight the impact that Asian carp and other invasive species will continue to have on the Great Lakes if further action is not taken. >>>

Michigan Tech Research Institute Image Analyst Receives Top Honor in Field

Dr. Chuck Olson, has been doing image interpretation and analysis for more than half a century.  Now the senior image analyst at MTRI in Ann Arbor has been recognized for his contributions with one of the highest honors his professional society can confer: Honorary Member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). >>>

Michigan Tech Research Institute Receives NIH Grant to Study Wildfires, Health

Where there’s smoke, there may be health risks. And where there’s climate change, there may be more—and more intense—wildfires. What does that mean for the health of people downwind from the smoke>>>

MercuryNews.com - Study asks: Will warmer world bring harmful smoke?
2009 - San Jose
As global warming makes wildfires more likely, scientists are trying to learn how bad the smoke is for the health of people who live downwind.

Researchers at Michigan Technological University's research center in Ann Arbor are heading the study. A $452,000 federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health funds the first year.

Other researchers are environmental engineer Tyler Erickson and geological and mining engineer Shiliang Wu from Michigan
Tech, Michele Ginsberg of San Diego County (Calif.) Public Health Services, and University of Maryland geographer Tatiana
Loboda.>>> (secure)

NASA
2009 - Google Earth Application Maps Carbon's Course
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, particularly when the picture is used to illustrate science. Technology is giving us better pictures every day, and one of them is helping to explain the behavior of a greenhouse gas...>>>

Nature
2009 - News Feature
Tundra's Burning - Lightning and fires on the Arctic tundra seem to be on the rise...>>>

Chicago Tribune
2009 - Michigan Tech, Army Corps to study nation's shores
DETROIT — Researchers from Michigan's far north and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lab in steamy Vicksburg, Miss., have formed an alliance to improve tools for monitoring pollution along the nation's shorelines...>>>

Michigan Tech
2009 - Michigan Tech Partners with Army Corps of Engineers' Environmental Lab
Michigan Tech and the US Army Corps of Engineers' Environmental Laboratory in Vicksburg have signed an educational and research partnership agreement that opens the door to a broad range of research projects, faculty exchanges and student internships...>>>

2008 - Research Magazine, Alaskan Adventure
At the Bering Glacier camp on the edge of Vitus Lake, near the south-central coast of Alaska, the campus contingent worked alongside Robert Shuchman, codirector of the Michigan Tech Research Institute… >>>

2008 – Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
MTRI’s scientists and engineers support a Bureau of Land Manage­ment (BLM) and US Geological Survey (USGS) hydrological study of the Bering Glacier–the largest and longest glacier in continental North America… >>>

Mining Gazette
September 25, 2008
Studying your Sleep - Tech research group, U of M taking innovative steps… >>>

Alaska Report
June 4, 2007
New measurements have confirmed that North America's largest glacier has been melting away about twice as fast as scientists previously thought… >>>

Michigan Tech Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences News and Events
August 2007
Michigan Tech research professors and students recently visited the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) projects in Alaska… >>>

Detroit Free Press
May 11, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The Bering Glacier, the biggest in North America, is melting at a faster rate than was believed, according to a research group based in Ann Arbor… >>>

Michigan Tech
2007 edition of Michigan Tech's Research Magazine
March 2007 — A four-page article (pp. 16-19) describing the Ann Arbor Research Institute…

Michigan Tech Acquires Altarum Research Division
SEPT. 29, 2006 — Michigan Technological University has entered into an agreement with the Altarum Institute of Ann Arbor to purchase its Environmental and Emerging Technologies Division (EETD)… >>>

MTRI Announcement Letter
We are pleased to announce that on October 1, 2006, Altarum’s Environmental and Emerging Technologies Division (EETD) (all personnel, equipment and contracts/grants) will be divested and become the Ann Arbor based Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)… >>>