Stories indexed under: Environmental studies

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  • UW–Madison names finalists for Nelson Institute director Feb. 14, 2012 UW-Madison has named three finalists for the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
  • Excitement builds as environmental studies major opens to students Sept. 26, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new environmental studies major was mentioned in a U.S. News and World Report article that spotlighted nine “hot college majors” from around the nation. The mention of the new major came as students began signing up for the new undergraduate major in environmental studies at UW-Madison.
  • Unique cooperative class gets national view of popular conservation technique May 31, 2011 Using a national approach to studying a complex question of environmental policy, Adena Rissman, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, guided a graduate seminar that examined the use of conservation easements in Wisconsin.
  • Human impacts of rising oceans will extend well beyond coasts May 31, 2011 Identifying the human impact of rising sea levels is far more complex than just looking at coastal cities on a map.
  • Two selected as American Geophysical Union fellows Feb. 25, 2010 Two University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have been named fellows of the American Geophysical Union, a distinction made for exceptional scientific contributions and eminence in the Earth or space sciences.
  • Major study links malaria mosquitoes to Amazon deforestation June 25, 2009 In one of the most field-intensive efforts to explore the connection between malaria and tropical deforestation, a team led by Jonathan Patz, a specialist in the link between environment and health at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison, has established a strong correlation between the extent of forest destruction and the incidence of the Amazon's most dangerous malaria vector, the mosquito Anopheles darlingi.
  • Students help New Orleans wetlands June 25, 2009 A project led by students at UW-Madison and designed to restore New Orleans wetlands damaged by Hurricane Katrina recently took a major step forward.
  • Photo of lioness Research uncovers surprising lion stronghold in war-torn central Africa Jan. 29, 2009 Times are tough for wildlife living at the frontier between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Armies are reportedly encamped in a national park and wildlife preserve on the Congolese side, while displaced herders and their cattle have settled in an adjoining Ugandan park.
  • Deer Common soil mineral degrades the nearly indestructible prion Jan. 14, 2009 In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town.
  • Harvesting switchgrass Nations that sow food crops for biofuels may reap less than previously thought Jan. 13, 2009 Global yields of most biofuels crops, including corn, rapeseed and wheat, have been overestimated by 100 to 150 percent or more, suggesting many countries need to reset their expectations of agricultural biofuels to a more realistic level.
  • Restoring order: UW Arboretum runoff solutions combine ecology and engineering Oct. 8, 2008 In spring 2008, a class of undergraduate and graduate engineering students studied a section of Wingra Marsh to learn more about the hydroecologic effects of the massive stormwater inflow. "Stormwater management infrastructure throughout the Arboretum is failing due to age and increased flows of runoff from the surrounding watershed," says David Liebl, a UW-Madison engineering professional development faculty associate who chairs the Arboretum stormwater committee.
  • UW-Madison students restore New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward bayou June 4, 2008 A group of UW-Madison students are working to help restore the Bayou Bienvenue, an urban wetland in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, to ecological health.
  • Photo of Mary Langston Professor blends ecology, history April 21, 2008 As a University of Washington graduate student in the late 1980s, Nancy Langston traveled to a national park in Zimbabwe to study an endangered bird. She came back with a resolve to know more about people.
  • WAGE awards three research collaborative grants related to globalization April 10, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) announces the three winners of its research collaborative competition, each receiving $100,000 during a three-year period.