Recent Events

New Awards

• 9/2009. United States Department of Agriculture: "Limiting Bird Damage to Fruit Crops: A Planning Program to Identitify Research Directions for the Future", Catherine Lindell, Primary Investigator.

• 6/2009. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences: "Bird and Bat Effects on Arthropod Densities and Herbivory in Tropical Forest Restoration Sites". Emily Morrison (Catherine Lindell, advisor).

• 4/2009. National Areonautics and Space Administration:"China's Urbanization and its Sustainability under Future Climate Change", Peilei Fan, Primary Investigator, joined by Joe Messina and Nathan Moore.

• 9/2008. National Science Foundation Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): "Globalization and the Connection of Remote Communities: Environmental Implications", Daniel Kramer and Gerald Urquhart, co-Primary Investigators.

• May 2008. National Areonautics and Space Administration, Earth & Space Science Fellowship program: Carolina Santos "Complex Land Use & Cover Trajectories in the Northern Choco Bioregion of Columbia".

Book Published

The proceedings of the NATO workshop held October 2007 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan have been published. Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts (Jiaguo Qi and Kyle Evered,editors) was released by Springer Press during 2008 and is available in hard- and soft cover.

Workshops & Seminars

• 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 (Jenni and Lindsay are pictured below right) introduced the group of 40 combined youngsters and their grandparents to the Center's Work.

• Center faculty member Manuel Colunga-Garcia attended the International Congress on Sustainable Development and Natural Resource Management in Bermejillo, Durango, Mexico during October 2008. A partnership between MSU and the Universidad Autonoma Chapingo is part of the US-Mexico TIES (Training, Internships, Exchanges & Scholarships) program

• Center faculty member Catherine Lindell was an invited speaker at a Tropical Forest Restoration and Conservation Biology workshop funded by the National Science Foundation. The workshop was held in late July 2008 at Las Cruces Biological Station in Costa Rica, around which Catherine does field work.

• Spring 2008 College of Social Science Commencement Speaker Jean Palutikof held round table discussion May 1. Dr. Palutikof is Head of the Technical Support unit for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), based in the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the UK Government Meteorological Office. The IPCC team was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the "assessment of current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability." The award is shared with Former US Vice President Al Gore.

  Commencement speaker

Dr. Jean Palutikof, 3 May 2008

• Dr. Ademola Braimoh, Executive Director of the Global Land Project's Sapporo Nodal Office, spoke at a seminar held at CGCEO on April 15, 2008. Dr. Braimoh addressed " Land Use Change and Environmental Sustainability: Examples from recent resarch of the GLP" (http://www.globallandproject.org/)

Director Jiaguo Qi with Dr. Braimoh

Honors & Distinctions

Faculty member Catherine Lindell's opinion piece, The Value of Animal Behavior in Evaluations of Restoration Success, was listed as the top-accessed article in the magazine Restoration Ecology for 2008.

Graduates Tara Lalonde (Master's) and Lindsay Campbell (Bachelor's) were named among the outstanding Geography Students of the Year for 2008.

CGCEO Graduates

Students who have completed their degree programs

News Archive

2008/06/26 Grandparents University

2007 Update Newsletter from December 5 2007 Center-wide lunch meeting

NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Environmental Problems of Central Asia and Their Economic, Social and Security Impacts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, October 1-5, 2007

NEESPI Workshop, Urumqi China, Sept 16-20, 2007

2007/06/27 Grandparents University

2007/05/02 Seminar Series

2007/03/16 Center Open House

2006/11/08 NEESPI Conference, Beijing, China

2005/February 2-5 LCLUC Conference Harbin, China

The Center for Global Change & Earth Observations, Michigan State University
218 Manly Miles Building, 1405 S. Harrison Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48823, Phone: (517) 432-7774