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Urban Forest Strike Team Partnership Receives Honor Award from the U.S. Forest Service
Posted: September 19th, 2018
Post Tags: David Bloniarz, Richard Harper, Urban Forestry
The Urban Forest Strike Team (UFST) Partnership has been awarded a 2017 Honor Award by the U.S. Forest Service, Eastern Region/Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, for “Delivering Benefits to the American People.” Kathleen Atkinson, Area Director and Regional Forester for the Eastern Region, presented the Honor awards at an event in Milwaukee on February […]
Alison Bates Co-awarded NSF Grant for Multi-disciplinary Offshore Wind Study
Posted: September 19th, 2018
Post Tags: Alison Bates, Offshore Wind, SES
Courtesy of College of Natural Sciences Multi-disciplinary group developing infrastructure for offshore wind September 17, 2018 A team of scientists including Alison Bates, environmental conservation and School of Earth & Sustainability, and Sanjay Arwade, civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) Planning Grant to identify with industry partners the key priorities for offshore wind. The project brings together those with […]
PhD Student, Tanya Lama Helps Create First-ever Whole Genome for the Canada Lynx
Posted: September 14th, 2018
Post Tags: Graduate Students, Stephen DeStefano, Wildlife
Click on for full story: Jennifer Vashon of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, left, and UMass lynx team coordinator, Tanya Lama, with an adult male lynx from northern Maine whose DNA was used to create first-ever whole genome for the species. The lynx has since been released to the wild. […]
Grace Casselberry, PhD Student, Receives NOAA Scholarship to Study Florida’s Shark-Tarpon Ecosystem
Posted: August 1st, 2018
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