Student Research Position (Dilley Mentorship Fellowship Program)

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Application Due Date: September 20, 2024

Transatlantic Wood Pellet Trade Demonstrates Telecoupled Benefits

Published on January 1, 2018
European demand for renewable energy resources has led to rapidly increasing transatlantic exports of wood pellets from the southeastern United States (SE US) since 2009. Disagreements have arisen over the global greenhouse gas reductions associated ...

Composition and Age Structure of a Degraded Tallgrass Oak Savanna in Central Iowa

Published on January 17, 2006
Prior to European settlement, scattered, fire-tolerant trees, a dense herbaceous understory, and dynamic disturbance patterns, including fire and drought, characterized oak savannas. In the Midwest, only 0.02% remains, mostly as degraded, isolated fr...

Causes and Consequences of Increasing Herbicide Use in Mali

Published on June 2, 2017
Haggblade, S., Smale, M., Kergna, A., Theriault, V. and Assima, A. 2017b. Causes and consequences of increasing herbicide use in Mali. European Journal of Development Research 29:648-674.

The Herbicide Revolution in Developing Countries: Patterns, Causes and Implications

Published on May 29, 2017
Haggblade, S., Minten, B., Pray, C., Reardon, T. and Zilberman, D. 2017a. The herbicide revolution in developing countries: patterns, causes and implications. European Journal of Development Research 29:533-559.

Long-term monitoring of mediterranean socio-ecological systems

Published on March 1, 2021
The montado (in Portugal) or dehesa (in Spain) is an agrosilvopastoral system found in the Iberian Peninsula. Due to its high environmental value, its protection forms part of European biodiversity strategies, but recent management trends are threate...

Safeguards for enhancing ecological compensation in Sweden

Published on May 1, 2017
Ecological compensation (EC) is being explored as a policy instrument for the European Union's 'No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services' initiative. EC is commonly associated with the Polluter-Pays Principle, but we propose the Developer-P...

Michigan Cultivars | Chestnuts

Forecasting insect activity by noting plant development and degree days

Published on July 1, 2011
Predict insect activity by watching plant development and checking the accumulation of degree days. Here’s how.

Sustainable Lighting-Retrofit Versus Dedicated Luminaires-Light Versus Power Quality

Published on December 2, 2019
For the next few years millions of fluorescent luminaires will become waste and will be replaced by light-emitting diodes-LED luminaires. According to the Cost European Cooperation in Science & Technology Program, the next step will be shifting from ...

Estimating the potential of roadside vegetation for bioenergy production. Journal of Cleaner Production

Published on June 25, 2015
The Netherlands, like other European Union countries, is under intense pressure to increase its national share of energy from renewable sources in accordance with 2020 Kyoto Protocol obligations. Bioenergy in this context is especially interesting be...

Core Content, Experience and Enlightenment of CSR in the J-League

Published on November 1, 2022
In comparison with European and American countries, the CSR of professional sports in Asian countries is affected by many factors due to differences in management system, social environment, etc. At present, the research on CSR of professional sports...

Nothing New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and Roots of US Physical Geography

Published on March 17, 2021
U.S. geomorphologists and biogeographers often cite early theoretical roots dating back to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exemplars such as Powell, Gilbert, Cowles, and Clements, or earlier European contributors like Hutton, Lyell, von ...

Citizen participation gaps and challenges in the heating transition: Learning from Dutch community initiatives

Published on January 1, 2024
The European Union has recognized the significance of community energy initiatives in the energy transition and introduced legislation to promote active consumer participation and renewable energy communities. The Netherlands, with its transition awa...

Collaboration or fragmentation? Biodiversity management through the common agricultural policy

Published on May 1, 2017
We argue that the current system of agri-environment management in the European Common Agricultural Policy is ineffective at conserving biodiversity in part because it promotes fragmentation instead of collaboration of actors, thus hindering coordina...

Managing Japanese beetles in chestnuts for 2013

Published on March 3, 2013
The 2012 season saw high populations of Japanese beetles in some Michigan orchards and growers will need to prepare to combat this potentially damaging pest in the coming season.

Black truffles grown in eastern U.S. may be less valuable lookalike species

Published on June 21, 2023
Researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Florida, have discovered that truffle producers in the eastern U.S. may be inadvertently cultivating a less flavorful species of truffle.