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Improving the health of Michigan’s fishes

Published on February 1, 2021
Thomas Loch, who leads the Aquatic Animal Disease Ecology Program of the MSU Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, and his team perform an array of clinical and diagnostic analyses on fish in Michigan.
Remembering a true champion of conservation

Published on February 1, 2021
Bill Porter — a beloved researcher, mentor and the first Boone and Crockett Chair of Wildlife Conservation at MSU — died in October 2020. He was 69.
MSU Quantitative Fisheries Center meeting dire modeling, decision-making needs for Great Lakes fishery management

Published on February 1, 2021
Nearly two decades ago, scientists at Michigan State University seized an opportunity to add their expertise in sophisticated quantitative methods to the fold through an initiative called the Quantitative Fisheries Center.
Creating innovative models to assess spread, possible management of deadly chronic wasting disease

Published on February 1, 2021
Researchers in the Boone and Crockett Quantitative Wildlife Center are taking on the insidious deer disease.
Scientists to global policymakers: treat fish as food to help solve world hunger

Published on January 18, 2021
Fish provide 17% of the animal protein consumed globally and are rich in micronutrients and essential fatty acids. In Ambio experts argue seeing fish in a food system perspective.
Ships take environmentally friendly path

Published on January 11, 2021
Ships passing through the Aleutian Islands are heeding advisories to stay further from shore for safety.
MSU researcher receives Michigan Department of Natural Resources grant to continue lake sturgeon study

Published on January 11, 2021
Kim Scribner, a professor in the MSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, has received a $780,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for research to restore declining lake sturgeon populations in Michigan.
Pandas’ popularity ‘umbrella’ not protecting neighbors

Published on January 4, 2021
Doubt is cast on the long-held hope that the conservation protections granted pandas and other adored threatened species extended to their wildlife neighbors, calling for broader conservation efforts.
MSU researchers part of $4.4 million grant to examine spread of infectious disease by migratory birds

Published on December 17, 2020
Researchers at Michigan State University are partnering with colleagues from the U.S. and four other countries to develop biosurveillance plans to monitor and prevent infectious disease spread by migratory birds.
Addressing humans’ voracious consumption of nature

Published on December 15, 2020
In a collection of essays by leaders is sustainability sciences curated by the UK's Royal Society, Jianguo "Jack" Liu links global appetites to biodiversity loss
Citizen science bioblitz events evolve during novel coronavirus pandemic

Published on November 30, 2020
A bioblitz pairs community members with researchers in an effort to identify as many species as possible at a given location during a specific timeframe. During the pandemic, researchers have had to adapt the event structure.
Cleaning up the Detroit River

Published on November 24, 2020
2020 was another good year for habitat restoration and sediment investigation on the Detroit River but water levels created some unexpected issues.
Farms, tables and revealing vast impacts between and beyond

Published on November 17, 2020
A unique study in Nature Communications examines how food, energy, water and greenhouse gases create a vast front in the battle to feed the planet.
CANR names Roloff to lead Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Published on November 17, 2020
Gary Roloff, Ph.D., named chairperson for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
Li heads for the clouds with cyber fellowship

Published on November 11, 2020
CSIS's Yingjie Li named an MSU Cloud Computing Fellow