Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Thomas Dietz was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences America's Climate Choices study; he will help lead this climate-change study that will advise Congress on environmental policy.

Bill Krepps, of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) presented the 2008 Fisheries Conservationist of the Year to Bill Taylor at the December MUCC executive committee meeting. Taylor was recognied for his internationally renowned expertise on fisheries ecology, population dynamics and Great Lakes fisheries management, as well as his 30 years of service at Michigan State University and his 16 years as chair of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Creating the Partnership for Ecosystem Research and Management (PERM) was noted as a significant example of Taylor's expertise in creating innovative partnerships. PERM brought together MSU, the MDNR and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and is regarded nationally as a unique approach to applying university research to natural resource management problems on a state and regional scale.

Kimberly Hall was featured as The Great Lakes Town Hall guest blogger the week of Oct. 13. Her articles discussed impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the Great Lakes region and strategies that can be incorporated into management and conservation to help species adapt.

Tom Dietz chaired the panel of the National Research Council that issued a report on public participation in environmental decisionmaking.

The "Household Location Choices"paper in Conservation Biology was highlighted in Nature.

MSU launched a MSU-China web site: http://special.news.msu.edu/msuinchina/. Two of the four highlights are on research by CSIS.

Science published Jack Liu and Jared Diamond's perspectives about China's environmental revolution.

Jack Liu discussed "Integrate Disciplines" in Nature.

Conservation magazine published a profile of Jack Liu's research.

PNAS published "Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services."

Jack Liu was quoted in an article on China's forests in Science. Vanessa Hull's panda collaring project was featured at NSF Web News.

WWJ TV's "Building Bridges" program and video features pandas, Wolong and some of our work in Wolong; CSIS associate Wei Liu was featured.

Nils Peterson had "Property rights and landscape planning in the intermountain west: The Teton Valley case" published in Landscape and Urban Planning.

Neil Carter received an International pre-dissertation travel award from International Studies and Programs. He used the award to study tigers in a coupled human and natural system in Nepal.

Wei Liu was selected as a FAST (Future Academic Scholars in Teaching) Fellow by MSU's Graduate School.

Jack Liu began his two-year presidency of US-IALE at the group's annual conference in Madison, Wis.

The symposium "Sources, Sinks, and Sustainability" at the 2008 annual US-IALE conference was organized by Jack Liu, Vanessa Hull, Anita Morzillo (postdoctoral fellow at USEPA), and John Wiens (lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy). A book is being planned for Cambridge University Press.

Nico Keilman presented a special seminar on “Household changes in industrialized countries: Impirical trends and modelling issues” on April 14.

Jack Liu was quoted in "China's Three Gorges Dam" in Scientific America.

Mao-Ning Tuanmu won "Honorable Mention" for the best presentation in the symposium of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.

Environmental Management published "Distribution of Economic Benefits from Ecotourism: A Case Study of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas in China."

Patricia Wright presented “Climate Change in the Tropics: News from the Rainforests of Madagascar” on March 12.

Wei Liu received a Bill Burtness Fellowship from the Rocky Mountain Goats Foundation.

Conservation Biology published Human Impacts on Regional Avian Diversity and Abundance.

James Millington published in the Jan. 30 issue of Landscape Ecology.

Science published "Revolutionizing China's Environmental Protection" in the Jan. 4 issue.