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The University of Michigan is very broad in scope with thousands of connections to other organizations. Here are a few examples of affiliations with sustainable organizations. Professor Rosina Bierbaum is affiliated with many organizations . She teaches courses on Climate Policy. She has been named the new Chair of the Global Environment Facility’s Science and Technical Advisory Panel, and serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Rosina is an Adaptation Fellow at the World Bank, leads the Adaptation Chapter for the Congressionally-mandated U.S. National Climate assessment, and is review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She serves on the Boards of several Foundations and NGOs and has lectured on every continent. Bierbaum served in both the executive and legislative branches of Government for two decades--as the Senate-confirmed director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Environment Division, and in multiple capacities at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Rosina was Dean of SNRE from 2001-2011. Professor Ivette Perfecto was named a Fellow with the Ecological Society of America in 2015. Professor Joan Iverson Nassauer, has been elected the first secretary of a new national organization of designers, the National Academy of Environmental Design (NAED). Professor Greg Keoleian is the Past President of the International Society of Industrial Ecology. |
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Professor Greg Keoleian is the Peter M Wege Professor of Sustainable Systems. Dr. Keoleian co-founded and serves as director of the Center for Sustainable Systems. His publications include: Clean Energy Research Center, Clean Vehicle Consortium Principal Investigators: H. Peng (Center Director), J. Ni (Deputy) Thrust Leaders: G. Keoleian, D. Manley, I. Hiskens, A. Violi, G. Rizzoni, D. Siegel, K. Saitou Sponsor: DOE Life Cycle Assessment of Food Packaging and Waste Principal Investigators: G.A. Keoleian, M.C. Heller Sponsor: Dow Chemical Company Duration: 7/1/2014- 12/31/2015 Optimizing the Environmental Performance of Food Product-Package Systems: A life Cycle Assessment of the Trade-offs Between Packaging Design and Food Waste Principal Investigators: G.A. Keoleian, M.C. Heller, S.E. Selke Sponsor: Center for Packaging Innovation and Sustainability (Michigan State University) Duration: 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2017 Sustainable Materials Selection Tool: Life Cycle Assessment of Natural Fibers For Auto Applications Principal Investigators: G.A. Keoleian, C. Kim, T. Wallington, E. Lee, D. Mielewski Sponsor: Ford Motor Company Duration: 1/1/2013-12/31/2014 Advancing Offshore Wind Power Sitting through Multi-criteria Assessment Integration Principal Investigators: J. Kelly, M.R. Moore, G.A. Keoleian, S. Adlerstein-Gonzalez Sponsor: NSF Duration: 9/1/2012 – 8/31/2015 Detroit Climate Action Collaborative: Greenhouse Gas Inventory For the City of Detroit Principal Investrigators: G.A. Keoleian Sponsor: DTE Energy Foundation Duration: May 1, 2013 – April 30, 2013. Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Battery Chemistries for Sustainable Energy Storage Principal Investigators: L. Thompson, M.S. Sanford, R.F. Savinell, G.A. Keoleian Sponsor: NSF Duration: 9/15/2012 to 8/31/2016 The Science and Engineering of Microalgae Hydrothermal Processing Sponsor: NSF EFRI-HyBi Principal Investigators: P. Savage, G. Keoleian, A. Matzger, S. Linic, N. Lin, N. Love, H. Wang Duration: September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2013 Professor Ming Xu served as a co-editor for Yale's Journal of Industrial Ecology titled "Advances in Complex Adaptive Systems and Industrial Ecology." (2015) Professor Xu contributed two articles, "Big Data and Industrial Ecology" and "Structure of the Global Virtual Carbon Network: Revealing Important Sectors and Communities for Emission Reduction", co-authored with Dow Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow Sai Liang and PhD Candidate Hua Cai (both with SNRE). Professor Newell co-authored "Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology" with PhD Candidate Sara Meerow (SNRE). Publications from Professor Arun Agrawal include the following: Institutions, co-governance, and forests in the Indian Himalaya. Studies in Comparative International Development. (with Ashwini Chhatre) Forthcoming (2007). A Greener Revolution in Making? Environmental Governance in the 21st Century.” Environment Forthcoming (2007). Forests, Governance, and Sustainability: Common Property Theory and its Contributions. International Journal of the Commons 1(1). 2006: Decentralization/Recentralization: How National Governments Maintain Control over Forest Resources. World Development (with Anne Larson and Jesse Ribot). 2006: (with Maria Carmen Lemos) Professor Jose Alfaro has published the following: (articles available here http://snre.umich.edu/profile/jose_alfaro) A Stochastic Approach to Model Dynamic Systems in Life Cycle Assessment Applying Industrial Symbiosis to Smallholder Farms: Modeling a Case Study in Liberia, West Africa Assessing The Non-Carbon Impacts Of An Emerging Bioenergy Industry Evaluating The Development And Demographics Of Electrical Grids In Third World Countries Through Agent Based Models Satisfying the Rural Residential Demand in Liberia with Decentralized Renewable Energy Schemes |
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