http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/ News from UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources en Copyright 2008 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:07:50 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected mircobiology doctoral student Joyce Cueto as a 2008-2011 award recipient of the ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship. Cueto is awarded up to $21,000 annual stipend for three years to conduct... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/10/pmb_grad_student_awarded_fello.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/10/pmb_grad_student_awarded_fello.php Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:07:50 -0800 Even when it was just an idea, Professor Dara O'Rourke's plan to deliver environmental, social responsibility, and public health information about consumer products directly to shoppers was making headlines. Now, after an extended leave from campus to pursue the project... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/professors_startup_company_emp.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/professors_startup_company_emp.php Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:47:32 -0800 CNR Forestry alumnus Mike Jani has had a big transition on his hands this summer as the Mendocino Redwood Company took possession of the holdings of the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) in Humboldt County, Calif. Jani is president and... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/ushering_out_treesitters_fores.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/ushering_out_treesitters_fores.php Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:21:40 -0800 W. Michael Hanemann, professor of agricultural and resource economics, has received the 2008 European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics. From the prize selection committee: Excellence in our field comes in many forms, which include the following: publishing an article... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/michael_hanemann_receives_euro.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/michael_hanemann_receives_euro.php ARE Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:58:30 -0800 Larry Karp, professor of agricultural and resource economics, and Jinhua Zhao, an economist at Iowa State University (and Berkeley ARE Ph.D.) were recently named winners of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements research paper competition. As reported in Breakthroughs... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/awardwinning_paper_prescribes.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/awardwinning_paper_prescribes.php Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:23:44 -0800 Professor Garrison Sposito (ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences) was one of 15 scientists and engineers honored in a special symposium of the American Chemical Society, entitled “Legends of Environmental Chemistry,” at its fall, 2008 annual meeting in Philadelphia. Sposito is internationally recognized for... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/geochemist_garrison_sposito_a.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/geochemist_garrison_sposito_a.php Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:17:10 -0800 There have been many exciting changes for at CNR's Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) -- formerly the Geospatial Imaging & Informatics Facility (GIIF). The facility has a new and improved website, gif.berkeley.edu, with simplified navigation and a useful search tool, making... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/geospatial_innovation_facility.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/geospatial_innovation_facility.php Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:34:20 -0800 CNR graduate student Rebecca Carter volunteers as a biology teacher at San Quentin prison as part of the Prison University Project. The project offers inmates the chance to take classes towards earning college degrees.... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/teaching_biology_at_prison_uni.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/teaching_biology_at_prison_uni.php Education and Outreach Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:35:55 -0800 Damon Lisch, Ph.D., a research professional in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Plant Genome Research Program. The four-year, $1.4 million award supports research on the ways in which... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/14_m_grant_funds_pmb_researche.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/14_m_grant_funds_pmb_researche.php Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:34:22 -0800 Professor Barbara Allen-Diaz has always been a little ahead of the curve. After fast-tracking through her M.S./Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 4 years, Allen-Diaz was snapped up by the U.S. Forest Service, only to be lured back to Cal to... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/a_nobel_cause.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/09/a_nobel_cause.php Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:58:51 -0800 A policy paper by University of California Berkeley economist David Roland-Holst says that greenhouse gass "offsets," a popular strategy for meeting carbon emissions, should play only a limited role in cap-and-trade programs. Think Globally, Innovate Locally: Offsets and the Risks... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/the_risks_of_outsourcing_clima.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/the_risks_of_outsourcing_clima.php Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:04:32 -0800 Several changes in CNR's senior leadership go into effect with the new semester. Bob Buchanan Bob Buchanan, professor of plant biology and winner of CNR's 2007 Career Achievement Award, has been named Executive Associate Dean of the College. He will... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/senior_leadership_changes_at_c.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/senior_leadership_changes_at_c.php Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:50:15 -0800 Virologist Britt Glaunsinger, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, has won a W. M. Keck Foundation grant, an award given to innovative young scientists in the area of biomedical research. The grant, which totals up... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/university_virologist_named_ke.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/university_virologist_named_ke.php Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:56:46 -0800 This summer, 40 environmental professionals from around the world once again converged in Berkeley to attend the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP). This certificate program in sustainable environmental management links participants to state-of-the-art environmental and natural resource science and policy... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/beahrs_elp_2008.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/08/beahrs_elp_2008.php Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:36 -0800 Learning at CNR takes you out of the classroom and puts you in the lab and the field - where you don't just read about science - you create it.... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/07/get_research_experience_at_cnr.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2008/07/get_research_experience_at_cnr.php Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:44:04 -0800