In the News
Michigan Tech and MTRI Researchers Study Bridge Health
April 6, 2010 - HOUGHTON
Using never-before-used technology, researchers at Michigan Technological University hope to monitor the health of bridges from a distance .
In a $2.8 million project, Tess Ahlborn, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, will lead a team of two dozen Michigan Tech researchers, all working to identify and develop the best remote-sensing technologies for monitoring the health of bridges at a distance.>>>
Senate committees highlight invasive species impact on Great Lakes
LANSING — The Senate Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee and Senate Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Recreation Committee held a joint hearing today to highlight the impact that Asian carp and other invasive species will continue to have on the Great Lakes if further action is not taken. >>>
Michigan Tech Research Institute Image Analyst Receives Top Honor in Field
Dr. Chuck Olson, has been doing image interpretation and analysis for more than half a century. Now the senior image analyst at MTRI in Ann Arbor has been recognized for his contributions with one of the highest honors his professional society can confer: Honorary Member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). >>>
Michigan Tech Research Institute Receives NIH Grant to Study Wildfires, Health
Where there’s smoke, there may be health risks. And where there’s climate change, there may be more—and more intense—wildfires. What does that mean for the health of people downwind from the smoke>>>
MercuryNews.com - Study asks: Will warmer world bring harmful smoke?
2009 - San Jose
As global warming makes wildfires more likely, scientists are trying to learn how bad the smoke is for the health of people who live downwind.
Researchers at Michigan Technological University's research center in Ann Arbor are heading the study. A $452,000 federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health funds the first year.
Other researchers are environmental engineer Tyler Erickson and geological and mining engineer Shiliang Wu from Michigan
Tech, Michele Ginsberg of San Diego County (Calif.) Public Health Services, and University of Maryland geographer Tatiana
Loboda.>>> (secure)
NASA
2009 -
Google Earth Application Maps Carbon's Course
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, particularly when the picture is used to illustrate science. Technology is giving us better pictures every day, and one of them is helping to explain the behavior of a greenhouse gas...>>>
Nature
2009 - News Feature
Tundra's Burning - Lightning and fires on the Arctic tundra seem to be on the rise...>>>
Chicago Tribune
2009 - Michigan Tech, Army Corps to study nation's shores
DETROIT — Researchers from Michigan's far north and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lab in steamy Vicksburg, Miss., have formed an alliance to improve tools for monitoring pollution along the nation's shorelines...>>>
Michigan Tech
2009 - Michigan Tech Partners with Army Corps of Engineers' Environmental Lab
Michigan Tech and the US Army Corps of Engineers' Environmental Laboratory in Vicksburg have signed an educational and research partnership agreement that opens the door to a broad range of research projects, faculty exchanges and student internships...>>>
2008 - Research Magazine, Alaskan Adventure
At the Bering Glacier camp on the edge of Vitus Lake, near the south-central coast of Alaska, the campus contingent worked alongside Robert Shuchman, codirector of the Michigan Tech Research Institute… >>>
2008 – Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
MTRI’s scientists and engineers support a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Geological Survey (USGS) hydrological study of the Bering Glacier–the largest and longest glacier in continental North America… >>>
Mining Gazette
September 25, 2008
Studying your Sleep - Tech research group, U of M taking innovative steps… >>>
Alaska Report
June 4, 2007
New measurements have confirmed that North America's largest glacier has been melting away about twice as fast as scientists previously thought… >>>
Michigan Tech Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences News and Events
August 2007
Michigan Tech research professors and students recently visited the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) projects in Alaska… >>>
Detroit Free Press
May 11, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The Bering Glacier, the biggest in North America, is melting at a faster rate than was believed, according to a research group based in Ann Arbor… >>>
Michigan Tech
2007 edition of Michigan Tech's Research Magazine
March 2007 — A four-page article (pp. 16-19) describing the Ann Arbor Research Institute…
Michigan Tech Acquires Altarum Research Division
SEPT. 29, 2006 — Michigan Technological University has entered into an agreement with the Altarum Institute of Ann Arbor to purchase its Environmental and Emerging Technologies Division (EETD)… >>>
MTRI Announcement Letter
We are pleased to announce that on October 1, 2006, Altarum’s Environmental and Emerging Technologies Division (EETD) (all personnel, equipment and contracts/grants) will be divested and become the Ann Arbor based Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)… >>> |
