Regional
Mar 25, 2025
David Cannon is an assistant research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. His research focuses on understanding physical processes in the Laurentian Great Lakes and how they affect downstream ecosystem services.
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Global
Jan 13, 2025
SEAS experts are available to comment on the NASA/NOAA assessment of temperature and climate trends for 2024.
National
Mar 24, 2025
When Alena Olsen (BA ’18) first came to U-M, she thought she'd become a doctor someday, but she ended up majoring in music studies and biology with a minor in environment. She says she decided to join the Program in the Environment after taking just one course about climate change. What was more unexpected during her undergraduate studies, though, was a chance introduction to rugby—a club women’s sport at U-M—which would set her on a path to becoming a professional athlete and bringing home an Olympic medal from the Paris Olympics in 2024. Olsen uses her platform as a professional athlete to promote sustainability.
SEAS Perspectives
Mar 20, 2025
The SEAS Trash Club hosts mending events whose benefits include repairing clothes instead of buying new ones and fostering community.
Faculty in the Media
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Alumni in the News
Feb 10, 2025
The North American Great Lakes are a massive and precious system of five lakes that hold around 20% of the Earth’s freshwater, but did you know there’s an even larger system of Great Lakes in Africa? Like many of us, this was a less-explored topic for Ted Lawrence (MS ’05, PhD ’15) who, when pursuing a master’s degree at SEAS, landed an internship at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. It was here he was exposed to research on Lake Victoria, one of the seven African Great Lakes, and what set him on the path he’s on today, supporting African scientists, and especially women scientists, working on freshwater.
