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Welcome to CGCEO
Our Purpose is to foster interdisciplinary
approaches for understanding global change at all scales using
the tools of both the social and bio-physical sciences.
The Center is also committed to applying its
research and expertise to inform both public and private
decision making on critical global environmental change issues.
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New and Familiar visitors
The Center recently hosted a delegation from the Senegal Agricultural Statistics and Data Collection Visitor Program and their USDA coordinator Terry Holland and MSU Institute for International Agriculture contact Dan Clay (Director of Global Programs in Sustainable Agri-food Systems. Center researchers held a day of workshops in the use of satellite data and modelling in agricultural applications. Concurrently, Center Adjunct Mark Cochrane of the South Dakota State University Center of Excellence was was in Michigan doing field work, and he presented a seminar "Global Climate Change - Should You be concerned?". Mark joined Qi and Dan Clay as they took the Senegalese group to the Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners for several training sessions on site.
Center Director Jiaguo Qi (L)and Dan Clay (R) flank KBS Specialist Justin Kunkle, Mark Cochrane, Gorgui Diallo, Terry Holland, Saul Moussa, Moustapha Niang, Sylvie Dasylva, Moussa Thiam, and Cheickh Fall as the group gathered at the Sundial on the grounds of the Kellogg Biological Station.
New Awards
- 2010 USDA/Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service: "Risk Analysis database for Optimal Spatio-temporal Targeting of Pathways for Specialty Crops". Manuel Colunga-Garcia, Primary Invetigator.
- 2010 MEXT (Japan's Ministry of Science and Education): "Constructing Satellite-based Land and Ecosystem Monitoring System and International Network for Food and Envronmental Intelligence". Jiaguo Qi, Primary Investigator, in collaboration with Yoshio Inoue of Japan's National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES)
- 2009 United States Department of Agriculture, CRIS: "Limiting Bird Damage to Fruit Crops: A Planning Program to Identitify Research Directions for the Future", Catherine Lindell, Primary Investigator.
- 2009 Berryman Foundation: "Bird Damage to Cherry Crops: Quantifying Impacts of Different Bird Species", Catherine Lindell, Primary Investigator.
- 2009. National Science Foundation: "Bird and Bat Effects on Arthropod Densities and Herbivory in Tropical Forest Restoration Sites", Catherine Lindell Primary Investigator - for PhD Candidate Emily Morrison's Dissertation.
- 2009. National Areonautics and Space Administration: "China's Urbanization and its Sustainability under Future Climate Change", Peilei Fan, Primary Investigator; Joe Messina, Nathan Moore and CGCEO alumnus Jianjun Ge, co-Investigators.
Recent Workshops
Dr. Catherine Lindell, organizer for Traverse City Workshop. "Limiting bird damage in fruit crops: A planning program to identify research directions for the future". Click here to view the Research Roadmap
Dr. Qi was an organizer for the NASA Workshop. "Monitoring land cover, land use and fire in agricultural and arid regions of Northern Eurasia", held in Almaty Kazakhstan in September 2009.
In late July, Qi attended the international workshop on Semi-arid study held in Changchun of Jilin Province, China, presenting on the NEESPI program and Carbon Change under Climate Change
He also presented an overview of integrative methods in land use change studies based on his work at the International Symposium on Modern Ecology which was held at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou China in June. The theme of the symposium focused on large-scale ecology and sustainability.
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