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EEGS student given Technology Innovation Award
In April, Matthew Claucherty, a GIS major in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences won a Technology Innovation Awards for Students from the Educational Technology and Resource Policy Committee. Congratulations, Matt! Learn more about Claucherty's award winning project.
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Native Plant Area Offers Learning Opportunities
The native plant area located down campus is an outdoor study area that can be used by classes for long-term monitoring of vegetation, insects, birds and even small mammals. Professor Ron Sundell is currently looking for students to volunteer in the month of June to help plant some of the 16,000 native plants. To volunteer, e-mail rsundell@nmu.edu or call 906-227-1359.
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During the winter, EEGS professor John Anderton led a snowshoe tour at Presque Isle park. The tour explained the geographic history of the area and the impact humans have had on it. Learn more. 
As part of his work in GC337 (computer cartography), Anthony Gerzetich put up new and improved trial maps out at the Blueberry Ridge cross country ski trails (Sands Township, Marquette) as a service to the local skiers. The map is available for 
NMU students, paired with the University of Michigan Biological Station and NMU adjunct instructor Teresa Bertossi from the U.P. Land Conservancy, banded young piping plovers. These birds are an endangered species that spends a short time in the Great Lakes region. 
Susy Ziegler is department head of the Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department. She studies changes in northern forests of eastern North America. A new research interest of hers is biodiversity and conservation in the boreal forests in the Upper Great Lakes region and Scandinavia. Read her 
