Community sustainability forum

Laura Judge

There will be a community forum about conservation and local sustainability on Feb. 21-22. For more information, click here.

News and Information

Advising help available

Students are invited to attend an EEGS advising party on Tuesday evening during the week of course registration. The meeting will be in 3710 West Science. Pizza and pop are provided. For further advising help, see the Fall 2012 Advising Notes.

 

Student scholarships and awards

Laura Judge (pictured) was given the 2012 outstanding graduating senior award. At Northern, she was an Environmental Science major and later added a Spanish major. Learn more about Laura and her involvement while at NMU. Learn more about scholarships many EEGS students received for the 2012-2013 school year.

Matthew Claucherty

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.

Native Plant Area

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. New plants were planted in spring and bloomed this summer.

 

Snowshoe tour by Professor Anderton
EEGS professor John Anderton will lead a snowshoe tour at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at Presque Isle park. He will explain the geographic history of the area and the impact humans have had on it. Learn more.
Students help endangered species

PloverNMU 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. Learn more.

Department now hiring

The EEGS Department is currently in the process of hiring a new Assistant
Professor of Climatology and Atmospheric Science. The position will begin in August, 2013. Click here for more information.

 

 

Department head welcome message

zieglerSusy 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 welcome message.

 

Creating Ski Map

mapAs 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 printing.

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Events

Tuesday Feb. 12
All Day Event - University Center
4 p.m. - Reynolds Recital Hall, C.B. Hedgcock Building
5 p.m. - University Center, Back Room
Wednesday Feb. 13
1 p.m. - Great Lakes Rooms, University Center
6 p.m. - University Center, Nicolet Room
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