Technical Representative:
Dorothy H. Anderson
Professor & Coordinator
Great Lakes-Northern Forest CESU
College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
115 Green Hall
1530 Cleveland Avenue N
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: (612) 624-2721
Fax: (612) 625-5212
dha@umn.edu
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Departments:
Centers:
Cedar Creek Natural History Area: Combines long-term experimentation and observation to examine the controls of successional dynamics and spatial patterning in ecosystems at the prairie-forest boundary.
Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership: Purpose is to: 1) support professional development at the graduate level of Minnesota's environmental educators and 2) enhance environmental learning and leadership through integrated research, teaching and outreach; master's level graduate program.
Center for Hardwood Ecology: Provides a quality, field-based natural resources education, research, and outreach for students, educators, scientists, and natural resources professionals; focused on improving mgmt of MN resources.
Center for Integrated Natural Resource and Agricultural Management: Links UMN with county, state, and federal agencies and organizations outside UMN that are active in natural resources and agricultural management.
Center for Natural Resource Policy and Management: Facilitates interdisciplinary studies on issues associated with natural resource management. The Center's special focus is on techniques to integrate physical, biological, and engineering sciences with social and managerial sciences.
The Center for Rural Design: The first of its kind in the nation, uses an integrative problem solving approach and research based design projects to promote communication and learning in rural communities on possible design responses to complex rural land issues.
The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs: An applied research and technology center working on significant community issues, CURA involves every college in the UMN system and works across disciplinary lines and professional boundaries.
Cooperative Park Studies Program: Provides scientific and technical knowledge to federal and state land managing agencies across the nation by carrying out social science research on human dimensions issues.'
Design Center for American Urban Landscape: Landscape develops interactive educational projects for neighborhoods and communities, a clearinghouse for information on municipal design.
Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability
Large Lakes Observatory: Focuses on the global implications of its investigations in the areas of aquatic chemistry, circulation dynamics, geochemistry, acoustic remote sensing, plankton dynamics, sedimentology and paleoclimatology.
Limnological Research Center: This facility is an open laboratory dedicated to the study of cores and samples from lakes, wetlands, bogs, and continental sequences; interdisciplinary training and research on global change and regional environmental dynamics; paleolimnology.
Midwestern Center for Urban and Community Forestry: A cooperative partnership between the US Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry and UMN Forest Resources Department.
Minnesota Center for Survey Research: Provides survey research services ; provides consultation in areas such as study and questionnaire design, survey administration, data file construction, and data analysis.
Minnesota Sea Grant: Mission is to enhance the state's coastal environment and economy through high quality research and public education programs. Research focuses on coastal communities, exotic aquatic species, the Lake Superior ecosystem, pollutants, and policy.
Natural Resources Research Institute
Raptor Center: Preserves biological diversity among raptors and other avian species through medical treatment, scientific investigation, education, and management of wild populations.
The Center for Continuing Education: Offers an active program of continuing education for natural resource professionals, policy makers, and students. Workshops, short courses, conferences, and educational publications/videos are available.
The Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program: Emphasizes research on the biological, social and economic aspects of game and nongame fisheries and wildlife management in the context of maintenance of biological diversity and integrity and sustainability of ecosystems.
The Environmental Resources Spatial Analysis Center: A unified computing environment for research on spatial analysis and modeling of natural resources and environment; A large suite of applications software for image processing, mapping, modeling, statistics, and visualization.
The Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative: Provides a forum for information transfer between scientists and practitioners and to enhance interdisciplinary interaction.
The Wilderness Research Center: Interdisciplinary research focuses on social and biophysical values associated with wilderness and wildland areas.
Tourism Center: Provides education, research, and outreach services that enhance the understanding of travel and tourism and its relationship to people, communities, industry, and the environment.
Visions for Change: Helps communities collaborate to make positive change for the food system of future generations, develops ways to educate people to ensure a sustainable food supply for the next century.
Water Resources Center: Coordinates outreach and research within UMN; open new avenues for multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary partnerships; to provide a critical link between students and water-resources professionals. |
