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Lecturers |
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Vincent Abreu
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Professor Abreu was an
Interdisciplinary Scientist on the Dynamics Explorer mission, which has
provided valuable observations of the terrestrial upper atmosphere,
ionosphere and magnetosphere. Jointly with UNDP/ Sustainable Development
Network Program (SDNP), Dr. Abreu was responsible for organizing SDNP
nodes in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Dr.
Abreu has acted in a consultant capacity and has been involved in
projects with the World Bank, the Global Environmental Facility, the
United Nations Development Programme/ Sustainable Development Network
Programme, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the
Organization of American States, Comision Centro Americana de Ambiente y
Desarrollo (CCAD), and the National Research Council. |
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David
Ellsworth |
Prof. David Ellsworth is a tree
physiologist in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, and
studies the process of photosynthesis and ecological regulation of
photosynthesis in plants. His research focuses on the role of plants in
terrestrial carbon cycling, and forest-atmosphere CO2 exchange. He is
known for his work on photosynthesis in plants in locations ranging from
the tropics to the tundra. He has worked in Australia, Europe, and North
and South America, and hopes to climb trees in every continent where
they occur. |
 Tom
Gladwin |
Tom Gladwin, the Faculty
Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP),
is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the
University of Michigan Business School and School of Natural Resources
and Environment. The bulk of Tom's research over the past two decades
has focused on the intersection of environmentalism and globalism in
relation to the behavior of industrial corporations. His more than 125
assorted publications deal variously with environmentally-oriented
project planning, multinational corporate environmental management,
constructive management or ecological and social conflict, and
greening and sustaining of organizational theory and corporate
strategy. Professor Gladwin's current and future work centers on
establishing and promulgating a science of sustainable enterprise, a
new transdisciplinary field addressing relationships among ecosystems,
social systems, economic systems and organizational systems. His
ongoing research focuses on standards and metrics of sustainable
enterprise, the merging of sustainability into industrial ecology,
sustainable cognition and ecological design intelligence, ecologically
and socially sustainable economic globalization, and sustainable
management education. |
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Richard Ford |
Richard I. Ford is
Professor at the Department of Anthropology, and Curator of Ethnology
and Ethnobotany at the Museum of Anthropology. Throughout his career at
Michigan, he has engaged in ethnobotanical and paleoethnobotanical
research. Today, he is using past research in the above disciplines to
assists Native American tribes with legal cases as an expert witness and
consultant. In the area of archaeology, he identifies and interprets
plants to learn about past economies and environmental adaptations,
including the cultural modification of the landscape and the integration
of Iberian crops into Pueblo subsistence patterns. His current research
includes rock art analyses in northeastern Mexico, discerning the
historic settlement system of selected bands of Jicarilla Apache, and
revealing mineral resource utilization in Prehistoric Pueblos in
northern Mexico. |
Ben van der Pluijm |
Prof.
Ben van der Pluijm, a structural geologist, studies the deformation of
rocks and minerals on all scales. He joined the University of
Michigan in 1985, where he has been ever since. His interests
range from materials on the (electron) microscopic scale to the
evolution of mountain ranges. The latter record the collisional
history of continents when plates collide. His research has
taken him to Asia, Europe, South America and North America. He
is chief editor of the leading journal in the geological sciences
(GEOLOGY), and serves on several editorial boards and (too many)
committees. He likes to think that he is an expert soccer coach.
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Graduate Student Instructors |
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Michael Baran |
GSI |
| Peter
Esselman |
GSI |
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Lesley Sefcik |
GSI |
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