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Tech Receives $1 Million for Climate Research
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APRIL 24, 2006--Michigan Tech will receive $1,191,867 from the U.S. Department of Energy, Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) has announced. The funding will be used to support grant proposals submitted to the Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research.
NICCR is administered through four regional centers, each hosted by a different university. The grant will allow the university to continue as one of those research anchors, examining climate change patterns in 13 states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Stupak said that changes in climate patterns can greatly impact local, regional and national forestry and agriculture industries. "Changes in climate patterns can profoundly affect forestry, agriculture and, ultimately, our economy," Stupak said. "The research MTU is doing is extraordinarily important not only to Michigan and the Midwest, but to the entire country."
Professor Kurt Pregitzer, director of the Midwest Regional Center, praised the efforts of the Michigan congressional delegation in continuing to ensure funding for the project. "We're pleased the Department of Energy supports our research to better understand how climate change will impact midwestern forests and farms," Pregitzer said. "We thank the Michigan congressional delegation for their continued support of our research programs."
"MTU has top-flight faculty in the climate research field," Stupak noted. "Allocating these funds will bring more students interested in climate change to the university, build MTU's reputation and, thus, draw to the Upper Peninsula students interested in other areas of study." |
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