We are pleased to announce that several T-RUST students and affiliates have won two Ford College Community Competition (FC3) awards! Big congratulations to Katrina Lewandowski, Hector Esparra-Escalera and their community partner Reroot Pontiac on their plan to install Green Stormwater Infrastructure to control flooding in Pontiac Prairies, and Detroit Biodiversity Network (DBN) on expanding Great Lakes education! You make us proud!  

We would like to offer a hearty congratulations to 2019 cohort member, Brenna Friday, on her successful grant proposal “Assessing armful algal bloom effects on amphibians in inland lake ecosystems.” Brenna was awarded the 2021 Graduate Student Conservation Research Award from the Society of Freshwater Sciences (SFS)! Congratulations Brenna!!

One of our newest T-RUST fellows just landed a fellowship with the MI Space Grant Consortium! “Using Satellite Observations & an Earth System Model to Quantify the Impact of Air Pollution & Meteorological Conditions on Oxone Air Quality in Metropolitan Detroit, MI”! Way to Go Noribeth Mariscal!