Acknowledgements

Conversation-E: Science + Art in Dialogue and Service to Sustainability is made possible by a mini-grant from the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, with additional funding from GATE (Greening & Art Together Evolving) a project community partner, and by in-kind time offered by the Project's Leaders and Advisory Group.

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Interdisciplinary Project Team
  
Project Leaders 
  • Peter Reich, Department of Forest Resources, Regents Professor Distinguished McKnight University Professor, F.B. Hubachek, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, Resident Fellow, Institute on the Environment
  • Jonee Kulman Brigham, Research Coordinator Center for Sustainable Building Research, MS-Sustainable Design Faculty, College of Design, Associate Fellow, Institute on the Environment, Co-Founder of GATE
  • Roslye Ultan, Liberal Studies Senior Faculty, Independent Curator, Board member, Minnesota Association of Environmental Education, Director and Co-Founder of GATE
  • Rebecca A. Montgomery, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources
 Advisory Group Members   
  • Julie Athman Ernst, Associate Professor, Director of Master of Environmental Education Program, Center for Environmental Education, University of MN Duluth
  • Lee E. Frelich, Department of Forest Resources , Research Associate and Director, The University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology
  • Beth Mercer-Taylor, Sustainability Education Coordinator
  • Emily Peters, Research Associate, Institute on the Environment
  • Daniel Philippon, Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota, past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
  • Carrie Pike, Interim Director of Operations, Cloquet Forestry Center, Research Fellow MN Tree Improvement Cooperative
  • Virajita Singh, Senior Research Fellow/Adjunct Assistant Professor, Leader of Design Thinking Area at the College of Design, and Design for Community Resilience at the Center for Sustainable Building Research
  • Okey Ukaga, Executive Director, Northeast Minnesota Sustainable Development Partnership, University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Dawn Newman, Regional Director, Extension, U of MN Extension Regional Center, Cloquet, MN
  • Kristen Poppleton, Director of Education, Will Steger Foundation