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With a broad taxonomic scope ranging from arthropods to mammals, Gon\u00e7alves-Souza uses quantitative tools to unravel the intricate dynamics of biodiversity change. He also investigates the utility of traits in predicting species redistributions across local and global scales.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world, advance research and education, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. 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She capped her career overseeing green supply chain initiatives for four years with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, the leading environmental NGO in China and now works as an independent consultant.\n\nLinda spent most of her career on domestic environmental law and policy. As manufacturing moved abroad, however, she turned her attention to global pollution matters, concentrating her work internationally.\n\nFocusing first on mercury pollution, Linda was a founder and leader of the NGO\u2019s community\u2019s successful effort to pass the Minamata Convention in the United Nations, a binding international treaty to reduce the use and release of this toxic metal around the globe.\n\nSubsequently, Linda turned to China, creating NRDC\u2019s Clean by Design Program, a highly successful green supply chain initiative that promotes improvements in apparel manufacturing.\n\nFor more than a decade, Linda taught a popular summer intensive course, \u201cScientific Fundamentals of Risk Assessment\u201d at Vermont Law School, and she has also taught short courses for the National Association of State Attorney Generals and the U.S. Department of Justice Department of Environmental Crimes.\n\nGreer served as the interim director of the University of Michigan Biological Station in 2016-2017 during a sabbatical break from advocacy.\n\nLinda has served on many expert panels and commissions, including the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board. She currently serves on the board of the Cary Institute.\n\nLinda is the author of over a dozen technical and policy articles on environmental matters and has frequently testified before Congress. She has a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology (U of Maryland), a M.S.P.H. in environmental sciences and engineering (UNC School of Public Health, Chapel Hill), and a B.S. in biology (Tufts University).\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world, advance research and education, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. 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But what about the weevil?\n\nThis talk responds to environmental scholar Malcolm Ferdinand\u2019s call to also look at the weevil in this dramatic story.\n\nBoisseron is the author of \u201cCreole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora\u201d (2014) and \u201cAfro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question\u201d (2018).\n\nHer current book project focuses on food repurposing and was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, alongside additional funding for her broader work on repurposing practices.\n\nHer recent publications examine pesticide contamination on banana plantations in the French Antilles.\n\nIn Winter 2024, Boisseron taught Food Literacy for All as a faculty instructor and is a Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Affiliate.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world, advance research and education, and inspire action. 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They recently found magnetic black sand on Douglas Lake, reduced it to iron and made kitchen knives.\n\nTheir experiments measuring the composition of the sand in an electron microscope show that it comes from what geologists call OUI deposits of the Mid-Continental Rift. Verhoeven said the source rock from which the sand eroded \u2014 Fe-Ti oxide ultramafic intrusions (OUI) \u2014 was brought to the surface from magma in Earth\u2019s core 1.1 billion years ago when tectonic plates separated. \n\nHere is a more detailed description of the lecture from Verhoeven: \u201cBladesmith Tim Zowada, who lives near Petoskey, smelts the magnetic black sand he collects on Lake Superior near White Fish Point into iron and makes knives. Working with Tim, we discovered that the source rock from which the sand eroded contains Ti. 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