User:Dave

From Great Lakes Wiki

Hi, I'm Dave Poulson and I really don't interview crows. This is a picture from my former life when I wrote about the environment for a bunch of mostly Michigan newspapers. It was taken at the Pine River in St. Louis, Mich. near a Superfund site involved in at least two major ecological disasters: the nation's greatest concentration of DDT in river sediments and the mixing of a flame retardant with cattle feed in the 1970s.

(To clarify, I didn't interview the crow. It was the pet of the woman I was interviewing and, frankly, it was very annoying.)

Nowadays I work at Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. It's a pretty cool place involved in a lot of environmental journalism projects such as the Great Lakes Wiki.

Another one is Michigan's Echo, which provides daily links to environmental news appearing in about 35 Michigan newspapers. You can subscribe with an RSS feed tailored to your interests, or you can just get the whole thing delivered daily as an e-mail. Better yet, we archive the links and you can search them in the lower right corner of this page.

Here is another nifty Knight Center project. It uses an unusual technique to explain climate change in the Great Lakes region.

This is a video that explains the program.