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Brian Roe and Elena Irwin are among a number of researchers who will examine the connections between land use, public policy, water quality and climate change in the Maumee River watershed. More information on this four-year project may be found at http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/maumeebay
AEDE was well represented at the North American Regional Science Council conference in Miami, Florida, held November 9-12. Alessandra Faggian and Heather Stephens organized 9 special sessions on economic development that were some of the most attended sessions at the conference. A number of papers from these sessions will form a special issue of the International Regional Science Review will be co-edited by Faggian and Stephens.
Elena Irwin received a new competitive grants award from the National Science Foundation to develop new spatial dynamic models of urbanization and land use change. The two-year research project is joint with Yong Chen, former AEDE graduate student and now assistant professor at Oregon State University, and Ciriyam Jayaprakash, Professor of Physics, Ohio State University.