Assignments include individual and group writing projects, which involve reading and modifying computer programs.
Tells what activists are doing to limit or delay development projects which involve eviction of citizens from homes and neighborhoods.
They explained how systems thinking is used to manage LLNL's big projects, which involve many engineers and researchers.
The student projects, which involve working closely with archival material, will inform an evolving history of MIT and Slavery.
The impact of such projects, which involve copious amounts of data, can erode quickly as circumstances change; the analysis must be updated constantly.
The projects, which involve bulldozing beach sand to build up dunes, had been considered routine and were performed in the past on the strength of permits from the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Terry Hughes, the director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, once did a study of conventional coral-restoration projects, which involve raising coral colonies in tanks and transplanting them onto damaged reefs.
Deutsche Bank had said that it would no longer finance so-called mountaintop removal projects, which involve extracting coal from the surface of mountains, often leaving large gashes in the landscape.
"We can see these platforms being used for a range of research projects which involve aerial photography, mapping, or the monitoring of our weather systems," says Mr Bennett.
That project, which involves removing roughly 5,000 seats began this year and will be completed in 2012.
