SNRE's Center for Geospatial Medicine is working to reduce death and disability from Type 2 diabetes under a grant announced as part the nation's 2010 health care law. The center is part of a multi-state research team examining Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, in at-risk populations in four, underserved counties in the Southeast.

The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. Michigan Sea Grant is leading the project to boost populations of lake sturgeon and other rare native fish by providing river-bottom rock structures where they can spawn.