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Phuong Minh Tu Le makes notes about her soil texture and soil color determinations during an Oct. 2 practice session in advance of the Region 5 Soil Judging Competition. The competition is being held virtually this year. Lana Koepke Johnson, UNL Agronomy
Phuong Minh Tu Le makes notes about her soil texture and soil color determinations during an Oct. 2 practice session in advance of the Region 5 Soil Judging Competition. The competition is being held virtually this year. Lana Koepke Johnson, UNL Agronomy

With travel restrictions in place, soil comes to UNL’s Soil Judging Team for this year’s competition

Normally, the UNL Soil Judging Team would have traveled to the soil, said co-coach Judith Turk, pedologist with the Conservation and Survey Division at the School of Natural Resources. But this year it came to them. Continue reading…

More details at: https://snr.unl.edu/csd/soil/soiljudgingteam.aspx
 
Members of the Platte Basin Timelapse project team step in front of the lens. PBT recently joined the School of Natural Resources, where their storytelling capabilities will help the school’s faculty, staff and students spotlight elements of the natural w
Members of the Platte Basin Timelapse project team step in front of the lens. PBT recently joined the School of Natural Resources, where their storytelling capabilities will help the school’s faculty, staff and students spotlight elements of the natural w

Missions align as Platte Basin Timelapse project joins School of Natural Resources

"We’re a part of SNR now, but we’ve always felt at home with SNR,” PBT producer and project manager Mariah Lundgren said. Continue reading…

More details at: http://plattebasintimelapse.com
 
Kinga Aletto, a junior in College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, holds her life-sized clay model of the Javan blue-banded kingfisher. Creating the model of the critically-endangered bird is part of her UCARE research project. Craig Chandl
Kinga Aletto, a junior in College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, holds her life-sized clay model of the Javan blue-banded kingfisher. Creating the model of the critically-endangered bird is part of her UCARE research project. Craig Chandl

SNR student’s artwork draws attention to kingfisher struggles

Pre-veterinary medicine and fisheries and wildlife major Kinga Aletto recently combined her interest in art and passion for wildlife in her UCARE project on the Javan blue-banded kingfisher. Continue reading…

 
A team from the CALMIT lab built a mobile hyperspectral scanning system to teach students scanning since the basement darkroom in Hardin Hall does not allow for social distancing. Craig Chandler, University Communication
A team from the CALMIT lab built a mobile hyperspectral scanning system to teach students scanning since the basement darkroom in Hardin Hall does not allow for social distancing. Craig Chandler, University Communication

CALMIT team innovates to bring full-spectrum experience to students

With his nearly 30 years of experience performing hyperspectral remote sensing for the CALMIT lab, Bryan Leavitt came up with the CRISP, or CALMIT Remote Illuminated Scanning Platform. Continue reading…

 
Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.
Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

Study shows that tweets, as a measure of fluctuating attention, could contribute to a drought early warning system. Continue reading…

 
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