Congratulations to Monica Keep, senior fisheries and wildlife major and winner of this year's Brian Smith Outstanding Wildlife Student Award. After graduation, Keep plans to work with sharks in South Africa and extract Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades. Continue reading…
Biologist Thomas Lovejoy will present “A Wild Solution for Climate Change: Interactions with the Biosphere” at 1 p.m. April 26 in the Hardin Hall auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading…
The new Pinnacle Bank Arena should aim for diverting 75 percent of its waste stream from landfills by using recycling and in-house composting, Environmental Studies students recommended to the West Haymarket Joint Public Agency at its meeting April 20. Continue reading…
Scott Josiah, Nebraska State Forester and director of the Nebraska Forest Service, will present "Fire, Floods and Bugs: Nebraska's Forests - Past, Present and Future" on Wednesday, April 25, at 2 p.m. in 901 Hardin Hall, as a Geography general seminar. Continue reading…
Kody Unstad will defend his master's thesis, "Predictors of Insect Diversity and Abundance in a Fragmented Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem," April 26 at 11 a.m. in Hardin Hall 901. Craig Allen is his adviser. Continue reading…
Tureniguli Amuti will present "Estimation of carbon balance in arid ecosystems of Northwest China" and Bo Dong will present "Evaluating the seasonal and interannual variations in water balance in the Upper Mississippi river basin using a land surface model," April 26, 3-5 p.m. in 901 Hardin Hall.
Congrats to Aaron Young, the only one who got 10 questions on the Know Your SNR quiz right in one try, and to the other nine who took two or more times to get all 10 right. The answers are online now. Continue reading…
The Student Money Management Center is hosting "Operation Graduation" workshops April 24 and 26. The sessions, 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, are designed for students, particularly those preparing for graduation.
Congratulations to Jocelyn Olney, a triple major in environmental studies, biology and anthropology, who just learned that she’ll be continuing her studies this fall at UNL’s School of Natural Resources with support from a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program fellowship. Continue reading…
Dessalegn Ejigu Berhane, Ph.D student, will present "Conservation of Walia ibex in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia" at noon in 207 Hardin Hall on Wednesday, April 25. He has worked in Larkin Powell's lab this semester. Refreshments will be served and you may bring your lunch.
Congratulations to Dr. Kurt VerCauteren and Tammy VerCauteren, recipients of the 2012 UNL Wildlife Club Alumni Award, presented at the banquet on April 14. The Award recognizes the best and brightest of graduates from the UNL Fisheries and Wildlife Program.
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The UNL Wildlife Club and the Lincoln Journal-Star presented the Howard L. Wiegers Nebraska Outstanding Wildlife Conservation Award to Rick Brandt of Roca at the club's banquet April 14. Brandt founded the Nebraska Big Game Society, working to help elk, deer and bighorn sheep thrive here.
Next year's School of Natural Resources Graduate Student Organization Executive Committee will be co-chaired by Tony Nguy-Robertson and Danielle Haak. Joe Robine will be secretary, and Tarlan Razzaghi will be treasurer.
More details at: http://unlcms.unl.edu/snr/gsa/node/1The Geography Student Organization elected officers for next year. The president will be Brian Baskerville; vice president, Dorian Hammond; treasurer, Rob Shepard; and secretary, Kristen Sorensen.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/sb7The Spring 2012 Water Seminar Series concludes with "Economics, Engineering and Law: The Realities of Moving Large Quantities of Water Long Distances," April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall auditorium. Continue reading…
More details at: http://watercenter.unl.edu