September 28, 2022
Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape: Deconstructing Nebraska's Hand-Planted Forest
Dana Fritz will share photographs from her new book and exhibition, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape. Over five years she visited, photographed, and researched the forest and tree nursery as well as the history and ideas that drove what was once the world's largest hand-planted forest. This fascinating and little-known story is especially relevant to our current challenges with climate chaos and biodiversity collapse.
October 6, 2022
Climate, Climate Change and Big Weather: How are they related and how do we know?
We have spent many generations learning how to work within our climate. From the crops we grow, to the types of houses we build, to how big we make our drainage structures. But climate is changing and this is introducing new challenges as today's climate replaced the one we knew a generation ago, and the next generation will know a slightly different one, too. What does that mean for big weather? Weather extremes? What are the things we need to understand about our changing world, and what may be some of the opportunities in a new climate? And how do we really know it's changing, anyway? Deke Arndt from the National Centers for Environmental Information will go over some of the data behind our understanding of climate change, and latest findings from the State of the Climate report and the National Climate Assessment, both of which are produced at NCEI.
Seminars are Wednesdays at 3:30 pm in 107 South (Auditorium) Hardin Hall and can be viewed online at https://go.unl.edu/viewsnrseminars
More details at: https://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminars.aspx#seminar6