Fall Seminar Series schedule set
The School of Natural Resources has lined up a full slate of speakers for the weekly 2012 fall seminar series.
The series opened Sept. 5 and closes Dec. 5 with Lisa Pennisi’s seminar, “Measuring the Value and Improving the Impact of Natural Resource Programming and Outreach.”
All but one seminar will be held in the Hardin Hall auditorium each Wednesday at 3 p.m. The Sept. 26 seminar will be held in room 901 at Hardin Hall. No seminars are scheduled for Oct. 24 or Nov. 21.
Here’s the rest of the line-up of the fall series:
September 19
Balancing Freshwater Needs of Humans and Ecosystems in East Africa
Elizabeth Anderson, Deputy Director of the Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) program, USAID, Earth & Environment, Florida International University, Miami
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar3
September 26
Remote Sensing, Water Stress, and Things that Go Bump in the Night
Arthur I. Zygielbaum, Adjunct Associate Professor, SNR, UNL; ElizabethWalter-Shea, Professor, SNR, UNL; and Timothy Arkebauer, Professsor, Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar4
October 3
Future- Planning for Nebraska's Fish, Wildlife and Parkland Resources
Jim Douglas, Director, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
(Note: An open faculty discussion with representatives from NGPC will precede this seminar, beginning at 1:30 p.m.)
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar5\
October 10
Ecohydrological Change in Mesic Grasslands in the Dawn of the Anthropocene
Jesse Nippert, Assistant Professor, Biology, Kansas State University
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar6
October 17
An EU-funded Project for Demonstrating Concepts and Technologies of Precision Agriculture
Dr. Stamatis Stamatiadis, Director, Soil Ecology & Biotechnology Lab, Gaia Education and Research Center, Athens, Greece
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar7
October 24
No Seminar
October 31
GeoComputational Intelligence and High-performance Geospatial Computing
Qingfeng (Gene) Guan, Assistant Professor, SNR, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar8
November 7
Exploring the Importance and Measurement of 21st Century Professional Competencies in Undergraduate Students
David C. Gosselin, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies Program and the Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network, SNR, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar9
November14
Characterizing Fire-on-Fire Interactions in Three Large Wilderness Areas Using the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Fire Perimeter Data
Lloyd Queen, Professor and Director of the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar10
November 21
No Seminar
November 28
Evaluating Dynamic, Statistical and Stochastic Downscaling Methods in Crop Modeling
Guillermo Baigorria, Assistant Professor, SNR , UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar11
December 5
Measuring the Value and Improving the Impact of Natural Resource Programming and Outreach
Lisa Pennisi, Assistant Professor of Practice, SNR , UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=16#seminar12