Two seminars are scheduled this week in Hardin Hall, beginning with Jesse Nippert—a biologist at Kansas State University—who will speak in the SNR Seminar Series on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Wyatt Hoback, a biologist at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, will present a lecture in the Applied Ecology seminar series on Friday, Oct. 12.
Nippert's presentation, "Mechanisms and Consequences of Ecohydrological Change in Mesic Grasslands," will show the effects of drought and water availability on tallgrass prairies, specifically the Konza prairie in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas. Nippert, director of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at Kansas State, will begin his talk in the Hardin Hall auditorium at 3:30 p.m.
Wyatt Hoback's seminar, "The Biology of American Burying Beetles and Tests to Determine the Most Effective conservation Strategies," will show the results of his recent research into the best methods for protecting the beetles when their habitats must be altered. Hoback's seminar is set for Friday, Oct.12, at 3 p.m. in Hardin Hall room 163.
For more information about these and other seminars at SNR, visit http://go.unl.edu/SNRseminars.