Recent awards and honors were earned by SNR professor Mike Hayes, climatologist and former director of the National Drought Mitigation Center, and by SNR students Nolan Watkins, Kelly Willemssens, Robert Schroeder and Bryan Peterson.
Mike Hayes ARD Advisory Council
Mike Hayes, climatology professors at SNR, has been re-elected to serve as the District 3 representative on the Agricultural Research Division Advisory Council.
The Agricultural Research Division is the major research agency of the University of Nebraska's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and is Nebraska's Agricultural Experiment Station. As a representative on the ARD Advisory Council, Hayes will serve as an advisor to the ARD Dean, be a conduit through which ARD faculty can communicate with ARD administration, and provide feedback on ARD academic and research policies.
Hayes term in this position will last until June 30, 2021.
Thomas Scholarship Award
Nolan Watkins, a junior fisheries and wildlife major, has been announced as the 2017-2018 recipient of the Robert E. Thomas, Nebraska Chapter American Fisheries Society (AFS) scholarship.
This award is open to junior or senior students who demonstrate a career path leading to the field of fishery resources. Beyond academic standing, applicants have demonstrated their interest and dedication by activities such as: the UNL Wildlife Club, student membership in the American Fisheries Society, or internships or volunteer work with a local, state, or federal natural resource agency.
The scholarship goes toward school expenses and includes a membership to the Nebraska Chapter of AFS as well as to the national American Fisheries Society.
Robert E. Thomas was a fisheries biologist for more than two decades with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. In his memory, the family of Robert E. Thomas and the Nebraska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society established Robert E. Thomas Memorial Scholarship in 2001.
To learn more about the Robert E. Thomas Scholarship, click here.
Milton E. Mohr 2018-2019 Awards
Three School of Natural Resources students have been named recipients of the Milton E. Mohr 2018-2019 Awards.
This award program recognizes outstanding students in the sciences of biotechnology and engineering based on their academic performance and potential for accomplishments in their specific field.
Kelly Willemssens, a doctoral student studying tiger beetles living near thermal pools in Yellowstone National Park, was awarded a graduate fellowship.
Undergraduates Robert Schroeder and Bryan Peterson were also awarded scholarships.
Schroeder, an environmental restoration science student, is working on his Cabela’s Apprenticeship program studying the removal of excess nutrients from lacustrine ecosystems through application of floating treatment wetlands under Dr. Tiffany Messer.
Peterson, an applied climate science major, is working as an intern for the National Drought Mitigation Center located on East Campus and will spend the summer of 2019 at a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lab.
To learn more about the Milton E. Mohr Award, click here.
Elyse Watson, Natural Resources