The annual School of Natural Resources Fall Seminar Series will bring leading scientists to campus to cover a diverse range of topics, including drought and climate change, fisheries health and wildlife populations, soil health and Nebraska crops, and stakeholder engagement.
The series begins Sept. 25 with a presentation by Tonya Haigh, a rural sociologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall, Room 901. Haigh will deliver the lecture “Adept at adaptation: Identifying and building agricultural managers’ adaptive capacity for climate risk management.”
All remaining seminars are 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall auditorium, Room 107, 3310 Holdrege St. The seminars are free and open to the public.
Other speakers in the series include:
Oct. 2 ― Wes Eaton, assistant research professor of rural and natural sociology at Penn State, presenting “Stakeholder Engagement: Over hyped or Underutilized? Lessons from the literature and stakeholder interviews on the aims and purpose for stakeholder engagement”
Oct. 9 ― Brian Wardlow, research assistant professor and director of the Center for Advanced Land Management and Information Technologies, and Mark Svoboda, climatologist and NDMC director, presenting “Tracking Drought Here and Abroad: Tools of the Trade”
Oct. 16 ― Matt Andrews, SNR professor and director of Nebraska EPSCoR, presenting “Nature’s fat burning machine: brown adipose tissue in a hibernating mammal”
Oct. 23 — Andrea Basche, assistant professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at Nebraska, presenting “Optimizing and Diversifying Cropping Systems for 21st Century Challenges: Opportunities for Nebraska”
Oct. 30 — Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and professor at Texas Tech University, presenting on climate change
Nov. 6 — Stephen Webb, Range and Wildlife Scientist at Noble Research Institute, presenting “Spatially Explicit, Individual-based Models to Prioritize Wildlife Habitat for Conservation: Examples from Greater Sage-Grouse and Elk Research”
Nov. 13 ― Paul Humphries, professor at Charles Sturt University in Albury, Australia, presenting “Making the dead speak: how historical ecology can aid fish and river conservation and management”
Nov. 20 — Martha Shulski, state climatologist and director of the Nebraska State Climate Office, and Natalie Umphlett, regional climatologist with the High Plains Regional Climate Center, presenting “Climate change planning and cities: Lessons learned from partnerships on the Plains”
