LRES Seminar Series
Fall 2018 Schedule
1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
346 Leon Johnson Hall (Annex)
September 17th
Russell Smith, MSU LRES Alumni
"Plant Growth Characteristics & Revegetation Strategies in a Hyper-saline Playa"
September 24th
Bryce Hughes, MSU Department of Education
"Coming out in STEM: The Experiences of LGBTQ students in STEM fields"
October 1st
Joel McCorkel, NASA Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
"NASA Earth Science: Satellite sensors for science, challenges for Landsat and GOES-17"
October 8th
Brendan Moynahan, National Park Service
"Beyond Products and Process: The Broader Scope of Scientific Integrity"
October 15th
Eric Quaempts, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation
"First Foods/River Vision"
October 22nd
Chris Organ, MSU Department of Earth Sciences
"Human Macroevolution: A Consilience of Fossils & Phylogenies"
October 29th
Buddhi Achhami, Ph.D. Candidate
Advisors: David Weaver and Gadi V.P. Reddy
"Host Plant Resistance to Wheat Stem Sawfly in Barley"
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November 5th
Paul Hegedus, Ph.D. Candidate
Advisors: Bruce Maxwell and Stephanie Ewing
"Who benefits from precision agriculture?"
November 19th
Peter Bugoni, Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Jane Mangold
"Improving Diversity in Smooth Brome and Crested Wheatgrass Stands"
November 26th
Gabrielle Blanchette, M.S. Candidate
Advisors: Craig Carr & Hayes Goosey
"Native Pollinators: The Effects of Livestock Grazing on Rangelands in Montana"
Michelle Majeski, M.S. Candidate
Advisor: Jane Mangold
"Understanding mechanisms of invasion and restoring lands impacted by non-native annual grasses"
December 3rd
Briana Whitehead, M.S. Candidate
Advisors: Anthony Hartshorn & WilliamKleindl
"A Parafluvial Response to Beaver Dam Mimicry"
Mei Ling Wong, M.S. Candidate
Advisors: Fabian Menalled & Tim Seipel
"Integrating Crop Diversity, Cover Crops, and Targeted Grazing to Manage Wild Oat (Avena fatua) and Kochia (Kochia scoparia)"