LRES Seminar Series
Spring 2014 Schedule
1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
346 Leon Johnson Hall Annex
January 27th
Dr. John Kirkegaard, Agronomist, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
"Pathways to productivity - Australia's conservation farming revolution"
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February 3rd
Dr. Jean Dixon, Asst. Professor, MSU Dept. of Earth Sciences
"Links between climate and soil on the eroding earth"
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February 10th
David Thoma, Hydrologist, National Park Service
Climate change in National Parks: Science and adaption
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February 24th
Dr. Scott Payne, President, Kirk Engineering & Natural Resources, Inc. and LRES 445 Instructor
"Science, communication, and things you can't see - A visual approach to groundwater
hydrology in western watersheds"
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March 3rd
Charles Holt, LRES Grad Student
"What is the ecological role of weeds in the sustainability of community scale vegetable
production?"
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March 17th
Arjun Pandey, LRES Grad Student
"Evaluation of spectral reflectance and crop physiological parameters to determine
nitrogen and water stress in spring wheat"
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March 24th
Krista Ehlert, LRES Grad Student
"Optimizing efficacy of cheatgrass biocontrol in crops and rangelands: Integration
and implementation"
March 31st
Priyanka Kudalkar, LRES Grad Student
"Role of fungi in nutrient cycling in the ice ecosystem and its functions"
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Michael Bestwick, LRES Grad Student
Effects of tillage and rotation on water use efficiency of intensified dryland wheat
based cropping systems"
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April 7th
Tommy Bass, LRES Grad Student
"Strategic, tactical, and operational influences on Montana local beef production
and processing: a temporal and spatial analysis of supply and services in beef production
for local consumption"
Deicy Sanchez, LRES Grad Student
"Just add lime? Interactive effects of plants, bacteria, and amendments on soil arsenic
levels"
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April 14th
Stephen Johnson, LRES Grad Student
"Assessing plant diversity and plant-soil feedbacks in conventional and organic cropping
systems"
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Subodh Adhikari, LRES Grad Student
"Impacts of management systems on small grain dryland agroecosystem services"
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April 21st
Nar Ranabhat, LRES Grad Student
"Role of agronomic management practices on plant disease dynamics in dry land crops
in Northern Great Plains"
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Collin Preftakes, LRES Grad Student
"Using the risk assessment paradigm to evaluate technologies for pesticide drift reduction"
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