LRES Seminar Series
January 23
No Seminar (First week of classes)
January 30
Monica Pokorny
NRCS Revegetation Specialist, Bozeman
"NRCS Plant Materials Program: selecting and testing plant species for conservation seedings"
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February 6
Tanya Woyke
"Microbial Genomics at the Joint Genome Institute"
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February 13
Jessica Ahlstrom
Water Conservation Program Manager, City of Bozeman
"City of Bozeman Water Conservation and Supply Management: Planning for Water Efficient Growth"
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February 20
No Seminar (Presidents Day)
February 27
Sasha Loewen
Advisor: Bruce Maxwell
"Optimizing Cover and Cash Crop Seeding Rates with On Farm Precision Experimentation"
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March 6
Perry Miller
"Climate- Smart Farming"
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March 13
No Seminar (Spring break)
March 20
Nicholas Nelson and Melanie Cota
Custer and Gallatin National Forest Service
"Fuels Reduction Treatments – A Discussion on Effectiveness, Design, and Scale"
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March 27
Eric Sproles
Department of Earth Sciences, MSU
"Integrating novel measurements of snow, water, and ice and what we (hopefully) learn from them"
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April 3
Graduate Student Presentations
Akamjot Singh
Advisor: Fabian Menalled
"Evaluation of Fall Applied Residual Herbicides for Weed Management in Spring Planted Chickpeas"
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April 10
Diane Debinski
Department of Ecology, MSU
"Montane Meadow Communities as Indicators of Environmental Change – Traditional Surveys and eDNA Assessments"
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April 17
Graduate Student Presentations
Megan Robinson
Advisor: Adam Sigler
"Data Driven Irrigation Scheduling for Water and Nitrogen Use Efficiency"
Laura Berrios-Ortiz
Advisor: Fabian Menalled
"Impact of seeding rate, nitrogen availability, and disease pressure on cheatgrass and winter wheat interactions"
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April 24
Graduate Student Presentations
Caleb Williams
Advisors: Clain Jones & Timothy Seipel
"Indigenous Fruits and Roots: cultural importance, distribution, and potential for revitalization"
Maddie Roberts
Advisor: Tim Covino
"Hydrologic and Geomorphic Effects of Steep-Hillslope Tethered Logging"
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May 1
LRES Capstone Presentation
LRES Seniors
"How do we solve local environmental problems?"
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May 8
Graduate Student Presentations
Ryan Malmquist
Advisor: Jack Brookshire
"Shifting Grasslands: C3/C4 abundance in the Missouri and Musselshell River Breaks"
*Former seminar schedules and recordings
available in the 
LRES Archives