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Jan 13, 2020
The 2020 Ohio Woodland Water and Wildlife Conference will be held on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at the Mid-Ohio Conference Center in Mansfield, OH. This conference is geared towards keeping natural resource professionals up to date on today's key issues. The presentations provide the latest research and information on topics that will help those that manage Ohio's natural resources be better land stewards. There are also presentations designed to give resource managers a head's up - putting today's critical issues on their radar. The conference is organized by the Ohio Woodland Stewards Program.
Presenting at the conference from the School of Environment and Natural Resources are:
Roger Williams, "Prescribed Fire: To Burn, or not to Burn?
Gabe Karns, "Wildlife on the Edge: Managing for the Good Effects and Mitigating the Bad"
Bob Gates and Nicole Hengst, "What's Up with Waterbirds"
Marne Titchenell, "Update on Ohio Bats"
Amy Stone and Kathy Smith, "The Alphabet Soup of Invasives: Updates on ALB, HWA, GM, SLF, TCD"
View the full conference program and register here.
Questions? Contact the Ohio Woodland Stewards Program at 1-614-688-3421 or ohiowoods@osu.edu
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Jan 13, 2020
School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty, staff and students will be presenting at the Ohio Wildlife Management Association’s 60th Ohio Wildlife Conference, "Applying Wildlife Conservation Today - for Tomorrow" on January 24 at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-Center.
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Jan 6, 2020
Ohio State’s graduate specialization in ecological restoration and the undergraduate specialization in ecosystem restoration are now aligned with the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)’s Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) program. It is one of only four certified programs, and one of only two in the US (the other being Virginia Tech).
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Dec 19, 2019
Faculty member Nicole Sintov’s research published in Nature Energy is featured in the Ohio State News release, “Heat or eat? How one energy conservation strategy may hurt vulnerable populations.” Lee White, a former postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State, who is now with Australian National University is the lead author on the published research. According to the published article, the study examined 7,487 households taking part in a randomized control time-of-use pilot in the southwestern United States and found two vulnerable populations, people with disabilities who may be using life-saving equipment and elderly people more sensitive to temperature changes, saw the largest increases in their bills on the time-of-use rates. Read more about the study, the findings and implications for the adoption of time-of-use electricity rates on a large-scale.
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Dec 2, 2019
A new report, “Economic Valuation of Natural Areas in Ohio” released Nov. 20 estimates the “value” of outdoor recreation in Ohio, or the amount of money Ohioans and others spend on outdoor recreational trips in Ohio, and the contribution of this outdoor recreation to Ohio’s economy.
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Dec 2, 2019
A new (Nov. 29) National Geographic article, “Coyotes have expanded their range to 49 states—and show no signs of stopping” features Stan Gehrt’s nearly two decades of research on urban coyotes and in particular their ability to adjust and adapt to urban environments and the implications this has on their expanding range and co-existence with humans.
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Nov 18, 2019
Your characterization of the thermostat war going on in your house is likely to depend at least in part on whether you’re a man or a woman, new research published in the journal PLOS ONE suggests and featured in Ohio State News. Nicole Sintov, is the lead author of the study and assistant professor of behavior, decision making and sustainability in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University.
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Nov 7, 2019
Congratulations to four of our faculty in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, who were recently granted tenure or promotion and recognized at a formal reception on November 5 hosted by University Libraries, Office of Academic Affairs, and the Faculty Club.
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Nov 6, 2019
Faculty member Konrad Dabrowski recently visited the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters at the University of South Bohemia, and Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, in Vodnany, Czech Republic (www.frov.jcu.cz). Professor Dabrowski served on the dissertation committee for Roman Franek, who presented “Germ cell manipulations as a tool to manage and produce isogenic lines in fish”. Several other doctoral students presented their fisheries research on subjects as diverse as “Growth, genetic and morphological characteristics of different perch populations from Europe in intensive aquaculture” and “Hybridization of sturgeons” or “Utilization of CRISPR/Cas9 and novel germ cells labelling technique for surrogate production in sturgeons”. While there Professor Dabrowski also had the opportunity to visit the Pond Field Station and the Prof. Martin Psenicka Lab, where he learned intraperitoneal transplantation of ovarian and testicular cells of zebrafish originating from GFP-labelled donor to sterile recipient. Dabrowski has established collaboration with several scientists in Vodnany related to nutrition of early larval stages of percid fishes and production of polyploid hybrids of cyprinids, such as Asian carps.
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Nov 6, 2019
Congratulations to School of Environment and Natural Resources graduate student Joshua T. Fergen, lead author on “"Out Where the West Begins: Measuring Land-Use Preferences and Environmental Attitudes across the Great Plains," and recipient of the 2019 Leslie Hewes Award for best social science paper in Volume 28 of Great Plain Research. Jeffrey B. Jacquet (SENR), Anne Junod (SENR) and Matthew Barnett (alumnus) are co-authors on the paper.
