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Mar 6, 2015
A playful-looking giant panda cub, lying on its back with its paws in the air. A flock of migrating sandhill cranes, white clouds billowing around them, as seen from their same high altitude. A mountain stream choked with pandemic-killed frogs, a spotted owl perched in a clearcut forest, the gleaming brown eyes of an ocelot. They’re some of the many images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, who speaks March 26 at The Ohio State University. It’s a kickoff to the university’s ongoing celebration of Earth Day in April.
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Mar 4, 2015
Long, cold, snowy winters, like this one, can lead to big fish kills in ponds. But there are steps you can take to help fish survive, said an expert at The Ohio State University. The key is a pond’s oxygen level, said Eugene Braig, aquatic ecosystems program director in Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
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Mar 4, 2015
School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) faculty, staff, students and alumni are currently engaged in the process of reaccreditation of the School's forestry curriculums by the Society of American Foresters (SAF). SENR Associate Professor and Forestry Program Coordinator David Hix discusses the process of reaccreditation in a recent edition of the Ohio Society of American Foresters publication, The Ohio Hetuch (starting on page 2).
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Mar 2, 2015
Congratulations to Ms. Susan Burks (nominated by Gina Volpe, Sphinx) and Dr. Robyn Wilson (nominated by Kathryn Connolly, Mortar Board) for making a difference in the lives of their students. The two were honored at the 26th Annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Reception for Mortar Board Senior Honor Society and Sphinx Senior Class Honorary held last week.
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Feb 27, 2015
The March breakfast program by the Environmental Professionals Network, featuring three guest speakers, is all about water. Lisa Wojnarowski Downes, J.D., freshwater stewardship director for The Nature Conservancy, will speak on the Blueprint for Urban Water Security, a report on how conservation practices can help cities protect their drinking water sources; and on the Alliance for Watershed Stewardship, an effort to promote sustainable water use around the world, including by using a new water stewardship standard. Downes is the alliance’s North America director.
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Feb 24, 2015
This week's Conservation Tillage Conference in Ada, Ohio, is expected to draw more than 900 participants. The program will feature a day-long discussion with industry and university experts on improving Ohio’s water quality, particularly ways to keep phosphorus and nitrogen from impacting water resources. Nutrient management, cover crops and soil health and Solving the P (and N) problem are just a few of the sessions offered at the conference. SENR faculty experts, including Robyn Wilson, Steve Culman and Warren Dick, are scheduled to present their research.
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Feb 23, 2015
Each year undergraduate student researchers participate in opportunities to share their research. Several SENR undergraduates participated in this year's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Research Forum held on February 19.
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Feb 19, 2015
Mazeika Sullivan, associate professor and assistant director, School of Environment and Natural Resources, has been selected for a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant — specifically, the Fulbright-National University Distinguished Chair in Biodiversity and Sustainable Development award. The award, based at the National University of Colombia, seeks to promote, communicate and exchange new academic and research developments in the fields of biodiversity and sustainability with the goal of developing research collaboration among the academic, scientific and practitioner communities from different fields of knowledge at a national and international level.
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Feb 19, 2015
Brian Gratwicke of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival presents “Captive Breeding Programs to Mitigate Chytridiomycosis-related Extinctions: Lessons from Panama” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, in the spring seminar series of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. Details. Chytridiomycosis is a deadly amphibian fungal disease linked to huge population declines and extinctions in many species. (Photo: Panamanian golden frog by Gratwicke via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Feb 17, 2015
Congratulations to Marne Titchenell, a wildlife program specialist in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, who was recently recognized by the Ohio Forestry Association, Inc. for her outstanding effort in the field of conservation education.
