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Mar 3, 2014
Local communities experiencing the shale oil and gas boom often realize early that they have little control in regulating that development. That authority lies at the state level. And there’s bound to be conflict among neighbors -- winners, losers and concerned citizens -- as shale development increases.
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Feb 25, 2014
ADA, Ohio – Growers who plant cover crops and vegetative systems in agriculture will find that it can tie up phosphorus in a stable phosphorus form that remains in the soil which can increase phosphorus use efficiency, according to a soil researcher from Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
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Feb 20, 2014
If you ever find yourself in the central lobby of Kottman Hall (as most of us frequently do), pause to check out the aquarium brightening up the lobby through these dreary winter and early spring months. The aquarium’s liveliness is in large part thanks to the efforts of TerrAqua, the student chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society at OSU. The group is a non-profit organization which operates under the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR).
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Feb 19, 2014
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Feb 18, 2014
Next month's Environmental Professionals Network breakfast (3/18) features the Hon. Bob Inglis on ”Using Science to Overcome Partisanship – The Climate Change Example”. Now at George Mason University, Inglis takes his message to conservative groups, NPR, universities, and elsewhere to explain how and why science needs to inform the discussion on key issues like climate change. Monthly EPN breakfasts are at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.
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Feb 18, 2014
Most woodland owners will sell timber from their land only once, maybe twice, in their lives, said Kathy Smith, forestry specialist with Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. So they should learn all they can before they decide to do it. “They should make sure the choice they make is both good for them and good for their woods, both today and into the future,” said Smith, who coordinates the college’s Ohio Woodland Stewards Program.
Two upcoming workshops sponsored by the program will help people do just that.
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Feb 17, 2014
Anne Baird, state coordinator for the Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist (OCVN) program and Ohio State University Extension program director in the School of Environment and Natural Resources was quoted in a Columbus Dispatch article, “Certified volunteer naturalists fanning out across the state” published on Sunday (2/16). In the article, Baird notes, “Hundreds of volunteers are active in the naturalist program, working thousands of hours in outdoor lands, including parks.” She also commented on the impact of OCVN saying it is an “exciting program in terms of filling important needs throughout the state.” To learn more about the program and how to get involved, visit: http://ocvn.osu.edu/
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Feb 10, 2014
Today's Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) Breakfast Club (2/11) focuses on water sustainability issues with a panel of experts including Susan Ashbrook and Dax Blake, both of the Columbus Department of Public Utilities, and Kathleen Smith of the environmental consulting firm ARCADIS who will be discussing Blueprint Columbus. The Breakfast is also the first stop at The Ohio State University for the humanitarian initiative Water for The Americas. A full schedule of keynote presentations will be offered throughout the day at The Ohio Union, Great Hall Meeting Room #1; 1739 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210.
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Feb 6, 2014
Brian Lower, assistant professor in SENR, recently received the Academic Coursework Affordability Grant from the Undergraduate Student Government at OSU to help make college more affordable. Lower teaches Introduction to Environmental Science (ENR 2100) and Soil and Environmental Biochemistry (ENR 6610), and researches environmental microbiology. The grant, worth $1,000, was designed to increase the use of affordable course materials, including the use of technology such as digital textbooks.
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Feb 5, 2014
Capacity building doesn’t occur spontaneously. Nor is it achieved through individuals and organizations acting independently. Two Ohio State graduate students in CFAES exemplified these notions with their recent selection as U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security, a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Patrick Bell, pictured, a PhD student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), and Anna Testen, a PhD student in the Department of Plant Pathology, each were awarded a graduate research grant on Dec. 23, 2013, to fund research that the students have been involved in through ongoing projects with other International Agricultural Research Centers (IARC) or National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS).
