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News article: FFAR invests in projects to increase farmers' use of conservation practices

Working with Farmers to Increase Adoption of Water Conservation Practices

News article: SENR Leadership Announcement

Robyn Wilson, professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) will serve as our next acting associate director of SENR effective January 1, 2023.

News article: Climate Change and Midwestern Food-Energy-Water Systems

A team of scientists from The Ohio State University will address how they expect climate change to influence food-energy-water systems in the Midwest at the upcoming 2022 Annual Conference of the Global Council for Science and the Environment.

News article: Faculty member guest on Our Ohio Weekly

Faculty member Robyn Wilson was a featured guest on the July 6 program Our Ohio Weekly with Ty Higgins: Ohio State studies the climate and agriculture.

News article: Sustainability and resilience in the Eastern Corn Belt website available

Faculty member Robyn Wilson is leading an interdisciplinary team project seeking to identify how to promote sustainability and resilience in the Eastern Corn Belt and how farmers’ can adapt to climate-induced risks and uncertainties, while supporting both agricultural production and the protection of critical ecosystem services.

News article: Graduate student awarded a NSF Dissertation grant to study conservation decision-making

Congratulations to Maggie Beetstra, a doctoral student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), who was awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation grant, “Evaluating the Effects of Financial and Temporal Scarcity on Farmer Decisions to Engage in Conservation” through the  Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program.

News article: Ohio State News features research review on behavioral adaptations to climate change

Faculty member Robyn Wilson describes the findings of a new research review in the Feb.

News article: Attracting more farmers to participate in water quality efforts

This news release originally appeared on the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences website and was written by Alayna DeMartini.

News article: Healthy Land-Water Systems Wins Multi-disciplinary Team Award

"Healthy Land-Water Systems: Water Quality, Economics, and Human Behavior" won the Multi-disciplinary Team Award at the 2019 CFAES Annual Research Conference on Monday, April 22 at the Nationwide Ohio Farm Bureau and 4-H Center in Columbus, OH.

News article: Climate Change Symposium focus of Ohio State News Story

The first-ever climate change symposium with more than 200 people in attendance was held on March 22, 2019 at The Ohio State University. The Ohio State News story, “From art to zooplankton: The effects of climate change are far-reaching” provides an overview of the symposium, which highlighted the many different ways Ohio State professors and researchers are studying global warming and offering solutions to the problems caused by climate change.

News article: New Study Will Track Ways to Cut Runoff from Elevated Phosphorus Fields

This news article originally appeared on the website of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and was written by Kurt Knebusch.

Some farm fields in northwest Ohio’s Maumee River watershed have more phosphorus than their crops can use. Called “elevated phosphorus fields,” such fields may be at higher risk of contributing to Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms.

News article: New tool developed to guide conservation decision-making

Ohio State scientist, Robyn Wilson is part of a team that has developed a new tool to help guide wildlife conservation decision-making.  The tool, Recovery Explorer addresses a critical challenge faced by conservation agencies - how to conserve and protect as many species as possible from extinction with limited funding and finite resources.

News article: NIFA Invests in Research to Guide Agroecosystem Sustainability and Resilience

Robyn Wilson, an associate professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) at The Ohio State University is the principal investigator of a newly funded project, “Regional Integrated Modeling of Farmer Adaptations to Guide Agroecosystem Management in a Changing Climate.”  The

News article: ​​​​​​​On WOSU: Faculty member joins lawsuit to overturn directive

Robyn Wilson, a faculty member in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University has joined a lawsuit to overturn a new directive from EPA’s director Scott Pruitt that forbids any scientist with EPA funding from serving on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board. According to the WOSU segment with Clare Roth airing on January 25, Wilson has served on the board for two and a half years and is currently collaborating with other scientists on grants funded through the agency.

News article: Ohio State Experts to Model Life in a Deglobalized World

What would trade wars mean for food, energy and water systems in the Great Lakes Region?  This is one of the questions a team of experts from The Ohio State University will address in a new National Science Foundation grant from the Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS), a research partnership between the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

News article: Faculty Member Recognized for Outstanding Achievement

This news article is adapted from the full press release written by Melanie Preve, melanie@bigvoicecomm.com on this year's SRA award recipients.

News article: As nations tilt toward deglobalization, Ohio State will study how food, energy and water systems in the Great Lakes region might be affected

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Imagine the United States gets ensnared in a lengthy trade war and the fallout undercuts international demand for crops grown in the Great Lakes region. Farmers and other producers would eventually adjust their plans, setting in motion changes that could have pronounced ramifications on how land, water and energy resources are used and are collectively affected for years to come. But what are those ramifications, exactly, and to what extent can they be anticipated?

News article: CFAES Researcher Part of New Project Studying Conservation Incentives, Farming Practices

This news article originally appeared on the website of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and was written by Kurt Knebusch.

News article: Role of bias investigated in listing decisions of grizzly bears

School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty members Jeremy T. Bruskotter and Robyn S. Wilson are co-authors with Professor John A. Vucetich, Michigan Technology University, on an article recently published in The Conversation, which investigates the role bias may play in listing decisions of species under the Endangered Species Act. 

Event: Hugh Walpole's Graduate Defense Seminar

Hugh Walpole, MS candidate in Environmental Social Sciences, will present his Graduate Defense Seminar. His presentation is Why Stay? Why Go? An Examination of Attitudes towards Risk in Wildfire Evacuation Decision Making.