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  1. Optimized Shrub System Field Day

    Innovative Crop Management System for Rainfed Crops focus of Field Day

    Nov 9, 2021

    Farmers, researchers, students, extension specialists and NGOs came together for the inaugural Field Day of the Optimized Shrub System (OSS), an innovative management system developed for rainfed crops in the West African Sahel.

  2. Matt Davies, associate professor of Soil and Plant Community Restoration

    Faculty member awarded funding to improve woodland Pawpaw fruit yield and quality

    Nov 9, 2021

    With a new investment by the North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) grants program to develop and promote woodland Pawpaw production practices SENR caught up with Matt Davies, Associate Professor of Soil and Plant Community Restoration and lead investigator on the new project to find out more.

  3. Image on cover of 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Project Update

    Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative Update Available

    Sep 27, 2021

    Ohio Sea Grant, on behalf of The Ohio State UniversityThe University of Toledo and the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), has released the 2021 research findings update for the statewide Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative (HABRI), which seeks solutions for harmful algal blooms in Ohio.

  4. Microphone with Discussions

    Dive into new soils research with the Knowledge Exchange

    Sep 2, 2021

    School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty member Christine Sprunger is the featured guest on the latest KX Emerging Research podcast and shares about new soils research she is leading.
    The podcast is hosted by Stacy Cochran and Kim Winslow.

  5. Research News with an image of a graph.

    Team to study combined effect of wolves and drought on human, plant and animal communities on rangeland

    Aug 25, 2021

    School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty member Jeremy Bruskotter is a Co-Principal Investigator on a newly funding 1.6 million National Science Foundation grant to explore the combined effect of wolves and drought on human, plant and animal communities on rangeland in Idaho and eastern Oregon. The project is led by researchers at the University of Idaho and also includes collaborators at the University of Michigan and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Learn more about the five-year investment here.

  6. Faculty member guest on Our Ohio Weekly

    Aug 5, 2021

    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.

  7. Image shows a microphone with text Discussions

    This Week in Sociological Perspectives features faculty research

    Jul 7, 2021

    Faculty member Kerry Ard is a featured guest on This Week in Sociological Perspective and discusses her recent paper co-authored with Kevin Smiley, “Examining the Relationship Between Racialized Poverty Segregation and Hazardous Industrial Facilities in the U.S. Over Time" with UC-Berkeley Professor and host Samuel Roundfield Lucas.

  8. Three cows grazing.

    Ohio State scientists awarded $1 million USDA grant to study crop-livestock integration

    Jun 15, 2021

    A team of interdisciplinary scientists at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences received a $1 million, three-year grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Inter-Disciplinary Engagement in Animal Systems (IDEAS) grant program to examine the environmental and economic outcomes of a range of crop-livestock integration approaches in collaboration with Ohio farmers to quantify the tradeoffs and synergies of these approaches to help inform and guide decision-making among farmers.

  9. Prothonotary Warbler. Photo credit: Joan Eckhardt

    Migration Research Helps to Inform Conservation

    Apr 21, 2021

    Findings from research School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty member Chris Tonra and the Prothonotary Warbler Working Group conducted on migration routes of Prothonotary Warblers is featured in Audubon.

  10. SENR Research News

    Faculty member to study air pollution exposure, stress on cognitive function

    Apr 21, 2021

    Kerry Ard, associate professor of environmental sociology in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University received funding through The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities to investigate the synergistic effects of exposure to air pollution and social stressors on race/ethnic disparities in cognitive functioning.

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