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Feb 15, 2018
Research faculty member Shoshanah Inwood is conducting on the role of health insurance, farm viability and the agricultural economy is included in a recent Politico briefing on agriculture and food policy. The briefing draws on data from a study of farmers and ranchers in 10 case study states across the United States and recently published in Choices, which finds that health insurance is an important risk management strategy with implications for economic development and quality of life in the agricultural sector.
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Feb 5, 2018
The Urban Coyote Research Project recently refreshed its’ online presence with a new look and a new opportunity to stay engaged with the project through their featured field notes. The goal of the refreshed website, according to Stanley D. Gehrt, director of the project and professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University continues to be to provide reliable information for the public, agencies, and other decision –makers and will share findings from the project’s long-term research and monitoring program on urban coyotes.
Visit the website at https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/ to learn all about coyotes and discover what the researchers are learning about urban coyote ecology and management.
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Jan 24, 2018
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. The grant is expected to exceed $2.4 million over the next three years. School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty members Douglas Jackson-Smith and Robyn Wilson are a part of the interdisciplinary team that will model and study the interconnected challenges of living in a deglobalized world. Read more about the project, how the findings will have implications for farmers and consumers and the team in The Chronicle of Higher Education feature, "Life in a deglobalized world: What would trade wars mean for food, energy and water systems?"
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Jan 13, 2018
Wildlife research conducted by faculty and students in the School of Environment and Natural Resources will be presented at the 78th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin later this month.
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Dec 28, 2017
Harmful algal blooms in rivers and streams are neither well-understood nor easily predicted, and researchers at The Ohio State University are hoping to change that. With a three-year $681,343 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a team of Ohio State scientists in the School of Environment and Natural Resources plans to develop a widely applicable system for assessing watershed health and determining when a crisis is looming.
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Dec 6, 2017
Findings from a study co-authored by School of Environment and Natural Resources doctoral student Marisol Becerra and faculty member Dr. Kerry Ard are featured in the November 29th edition of Physicians Briefing. The article, “Disparities in Environmental Exposures to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Diabetes Risk in Vulnerable Populations” in the journal Diabetes Care reviews the evidence linking unequal exposures to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals with racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diabetes disparities in the U.S. and social forces promoting these disparities; and explores potential interventions.
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Oct 23, 2017
Suzanne Gray, assistant professor of aquatic physiological ecology in the School of Environment and Natural Resources is one of seven recipients of research funding through the 2018-2020 Ohio Sea Grant research grants program. Dr. Gray and her lab will study and assess the impacts of harmful algal blooms on the recreational walleye fishery in Lake Erie. Read the full story on funded projects here.
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Oct 9, 2017
Magnets in bacteria? Brian Lower stumps a lot of people when he first mentions magnetic bacteria. So he’ll take out a pen and draw them. Or he might show a video of them moving about a screen, appearing as ants. When a magnet is placed nearby, they immediately align close to the magnet, like soldiers milling about then suddenly called into a lineup. As intriguing as they may be to watch, magnetic bacteria also have potential for practical use to send cancer-fighting drugs to a particular part of the human body and to store a signficiant amount of data on a small chip.
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Sep 20, 2017
SENR faculty members Doug Jackson-Smith and Robyn Wilson are part of a highly collaborative team of Ohio State researchers who will study how food, energy and water systems in the Great Lakes region might be affected as nations tilt toward deglobalization.
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Sep 20, 2017
Follow radiotagged endangered Timber Rattlesnakes on this Twitter feed, run by SENR's Peterman Lab, to keep on what these snakes in south east Ohio are up to!
Article originally published in CFAES' On Sustainability, written by Kurt Knebusch
