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Jul 27, 2016
Income inequality, rural food insecurity and demographic change are just a few of the topics that will be presented at the upcoming Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada (August 7-10). Understanding rural social class in an era of global challenge is the theme of this year’s annual meeting. The conference brings together rural sociologists, social scientists, historians, economists and others to learn, network and become engaged in rural research.
Ohio State is well represented at this year’s meeting with several presentations scheduled.
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Jun 23, 2016
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. The article focuses on grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and seeks to gain insight into the role bias may play in listing decisions of species under the Endangered Species Act.
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Mar 22, 2016
Professor Richard Dick, was an invited participant at the first Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering, held March 8-10, 2016 in Dakar, Senegal. For the past 15 years, Dick, funded mainly by the National Science Foundation, has led a team of scientists conducting research on rhizosphere hydrology and microbiology of shrub-intercropping systems in Senegal, West Africa. He was asked to attend the invitation-only forum in recognition of his long-term research of semi-arid agroecosystems and engagement with West African scientists and universities, Dick said.
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Jan 4, 2016
A songbird species that flourishes on the salmon-rich side of dams in the western United States struggles when it tries to nest on the side closed off from the fish and the nutrients they leave behind. But the songbird and the rest of the divided ecosystem rebounds, faster than some experts expected, when dams come down and rivers are allowed to resume their natural flow. Two new studies led by Christopher Tonra, assistant professor of avian wildlife ecology at The Ohio State University, illustrate the stress dams impose on species that rely on salmon and the impact of dam removal on the well-being of that wildlife.
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Nov 26, 2015
Mažeika Sullivan, Kris Jaeger, Lauren Pintor, and Kaiguang Zhao, faculty in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, have been awarded a grant to study the sources and fates of nutrients in watersheds of the Ohio River basin. The project addresses the arising need to further quantify, spatially and temporally, phosphorus and nitrogen dynamics and their influences on aquatic life and harmful algal blooms
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Nov 3, 2015
Associate Professor Stan Gehrt's research on the diets of coyotes in the Cape Breton area involved in killing Canadian folk singer, Taylor Mitchell in 2009, is the focus of a recent article for The Wildlife Society. At the 22nd Annual Wildlife Society Conference held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gehrt shared findings from a study he and other researchers conducted to examine the diets of coyotes in the area to see if there is a relationship between the use of human food and coyote-human conflict.
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Oct 21, 2015
School of Environment and Natural Resources Associate Professor Robyn S. Wilson’s new three-year $498,658 U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funded grant, "Quantifying and predicting the effects of ecological weed management strategies on organic agroecosystems to inform farmer decision making," will produce a decision support framework for organic farmers that employs science-informed and values based criteria to accurately predict the impact of ecological weed management strategies on soil health, resource competition, management costs and farmer quality of life.
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Oct 20, 2015
A new analysis of scientific studies spanning more than two decades, co-authored by Assistant Professor Lauren Pintor, and published in the journal Ecology Letters has revealed that predators benefit most from eating invasive prey only if their traditional food sources remain intact—that is, if they are able to maintain their usual diet and eat invaders only as an occasional snack. Read the full news release here.
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Oct 18, 2015
Soil Fertility Specialist Steve Culman is looking to recruit growers interested in helping researchers update the soybean, corn and wheat fertility recommendations for Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. He is seeking growers to participate in a project to look at nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in soybeans, corn and wheat as part of an overall effort to update the tri-state fertility recommendations.
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Sep 3, 2015
In a recent opinion piece published in Biology Letters, School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty member Christopher Tonra and collaborating scientists from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center call for “a full annual cycle perspective” to better understand the ecology and evolution of vertebrates.