The theme for the Fall 2000 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Grassland Studies Seminar Series is Grasslands and the Environment. Below is a list of speakers and their topics. All seminars, which are open to the public, are 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the East Campus Union. If you have questions, please call the Center office at 402/472-4101.
    8-21
Martin Massengale, UNL Center for Grassland Studies 
Introduction to and Instructions for Seminar (for students taking for credit)
    8-28*
Shuizhang Fei, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
"Transformation and Regeneration in Buffalograss"
    9-11*
 John Doran, USDA-ARS
"Potential for Carbon Sequestration in Grassland Soils"
    9-18*
 Barb Cooksley, Nebraska Rancher
"Invasive Species National Plan"
    9-25*
Dave Sands, Audubon Nebraska
"Spring Creek Prairie: An Opportunity in Conservation and Education"
    10-2*
Al Steuter, Nebraska Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
"Interaction of Fire and Bison grazing on Prairie Grasslands"
    10-9*
Steven Rothenberger, UNK Department of Biology
"Comparisons of the Diversity and Distribution of Plant Species in Select Prairies of Central Nebraska"
    10-16
 No seminar
    10-23
Sandy Smart, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate student
"Two Cycles of Divergence Selection for Seedling Tiller Number in Big Bluestem and Switchgrass"
    10-30*
John Janovy, UNL School of Biological Sciences
"Parasites on the Prairie"
    11-6
No seminar
    11-13*
 Dave Barker**, Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Ohio State University
"Biodiversity in New Zealand Grasslands"
    11-20
 Tom Eickhoff, UNL Department of Entomology graduate student
"Grassland Hosts of the Chinch Bug"
    11-27
 Wendy Cecil, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate student
"An Integrated Approach to Dollar Spot Management on a Bentgrass Fairway"
Nick Iwig, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate student
"Putting Grow-In Procedures: Nutrient Fate and Turfgrass Responses"
    12-4*
 Jean Knops, UNL School of Biological Sciences
"Impact of Elevated CO2, Increased Nitrogen Deposition, and Declining Biodiversity on Grassland Functioning"

*Videotapes are available for onsite viewing or checkout from the CGS reference center, 221 Keim Hall.

** Leu Distinguished Lectureship for 2000

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