The theme for the Fall 2001 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Grassland Studies Seminar Series is Impacts of Grasslands on Soil, Air and Water Quality. 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. Refreshments served.
If you have questions, please call the Center office at 402/472-4101.
    8-27
Martin Massengale, UNL Center for Grassland Studies 
Introduction to and Instructions for Seminar (for students taking for credit)
    9-10
Dick Gray, Nebraska Department of Roads
“Roadside Seeding and Environmental Quality”
    9-17
 Bahman Eghball, USDA - Agricultural Research Service
“Effect of Grass Strips on Water Quality”
    9-24
 Jim Locklear, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
“Horticultural Potential of the Flora of the Great Plains”
    10-1
Shashi Verma, School of Natural Resource Sciences
“Carbon Sequestration in Agroecosystems and Global Climate Change”
    10-8
Ryan Martin, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
"Restoring Tallgrass Prairies in Degraded Rangeland”
    10-15
Terry Riordan, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture “Developing Grasses for Environmental Improvement”
    10-22
 No seminar (Fall Break)
    10-29*
Richard Hart, retired rangeland scientist, USDA - Agricultural Research Service

“Bison and How They Shaped the Great Plains Rangelands”
    11-5
 Garald Horst, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture “Remediation: Plants Do It the Old Fashioned Way”
    11-12
Mike Kelly, rancher in Sutherland, Nebraska
“Grasslands, Conservation Easements and Environmental Quality”
    11-19
 Dean Eisenhauer, UNL Department of Biological Systems Engineering
“Conservation Benefits of Grass Buffers”
    11-26
 Wendy Cecil, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate student
“An Integrated Approach to Dollar Spot Management on a Creeping Bentgrass Fairway”
    12-3
 Eric Mousel, UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture  graduate student
“Grazing Strategies for Big Bluestem Pastures”
    12-10
 Jeff Carstens, UNL Department of Entomology graduate student “Natural Enemies of Blissus occiduus (Barber) in Buffalograss”

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

* Leu Distinguished Lectureship for 2001

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