2005 Seminar Series

The Fall 2005 Center for Grassland Studies Seminar Series will be held 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the East Campus Union on the dates below. If you have questions, please call the Center office, 402-472-4101, or e-mail grassland@unl.edu.
8-22	Martin Massengale, UNL, Center for Grassland Studies  Introduction to the Seminar (for students taking for credit)
8-29	Ken Hubbard, High Plains Regional Climate Center, UNL, “Climate and Rangelands”
9-12	Jim Swinehart, School of Natural Resources, UNL, “The 20,000-year Battle between Sand and Vegetation for the Soul of the Nebraska Sandhills”
9-19	Ed Harvey, School of Natural Resources, UNL, “Groundwater & Grasslands: Examples From the Nebraska Sandhills”
9-26	Nathan Small, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, “Lands of Enchantment: The Grasslands of Otero Mesa and Wilderness in New Mexico”
10-3	Dave Aiken, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, UNL, “New Directions in Nebraska Water Policy – Fully Appropriated Basins, Overappropriated Basins, and Water Marketing”
10-10	Tom Franti, Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering, UNL, “Conservation Buffers: UNL Research and Extension to Protect Water Quality”
10-17	No seminar
10-24	Mike Kelly, Sutherland, NE, “Observations of Changes Occurring in Grasslands in Kenya”
10-31*	David Briske, Dept. of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, “State-and-Transition Models and Ecological Thresholds: Bridging Theory and Application”
11-7	No seminar
11-14	Pat Reece, Dept. of Agronomy and Horticulture, Panhandle  Research and Extension Center, UNL, “Drought- and Grazing- Induced  Changes in Plant Communities on Semi-arid Grasslands”
11-21	John Watkins, Dept. of Plant Pathology, UNL, “Influence of Climate on Summer Diseases of Turfgrass in Nebraska”
11-28	TBA
12-5	TBA

* 2005 Leu Distinguished Lecture

Refreshments will be available prior to each seminar, compliments of the Leu Foundation. Videotapes of these seminars and selected seminars from past series will be available for onsite viewing or checkout from 221 Keim Hall.

Above schedule is subject to change. Updates will be posted as they become available, so please check back.

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