2008 Seminar Series
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The Fall 2008 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. |
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8-25 |
Martin Massengale, UNL, Center for Grassland Studies, Introduction to the Seminar (for students taking for credit) |
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9-8 |
Aaron Stalker, West Central Research
& Extension Center, UNL, "Research in the Nebraska Sandhills to
Help Producers' Profitability with High Feed Prices" |
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9-15* |
Dennis Ojima, The H. John Heinz III
Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, Washington, DC,
"Grasslands: Adapting to Global Change" |
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9-22 |
Steve Chick, Nebraska NRCS, Impact
of the New Farm Bill on Grasslands, Wildlife and the Environment" |
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9-29 |
Ian Chivers, Principal and Chief
Executive of Native Seeds Pty. Ltd., Victoria, Australia, "Amenity
Grasses of Australia" |
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10-6 |
No seminar |
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10-13 |
Jim Locklear, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, "The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum and the Evolution of a Nebraska Style of Landscape Horticulture" |
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10-20 |
No seminar (semester break) |
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10-27 |
Bruce Anderson and Walter Schacht, Dept. of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL, "Observations on Chinese Grasslands" |
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11-3 |
Mace Hack, Nebraska Chapter, The Nature
Conservancy, "The Nature Conservancy's Grassland Conservation in
Nebraska" |
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11-10 |
Jeff Drahota, US Fish
and Wildlife Service, "Forage Quality for the Rainiwater Basin Wetlands" |
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11-17 |
Tom Bragg, Dept. of Biology, UNO,
"Savanah Ecology and Management in Western Australia |
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11-24 |
Ken Vogel, USDA Agricultural
Research Service, "Current Status of Switchgrass as a Bioenergy Crop" |
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12-1 |
Sandra Schaeffer, graduate student,
Dept. of Entomology, UNL, "Molecular Insight into Buffalograss
Resistance to Chinch Bugs" |
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12-8 |
Matt Giovanni, graduate student,
Dept. of
Agronomy and
Horticulture and School of Natural Resources, UNL, "Birds and Plants in
the
Nebraska Sandhills: Interactions and Conservation" |
Refreshments will be available prior to each seminar, compliments of the Leu Foundation. Video of these seminars and selected seminars from past series will be available for checkout from the Center, 306 Biochemistry Hall.
Above schedule is subject to change. Updates will be posted as they become available, so please check back.
