Date

Guest and Topic

September 16

Wei Lin, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Topic:  Interdisciplinary Collaborations on the Development of North Plains National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

September 23

Dr. John Foss, Former Chairman of Soil Science

Topic:  "Soils and Archaeology: From North Dakota to Petra"  (This is a ECS Seminar scheduled at Noon in the Hidatsa Room of the Memorial Union)

September 30

Sarah Braaten, Undergraduate Student in Range Science

Topic:  "Restoring Bottomland Hardwood Forests in the Middle Sheyenne River Watershed "

October 7

October 14

Dr. Jim Staricka, Soil Scientist at the Williston Research and Extension Center

Topic: Research Opportunities at Nesson Valley, North Dakota.

Dr. Scott Redlin, USDA-APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine's Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, Raleich, NC.

Topic:  "Emerald Ash Borer Situation in the USA". (Seminar sponsored by the SNRS)

October 21

Adam Guy, Master's Student in Soil Science

Topic: "Urban Flood Impacts on Water Quality and Sediments "

October 28

Dr. Carolyn Grygiel, Director-NRM Program and Associate Professor-Rangeland Ecology

Topic:  "Precision Prairie Reconstruction (PPR): a 'Patch Dynamics' Technique"

Dr. Cindy Sagers, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas

Topic:  "The Evolutionary Ecology of Specilized Plant-Ant Interactions:  Azteca and Cecropia of the Neotropics"

Entomology Seminar at 10:00 AM in the USDA-Northern Crop Science Lab Large Conference Room

November 4

Soil Science Society of America's Annual Meeting - No Seminar

November 11

HOLIDAY

November 18

Dr. Don Tanaka, Research Soil Scientist, ARS-USDA, Mandan

Topic:  TBD

December 2

Dr. Jason Harmon, Assistant Professor of Entomology - NDSU

Topic:  "How Climate Change Can Influence Insect Interactions and Biological Control:  Interests of the New Insect Ecology Lab"

December 9

Susan Samson-Liebig, USDA-NRCS Soil Quality Specialist

Topic:  Soil Quality : Past, Present, and Future Activities in the NRCS"