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Kick-off of the Fall 2008 Seminar Series

The Missouri River and native peoples as seen by the Maximilian-Bodmer scientific expedition in the 1830s will be the topic of a free talk at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9, in the first-floor auditorium of Hardin Hall, 33rd and Holdrege. This is the first of five talks in the School of Natural Resources (SNR) Outreach Seminar Series. To learn more about this talk, and to see the complete seminar series schedule, click here.
Fall Speaker Series

 

Carlson Honored for University Service

Marv Carlson
Congratulations to our very own geologist Marv Carlson, whose 50 years of service to Nebraskans will be recognized Sept. 4 with a UNL Employee Service Award. Please see the full story in the Scarlet.

 

Chileans Visit High Plains Regional Climate Center

Chilean Visitors

The High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC) hosted visitors from Chile August 7-8 who came to learn more about serving the agricultural community with automated weather data.

“Their main hope was to gather information and agreements to help them develop their weather station network, and possibly applications from it to serve Chilean agriculture,” said Dennis Todey, acting director of the HPRCC. The visitors, working under the auspices of Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture, also visited the International Research Institute at Columbia University. (more)

 

UNL Graduate, Mark Gocke, Honored by WY Game and Fish Dept.

Mark Gocke

Mark Gocke, a 1990 wildlife management graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was honored as the 2007 Services Division Employee of the Year for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Since July 1995, Gocke has served as the Game and Fish’s information and education representative stationed in Jackson. (more)

 

Research Examines Northern Alaska’s Thaw Lakes

Tracking changes in the thaw lakes of northern Alaska, which is experiencing rapid warming, will improve our understanding of climate change and its effects, say School of Natural Resources researchers who returned from Barrow, Alaska, this summer.

John Lenters, climatologist, and Sandra Jones, graduate student, spent much of June launching floating weather stations and drilling holes in ice to suspend under-water thermometers. (more)

John Lenters

 

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