All seminars begin at 10:30 a.m. in the NSERL Conference Room.

January 14,2009
Dr. Zuhair Masri, Research Associate for Soil Conservation and Land Management, Integrated Water and Land Management Program, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria.  “Improved soil and water conservation strategies to restore the degraded lands NW, Syria.”

February 4,2009
Travis Neely, USDA-NRCS State Soil Scientist, Indiana. “Soil Survey Updates and Water Table Monitoring.”

February 25, 2009
Dr. Xia Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China.  “Fractal features of soil particle size distribution under different plant communities in the forestry region of Mountain Yi-Meng.”

March 25, 2009
Dr. Douglas Smith, Soil Scientist, USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory. “SpatioTemporal Scaling: An Odyssey in P Transport.” 

April 1, 2009
Dr. Jane Mangold, Assistant Professor of Integrated Invasive Plant Management, Montana State University Dept of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences. “Rangeland Restoration in the Western US.”

April 29, 2009
Dr. Robert B. Gillispie, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne. “Biological and Ecological Impacts of Agricultural Contaminants on Aquatic Organisms in the Cedar Creek Watershed, Indiana.”

May 13, 2009
Dr. Indrajeet Chaubey, Assoc. Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering & Earth & Atmospheric Sci., Purdue University.  Title to be announced later.

January 12, 2011

Mr. Matthew Treskon, Digital Service Librarian-DigiTop, USDA-ARS, West Lafayette, Indiana; “DigiTop-USDA’s Digital Desktop Library”

 

February 1, 2011

Dr. Jim Garrison, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Electrical and Computer Engineering/Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; “Potential of Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Using Signals of Opportunity”

 

February 23, 2011

Dr. Gary Heathman, Research Soil Scientist, USDA-ARS, West Lafayette, Indiana; “Spatio-temporal Analysis of Surface and Subsurface Soil Moisture for Remote Sensing Applications within the Upper Cedar Creek Watershed”

 

April 6, 2011

Dr. John Laflen, Retired-former Director of the National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, Adjunct Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; “Erosion Modeling-Applications and Needs”

 

April 27, 2011

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Pappas, Research Hydraulic Engineer, USDA-ARS, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, West Lafayette, Indiana; “Protecting Drinking Water from Pesticides: Balancing Ideal with Feasible”