The University of Michigan’s Jennifer Blesh presents “Agroecosystems Management and Nitrogen Balance on Grain Farms in the Midwest” from 11:30 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. tomorrow on Ohio State’s Columbus campus and by video link to CFAES’s research arm, OARDC, in Wooster. She’ll look at farming practices that can reduce nitrogen runoff in the Mississippi River watershed. As it is, that runoff ends up in the Gulf of Mexico, where it causes the gulf’s “dead zone.” Details.
Month: November 2013
Today: In Ohio and the Himalayas, how communities are managing their natural resources
“Natural resource management agencies around the world are increasingly collaborating with local communities,” says the flier for the next seminar sponsored by CFAES’s School of Environment of Natural Resources. SENR’s Divya Gupta, a doctoral candidate, looks at two such cases in “Collaboration and Enforcement Mechanisms: Community-based Natural Resource Management in Ohio and the Indian Himalayas.” 4-5:30 p.m. today. Details.
Learn all about running vehicles on CNG at this workshop
Got questions about running your car or truck on compressed natural gas (CNG)? Come to the Renewable Energy Workshop Nov. 19 at the Wooster campus of CFAES’s research arm, OARDC, to learn more about this alternative fuel. Speakers will discuss safety, mileage, conversion and new vehicle options. Find out how the current shale gas play can help foster increased CNG from renewable sources. Download the workshop agenda and registration form (pdf).
What’s this fish, and what does it mean?
Experts from CFAES and Ohio Sea Grant are available to talk to reporters and bloggers about the recent report of invasive grass carp, a species of Asian carp, breeding in a Lake Erie tributary. See this earlier related post. (Photo: Grass carp, USDA APHIS PPQ Archive, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org.)
How sustainable is America’s infrastructure?
The present and future of America’s infrastructure — its dams, roads, bridges, etc. — are the focus of a Nov. 20 public luncheon co-hosted by the Environmental Professionals Network and the Columbus Metropolitan Club. Download the flier (pdf) to learn more. EPN is a service of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. Membership in the network is free and open to anyone who works in an environmental field. (Photo: Columbus’s (relatively new) Lane Avenue Bridge by University Communications.)
Michigan State professor to speak on regional food systems, sustainability
Michael Hamm, Michigan State’s C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, presents “Why Are Regional Food Systems Important to a More Sustainable Future?” from 10-11 a.m. Nov. 8 in 206 Thorne Hall 130 Research Services Building on the Wooster campus of CFAES’s research arm, OARDC, 1680 Madison Ave., and by video link to 333C Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Free and open to the public. Presented by OARDC’s Agroecosystems Management Program. Details: kerrick.4@osu.edu. (Photo: Michigan State.)