CFAES welcomes Lonnie J. King, who previously has been dean of Ohio State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, as its new acting dean effective May 15. King replaces Ron Hendrick, who’s leaving in June to become dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State. Read the story.
Month: May 2016
Webinar looks at managing watersheds, has expert speakers from CFAES
CFAES’s Anne Baird and Joe Bonnell will present “Professional Development Needs of Water Resource Managers: Core Competencies” during a free webinar called “Developing Capacity for Local Watershed Management” from 2-3 p.m. CT (3-4 p.m. ET) May 18. The event is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the 12-state North Central Region Water Network. Learn more and register here. Baird and Bonnell are with the School of Environment and Natural Resources and OSU Extension’s Ohio Watershed Network.
Cardinal numbers and other measures of the state of birds in Ohio
The new Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio, says co-editor Matt Shumar of CFAES, is “written in a way to appeal to a wide audience with useful information on Ohio’s natural history, the distribution of birds across Ohio and where to go to find them.” Check it out.
Buckeyes get green gold
Ohio State has achieved a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). The rating places the university among the top tier of national and international colleges and universities, according to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Read the full story.
New book on Ohio’s breeding birds, co-edited by scientist with CFAES
A highly anticipated new book on breeding birds in Ohio sheds light on the current distribution and changes in the status of the state’s bird populations.
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio — published by the Pennsylvania State University Press and edited by Paul G. Rodewald, Matthew B. Shumar, Aaron T. Boone, David L. Slager and Jim McCormac — comes 25 years after the state’s first breeding bird atlas and provides a new look at contemporary Ohio bird life and how it has changed in that time. Continue reading New book on Ohio’s breeding birds, co-edited by scientist with CFAES
Learn how to name that tree June 3
It pays to learn your trees, says a forestry specialist with Ohio State. And the school’s Mansfield campus in north-central Ohio is a great place to do it. Continue reading Learn how to name that tree June 3
How was the Wooster green fair?
Over 1,500 people came to last month’s Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair at CFAES’s research arm, OARDC in Wooster, and over 300 vehicles visited the fair’s drive-through recycling station.
Continue reading How was the Wooster green fair?
Register for Ohio Environmental Leaders Institute
Registration is open for CFAES’s 2016 Ohio Environmental Leaders Institute. The program is for environmental, natural resource and sustainability professionals and volunteers who lead or aspire to lead collaborative processes to achieve more sustainable organizations, businesses and communities.
This year’s program, says co-organizer Joe Bonnell of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, will focus on “sustainable infrastructure as a topic area, but, as always, the purpose of the program is to build capacity in Ohio to engage in constructive dialogue and build collaborative partnerships across sectors and disciplines to address complex environmental and natural resource issues.”
Get details and register here.
Toot our horn: Ohio State is No. 1 in Big Ten green power use
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Ohio State as an Individual Conference Champion in the 2015-16 College & University Green Power Challenge for using more green power than any other Big Ten school. Read more …
Michigan State University Extension has just updated Protecting and Enhancing Pollinators in Urban Landscapes for the US North Central Region (30 pp.), which you can download as a free PDF