In the 2011 video above, CFAES’s Marne Titchenell talks about bats, the spreading white nose syndrome disease that was and is killing them, and why losing our bats would be a bad thing indeed. (Hint: They gobble tons of farm pests.) She was quoted on the topic in an Oct. 30 CFAES press release and will speak on the topic during the Nov. 8 annual conference of the Ohio Community Wildlife Cooperative at Ohio State.
Month: November 2017
In Mansfield, the ‘cutting edge of urban agriculture’
Ohio State’s Mansfield campus now has a microfarm. It’s thanks to assistant professor Kip Curtis, recent graduate Tyler Arter, student interns, and help from 30 students in CFAES’s Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability major. Read the story in Farm and Dairy.
The third-of-an-acre farm includes two high tunnels and about 50 raised beds. “We hope to begin to model the cutting edge of urban agriculture and demonstrate its promise for an evolving food system,” Curtis said in an Ohio State Mansfield press release.
Funding came from a $100,00 grant from Ohio State’s President and Provost’s Council on Sustainability, which, according to its website, “provides strategic advisement on the integration of sustainable practices, programs and projects” throughout the university. (Photo: Ohio State Mansfield.)
Hello, kitty. Let’s talk
Conservation biologist Pete Marra, author of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (2016, Princeton University Press), speaks twice at Ohio State next week: at the Tuesday, Nov. 7, breakfast program by the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN), and at the Wednesday, Nov. 8, annual conference of the Ohio Community Wildlife Cooperative.
‘Penguins are my passion’: Environmental Film Series continues Nov. 6
“The Penguin Counters,” which follows an expert team documenting Antarctic penguin populations, gets a free public screening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6, as part of Ohio State’s ongoing 2017 Environmental Film Series.
“Penguins are my passion,” Ron Naveen, leader of the team, says in the film’s trailer. “Penguins are indicators of ocean health, and they’re ultimately going to be the sentinels of change.”
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Thursday: ‘What do we mean by agricultural sustainability?’
CFAES alumnus Matt Mariola (PhD, rural sociology, 2009), assistant professor of environmental studies, sociology and anthropology at the College of Wooster, presents “What Do We Mean by Agricultural Sustainability? Reflections from Southern Chile,” from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at Spoon Market, 144 W. Liberty St., in downtown Wooster. Admission is free and open to the public. Learn more.
His talk is the latest in the ongoing Wooster Science Café series sponsored by the College of Wooster and OARDC, CFAES’s research arm in Wooster.
Face of nightmares
New details are available to you on the Asian carp species threatening the Great Lakes.
A new report by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network looks at the possible impacts if the carps invade the lakes, identifies gaps in what’s known about the fish, and provides extensive educational materials for teachers, scientists, anglers and others — anyone with an interest in keeping the Great Lakes, including Lake Erie, healthy — for communicating the threat to the public.
Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program is one of the network’s collaborators. Read Sea Grant’s press release about the report.
Shown here is a silver carp, one of the species in question. (Photo: Dan O’Keefe, Michigan Sea Grant.)