Registration is open for Ohio Sea Grant’s Science and Outdoor Writers Workshop, set to be held virtually Oct. 28–29, 1–3 p.m. both days. Check out the topics and speakers:
On Campus
‘As goes the soil, so goes humanity’
CFAES last week honored its own Rattan Lal, 2020 World Food Prize Laureate, with a video retrospective of his life and career, which you can watch above. Lal is Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science in the School of Environment and Natural Resources.
The video includes the announcement that Lal’s name is being added to the center that he founded—what will now be called the Rattan Lal Carbon Management and Sequestration Center.
You can watch the World Food Prize award ceremony itself, which the World Food Prize Foundation hosted on Oct. 15, here.
CFAES reads for Oct. 14, 2020
Gore, 2020 laureate Lal pitch national policy during World Food Prize talk on soil health and hunger
Des Moines (Iowa) Business Record, Oct. 13; featuring Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR)
Ohio State soil scientist honored for increasing global food production
Ohio State News, Oct. 5; featuring Rattan Lal, SENR
Cargill to advance regenerative practices on 10 million acres
No-Till Farmer, Sept. 17; partnership with CFAES cited
Say ‘Go Bucks!’ with Buckeye syrup
You can now order Ohio State Maple Syrup online and have it delivered to your home. The syrup, while from maples, is totally Buckeye:
- It comes from a sugar bush envisioned, started, and run by students in CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources.
- The nearly 20-acre sugar bush is located at the Ohio State Mansfield campus, about 70 miles north of Columbus. It’s part of the campus’s EcoLab.
- The sales help benefit Ohio State students. The proceeds fund scholarships for students at the EcoLab.
Read a previous post and place an order.
Two events to honor Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of soil science in CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources, will receive the 2020 World Food Prize in a ceremony set for 10–11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 15.
Later the same day, he will be honored during a CFAES-hosted virtual event called “The Legacy of Dr. Rattan Lal” from 2–2:45 p.m. EDT.
Watch the morning ceremony here. Register to attend the afternoon event here.
Lal speaks on turning science into action in the 2018 video above.
CFAES reads for Oct. 1, 2020
Making sense of soil carbon sequestration in the fight against global climate change
PrecisionAg, Sept. 28; Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), cited
World Food Prize winner Dr Lal to spend prize money to promote soil science
Siasat Daily (Hiderabad, India), Sept. 27; featuring Rattan Lal, SENR
University/industry partnership takes field scouting to the next level
Ohio’s Country Journal, Sept. 23; featuring Nate Douridas, Molly Caren Agricultural Center
Missed the Gwynne? Here’s how to watch
CFAES’ Gwynne Conservation Area hosted a robust lineup of talks during this year’s virtual Farm Science Review, Sept. 22–24, and if you missed them during their livestreams, you’re in luck. You can watch the recordings—on topics covering forages, grazing, aquatics, woodlands, and wildlife—for free at the Review’s website, fsr.osu.edu.
Tune in: Ohio’s squirrels of many colors
The Wooster Science Café resumes virtually from 7–8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, when the College of Wooster’s Rick Lehtinen presents “Getting to Know the Neighbors: Squirrels, Obsessions, and Long-term Data.”
CFAES reads for Sept. 24, 2020
Regenerative agriculture movement gains traction
Food Institute Blog, Sept. 18; Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), cited
Western wildfires cause hazy skies, intense Ohio sunsets
Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 16; featuring Aaron Wilson, OSU Extension
Are coyotes moving into your neighborhood?
Science News for Students, Sept. 3; featuring Stan Gehrt, SENR
Buy fall plants, help sustain Secrest
Secrest Arboretum’s fall plant sale is a go, but with changes due to the pandemic: online browsing and buying; and socially distanced, no-contact plant pick-up.
