Elena Irwin, pictured, CFAES Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics and faculty director of Ohio State’s Sustainability Institute, has been named one of the 47 members of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board.
CFAES’ Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory programs are offering a virtual algae identification workshop April 21-22. Eight Ohio EPA contact hours are available for attending. The fee is $150.
Farm and Dairy, Nov. 1; featuring Chris Winslow, director, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory
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:
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.
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.”
Science, June 25. Featuring Robyn Wilson, School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR).
PBS “Nature” blog, June 23. Featuring Nicole Jackson, SENR.
NPR, June 22. Featuring Rattan Lal, SENR.
Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science in CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources, has been named to the 29-member Scientific Group for the United Nations’ 2021 Food Systems Summit.
The summit, a statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “will raise global awareness to understand the food systems challenges we must solve, build a global conversation on the way in which we produce, process, and consume food, and galvanize global actions and commitments to change our food systems to provide safe, nutritious food for all within our planetary boundaries.”
The independent Scientific Group “will bring to bear the foremost scientific evidence, and help expand the base of shared knowledge about experiences, approaches, and tools for driving sustainable food systems.”
Registration is open for this year’s Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Conference, set for Wednesday, Sept. 2, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and slated to be held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. Viewing the conference is free and open to the public, but you have to register in advance. Find details and a link to register.
The speakers will include scientists from USDA; the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; and CFAES.
Algal blooms are the typically pea-green, sometimes massive slime outbreaks that in recent years have plagued Lake Erie and other water bodies.
The conference’s organizer is Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program, which works to protect the environment of Lake Erie and the Great Lakes.
(Photo: Tom Archer, Michigan Sea Grant.)
CFAES’ Linda Saif, an international expert on coronaviruses and Distinguished University Professor, has been rightly extremely busy lately answering reporters’ questions, including “Can pigs catch COVID-19?” “Can pets get coronavirus from humans?” and “Can veterinarians prevent the next pandemic?”
You can learn more about Saif’s and her colleagues’ expertise on coronaviruses here, and if you’re a journalist and want to ask them questions, their contact information is there, too.
Saif gave a good backgrounder on coronavirus biology, genetics, and related matters in a recent webinar, which you can watch in the video above.