LARS 95 field day

ACES Symposium 2017

9-13-17 Seminar

https://conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows/apply/proposal-guidelines

UNESCO

Ecology Events

Please join us next Friday, May 5 at 1:15 PM in 351 Moore Hall, where Dr. Mary Saunders Bulan from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, […]

https://www.agronomy.org/story/more-less-pastures July 20, 2016 By Danielle St. Louis Getting more for less is an attractive concept. But it isn’t that easy when it comes to […]

http://www.northcentralsare.org/Educational-Resources/From-the-Field/Soil-Scientist-Makes-Case-for-Active-C-Soil-Test

Congratulations David and thanks for many years of creative and important research!

Congratulations for having your proposal selected for funding! 2016 NCR SARE Review Proposal #:GSP16-023 Project Title: Facilitating grazing partnerships on Wisconsin’s public grasslands: Assessing plant […]

CIAS

DAVID DUNCAN FINDS QUIRK & CHARISMA IN MICROBES FIXING CARBON WITH ANNA CATES TOWARD ECOLOGICAL INTENSIFICATION ONE PRAIRIE GRASS AT A TIME

Nice bit on the EU biodiesel controversy, enjoy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22127123

Data got you down? Have you discovered that 20% of your observations account for 80% of the total in your response variable? You probably want […]

Welcome to CALS WP Cluster Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Research Professor – Ecosystem Services Idaho State University Primary PurposeIdaho State University seeks a Research Faculty member to help lead cross-disciplinary investigations of social-ecological systems, […]

Soil Biogeochemist/Microbiologist University of Tennessee, Knoxville Soil Biogeochemist/Microbiologist The Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is seeking to […]

Agriculture secretary urges producers of biofuels to think bigger

University of Wisconsin-Madison renewable energy research center

This was the first Organic Ag Research Symposium, held pre-MOSES in La Crosse. I think the idea was to add a separate format for researchers […]

http://ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2015/02/16/moving-toward-ecological-intensification-one-prairie-grass-at-a-time/

Farmlands with smaller crop fields have higher within-field biodiversity   Fahrig_et_al_2015

Carbon market

But while the normal armyworms died when fed Bt corn, the Hyde County armyworms ate their way right through it….. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-11-armyworms-resistance-bt-corn.html#jCp

The SOM6 workshop consisted of around 100 people, with a good spread among late and early-career scientists. I only met one other person who hadn’t […]

www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41133/title/Opinion–The-Planet-Needs-More-Plant-Scientists/

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

Runaway growth in the emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with the problem, raising the risk of “severe, pervasive and […]

Ecosystem

Sometimes doing science “right” pays off. While stalking potentially receptive editors for an upcoming submission to PLOS, I found this recently published PNAS paper: Interannual […]

Subject: Postdoctoral position at UAF: Grassland food web dynamics and climate change in California *Postdoctoral position at UAF: Grassland food web dynamics and climate change […]

Light it up

www.agronomy.org/publications/aj/articles/106/2/596

Patterns of root decomposition in response to soil moisture best explain high soil organic carbon heterogeneity within a mesic, restored prairieVon Haden, A.C., Dornbush, M.E.Agriculture, […]

bees

A recent editorial on global maters by Benjamin Bratton in the Guardian, “We need to talk about TED,” (12/30/13): http://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamin-bratton.  This is an outstanding critique of the […]

This is a test to see if I recieve notification of postings.

http://ecology.wisc.edu/events/details.php?e=1762   Date: Wednesday, December 4Time: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PMSpeaker: India Mansour, Research Assistant with Sharon LongLocation: 357 Soils Building, 1525 Observatory Drive

THIS! You may have heard of arXiv, the pre-print system for the excessively numerate. In essence, it provides an opportunity for researchers to publicly share […]

Prairie Festival http://www.landinstitute.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2010/01/29/4b6357f88ae4e Logistics: The dates are Fri-Sun Sept 27-29.  It was a 10 hour drive down, and breaking it up by doing a few […]

Our favorite (/hated) element is in National Geographic!  Some of our favorite N experts like Phil Robertson and Sieglinde Snapp are quoted about their work […]

Interesting Article that chalenges the all too cliché food vs. fuel argument.  Okay, I thought I could upload a file, but apparently I cannot. Here is […]

FYI Brianna Laube Duran, MS candidate in the Nelson Institute Environment and Resources graduate program will be presenting her thesis defense talk on Tuesday Aug. 13 […]

The 5th Annual Argonne Soil Metagenomics Meeting will take place October 2–4, 2013 at the Indian Lakes Resort Hilton in Bloomingdale, Illinois, USA. We are pleased […]

Postdoc In Nitrogen Fixation In Perennial Agricultural And Grassland Ecosystems Post-doc in nitrogen fixation in perennial agricultural and grassland ecosystemsThe Land Institute, Salina, KSEmail crews@landinstitute.org […]

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – EDDY FLUX AND TRACE GAS FLUXES IN CROPS, GRASSLANDS AND WOODLANDS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – EDDY FLUX AND TRACE GAS FLUXES […]

Postdoctoral Researcher Position In Terrestrial Biogeochemistry And Soil Ecology The Nadelhoffer ecosystem ecology lab is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative, NSF-funded project […]

Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and member of the Five College Consortium (Amherst College, Smith College, Mount […]

Date:    Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:57:11 -1000Subject: Assistant Professor in Soil Ecology and Biogeochemistry Title: Assistant Professor in Soil Ecology and BiogeochemistryPosition Number: 0083666Hiring […]

Date:    Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:26:20 -0600Subject: Postdoc in microbial/fungal ecology in Hawaii     * Postdoc in microbial/fungal ecology in Hawaii    * […]

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Thought this might be of interest to the lab: You’re invited to Marian Weidner’s Environment & Resources MS defense/public talk! Date: Friday, May 31stTime: 10amLocation: Hartshorne Conference […]

Ag land expansion

Ag land expansion

I came across an interesting blog post by a professor who is trying to learn R in order to stay current. I find it interesting […]

For those interested in carbon, soil, and/or supporting fellow students moving on… PhD defense seminar of Nina T. Chaopricha Deepening our understanding of soil carbonMonday, […]

Ph.D. student to study the role of soil microbial communities in=20restoration of grassland ecosystem functions Oklahoma State University=92s  Department of Natural Resource Ecology and==20Management has […]

Postdoctoral Position in Microbial Ecology of Grassland AgroecosystemsUniversity of Minnesota — Twin Cities The University of Minnesota seeks a plant-microbial ecologist to fill a2-year postdoctoral […]

The deadline to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration has been extended until May 15, 2013.  This will […]

Meadow fescue shout out!   http://www.thecountrytoday.com/farm/dairy/article_7b0ef08a-a152-11e2-93b5-001a4bcf887a.html

Nice bit on the EU biodiesel controversy, enjoy.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22127123

Follow up to previous discussions about neonicotinoids

Intersting looking article   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880913000042#

Interesting article from Biofuels Digest on the feasibility of meeting the 2022 biofuel targets.  Can the US still meet its 2022 biofuels targets?

NYT article about an idea to “re-engineer plants so that their leaves reflect rather than absorb more light” http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/re-engineering-nature-to-meet-global-energy-needs/?ref=science

WFU

In today’s content alerts from J of Applied Ecol., “Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: […]

Sustainability Community,   Registration is free for UW students:   Please join other UW friends, industry partners, faculty, staff and students in the inaugural UW-Madison […]

Special Seminar Announcement WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27   Using Bioenergy Poplar Plantations to Increase Ecosystem Services Dr. Ron Zalesny US Forest Service, Northern Research Station Rhinelander, […]

Pasture conversion

Hey Jacksonian’s, I forgot to mention last week that I’ll be presenting a seminar about what we’ve learned about reed canarygrass at the Dairy Forage […]

More on weeds

Report

Researchers at McGill and AZ State report global increase in phosphorus demand and amount of mined P consumed per person/yr 1961-2007 as linked to increase […]

Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds

Chu

Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge

“There are pros and cons to biofuel, but not here,” said Misael Gonzáles of C.U.C., a labor union for Guatemala’s farmers. “These people don’t have […]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/science-figures-2012/?pid=5583

http://xkcd.com/1007/

WEI Building tour Tuesday, December 4th from 10:00 – 11:00 AM a tour of the building will be given.  Anyone wishing to see the building interior should […]

Lab moving day has been set for January 16.  We will be receiving cart/totes a week prior to prepare for the move.  Instead of a […]

OK, there are now 5 copies of Ecological Detective floating around the lab.  Who is going to take the bull by the horns and pick […]

Thought some of you (ahem..Gregg..) might be interested in this! Please consider submitting an abstract to this meeting held at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, on […]

Unless someone has a pressing desire to share, lab meeting is cancelled tomorrow as a result schedule conflicts.  We will move Brianna forward to 5 […]

Wisconsin Ecology is starting a journal club!  See below for the message from Phil Hahn, WE student rep president. ____________________________ Hey all, Anyone up for […]

There will be NO lab meeting tomorrow. Projected attendance is very low so we’ll postpone ’til next week.

Hi ya’ll,  I took some photos of our tour of the WEI building this morning.  Enjoy! Lab Space Student Space Research Deck (aka Party Deck)

From CALS: “We will be performing maintenance and adding capacity to the CALS IT infrastructure this evening, causing a short but necessary service outage for […]

Not quite as fun as Davids last post, but interesting.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20303668

For once, my webcomic browsing has been quasi work-related, as Friday’s xkcd gave a nice illustration of the difference between Bayesian statistics and frequentists (i.e. […]

The University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) is excited to offer a limited number of fellowships to support station and residency costs for […]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/section/dead-zone

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/repositoryfiles/ca6604p131-97602.pdf

http://wfbf.com/ag-newswire/organics-are-0-9-percent-of-u-s-farm-receipts/

In an interview with Des Moines Register staff, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsak said conservation compliance will not be a requirement for farmers to receive federal crop […]

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11585.html#/affil-auth

http://www.climateactionreserve.org/2012/06/28/new-agriculture-offset-protocol-expands-opportunities-for-farmers-to-participate-in-the-carbon-market/