Monday, 1:10-3:00 p.m. in Johnson Hall 343
SOIL_SCI 501 Contact/Organizer: Dr. Jessica Goldberger, jgoldberger@wsu.edu
CROP_SCI 510 Contact/Organizer: Dr. Kevin Murphy, kmurphy2@wsu.edu
Arrangements have been made to broadcast to Mt. Vernon, Prosser, Puyallup, and Wenatchee stations.
August 21 – Organizational meeting (for enrolled students only)
August 28 – Dr. Lori Carris, Associate Dean, Graduate School, and Professor, Department of Plant Pathology
“Navigating Your Graduate Program at WSU”
September 4 – no seminar, Labor Day
September 11 – Ryan Higginbotham, Director, WSU Cereal Variety Testing Program
“WSU Cereal Variety Testing Program”
September 18 – Dr. Brian Irish, Geneticist/Curator, USDA-ARS Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research Unit
“What Do Spinach, Bananas, and Alfalfa Have in Common?”
September 25 – Dr. William Pan, Professor, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
“Nitrogen Use Efficiency Analysis from Soil Fertility, Breeding, and Physiology Perspectives: A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Science”
October 2 – Dr. Katherine Dentzman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
” ‘I Would Say That Might Be All It Is, Is Hope’: The Framing of Weed Resistance and How Farmers Explain Their Faith in Herbicides”
October 9 – Cornelius Adewale, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences
“Global Warming Potential of Organic Farms: Impact of Farm Size and Cover Crops”
October 16 – Practice Talks for ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meeting
- Rachel Breslauer, M.S. Candidate in Soil Science
“A Hard Spot to Farm: The Impact of Hydraulically Restrictive Horizons on Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Winter Wheat” - Leonardo Hinojosa, Ph.D. Candidate in Crop Science
“Effect of High Temperature on Pollen Morphology and Plant Growth in Quinoa”
October 23 – no seminar, ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Meeting
October 30 –
- David Sullivan, M.S. Candidate, Soil Science (exit seminar)
“Cover-Crop Based Strip Tillage for Organic Vegetable Production” - Nikayla Strauss, Ph.D. Candidate, Crop Science (proposal seminar)
“High Throughput Phenotyping and the DNAM Population”
November 6 – Dr. Jonathan Deenik, Soil Fertility and Soil Quality Specialist, Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Atolls to High Volcanoes: Soil Diversity and Agricultural Adaptation Across Micronesia”
November 13 –
- Brigid Meints, Ph.D. Candidate, Crop Science (exit seminar)
“Breeding Barley and Beans for Northwest Washington”
- Henry Sintim, Ph.D. Candidate, Soil Science (exit seminar)
“Biodegradable Plastic Mulches: Degradation and Impacts on Soil Properties”
November 20 – no school, Thanksgiving Break
November 27 –
- James Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Crop Science (proposal seminar)
“Application of Random Forest on Genomics Selection”
- Wilson Craine, Ph.D. Candidate, Crop Science (proposal seminar)
“Camelina Breeding at WSU”
December 4 –
- Kanwardeep Singh, Ph.D. Candidate, Crop Science (exit seminar)
“Evolution of Ph1 Gene and Its Use in Wheat Breeding”
- Micheal Dietz, B.S. Candidate, Turfgrass Management (undergrad seminar)
“PoaCure: A New Herbicide for Annual Bluegrass Control”