Seminars are held Mondays at 1:10 pm and originate at WSU-Pullman in Johnson Hall 204 (unless otherwise noted). Arrangements have been made to broadcast to Mt. Vernon, Prosser, Puyallup , Wenatchee and Whatcom stations.
Organized by Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, lcboggs@wsu.edu
January 13 – Geoffrey Michael Gadd, Ph.D, Geomicrobiology group, College of Life Sciences, Univ. of Dundee, Scotland, UK
“Geomycology: Metal and Mineral Transformations by Fungi” (abstract attached)
Please contact his host, Tarah Sullivan (t.sullivan@wsu.edu, 335-4837), to schedule a meeting with Dr. Gadd.
January 20 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, no seminar
January 27 – Course Introduction, no seminar
February 3 – Rick Rupp, Information Systems Coordinator
“Agro-ecological Classification of Land in the Inland Northwest”
February 10 – Rachel Wieme, Soil Science Ph.D. Student
“Introducing Quinoa into Organic Crop Rotations on the Palouse”
February 17 -Surachet Aramrak, Soil Science Ph.D. Student
“Colloid Interactions with a Moving Air-water Interface”
February 24 – Jolene Lafferty, Laboratory Manager, Decagon Systems
“Behind the Scenes: Developing a Sensor for Commercial Production”
March 3 – Lia Shrewsbury, Soil Science M.S. Student
“Soil Denitrifier and Nitrifier Populations with Slope Position”
Note date of seminar
March 4 – Lyn Garling, Penn State University, Student Choice Seminar
“Science in Translation: Academia, Activism, and Agrarianism“
March 10 – no seminar
March 17 – Spring Break, no seminar
March 24 – Patrick O’Neill, Soil Science M.S. Student
“Columbia Root Knot Nematode Host Status of Cover Crop Options in Potato Rotations”
March 31 – Matteo Poggio, Soil Science Ph.D. Student
“Development and Testing of a Visible Near Infrared Penetrometer for in Situ Soil Characterization”
April 7 – Jason Morrow, Soil Science M.S. Student
“Tillage and Cropping Intensity Impacts on Soil Carbon and Important Soil Processes: A Soil Health Perspective”
2014 Campbell Lecture Series
Note date, time and location of seminar
April 11 – Dr. John Gamon
“A New Look at Northern Photosynthesis: Monitoring Changing Productivity in Northern Terrestrial Biomes with Optical Remote Sensing”
3:00-5:00 pm, VBR Science Forum, Room 305
April 14 – no seminar
April 21 – Caitlin Price Youngquist, Soil Science Ph.D. Student
“Local Biosolids Compost: Fate of Antibiotics, Community Engagement, and Agricultural Use”
Note date of seminar
April 24 – John Dickson, Soil Science Ph.D. Student
“The Role of Secondary Aluminosilicate Minerals in Technetium (Tc-99) Immobilization in Radioactive Waste”
April 28 – Harsimran Kaur, Soil Science Ph.D. Student
“Assessing Agricultural Land Use Dynamics using Agroecological Classes”
Note date, time and location of seminar
May 16 – Dr. V. Bhaskar, M.Sc., Ph.D., AIFC, M.F. (Yale)
“Root Hairs – The ‘Respiratory Gills’ of Roots: A New Theory & Management of Root Hairs for Increasing Crop Yields”
3:00-4:00 pm, Johnson Hall, Room 343