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Northview Pond is a stormwater retension pond built in the rapidly developing Northview neighborhood area of northwestern Manhattan.

Thirteen students – from three colleges and eight different majors – successfully completed the NRES capstone course in Fall 2017.  Faculty advisors were Dr. Trisha Moore (Biological & Agricultural Engineering) and Dr. Douglas Goodin (Geography).

Students worked on two different projects including “Vegetation Impacts of Flooding in Wildcat Creek Watershed” and “Northview Pond Remediation”.  Project reports and scientific poster presentations can be viewed and downloaded from the NRES website.

Congratulations to students Kaden Berry (Agronomy), Monica Disberger (Art), Chelsea Fleming (Biological & Agricultural Engineering), Samantha Grieger (Biology), Jaimie Houser (Biological & Agricultural Engineering), Kristen Jones (Civil Engineering), Gary Koons (Geography), Derek Kvasnicka (Park Management & Conservation), Tyler Peterson (Agricultural Technology & Management), Rory Reichelt (Civil Engineering), Nathan Tolle (Park Management & Conservation), Elena Watson (Civil Engineering), and Benjamin Williams (Park Management & Conservation).

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Dr. Brian McCornack presents “Blending Ecology with Technology to Manage Pests and Beneficial Organisms” on October 17, 2017.

The Fall 2017 NRES Seminar Series featured guest presentations by five K-State faculty and staff.  Special thanks to Jim Sherow (History), Colby Moorberg (Agronomy), Barbara DeSanto (A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications), Trevor Witt (Unmanned Aircraft Systems, K-State Polytechnic), and Brian McCornack (Entomology) for their insightful talks.

The seminar series helps us achieve our student learning outcomes by expanding students broad-based knowledge of natural resources/environmental science and by illustrating the commonalities (and differences) in academic perspectives for studying and solving contemporary natural resources issues.

This series, which continues to grow in popularity since its inception in Spring 2014, is focused on undergraduate students and was established to help build a sense of community, an appreciation for the breadth and depth of issues and approaches, and awareness of current research in natural resources and environmental science fields.