THE NRES SECONDARY MAJOR IS SUPPORTED BY THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL & AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING, Department of geography & GEOSPATIAL SCIENCES, AND GENEROUS ALUMNI AND DONORS LIKE YOU!

Example of preliminary results from the Marion County Park and Lake User Survey.

Ten students – from seven different majors and four colleges – successfully completed the NRES capstone course in Fall 2020.  Students were mentored by Dr. Trisha Moore (Biological & Agricultural Engineering) and NRES Graduate Fellow Amariah Fischer (Geography & Geospatial Sciences).

Students worked on two different projects including “Marion County Park and Lake Citizen Science Project” and “Studying Potential Effects of Changing Climate and Changing Land Cover on Marion County Lake.”  Project reports and scientific poster presentations can be viewed and downloaded from the NRES website.

Congratulations to students Luis Avalos (Park Management & Conservation), Shannon Bellamy (Biosystems Engineering), Katlynn Brock (Park Management & Conservation), Alexandra Clark (Agronomy), MacKenzie Cline (Biological Systems Engineering), Trevor Hampton (Civil Engineering), Abigail Mason (Regional & Community Planning), Hunter Mussetter (Philosophy), Logan Romero (Geography & Geospatial Sciences), Aaron Stewart (Park Management & Conservation).

Dr. David Haukos

We welcome Dr. David Haukos (Division of Biology) and Dr. Arnaud Temme (Department of Geography & Geospatial Sciences) as the newest member of the NRES Board of Directors.

Dr. Haukos is the unit leader of the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit whose research focuses on the effects of environmental and habitat changes on wildlife populations.  Dr. Temme is an associate professor who studies geomorphology, soil science, landscape evolution modeling, and mountain landscapes.

Dr. Arnaud Temme

The NRES Secondary Major is administered through a Director and an Interdisciplinary Governing Board selected from faculty teaching NRES courses.  Board members serve three year terms with elections held during the spring semester each academic year.

Visit the NRES YouTube channel to watch past NRES Seminar presentations.

New presentations for the Fall 2020 NRES Seminar Series were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Instead, students watched and discussed five previous seminars available through the NRES YouTube channel.  This semester featured past presentations by Dr. Jesse Nippert (Division of Biology), Dr. Trisha Moore (Biological & Agricultural Engineering), Dr. Lisa Harrington (Department of Geography & Geospatial Sciences), Dr. Jim Stack (Department of Plant Pathology), and Jennifer Vallenga (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance).

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 was founded 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.