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The K-State Meadow looking towards the Beach Museum of Art. See more info about The Meadow at https://blogs.k-state.edu/meadow/.

Eight students – from three colleges and six different majors – successfully completed the NRES capstone course in Fall 2015.  Faculty advisors were Dr. John Harrington (Geography) and Dr. Trisha Moore (Biological & Agricultural Engineering).

Students worked on two different projects including “Assessing the Value of Intermittent Stream Temperature Data for Kings Creek at Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas” and “Ecosystem Service Delivery by Urban Prairie Patches.”  Project reports and scientific poster presentations can be viewed and downloaded from the NRES website.

Congratulations to students Caitlin Dye (Geography), Charlotte Peele (Biological Systems Engineering), Trevor Spencer (Geology), Brooke Stiffler (Horticulture), Linsey Swanson (Geography), Brendan Whitney (Bio Systems Engineering), Morgan Wills (Political Science), and Joshua Zeller (Agricultural Technology & Management).

Dr. David Haukos presents “Conservation of Wetlands from a Systems Approach” on October 15, 2015.

The Fall 2015 NRES Seminar Series featured guest presentations by six K-State faculty and staff.  Special thanks to Trisha Moore (Biological & Agricultural Engineering), Shawn Hutchinson (Geography), Bonnie Lynn-Sherow (History), David Haukos (Biology), Steffi Dippold (English), and Kendra McLauchlan (Geography) for their terrific 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.