News

Nuñez Awarded Travel Grant

Cassandra Nuñez, Adjunct Assistant Professor received a Broadening Participation Travel Award to attend the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2019 Annual Meeting, January 3-7 in Tampa, FL.

Jaime Sandoval Jr., an Animal Ecology major has been selected for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist for the Dover-Foxcroft field office in Maine. Congratulations Jaime.

Daniel Robison from West Virginia University, Morgantown, has been named the next endowed dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station.

MS Assistantship in Fish Conservation Available

fish_conservation_ms_announcement.pdf

Incoming Students Spend Weekend Outdoors

Andrew Larson in a junior in the NREM Forestry program currently working in leadership role as Co-director of the Homecoming Central Committee.

Jovanovic was selected as one of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Journal’s exceptional reviewers of 2018

The 15 reviewers being recognized this year were selected from more than 800 reviewers, based on both the quantity and quality of reviews completed.

The publication Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer (WL 0001) by Adam Janke and Julie Blanchong is now available in the ISU Extension Store.

Moore Received Miller Grant to Support Better Course Materials

Peter Moore, Natural Resource Ecology and Management has received a Miller grant to complete an open textbook to support quantitative reasoning courses for students in natural resource programs, specifically NREM 240, a course which Moore designed

Jovanovic and Baran Receive Miller Grant to Support Better Course Materials

Boris Jovanovic, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, and Evrim Baran, School of Education – Aquatic Toxicology have received a Miller Grant to create and integrate an Aquatic Toxicology Wikibook as a major course component to the Aquatic Toxi

Two NREM PhD students, Jordan Giese and Matthew Stephenson are highlighted in a recent article published in Audubon magazine. The article describes research done regarding prairie strips and also notes Lisa Schulte Moore's lab.

Tyndall Receives 2018 Best Research Paper for Impact and Quality

Congratulations to John Tyndall for receiving the 2018 Best Research Paper for impact and Quality Award from the Soil and Water Conservation Society.  The paper was entitled, “Understanding Corn Belt farmer perspectives on climate change to inform

Dr. Tom Isenhart presents at recent SWIM workshop

Iowa Chapter of TWS student conclave held in Boone

MSIM project aimed at gathering information on wildlife habitat changes

The Spring 2018 issue of the Iowa Chapter of The Wildlife Society included a first-person account of their experiences on the Multiple Species Inventory and Monitoring (MSIM) program.  This project has been gathering data since 2006 on the diversi

Cool off this summer on one of Iowa's many rivers

The IDNR has brochures on many of the water trails in Iowa, many of which include photographs by Jim Pease .  These water trails describe each accessible portion of the river, highlights, take-outs, facility access, and skill level recommendations