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- Mississippi River Water Qualit...
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Thursday, November 12 at 8:00pm - 2009 Pesek Colloquium on Susta...
Great Hall, Memorial Union, Iowa St...
Tuesday, October 27 at 8:00pm - Toward a Post Carbon Food Syst...
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Thursday, September 24 at 8:00pm
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Distinguished alum Leopold Center Director Jerry DeWitt stands underneath the Curtiss Hall banner in his honor as recipient of the College's George Washington Carver award. Read about the recent awards.
Erin Hello Leopold Center! I love your vidoes you've posted on your page. The Iowa Learning Farm has posted 6 videos from their Culture of Conservation video series, includnig videos on water, soil, and stewardship. Become a fan of ILF and check them out!
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Interesting perspectives presented in this new
white paper by .....Bradford at the post carbon institute... Here is just a piece of info from the paper:
The 2.6 acres of U.S. farmland have lost
50% of the carbon in the soil since 1907, the equivalent CO2 of burning
90 barrels of oil – on top of your normal carbon emissions.
It's the second report in this list: http://postcarbon.webvanta.com/new-site-
Source: postcarbon.webvanta.com
Post Carbon Institute's definitive reports provide accessible expert analysis of complex and interconnected economic, energy and environmental issues humanity faces in the 21st century.
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Tonight!!! Come to the lecture in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union-- Gene Turner will be talking about hypoxic zones. The social hour/ cash bar will begin at 7:00 and you're all welcome to attend! http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/even
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The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture honors its founding and former director, Dr. Dennis Keeney, by hosting the Keeney Distinguished Lecture Series. Lecturers in the series address the multiple ...
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Check out this new webinar, "Getting started in on-farm biodiesel production" from the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. http://attra.ncat.org/video/#biodiesel
Source: attra.ncat.org
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Check out this Leopold Center-funded research project! Jim Russel on: Grazing Management to Limit Non-point Source Pollution in Pastures
You can download his presentation slides or listen to the audio! http://www.extension.org/pages/Grazing_M
Source: www.extension.org
How do grazing livestock impact water quality? This presentation was originally broadcast on October 16, 2009. More... What software do you need to view the slides and the videos?The embedded videos can be viewed full screen by clicking on the icon in the lower right corner.
Source: www.radioiowa.com
Three northeast Iowa farmers have each been awarded $5,000 grants to improve the energy efficiency of their operations. The grants come from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. ...
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Alok Bhandari, professor in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, is studying bioreactors to keep more nitrogen out of our streams and rivers!
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Make a note: R. Eugene Turner, a leading wetland ecologist who has thoroughly researched the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico for nearly 25 years, will share his findings at the November 12 lecture "Mississippi River Water Quality: Policy, Farm Landscapes and Hypoxia" at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Sun Room. You can also meet him beforehand at the 7 p.m. reception. Hope to see you there!
Source: www.leopold.iastate.edu
AMES, Iowa -- One of the scientists who has measured the size and researched the science of the oxygen-deprived “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico every year since 1985 will share his findings at Iowa State University on November 12.
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R. Eugene Turner has researched the science of the oxygen-deprived “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico every year since 1985. He will share his findings at this lecture, “Mississippi River Water Quality: Policy, Farm Landscapes and Hypoxia.”
Turner is a member of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium that takes me...asurements throughout the Gulf to determine the size of the “dead zone,” the region that does not have enough oxygen to support aquatic life. It is believed that the growth of this zone is fueled by nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from agricultural activity in the Mississippi River watershed. The extra nutrients simulate excessive algae growth that decomposes and consumes most of the life-giving oxygen supply in the water.
The public also is invited to meet Turner during a reception prior to the lecture at 7 p.m.Read More
Turner is a member of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium that takes me...asurements throughout the Gulf to determine the size of the “dead zone,” the region that does not have enough oxygen to support aquatic life. It is believed that the growth of this zone is fueled by nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from agricultural activity in the Mississippi River watershed. The extra nutrients simulate excessive algae growth that decomposes and consumes most of the life-giving oxygen supply in the water.
The public also is invited to meet Turner during a reception prior to the lecture at 7 p.m.Read More
Time:8:00PM Thursday, November 12th
Location:Sun Room, Memorial Union
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture The USDA's Conservation Stewardship Program takes on a new direction with new faces.
Retooled farm subsidy program focuses on conservation | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Regis
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com
Minburn, Ia. - Rick Hartmann's organic vegetable farm did not produce a single bushel of corn or soybeans, which account for the bulk of the federal crop subsidies paid to farmers in Iowa and across the ...
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture This Australian news report about U.S. carbon credits features Doug Gronau, an Iowa farmer who represents the Farm Bureau on the Leopold Center advisory board.
Source: www.abc.net.au
The debate over an emissions trading scheme is just as contentious and politically fraught in the United States as it is here in Australia. Americans too are waiting for their politicians to pass historic new climate change laws that will take them into a new low carbon world. ...
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Put it on your calendar-- this is coming up this Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Great Hall, Shahid
Naeem will speak on the environmental significance of biodiversity.
Naeem is professor of ecology and chair of the Dept. ofEcology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. Hope to see you all there! http://www.ag.iastate.edu/news/releases/
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences - News Releases - Biodiversity is Topic for Pesek Colloquiu
Source: www.ag.iastate.edu
AMES, Iowa - The ninth John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, which honors a retired Iowa State University agronomy professor, will be Oct. 27-28.Shahid Naeem, professor of ecology and chair ...
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Check the Fall 2009 Leopold Letter: http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/nwl/
