Center for Grassland Studies Podcast

Results from multi-scale long-term research on the impacts of Juniperus virginiana expansion on important ecosystem services in the Nebraska Sandhills.

Steve Merkel, director of agronomy at Landscapes Unlimited, discusses the environmental focus of planning, design, construction, and operations at ArborLinks golf course.

Dave Aiken, professor in Agricultural Economics and an upcoming speaker for the Fall Seminar Series, discusses carbon markets and carbon banks.

Hailey Wilmer, Research Rangeland Management Specialist with USDA-ARS Sheep Production Efficiency Research and an upcoming speaker for the Fall Seminar Series, discusses the Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management Project in Colorado.

Martha Mamo, department head of Agronomy & Horticulture and an upcoming speaker for the Fall Seminar Series, discusses soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics on Sandhills wet meadows.

Rob Mitchell, Research Leader & Location Coordinator with USDA-ARS and an upcoming speaker for the Fall Seminar Series, discusses opportunities for marginal cropland in the Great Plains and Midwest.

Mark A. Liebig, Research Soil Scientist with USDA Agricultural Research Service and an upcoming speaker for the Fall Seminar Series, discusses climate mitigation services from northern plains grasslands.

M. Francesca Cotrufo, professor in Soil & Crop Sciences at Colorado State University and the upcoming Leu Lecturer for the Fall Seminar Series, talks about how an understanding of soil organic matter can address future challenges.

Martha Shulski, director with the Nebraska State Climate Office and an upcoming speaker for the Fall Seminar Series, discusses climate change and grassland ecology.

Dave Wedin, professor in the School of Natural Resources and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses key questions for Nebraska's grasslands over the next decade.

Gerry Steinauer, a botanist with Nebraska Game & Parks and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses a botanist's perspective on Sandhill Wet Meadows.

John Guretzky, Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses grazing management to reduce reed canarygrass and other cool-season grasses in wet meadows.

Craig Allen, Director of the Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, discusses an ongoing adaptive management project at the Barta Brothers Ranch.

John Walker, Professor/Range Specialist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discussing grazing management.

Dan Rasmussen, educator, range consultant and rancher in Belvidere, SD, and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses the South Dakota Grassland Coalition.

Ethan Freese, photographer and videographer with the Platte Basin Timelapse project and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses storytelling in Nebraska's grasslands.

Walt Schacht, Interim Director of the Center for Grassland Studies and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses managing subirrigated meadows.

Jeff Drahota, biologist with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in the Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses managing rainwater basin wetlands.

Melissa Panella, Wildlife Diversity Program Manager with Nebraska Game & Parks and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses how and why to include pollinator habitat on your land.

Jay Parsons, professor in the Ag Economics department at UNL and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses managing pasture production risk.

Sean Kelly, range field specialist, Mid-Missouri River Prescribed Burn Association liaison, and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses changes in grazing management from continued educational programming.

Greg Ibach, USDA Under Secretary in Residence at UNL and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference discusses carbon sequestration government policy.

Elliott Dennis, Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics at UNL and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses price risk management of cattle markets.

Ed Hubbs, Habitat and Private Lands Manager at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center in Denton, NE. Ed discusses the planning, timing, and ecology of prescribed burns.

Dr. Kay Kottas, President, Prairie Legacy, Inc, Western Nebraska, expands on her article, Stretching Prairie Remnant. Nebraska’s tallgrass prairies hold the key to their own survival through seed collection and replanting in other prairie restorations or recreations areas.

Markéta Podebradská, Doctoral Candidate in the School of Natural Resources and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses methods for estimating/predicting the amount of annual forage using remotely-sensed data and statistical and ecological modeling.

Tonya Haigh, Rural Sociology Research Specialist with the National Drought Mitigation Center and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses how ranchers adapt to climate risks such as drought.

Chandra Holifield Collins, soil scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Southwest Watershed Research Center and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses developing a tool to aid in brush removal treatments and assess their effectiveness.

Sam Fuhlendorf, Regents Professor and Groendyke Chair in Wildlife Conservation at Oklahoma State University and the upcoming Leu Lecturer for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses his perspective of the important issues associated with conservation and management of grasslands with Dirac Twidwell.

Dirac Twidwell, Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy & Horticulture and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses new technologies and strategies to aid in large-scale rangeland conservation efforts.

Elnaz Hosseiniaghdam, Doctoral Student in the Department of Agronomy & Horticulture and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses her research on evaluating soil responses to mob grazing on Sandhills sub-irrigated meadows with Dr. Martha Mamo, Department Head of Agronomy & Horticulture.

Chris Helzer, Director of Science at the Nature Conservancy and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses his experience photographing a square meter plot in Lincoln Creek Prairie on the east edge of Aurora, Nebraska—a project that showcases the complexity and beauty of prairies.

Danielle Berger, doctoral student at Utah State University and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses using the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission's historical prairie grouse monitoring data to assess long-term historical population trends.

Dave Wedin, Professor in the School of Natural Resources at UNL and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses how restoration and conservation can meet the challenges our prairie landscapes face in future decades.

Ethan Freese, Master of Applied Science and Producer in SNR and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, gives an overview of Platte Basin Timelapse and highlights some of the work that he and others have done with the project. To view some of Ethan's projects, visit: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=fb5765a3af5c4b27b0676ce8fcaa987f and http://plattebasintimelapse.com/2019/01/weather-climate-and-time-lapse-photography/

Dannele Peck, Director of the Northern Plains Climate Hub and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses the GrassCast resource for ranchers and cattle producers.

Ben Beckman, Beef Systems Assistant Extension Educator and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses using GrassSnap to monitor rangeland trend.

Andrew Little, Assistant Professor with the School of Natural Resources at UNL and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses precision conservation and how to increase farm profitability while conserving soil, water, and wildlife.

Martha Shulski, Director of the Nebraska State Climate Office and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses historic, current, and predictive trends in Nebraska's climate. More information: http://plattebasintimelapse.com/2018/12/martha-shulski-nebraska-state-climatologist/

Caleb Roberts, post-doctoral researcher with the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses new strategies for allowing land managers to better track how land management practices are affecting rangeland productivity and wildlife abundances.

Mitchell Stephenson, Range Management Specialist at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses understanding plant production variability to assist management.

Dave Londe, Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Natural Resources Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University and an upcoming speaker for the Nebraska Grazing Conference, discusses how disturbance regimes, specifically fire and grazing, affect the biodiversity of grasslands.

Nadine Bishop, State Rangeland Management Specialist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses the Rangeland Analysis Platform, a web-based monitoring tool for rangelands.

Nicole Fleck-Tooze, Special Projects Administrator for Lincoln Parks and Recreation and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, discusses plans to create a 7,800 acre tallgrass prairie connection along the Haines Branch of Salt Creek.

Conor Barnes, Ph.D. student in the School of Natural Resources and an upcoming speaker for the CGS Fall Seminar Series, talks about early state statutes for managing eastern redcedar and how future laws could address the current plight of eastern redcedar encroachment.

Travis Mulliniks, range cow production system specialist at UNL, discusses using precision livestock management tools in ranching operations.

Dave Wedin, ecosystem and prairie ecologist in the School of Natural Resources at UNL, discusses prairie restoration methods being explored at Bobcat Prairie as part of Lincoln's Prairie Corridor Project.

Dillon Fogarty, Arthur W. Sampson Fellow and doctoral candidate in the department of Agronomy and Horticulture, discusses preventing transitions to woody plant dominance in Nebraska's grasslands.

Mitchell Stephenson, UNL Range Management Specialist, discusses how precision ag technology is being applied to rangeland settings.

Walt Schacht, Interim Director of the Center for Grassland Studies, gives an overview of the new Center for Grassland Studies Podcast.