[Enviro-lunch] Enviro-Lunch seminar next Monday (10/18)

[Kyungjin Min]

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Hello all,



Next Monday (10/18) we will host Dr. Margaret Smither-Kopperl from NRCS for
our Enviro-Lunch seminar series.  We hope to see you all there between 12-1
pm (pacific) via zoom.


https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103



Title: Lockeford Plant Materials Center: Collaborative Research Projects in
Support of Conservation for California

Abstract: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) renamed from
the Soil Conservation Service, started as a response to the Dust Bowl in
the 1930s. Today NRCS has Field Offices and Service centers in most
counties, and farmers are assisted through the conservation planning
process with technical and financial assistance. The Plant Materials
Program was started in the 1930s to develop plant materials to prevent
erosion at locations throughout the US. Over the past ten years the PMC has
focused on scientific studies to evaluate cover crop species and cultivars
for adaptation to California’s Central Valley. We have partnered with NRCS
Field Offices, Resource Conservation Districts, University of California
and California State University systems, California Department of Food and
Agriculture, Federal Agencies including the Agricultural Research Service,
non-profit organizations, seed producers and private landowners. This
presentation will include information on studies with cool and warm season
cover crops, fava beans and pollinator plantings.
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Bio: Margaret has been Manager of the 106-acre USDA-NRCS (US Department of
Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service) Lockeford Plant
Materials Center (CAPMC), in California’s Central Valley since 2010. The
CAPMC supports NRCS in California by testing plant species, including cover
crops and pollinator species for adaptation, and is a site to demonstrate
the effect of management on soil health. Her agricultural experience
started in England with fruit and vegetable production, her Ph.D. is in
Plant Pathology from Michigan State University and included research into
soil borne diseases of cherry. Since then she worked at the University of
Florida, in private industry, and was employed by USDA APHIS prior to
moving to her current job.



Sincerely,

co-host: KJ Min, Manisha Dolui, Toshiyuki Bandai, Jennifer Alvarez

faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

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Fall 2021 Enviro-Lunch Schedule

*date*

*speaker*

*title*

*10/18*

Margaret Smither-Kopperl

@NRCS

Lockeford Plant Materials Center: Collaborative Research Projects in
support of Conservation in CA

*10/25*

Alex Krichels

@ UCR

Nitrogen transformation in terrestrial ecosystems

*11/1*

Xuan Zhang

@UCM

Atmospheric modeling

*11/8*

Maggie Yuan

@UCB

rhizosphere processes

*11/15*

John Nimmo

@USDA

Preferential flow through unsaturated soil: How can we understand and
predict it?

*11/22*

Michael Kaiser

 @U of Nebraska

SOM dynamics

*11/29*

Thanksgiving

*12/6*

final prep
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