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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Next Monday (10/18) we will host Dr. Margaret
Smither-Kopperl from NRCS for our Enviro-Lunch seminar series. <span> </span>We hope to see you all there between 12-1 pm
(pacific) via zoom. <span></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103" target="_blank">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Title: Lockeford Plant Materials Center: Collaborative
Research Projects in Support of Conservation for California<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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 <span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">NRCS Field
Offices</span><span style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">, 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.</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Bio: </span><a name="_Hlk71117751">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. <span></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>co-host: KJ Min, Manisha Dolui, Toshiyuki Bandai,
Jennifer Alvarez<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Fall 2021 Enviro-Lunch Schedule<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">Margaret
Smither-Kopperl <span></span></span></p>
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Plant Materials Center: Collaborative Research Projects in support of
Conservation in CA<span></span></span></p>
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in terrestrial ecosystems<span></span></span></p>
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