Farewell to Kuldip Kumar who starts his new position with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago this week after over 6 years with the department. Good luck to him and congratulations on his work with Satish Gupta, Yogesh Chander, and Carl Rosen, of our department, and Sam Baidoo at the Southern Research and Outreach Center, Waseca on their recent article in Journal of Environmental Quality, listed as one of the "Most Frequently Read Journal Articles" in CSA News and highlighted in the widely read Science News (rare for a technical publication).
Dr. Alfred Merrill Blackmer, 62, of Jefferson, IA died at his home on Jan. 28. He received a Ph.D. at Iowa State University in soil microbiology and Biochemistry in 1977. He began his career in soils research at Iowa State University and taught graduate courses in soil-plant relationships and advanced soil fertility. He maintained an active field research program with primary focus on nitrogen management. His lifetime goal was to help farmers and he worked directly with hundreds of farmers throughout Iowa. He has more than 350 publications and has received 14 professional awards.
West Central ROC in Morris is sponsoring an Advance Wind Energy Workshop on February 27 and a Home Grown Energy Conference on February 28. More information is at energy.coafes.umn.edu. Pre-register by February 20.
Evaluating Teaching Mini-Conference will be held February 23 from 1-4 pm at the McNamara Alumni Center. Free to faculty, instructional staff, and grad students. Register at http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/evaluating/index.html.
2006 Agricultural Drainage Design & Soil Water Management Workshop will be held in North Mankato on March 9th. Schedule is posted outside the main office. Register by March 1.
Association for Women Geoscientists offers the Chrysalis Scholarship to provide degree-completion funding for female graduate students in the geosciences whose education has been interrupted for financial or personal reasons. Details are posted on the bulletin board outside 439 Borlaug (there is no application form) and the deadline is March 15.
CURA is pleased to announce the competition for the 2006-2007 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs, and invites interested faculty from across the University to apply by March 20. Visit www.cura.umn.edu for details.
The International Conference on Hydrology and Management of Forested Wetlands will be held April 8-12, 2006 in New Bern, North Carolina. More information and registration is at www.asabe.org/meetings/Forest2006/index.html.
SEMINAR
Soil, Water, and Climate Seminar
Monday, February 20, 2006
375 Borlaug Hall, 11:45 am
Ruri Imamura, Soil, Water, and Climate, will present “Urbanization and its effects on Urban Climate.�
The Philip M. Raup Lecture on Land and Environmental Policy
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Cargill Building, 3:00 pm
Dr. Emery N. Castle, Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, will present “The Separation of Power –Federal, State, Local–and Environmental Public Policy. This event is free and open to the public. Registration and additional information is available at www.apec.umn.edu/rauplecture.
POSITION
Assistant Professor (full time probationary) Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Env.Sciences, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, Deadline: February 24, 2006.
Conservation Engineer (Eng.-In-Training), Goodhue Co. SWCD, Goodhue, MN, Deadline: March 3, 2006
Assistant Professor in Environmental Soil Science, Department of Soil Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, Deadline: March 15, 2006
Assistant Professor, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy, Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Deadline: March 15, 2006
PT Grad. Research Assistant, Weed Science #451, 452, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Deadline: available May 1, 2006
Agronomist, R.D. Offutt Company, Fargo, ND, Deadline: not listed
FT Grad Research Asst. (Soil Testing/Soil Fert.), Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Deadline: available April 1, 2006
Asst. Professor, Cropping Systems Agronomist, SW Research-Extension Center, Kansas State University, Garden City, KS, Deadline: available April 1, 2006
PT Grad. Research Assistant, Plant Science Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, Deadline: available Fall 2006
The latest word to reach star status and used to explain almost everything by TV’s talking heads is demography. In order to understand almost anything that occurs today “one must know the demographics of the situation.�
This obviously is a word of Greek origin: demos (people) + graph (to write). Demography is defined as the study of the characteristics of human populations as size, growth, density distribution, and vital statistics.
How did we express the subject before demographics took over? I have no objection to this word, but I do object to what I consider its over-use.
By the way (now that is an interesting phrase) Democritus was a Greek philosopher of the late 5th century B.C. who proposed a primitive atomic theory. -D.G. Baker
Vol. 27, No. 1, February 13, 2006
Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate
FACTS – TRIVIAL AND OTHERWISE # 590
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