School of Natural Resources: Recent Episodes
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Student Recruiters from the School of Natural Resources and current Natural Resources Sciences graduate degree candidate talk about how to investigate and apply to graduate schools.
A coyote stands by while a badger pokes his head under rocks in search of prey. Badgers can dig up prey from underground, and coyotes can chase down escaped prey.
With a well-placed head butt, this badger clears a coyote from sniffing a burrow at a rockpile in southeastern Colorado.
Approximately 1,000 of the world’s remaining 7,000 cheetahs are found in Namibia, known as the Cheetah Capitol of the World. However, 90% of Namibia’s cheetahs live on livestock and game farms, outside protected areas, alongside rural farming communities, putting them in conflict with these farming enterprises. Cheetahs and other predators have traditionally been considered vermin and not a valuable component of a healthy ecosystem. During the 1980’s, Namibian livestock and game farmers halved the cheetah population, removing (trapping and killing) nearly 8,000 cheetahs from the landscape. To stop the decline of wild cheetahs, in 1990 the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) was founded, and set up a permanent research and conservation Centre in Namibia. In order to maintain ecosystem balance, conservation strategies have been developed by CCF to encourage sustainable land use while accommodating coexistence with native predator species. From CCFs early research into conflict mitigation, CCF researchers began developing and testing predator-friendly livestock management techniques and tools on CCF’s 158,000-acre integrated Model Farm and Wildlife Reserve such as the use of CCF Livestock Guarding Dogs and integrated livestock and wildlife management training programs called Future Farmers of Africa (FFA). FFA training courses build practical skills, enabling rural Namibians to engage in sustainable livestock farming that provides direct and indirect economic benefits. One of the most-effective predator management techniques CCF has implemented is its Livestock Guarding Dog program. Since 1994, CCF has bred and placed over 800 Anatolian shepherd and Kangal dogs with farmers, at little cost, to help guard farmer’s small stock. The presence of these large dogs, with a loud bark, acts as an avoidance and is usually enough to keep most predators away from flocks. Farmers who use CCF LGDs report a drop in predation rates ranging from 80- 100%, thus reducing pressure on farmers to kill or capture cheetahs and other predators. CCF is adapting these programs to the Horn of Africa to help stop the illegal wildlife pet trade, often caused by human wildlife conflict. CCF Namibia has a well-developed international Internship program which University of Nebraska Natural Resource Management students participate in annually.
Close up video of nurse sharks filmed during a Study Aboard trip to the Bahamas in January 2024
During our first field season in 2023, we captured and leg-banded 728 mallards during November – December and deployed GPS devices on 54 of them. We will be capturing mallards within Southeast Kansas during the fall and winter of 2024 and 2025.
Using the University of Nebraska's Room Reservation system to reserve the SNR Recording Studio room in Hardin Hall
Accessing the SNR SharePoint site from the SNR Website has changed and requires logging into the Office.com website
Spend a month camping in the South Africa bush learning about the national history of the bushveld. The Makuleke Concession of Kruger National Park represents the diversity of modern conservation issues in Africa ? with enormous numbers of wildlife that conflict with local villages and agriculture. Students in the course will experience phenomenal wildlife and learn about the challenges South Africa faces during this period of rapid change.
Meet Andy Little, an Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology and Habitat Management and Extension Specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and Director of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement (AWESM) Lab.
Meet Grace Schuster, PhD Student in Natural Resource Sciences with a specialization in Applied Ecology and a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Jay Cleveland, an undergraduate researcher and Fisheries & and Wildlife major. He is a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Katie Piecora, MS Student in Natural Resource Sciences with a specialization in Applied Ecology and a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Megan Baldissara, PhD Student in Natural Resource Sciences and a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Kaitlyn Dozler, an undergraduate researcher and Fisheries & and Wildlife major. She is a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Alli Barg, PhD Student in Natural Resource Sciences and a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Morgan Register, MS Student in Natural Resource Sciences with a specialization in Applied Ecology and a member of the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
Meet Iris McFarlin, Communication Specialist with the Applied Wildlife Ecology & Spatial Movement Lab (AWESM)
When Landscape Services went to take down a tree on East Campus they found it to be home to a flying squirrels colony. This one of the most western occurrence of the squirrels in the U.S. Ben Holmes a student in the School of Natural Resources at the time and working for Landscape Services filmed the flyover.
A knowledge gap currently exists in our understanding of deer movements and resource selection prior to, during, and post rifle season in Nebraska. This information will be critical to land managers and biologists interested in improving deer management in highly fragmented agricultural landscapes.
This research was completed through UCARE and looks at how indirect predation affects reproduction, foraging, and growth in Daphnia dentifera.
Terns with fish. Courtesy of The Macauley Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.
Promotional the study abroad course in South Africa and the Kruger National Park - May 14 to June 13, 2021. Description of What the course is about, what kinds of activities will take place, and program pillars
The vadose zone is the interval between the crop root zone and the water table, and is a critically important region for storage, transport and transformation of chemicals that can impact groundwater quality. This video is an overview of the Nebraska Vadose Zone program (https://nebraskavadose.unl.edu/), which standardizes collection, processing, analysis, and sharing of vadose zone monitoring data, with the goal of protecting water quality in the long-term.
This Storm Spotter Training Workshop is the official training session for our Lancaster County Storm Spotters. However, even if you are not one of the county storm spotters, we highly encourage you, your family and your friends to attend and to become better prepared for the severe weather that visits our area. There will be many interesting videos and photos shown by the speaker.
Mike Olbinski is a photographer and filmmaker specializing in the raw power of nature. He chases storms across the United States, capturing incredible supercells, tornadoes, dust storms and lightning. His work has won an Emmy and has been featured in work by Marvel (Thor: The Dark World), Discovery, ESPN, Nat Geo, and dozens of others in the industry.
His work has been viewed by millions of people around the world (over 5 million alone on Vimeo) and he has received several honors/ rewards at internationally-acclaimed film festivals. He has perfected the art of storm timelapse in a way no other storm chaser or photographer has done, and is leading the way in high-speed weather animation and film-making. See link: https://vimeo.com/174312494
Zach Sharpe, one of the rising stars in weather social media, has been storm chasing for over 10 years and works year-round as a Storm Chaser for KCCI Television Des Moines. He has covered several tornadoes, historic blizzards with thundersnow and a hurricane live on KCCI. He also serves as the President of the Iowa Storm Chasing Network. He has appeared on The Discovery Channel, Fox News, and featured in the Red Bull Television Series "Heart and Hands: Beyond the Job." Zach is passionate about the dissemination of real time and accurate weather information without allowing shares, likes, or hype to influence a forecast. Please join Zach and special guests as he takes you into the world of social media/ online marketing, and explains how positive and accurate commutation of weather hazards can truly make a difference in your community.
Looking ahead and aiming for sustainable living during the Nebraska Climate Summit, March 21, 2019, at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
Jesse Bell, and Melanie Stewart, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center; Scott Holmes, of Lincoln-Lancaster Health Department; and Ted Cieslak, M.D., talk about climate change and health during the Nebraska Climate Summit on March 21, 2019, at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
Galen Erickson, UNL Department of Animal Science; Andrea Basche, UNL Department of Agronomy And Horticulture; Mike McDonald, producer; and Zach Riggs, producer, talk climate change and the agriculture industry during the Nebraska Climate Summit on March 21, 2019, at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
Tyler Williams, Extension climatologist, and Tonya Haigh, of the National Drought Mitigation Center, talk about planning for climate scenarios, such as drought or hail, during the Nebraska Climate Summit on March 21, 2019, at Nebraska Innovation Campus.