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Invasive species and Goat grazing
Posted Monday January 22, 2024
Invasive species and Goat grazing? ...
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Birthday wishes
Posted Saturday May 27, 2023
OUR EDITOR & RACHEL CARSON – Jay Jeffrey
May 27, 2023
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KSU Insect Zoo, Kiffnie Holt, Director
Posted Sunday February 19, 2023
After we visited the research insect collection in Waters Hall, we went to the Insect Zoo and visited with the "live" insects. Kiffnie Holt, the director gave us so much information! We can now tell the difference between a centipede and a millipede and which to avoid! READ MORE to see a video and photos.
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INSECT COLLECTION program - Dr. Greg Zolnerowich
Posted Sunday February 19, 2023
Our Feb. 18 program was a wonderful and informative tour of the Insect Collection at K-State. Dr. Greg Zolnerowich gave us a peak into the world of insect research and how important it is. READ More to see a video and photos.
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Chuck Otte explains where the CBC numbers go!
Posted Thursday January 26, 2023
Chuck will focus on some of the history of CBCs and especially Kansas CBCs. He will help us understand what happens to the data after it is collected and turned in and how it is used, for example, what did the West Nile Virus do to Chickadee populations?
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KSU Bird Collection with Dr.Alice Boyle
Posted Monday October 3, 2022
A wonderful outing - first to Call Hall for ice cream, and then on to Ackert Hall for a fascinating look at the Bird Collection with Dr. Alice Boyle. She explained the difference between a research collection and a teaching collection. This is a teaching collection.
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Field Trip to KU Natural History Museum
Posted Monday September 12, 2022
Six people made the trip to KU’s Natural History Museum (Dyche Hall) on July 19, 2022, for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of some of the many specimens housed there. (The Museum is part of the KU Biodiversity Institute’s collection of 10-million-plus specimens housed in Dyche Hall and six other buildings.) We were shown birds from the museum’s “dry”- preserved collections—including extinct species such as the ivory-billed woodpecker, Imperial ...
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Dr. Koley Freeman Presentation
Posted Monday March 14, 2022
Dr. Koley Freeman is an avian biologist who has studied birds from the rainforests in the tropics to the tundra of the arctic. She received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada where she studied how conditions during development impact young Canada Jays.
Currently, Koley is a postdoctoral researcher at Kansas State University studying how weather affects Grasshopper Sparrow physiology, behavior, survival, and population dynamics.
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