Explore the Upper Mississippi River basin with us this fall! These webinars will be hour-long sessions, and will feature live Q&A with the featured speaker. Registration is $10 per webinar or select three for $25. Continuing Education Certificates will be available following the webinar if selected in registration. A separate link and instructions will be sent to all […]
IStorm 2020 Virtual Conference and Exhibition is a new, comprehensive event for all aspects of the stormwater industry. Attendees can expect presentations on MS4 implementation, floodplain management, erosion and sediment control, and stormwater design and planning. The conference merges ISWEP’s green infrastructure conferences and annual stormwater summit into one experience applicable to municipal employees, elected […]
Registration is now open for EPA’s Safe and Sustainable Water Resources Research Program webinar on Health Effects Associated with Harmful Algal Blooms and Algal Toxins. This webinar will be held on October 28th from 2:00-3:00pm ET. Some, but not all, types of harmful algal blooms (HABs) are overgrowths of toxin-producing algae in fresh or marine waters that can […]
On Monday November 2, 2020, there will be a virtual screening of the documentary Kiss the Ground. Join us from your laptop to watch this documentary about how the soil can be a cure for climate change. Free admission. Email Hanna Bates, hbates@iastate.edu, to RSVP and receive the access link.
AMES, Iowa—Iowa Learning Farms, in partnership with the Iowa Nutrient Research Center, and Conservation Learning Group (CLG), is hosting a free virtual field day exploring impacts of cover crops, tillage and nitrogen-inhibitors on crop performance and water quality on Thursday, November 5th at 1 p.m. CST. Join us for a live conversation with Matt Helmers, Director of the Iowa […]
Perhaps one of the most exciting WFAN projects this fall is the creation, curation, and collaboration behind WFAN's 2020 conference, Cultivating Bio(diversity): Seeding Our Stories, Growing Our Power, hosted online November 6th and 7th. We invite you to reflect on the following words from one of our conference workshop presenters: “We all experience and interact with agriculture and […]
The Dakota (Sioux) homeland Mni Sóta Maķoce means “land where the waters reflect the clouds.” Nicknamed “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” Minnesota really has almost 12,000 inland basins covering at least 10 acres, but across the state, they are mostly rural and rather diverse. Deep, oligotrophic waters are typical in northeastern boreal forests near Superior, the […]
The 55th Annual GSA North-Central Section Meeting and the 55th Annual South-Central Section Meeting will be hosted as a joint meeting in Springfield, Missouri, on 18–20 April 2021. You can read more about the Section Meeting here: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Section_Meetings/GSA/Sections/nc/2021mtg/home.aspx
The Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference is the longest running conference at Iowa State University and is designed for agriculture professionals interested in farm and soil management issues. Due to the significant uncertainty and social distancing requirements posed by the COVID-19, the 93rd Annual Soil Management Land Valuation (SMLV) conference originally postponed to August was […]