Welcome to the Crop and Soil Sciences Seminar Series. Following is a list of the seminars scheduled for the Fall of 2000. Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are on Tuesdays, from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in 135 Emerson Hall.

Crop and Soil Sciences

9/19/00 - Food Systems for Improved Health: The Evolution of strategy for the Plant Breeding Subprogram (Dr. Robin Graham, Professor of Plant Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia). This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Plant Breeding.

9/26/00 - Education as a BMP (Best Management Practices) (Deb Grantham, Senior Extension Associate, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

10/3/00 - Conventional and Fuzzy Accuracy assessment of Thematic Maps at Regional Scale (Stephen DeGloria, Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

10/10/00 - No seminar

10/17/00 - Developing a Nutrient Management Decision Support System for the Tropics (Deanna Osmond, Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University)

10/24/00 - Precise Management of Nitrogen (Harold van Es, Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

10/31/00 - Potential for the use of Precision Agriculture in New York State (Jason Kahabka, Graduate Student, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

11/7/00 - No seminar

11/14/00 - Can Complex, Multispecies Cropping Systems be Used to Rehabilitate Degraded Pasture Lands in the Amazon (Erick Fernandes, Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

11/21/00 - TBA

11/28/00 - Lime, Ca and Mg Soil Amendments in Coffee Growth (Yamily Zavella, Graduate Student, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

12/5/00 - Title TBA (Cris Post, Graduate Student, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University)

Special Seminars

10/2/00 - Habitat Protection in the Hudson River Estuary (Elizabeth Blair, Manager of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (HRNERR)), sponsored by the Center for the Envirnment, 4:00 - 5:15 PM, 135 Emerson Hall

Conferences

Other Related Seminars

9/7/00 - Effects of Surfaces on the Fate and Transport of Toxic Metal and Organic Contaminants (Professor Len Lion, Cornell University) - 4:00 PM, 366 Hollister Hall

9/8/00 - Estimating the Oral Bioavailability of PAH from Coal Tar Contaminated Soils: A Mechanistic Approach (Dr. Eric Weyand, Rutgers University, Dept. of Pharm. Chemistry) - 12:20-1:10 PM, 135 Emerson Hall

9/15/00 - Mode of Action by which Overexpression of DREB1A, a Transcriptional Regulator of Cold-Regulated Genes, Results in a Prodigious Increase in the Freezing Tolerance of Arabidopsis Thaliana (Dr. Peter Steponkus, Crop and Soil Sciences Department, Cornell University) - 11:15 AM, 404 Plant Science

Cornell Center for the Environment - Events

Seminars in Toxicology (TOX 702)