National park podcast features Willemssens, tiger beetle research
If you’re one of the 4.1 million guests to drive through Yellowstone National Park this year, you may just hear a familiar voice on the radio. Kelly Willemssens, of SNR, is featured in a podcast airing about one of the park’s tiniest and most valuable creatures: the wetsalts tiger beetle. 3/12/2019
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NRT program featured in Nebraska’s annual research report
Nebraska’s National Research Traineeship director Craig Allen and the research of NRT student Daniel Rico figured prominently in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s annual research report. The program is based at the School of Natural Resources. 12/4/2018
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To Hold a Beautiful, Burning Snake
They said the Thompson Ridge wildfire was a good fire. A dead aspen, black and brown sheaves of bark sloughing off in the droughty summer, fell into a power line and ignited. 11/14/2018
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Master's student heads to Meteo-France
Starting in November 2018, National Drought Mitigation Center graduate research assistant Tony Mucia will be looking at remote-sensing data from a new vantage point on Earth. 11/7/2018
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Urban foxes: Reports spike in Lincoln as researchers trap, study the sly animals
He carries with him rancid chicken necks, a bottle of fox urine and a jar of gland lure, so it’s best to stay upwind of Kyle Dougherty 5/29/2018
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Investigating Hydraulic Conductivity Transience in Sandy Rivers
Drone imagery was used to monitor changes in stream geomorphology over time. This research project investigated processes responsible for hydraulic conductivity transience in sandy rivers. 1/1/2018
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Fiber-optic Technique Senses Groundwater Discharge into Surface Water
Assembled fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor (FO-DTS) on Gudmundsen Sandhills Research Laboratory. FO-DTS is a technique that uses fiber-optic cable deployed on a streambed to sense groundwater discharge into surface water. 1/1/2018
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