July 2009
- Jose Amador gave an
invited talk entitled "Ecosystem services provided
by turfgrass and landscape plantings" as part of a
symposium on urban soils at the Joint Meeting of the Society
of Nematologists and Soil Ecology Society in Burlington, VT.
- Jessie Dyer presented a
poster entitled "Are we fooling ourselves? The role
of eelgrass and subaqueous soils in the persistence of fecal
entercocci." at the annual conference of the Soil
and Water Conservation Society in Dearborn, MI. The poster
was based on her Honors project work.
April 2009
- Jose Amador presented a
poster at the Annual Conference of the National Onsite
Wastewater Recycling Association in Milwawkee, WI.
May 2009
- Congratulations to Ed
Avizinis and Jessie Dyer on receiving their BS
degrees from the University of Rhode Island.
January 2009
- Kudos to Ed
Avizinis and Jessie Dyer, who were each awarded a
prestigious Provost's Undergraduate Research Grant to
support their research projects.
November 2008
- Jessie Dyer received
the undergraduate student scholarship from the Society of
Soil Scientist of Southern New England at their annual
meeting.
- Jose Amador presented a
seminar entitled "Earthworms are Friendly Ecosystem
Engineers. Right?" at Roger Williams University in
Bristol, RI.
- "As the Worm Turns: A
Brief Glance at the Lowly Earthworm" a month-long lobby
exhibit in the URI library, was put together by the LSEM
in cooperation with librarian Mimi Keefe.
September 2008
August 2008
- Alumni and friends of the SEML
gathered at Casey's Grill and Bar to say goodbye to Josef
Gorres, who will leave for a tenure-track faculty
appointment in the Dept.
of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont
this fall.
- Congratulations to John
Richard BS'02 MS'08 for the successful
defense of his M.S. thesis, "Fate of ammonium in
aerated and conventional septic system leachfield soil using
stable nitrogen isotope tracer techniques".
- Joe Fetter gave a
presentation on his thesis research on the effects of
squid-based fertilizers on turf ecosystems at the annual URI
Turf Field Day.
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