Category: Changing Climate
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Posted on November 8, 2021
A Round-up of CALS Research
A Safe Water Future Requires Action Today Ph.D. student Tracy Campbell MS’18 recently led an assessment of water quality goals for the Yahara River […]
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Global Health Gains Momentum
In the spring 2021 issue of Grow, writer Nicole Miller MS’06 introduced readers to the new global health major, through which students explore how […]
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Posted on February 25, 2021
Six-Legged Livestock Could Solve Food Shortages — Sustainably
In the Midwest, we’re used to seeing big fields dotted with cattle and steel barns bustling with broiler chickens. Beef, poultry, and pork are […]
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Posted on October 1, 2020
The Age of Ecological Forecasting
When El Niño approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we’ve come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in the southern United States and […]
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Posted on June 11, 2020
Precipitation and Groundwater Levels: It’s a Long-term Relationship
The connection seems obvious: more rain means higher water levels. But it’s not always that simple. Many factors are at play, so it’s often […]
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‘There Is No Reason to Fear Bats’
It would be hard to find someone more enthusiastic about bats than Amy Wray. She’s so fascinated by these winged mammals that she’s devoted […]
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Posted on February 25, 2020
19 in ’19
The faculty ranks are growing at CALS, and it’s a positive sign for the future of the college. Some major challenges in the last few […]
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The Soil Doctor Is In
For Jingyi Huang, it all started with a pair of orange hula hoops. At least, that’s what they looked like to him when he was […]
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Posted on October 11, 2019
A Model Solution
When agronomy professor Chris Kucharik and his wife, Amy, moved into a subdivision in the Town of Burke in 2006, they weren’t surprised to learn […]
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More Green, Less Greenhouse Gas
In 2013, the $10 million Dairy Coordinated Agricultural Project, or Dairy CAP, set out to assess the greenhouse gas contributions of the dairy industry and […]
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From Poplar to Painkiller
With a new method to synthesize a popular painkiller from plants rather than fossil fuels, a team of researchers led by biochemistry professor John Ralph […]
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Posted on June 19, 2019
Peru | New Potato Helps Farmers Weather the Frost
In a country with more than 5,000 potato varieties, you might not expect the arrival of another one to be a big deal. But this […]