The Iowa Nutrient Research Center's Spring 2024 Seminar Series will Focus on the Future – Students & Their Contributions to Water Quality Research. Hybrid monthly sessions from 3:10-4:00 p.m. take place online and at 1306 Elings Hall on the Iowa State University campus.
Get them on your calendar: Feb. 14, March 6, April 10, and May 8.
Sessions feature current and former graduate students who are or have been involved with water quality research at Iowa State.
Of water and wildlife: Evaluating potential wildlife responses to working land water conservation. Presenter: Michael Rohde, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. Advisor: Adam Janke
Iowa's urbanized and agricultural landscape has caused water quality degradation and loss of species. Conservation groups are working to protect these resources, but they o3en lack coordination. To provide insight on the impact of water quality conservation on wildlife, we esmated occupancy of key Species of Greatest Conservaon Need (SGCN) across Iowa informed by the Iowa Mulitple Species Inventory and Monitoring (MSIM) long-term dataset and the simulated various scenarios of water quality conservation using the Agricultural Conservaon Planning Framework (ACPF) to estimate potential e6ects of water quality conservation on the distribution of SGCN in Iowa.
Microbial Communities as a Pathway to Improved Woodchip and Corncob Bioreactor Design and PerformancePresenter: Taylor Vroman, Department of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering
This focuses on analyzing the microbial communities within corncob and woodchip bioreactors to optimize the performance of the edge-of-field conservation practice. Vroman has been using nitrate removal, greenhouse gas production, water chemistry and gene presence to determine performance in laboratory upflow columns.
Find a recording of this session at: https://go.iastate.edu/PG6DPF.
For questions, contact Malcolm Robertson, INRC program specialist, at malcolmr@iastate.edu.