The Power of Insects- effects of local and landscape scale diversity on crop productivity Katja Poveda- Cornell University FSHN 354  |  12:10 - 1:00pm    

Today's Topic: Beginning R: Intro to Plotting and the ggplot package PACCAR 202  |  12 - 1pm

Seminar Title: “Biodegradable Plastic Mulches: Degradation and Impacts on Soil Quality and Soil Microclimate” Speakers: Henry Sintim, Soil Science, PhD Student Location: Johnson Hall 204

The Long Road Home: Salmon & Lamprey Migration in the Columbia River: Three successive presentations about fish passage at Grand Coulee Dam & Hells Canyon Complex UI College of Law | Menard Building | Room 104 | Monday, March 7, 2016 | 6:00-8:00pm Food/Dinner will be served | This is a free event | Free […]

Today’s Topic: Basic Data Analysis using Jupyter notebooks Speaker: Von Walden PACCAR 405  |  12:00 – 1:00 pm

John Harrison, School of the Environment Wednesday, 9 March 2016 PACCAR Bldg (PETB) - Room 202 3-4pm Although dams and the reservoirs they create provide a number of important services to the communities in which they reside they also have been associated with a number of environmental concerns, including the production of the potent greenhouse gas […]

Jim Conca, UFA Ventures Inc. Thursday  |   March 10, 2016  |  3pm  |  Webster Hall, Room 11 The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a just and sustainable energy distribution by 2040 Scientist, speaker and author, Dr. James Conca combines the passion of activism with a 30-yr career as a research scientist to create a new […]

Dr. Melinda Zeder- Department of Anthropology Lipe Scholar Senior Scientist, Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Thursday March 10th, 2016 | 4:10pm |  College Hall 125  | WSU - Pullman Pathways to Animal Domestication- a Continuing Journey Animal domestication represents a milestone in the history […]

Tina Eliassi-Rad  |  Associate Professor of Computer Science  |  Rutgers University Thursday, March 10, 2016 |  7pm  |  Goertzen Communication Addition 21 Distinguished Speaker Series in Data Science- Learning, Mining and Graphs In this talk, I will discuss three dependent graph-mining problems ranging from theory to algorithms to applications. (1) Measuring tie-strength: Given a set […]

Today’s Topic: reshape and tidyr packages Presenters: Michael Meyer and Julian Reyes PACCAR 202  |  12 – 1pm

Seminar Title: “Microbiome Interactions That Enhance Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stress: The Threat of Climate Variability and Climate Change” Speaker: Cristian Olaya, Plant Pathology, PhD Student Location: Johnson Hall 343

Seminar Title: “The National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (NAQFC) and the ARL Atmospheric Chemical Reanalysis (ACR)” Speakers: Dr. Pius Lee, Project Leader National Air Quality Forecasting Capability NOAA/Air Resources Lab Location: Paccar 202

Seminar Title: “Eat Python for lunch - More on Data Analysis” Speaker: Von P. Walden Location: Paccar 202

Seminar Title: “The Three Minute Thesis, or 3MT”, is a doctoral-level competition that has students deliver their thesis to a panel of judges—in three minutes or less. Speaker: Ph.D. students Location: Compton Union Building (CUB) Junior Ballroom, Pullman, Washington

Seminar Title: “Climate Change, Invasive Species, and Land-Use Practices” Speaker: Laura Burkle, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Montana State University Location: FSHN 354

Seminar Title: “R Working Group” Speaker: TBA Location: PACCAR 202

Seminar Title: "Breeding Barley and Beans for Western Washington” Speaker:Brigid Meints, Crop Science Ph.D. Student Location: Johnson Hall Room 204

Seminar Title: “Eat Python for Lunch - Numpy and Scipy” Speaker: Von P. Walden Location: Paccar 202

Seminar Title: “This Changes Everything”, a film including author Naomi Klein, highlights how climate change gives us a chance to really look at our life styles and social/economic systems and to make positive change. Speakers: Film Location: Kenworthy Theater, Moscow

Household headship, mobility and food security in rural Tanzania: Insights for research and agricultural development in the global south Dr. John Parkins, Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta Wednesday, March 30 | 12:00-1:30 |  CUE 518 In this seminar I present results of two recent studies on the relationship between gender and food security in […]

Seminar Title: The Northwest Knowledge Network: a research data management and computing support unit at the University of Idaho Speaker: Paul Gessler, Director, Northwest Knowledge Network (northwestknowledge.net), Professor of Remote Sensing & Geospatial Ecology Location: PACCAR 202 The Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) is a research support unit of the Office of Research and Economic Development […]