Accomplishments: College of Sciences
James Pollard (Geoscience), program director of his department's partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service forest inventory and analysis (FIA) program, has entered into a new funding agreement with FIA for $1.5 million per year. This joint venture will enable 黑料网 researchers to continue鈥
Wanda Taylor (Geoscience) and her graduate class recently were featured in the Vegas PBS series Outdoor Nevada. Taylor and her students join host John Burke to investigate earthquake fault lines in the California Wash Reservoir.
Vegas PBS鈥 Outdoor Nevada originally aired from 1995 to 1999. Hosted by highly regarded鈥
Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) recently was featured in the Vegas PBS series Outdoor Nevada. Hedlund and host John Burke look for clues to life on other planets in the hot springs in Gerlach.
Vegas PBS鈥 Outdoor Nevada originally aired from 1995 to 1999. Hosted by highly regarded television host and actor John Burke,鈥
Satish Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) is the author of Plums, Peaches and Pears of Education, Volume I (Trafford Publishing). The book is a personal story (in 98 independent reflections) of his life in education 鈥 as a lifetime student and part-time teacher! This is Bhatnagar's ninth book.
Scott Abella (Life Sciences) presented the first talk in the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's 2016 Nevada Naturalist Lecture Series. His presentation was titled "Conserving America鈥檚 National Parks." Abella shared stories of active conservation projects across the national park system, including many local parks such as鈥
Biologist Daniel Thompson (Life Sciences) was recently featured in the Vegas PBS series Outdoor Nevada. Thompson and colleagues from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service joined host John Burke to discuss rare butterflies in the Spring Mountains.
Vegas PBS鈥 Outdoor Nevada originally aired from 1995鈥
Josh Bonde (Geoscience) is one of 10 community members to be appointed to the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Advisory Council by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
The council will provide the secretary guidance for the management of the monument, including advisement on the preparation and implementation of a park management plan.
Matthew Lachniet (Geoscience) was featured in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic Espana. The piece was about previous work that Lachniet conducted using a 2,400-year-old stalagmite from a cave in southwestern Mexico. The research describes how the rise and fall of the ancient pyramid city of Teotihuacan and other Mesoamerican鈥
Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) recently co-authored 鈥淕lobal Metagenomic Survey Reveals a New Bacterial Candidate Phylum in Geothermal Springs鈥 with several colleagues in the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute as well as other institutions of higher education. The article appears in Nature Communications, published by the鈥
Paleontologist Josh Bonde (Geoscience) recently was featured on the Vegas PBS series Outdoor Nevada. Bonde and host John Burke went fossil hunting at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument.
Vegas PBS鈥 Outdoor Nevada originally aired from 1995 to 1999. Hosted by highly regarded television host and actor John Burke, Outdoor Nevada will delve鈥
Brett Riddle (Life Sciences) is a co-author on a paper that was recently published in Nature. The article is titled, "Holocene Shifts in the Assembly of Plant and Animal Communities Implicate Human Impacts." Understanding how ecological communities are organized and how they change through time is critical to predicting the effects of climate鈥
Arthur Baragar (Mathematical Sciences) gave the opening remarks at the A-Star Winter Math Camp, which was held on the 黑料网 campus Dec. 19-23. The camp presents a unique opportunity for interested and talented students to improve their math skills during winter break before the upcoming competition season.