UHPSI regular Catherine Kuhn recently took one of the top prizes at the 2015 Master’s Student Research Colloquium held at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. She presented the results of a Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrological model of the Clear Creek Watershed in North-central Wyoming. This work, begun Read more about Top prize at FES Colloqium[…]
Three members of the UHPSI team headed to Chicago last week to deliver research on three topics: (1) an automated process for selecting a specific threshold related to mixture-tuned matched filtering image classification; (2) the process and products related to our 2014 Google Earth Engine Research Award research program in which the minimum noise fraction Read more about Presentations at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting[…]
An UHPSI article on the changing demographic trends among farm and ranch operators was released in the December issue of Rangelands journal. Since then, several reporters have used the piece as a base from which to discuss the implications of an aging agricultural workforce. Stewart Truelsen of Capital Press is one such author. His piece, Read more about Demographics research addressed in secondary press[…]
Catherine Kuhn recently traveled with Yale FES’ Raymond lab to the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography’s Aquatic Sciences Meeting held in Granada, Spain. She presented a talk covering findings from research conducted with Charlie Bettigole during the summer of 2014. The work focused on changing concentrations of dissolved gases in the Clear Read more about UHPSI research makes a splash at ASLO[…]
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) holds an annual meeting attracting more than 25,000 attendees. The AGU conference is a catch-all for folks studying any bio- or geophysical facets of the natural world. Two members of our team, Catherine and Lindsi, attended this year’s December meeting, with Catherine presenting her most current findings related to the Read more about Hydrology presentation at American Geophysical Union[…]
Reporter Brett Worthington of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation recently conducted an interview with one of UHPSI’s researchers regarding our demographic research that appeared in the December issue of Rangelands. The interviewed led to a short written piece that appeared on ABC’s rural news website and to a recorded conversation that aired nationally across Australia during Read more about UHPSI featured on Australia Broadcasting Corporation news programs[…]
After several months of careful monitoring, the mead that was produced during a summer-time pollinator presentation and workshop event made its way from 5-6 gallon carboys to bottles. The mead, which was produced using honey from the Ucross Ranch, was served at this year’s annual Ucross Christmas Party and fireworks show. Charlie set up a Read more about Ucross mead a hit at annual Christmas party[…]
UHPSI’s article on changing demographic trends among farm and ranch operators was released in the December issue of Rangelands journal, published by the Society for Range Management. The article was selected as the feature publication for the issue, and a corresponding press release was put out to media interests. The full article can be accessed Read more about Demographics Research Published in Rangelands[…]
This past month, team member Catherine Kuhn popped out to the ranch for a three day sampling bonanza. Over the course of her trip, she was able to visit all sampling sites from Double Cross up to Deer Lake in the Cloud Peak Wilderness. Catherine was collecting her usual samples for dissolved gas, stream pH, Read more about One last hydrologic sampling run before the winter![…]
Two team members recently attended the annual Northeast ArcGIS User’s Conference to present research tied to the High Plains. A poster (below) covered findings associated with the latest manuscript submitted for peer review. It was formally presented during an evening social and on display for several days. A “lightning talk” (20 slides that auto-advance over Read more about Presentations at the Northeast ArcGIS User’s Conference[…]
September is traditionally the month where academic routines resume their normal trajectories, and this September was no different. As Yale students settled back onto campus we took the opportunity to host an evening barbeque at our lab in New Haven to serve as a networking event for attracting new student interest. Roughly 30 people came Read more about Barbeque Social to Attract New Interest[…]
Following on the tails of demographic research and land cover research manuscripts, UHPSI recently completed a new manuscript focused on thematic map accuracy assessment. The nature of scientific research is that while investigating one’s primary area of inquiry one inevitably stumbles upon new ideas. An example of this came as we began the accuracy assessment Read more about New Manuscript Out for Review[…]
In coordination with Nathan Lindsey (Manager of Conservation and Stewardship at Apache Foundation), Charlie designed, constructed, and monitored a set of six grazing exclosures on the ranch during July and August, 2014 to begin quantifying the effects of grazing by sheep on leafy spurge. We are hoping that this on-the-ground research will help to enhance Read more about Quantifying Sheep Grazing of Leafy Spurge[…]
We had the opportunity to host Dr. Pete Raymond, Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Yale F&ES, and his family (wife Megan and daughter Skyler) during the first week of August this summer. Dr. Raymond’s research focuses on the biogeochemistry of natural systems. He has been working closely with UHPSI’s Catherine Kuhn on understanding dissolved carbon Read more about Dr. Pete Raymond Visits Ucross[…]
Devin Routh recently led a local crowd in back-to-back events at the Raymond Plank Creative Center here at Ucross. Nearly 40 participants gathered at the Center on July 23rd for a mead making workshop in the afternoon and a dinner-presentation highlighting pollinators and their ecological roles in the evening. Mead, an ancient beverage produced by Read more about Pollinators: Learning the Value of their Protection and their Products[…]