UNL CropWatch Oct. 25, 2010: Climate Research Focus of Two Seminars Nov. 9

UNL CropWatch Oct. 25, 2010: Climate Research Focus of Two Seminars Nov. 9

Oct. 25, 2010

Two new University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members will discuss climate change research during seminars Nov. 9 at Scottsbluff.

Martha Shulski, assistant professor of applied climate science in the School of Natural Resources and director of the High Plains Regional Climate Center, will given a presentation on the “High Plains Regional Climate Center and the Services that the Center Provides.” Tapan Pathak, extension educator for climate variability and climate change in the School of Natural Resources, will discuss “Cotton yield forecasting using crop simulation model and climate forecasts in southeastern U.S.”

Shulski's presentation will be at 9 a.m. in the Board Room of the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, immediately followed by Pathak's seminar.

Shulski joined the faculty at UNL in August 2009. Her research interests are in the areas of climate variability and change and climate impacts. Prior to UNL, she worked for seven years as a climatologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and taught weather and climate courses in the geography program. She also is interested in climate monitoring and assessment.

Pathak joined the UNL faculty in April 2010. His responsibilities include application of climate variability and climate change science to communicate risks, adaptation, and mitigation strategies. From 2005 to 2010, he was a research assistant at the University of Florida. His dissertation was on forecasting cotton yield in the southeastern United States using climate forecasts and other climate information as a way to adapt to a variable climate.

(See Pathak's story in this week's CropWatch and watch for future articles on the impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture.)

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