ESA Professional Development Calendar

A series of Soil Science Society of America webinars produced in partnership with The Soil Health Institute and sponsored by The Walton Family Foundation.

Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Time:12:00 Noon-1:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM-12:00 Noon Central/10:00-11:00 AM Mountain/9:00-10:00 AM Pacific

The concept of precision agriculture has matured over the last 20 years as technology enables new innovations. Yet how do the concepts of soil health and regenerative agriculture converge with precision agriculture? In this webinar, the Soil Health Institute will describe a strategy for using precision agriculture tools to incorporate soil spatial variability into soil health assessments. The webinar will also discuss how these tools might be used to assess outcomes of soil management systems and contribute to ecosystem services markets.

Speaker:
Jason Ackerson
Research Soil Scientist
Soil Health Institute

Invasive insects are devastating agricultural, natural, and urban environments around the world. The Entomological Society of America is positioned to be a leader in developing a collaborative invasive species mitigation and management roadmap. As a follow-up to the four-part invasive species webinar series hosted by the Entomological Society of America, the P-IE Section Invasive Species Wildly Important Goals Team, and USDA APHIS, a panel of federal scientists will present on current methods that are used to detect, assess, and regulate potentially invasive insects in the United States and open the floor for discussion from members of the Entomological Society of America. Bring your comments and questions for this unique opportunity to discuss and interact with some of the federal scientists who are leading the effort to mitigate and manage invasive insects on the front lines.

Abstracts must be submitted through the online form by March 3, 2022 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 Pacific Time). 

An American Society of Agronomy webinar sponsored by the Crop Protection Network.

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 12:00 Noon-12:30 PM Eastern/11:00 AM-11:30 Central/10:00-10:30 AM Mountain/9:00-9:30 AM Pacific

Tight global supply chains have affected many areas of agriculture over the last two years. Herbicide shortages may have an even larger impact across the United States in 2022, as tight supplies of products like glyphosate and glufosinate cause higher prices and uncertain product availability. This webinar will discuss some of the reasons for tight herbicide supplies, how planning for weed control this upcoming summer will be crucial, and considerations for dealing with increased costs and/or product unavailability in the 2022 “War Against Weeds”.

Speaker:

Joe Ikley, Assistant Professor and Extension Weed Specialist, North Dakota State University

The Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the ESA Statistical Ecology Section are hosting Dr. Tal Avgar and Brian Smith for the March call in the Statistical Methods Seminar Series. Dr. Avgar is an Assistant Professor of Movement Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resource and Ecology Center at Utah State University. Dr. Avgar’s research focuses on the ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of animal movement behaviour. The premise behind Dr. Avgar’s research is that quantitative understanding of the processes underlying animal movement behaviours is essential, not only as means to identifying ecological needs and interactions at the individual level, but as a mechanistic key to emerging population and community patterns.

Brian Smith is a PhD student, co-advised by Tal Avgar and Dan MacNulty, studying the space-use ecology of northern Yellowstone elk and the feedbacks between space-use and demography. Brian is particularly interested in how density-dependent habitat selection interacts with predation risk and how animals balance this tradeoff between “many mouths to feed” and “safety in numbers”. His goal is to find insights from individual behavior that scale up to population- and community-level patterns.