Current research discussions are presented by Graduate level students and NMSU faculty. Graduate Enrichment Seminar's are only held throughout Spring and Fall Semesters.
Date/Time: Fridays, 3:30 PM, Gerald Thomas Hall, Room 200, unless otherwise indicated.
Zoom Info: Click here for the PES Webinar Link.
Contact Info
Dr. Curtis Monger
Email: cmonger@nmsu.edu
Phone: 575-915-8289
Spring 2024
Speaker | Presentation Title |
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Feb. 2 - Sabine Green, Floriculture Program Coordinator, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Travel, Fundraising, and Team-building, Oh My! The Undergraduate Floriculture Competition Experience |
Feb. 9 - Atinderpal Singh, Post Doctoral, Agricultural Science Center at Clovis | Cover Crops Influence Soil Health in Forage Crop Rotations Under Semi-Arid Environments |
Feb. 16 - Rubén Darío Coria, Researcher, Santiago del Estero Agriculture and Livestock Experimental Station in Argentina | Accuracy assessment of the 'geormophon' digital tool to predict ecological sites in Dry Chaco |
Feb. 23 - Paul Bosland, Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | A Paradigm Shift in Scholarly Publishing |
Mar. 1 - Muhammad Ibrar Khan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Multi-locus genome-wide association study reveals of heat content and pungency in New Mexican chile pepper (Capsicum spp.) the genetic tapestry |
Fall 2023
Speaker | Presentation Title |
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Sep. 1 - Colby Brungard, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Extension Plant Sciences | A digital soil map update for the Upper Rio Puerco Watershed, NM |
Sep. 8 - Dr. Calvin Trostle, Professor & Extension Agronomist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension | Lessons learned in legume nodulation and nitrogen contribution research |
Sep. 15 - Jude Odhambio, Fulbright Scholar and soil scientist, University of Venda, South Africa | Soil fertility constraints faced by smallholder farmers in southern Africa and potential strategies to improve productivity |
Sep. 22 - Robert Horton, Professor of Soil Physics, Iowa State University | Mentoring Graduate Students to Help Them Grow Academically and Personally |
Sep. 29 - Ibukunoluwa Fademi, Ph.D. Candidate | Impacts of management practices on soil health and crop production in an irrigated arid agroecosystem |
Oct. 6 - Prakirti Bista, Research Scientist, Agricultural Science Center at Clovis | Measuring and modeling soil carbon, nitrogen, and water dynamics in semi-arid agroecosystems |
Oct. 13 - Deb Raj Aryal, Research Scientist and visiting scholar, Autonomous University of Chiapas, Mexico | Carbon sequestration in forests and agricultural lands: experiences from Mexico and New Mexico |
Oct. 27 - McKenzie Stock, M.S. Candidate | Surveying fungal biodiversity in pecan orchard soils of the Southwestern United States |
Nov. 10 - Anthony Schaefer, M.S. Candidate Claudia Galvan, M.S. Candidate |
Linking Biological Soil Crust Cover and Composition to Structure and Function within Ecological Sites and States at the Jornada Experimental Range In field in situ UV mutagenesis for Strain Improvement |
Nov. 17 - Suman Sharma, Ph.D. Candidate Anthony Schaefer, M.S. Candidate |
Breeding for Fusarium Basal Rot Resistance in Onion (Allium cepa L.) Linking Biological Soil Crust Cover and Composition to Structure and Function within Ecological Sites and States at the Jornada Experimental Range |