PES Seminars

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

Seminars by date, speaker, title
Speaker Presentation Title
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

Seminars by date, speaker, title
Speaker Presentation Title
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