A chance meeting three years ago over dinner at the Ucross Foundation schoolhouse led to a unique collaboration between UHPSI and a group of faculty/alumni from the Land Arts of the American West Program at the University of New Mexico. Over the course of two summers, the collaborative team worked together in the field to Read more about Ucross: A Portrait in Place[…]
Our third and final lunch lecture of the fall semester will be Monday, November 30th! Come hear Brian Kuehl, a principal with K-Coe Isom, a food and agricultural consulting firm. Brian leads the firm’s Federal Affairs service area. With a background in environmental law and regulations, he identifies and educates business owners on how to Read more about Looking West: Voices from the American Plains – Brian Kuehl, Principal, K-Coe Isom[…]
Come hear Karen Hostetler, the Co-founder and owner of Mountain Meadow Wool Company. Mountain Meadow Wool is a full-service wool spinning mill in Wyoming whose mission is to create a company that sustains ranching. Karen will be talking about her experience starting a wool mill as well as her work researching the wool industry and Read more about Looking West: Voices from the American Plains – Karen Hostetler, Co-founder and Owner, Mountain Meadow Wool Company[…]
Shane is a member of the Western Energy Counsel at Trout Unlimited and a partner in his family’s cattle ranch. Prior to Trout Unlimited, he was a litigation associate at Holme Roberts and Owen LLP in Denver, Manager of the Powderhorn Ranch in Douglas, Wyoming, and an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School. He Read more about Looking West: Voices from the American Plains – Shane Cross, Western Energy Counsel at Trout Unlimited[…]
A day long symposium with morning talks, lunch and afternoon workshops: bird and plant walk, photography workshop, ranch mapping and hydrology workshop, and a naturalist hike for kids! Participants include writers Frank Goodyear and Laura Bell; photographers Michael P. Berman and William S. Sutton; Bighorn Audubon Society President Dr. Jackie Canterbury; Charlie Bettigole, Arthur Middleton, Read more about Wyoming Grasslands Symposium: The Art and Science of Grasslands[…]
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[…]