Seminar 2008 - 09
Where: TREC Confrence Room - Directions to TREC
Time: 3pm (Refreshments provided)
May 2008
May 8: Catabolic Diversity of Soil Microbial Communities in Everglades Wetlands - Dr. Alan Wright is from EREC, Belle Glade
May 15: TBA - Ruben Regalado/ University of Florida / Miami-Dade County Extension
May 29: Management of grassland in China - by Dr. Qibing Wang
June 2008
June 5: Capillary rise modeling - by Luis Barquin - TREC
June 16: Smut Fungi (Ustilaginomycetes) in Cuba, an overview of their diversity - by José M. Pérez-Martínez
June 19: Nematodes Classification - by Wanda Montas - TREC
June 26: Miami’s Tropical Trees Explorers of the Early 20th Century: What they Brought and Who They Were - by Adrian Hunsberger - Miami-Dade County Extension Office
July 2008
July 17: TBA - by Lauren Serra - Hole-in-the-Donut Restoration Everglades National Park
July 31: The 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities - by Christine Coffin
August 2008
September 2008
October 30: TBA - by Tatiana Borisova
October 2008
October 30: TBA - by Don Pybas – County extension Office
October 30: TBA - by Nic Kiggundu – Dr. Migliaccio graduate student
November 2008
November 06: Effects of herbivory by Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and flooding on the physiology and growth of select ornamental plant species in south Florida. - by Cliff Martin Ph.D candidate/ student
November 13: Properly Managed Cattle and the Environment (Will provide specific title later) - by: Gilbert C. Sigua, USDA-ARS, Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, FL
December 2008
December 04: TBA - Gurpal S. Toor - Gulf Coast REC,
January 2009
Previous 2008 Seminars
February 2008
Feb 21: “Water resource, religion and food – my trip to India” by Dr. Yuncong Li - 3pm
Feb 28: “Practical Approaches and Implementations to Improve the Sustainability of Agriculture and Water Quality in South Florida” by Dr. Qingren Wang - 3pm
March 2008
March 6: Using solid oxygen fertilizers to alleviate flooding impacts on crops and native plants - by Dr . Guodong Liu - 3pm
March 13: Our trip to Mexico: workshops, field trips, shopping, and fun by Dr. Yuncong Li - 3pm
March 20: Source and Fate of Arsenic in the Environment - by Dr. Guangliang Liu - 3pm
March 27: Integrated modeling assessment in wetlands: the Everglades - by Dr. Carl Fitz - 3pm
April 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 3 p.m. The IFAS Center for Tropical Agriculture is pleased to announce the seminar: “Residue Management for Soil Carbon Storage and Sustained Maize Production in a Savanna-forest Farming Zone of Ghana”
WHERE: Room G001, McCarty Hall
and by Polycom at TREC teaching building
SPEAKER: Samuel GK Adiku
Research Scholar/Post-Doctoral Associate
Dept. Agricultural & Biological Engineering
University of Florida
APRIL 9th 2008 3PM:
Location: UF/IFAS/TREC confrence room (18905 SW 280 St, Homestead, FL)
Speaker: Dr. Raymond J Schnell
Topic: Disease disruption of the cocoa bean supply chain: A molecular genetics based breeding solution.
Biography: Dr. Schnell is the lead scientist for an international genetic improvement program for Theobroma cacao located at the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station, Miami, FL. The program is a collaborative project between USDA-ARS and Mars Inc., and includes breeding trials in South and Central America, West Africa, and South Asia. Dr. Schnell received his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics in 1984 from North Carolina State University. He then worked with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association in sugarcane and coffee genetics and breeding. Since 1987 he has been a research geneticist working on tropical/subtropical fruit crops breeding and has extensive experience with cacao, mango, avocado, and many miscellaneous tropical fruit crop species. His work has resulted in over 100 scientific publications and numerous speaking invitations both nationally and internationally.
April 3: USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Program, Summarizing our Impacts on Agricultural Value Chains - by Carmen Algeciras - 3pm
April 10: TBA - Dr. Edward "Gilly" Evans
April 17: No seminar - Water quality training - http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ufwq/
