NRES at Illinois

Hi, all! Just letting you know you also can find us at @illinoisnres.bsky.social! 🦋

Dr. Angela Kent is a 2025 recipient of an OECD Co-operative Research Programme Fellowship! From @UofIllinois🇺🇸, her fellowship "Harnessing plant-microbe interactions for sustainable nitrogen cycling and climate-smart agriculture," is going to @InstitutAgroDjn🇫🇷

Welcome to the 🔶 & 🔷, Class of 2029! You belong here. It’s time to CELEBRATE!

The routes of night-migrating songbirds may not be entirely innate! New evidence suggests songbirds may “talk” to other species as they migrate, hinting at social connections on the wing. Read more➡️tinyurl.com/49s8857e DOI: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

SSSAJ featured article! Long-term continuous maize: Impacts on the soil microbiome and implications for residue management doi.org/10.1002/saj2.2… #OpenAccess study by Sible & colleagues @ConnorSible @ajmargenot @DrAngelaKent @IllinoisCropSci @IllinoisNRES

Season's Greetings from NRES! We wish you and your loved ones a joyful and peaceful holiday. We hope you are able to find some quiet time to enjoy nature wherever you may be. #happyholidays2024

When you don't know where their habitat is, it's hard to manage & conserve grassland birds. @IllinoisNRES doctoral student Wendy Dorman will leverage a @NASA award to map grassland fragments & layer bird occurrences for a more complete view. Read more: tinyurl.com/2cx2e2c2

A new mapping tool developed by Sarah Castle with @IllinoisNRES is helping identify priority areas for expanding agroforestry in the US Midwest. …oforestrymap.projects.earthengine.app/view/agrofores…

Hey @VanRiperLab, where's Alice? #IYKYK

Congratulations to #iSEE affiliates Kaiyiu Guan, Steve Long and Atul Jain for being named to the 2024 @ClarivateAG List of Highly Cited Researchers! 🌎 @IllinoisNRES @iBioIllinois @LongLab @CliMAS_Illinois news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1605…

This week NRES welcomes seminar speaker Dr. Leona Yi-Fan Su from the UI's College of Media. Join us at 3:00 p.m. CST on Friday for "The Role of Digital Media in Science and Environmental Communication."

Don't miss Owl Night 2024 at Kennekuk Education Center TONIGHT! If you've ever wanted to see an owl up close, Dr. Mike Ward says the weather forecast says this might be your night... #owlnight 🦉🌙

Friday is First Generation Celebration Day! Are we proud of our first-gen students? You better believe it! 🎉 #CelebrateFirstGen

Join us this Friday as the NRES Seminar Series continues with Dr. Tiffany Schriever (Western Michigan University).

Join iSEE Levenick Resident Scholar @TC_Chakraborty of @PNNLab for a Nov. 22 workshop outlining the need for cloud-based tools for state-of-the-art geospatial processing and satellite remote sensing, using Google’s Earth Engine platform. 🌎 Register ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

WHOOOO missed Owl Night at Homer Lake? We got you! Join us at the Kennekuk Education Center in Danville on Tuesday, November 12 to learn about these amazing animals! #owlnight 🦉🌙

Last day of #BatWeek + it's #Halloween, a perfect time to celebrate the spookiest little night creatures🦇🎃 The fuzzy fliers pollinate, keep bad bugs at bay & even help forests regenerate! Learn more from bat expert Joy O'Keefe: wildlife.nres.illinois.edu

Why so surprised?!? It's BAT APPRECIATION WEEK! This Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) is simply stunning it its fuschia bracelet 💅 Photo by Johnny Baakliny 🦇#BatWeek

Wetlands are vital parts of our ecosystem, providing biodiversity and resources that other biomes can not. 🐢🐸🐊 But popular culture portrays them negatively, either as barriers or simply as dangerous areas. A @IllinoisNRES team examined these attitudes: ow.ly/Soa750TVHJ1

The NRES Seminar Series continues this week with Dr. Lauren Quinn from @ACESIllinois!