Transdisciplinary Grant and Travel Winners |
The recipients of the Warner College Dean's Grants for Transdisciplinary Solutions to Wicked Environmental Problems were announced during the annual end-of-year celebration held in May. Grants for the 2025-2026 academic year include one $50,000 project grant, two $25,000 project grants, and two travel grants. |
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| Noah Niemeyer awarded Udall Scholarship |
Noah Niemeyer, a third-year student majoring in forest and rangeland stewardship with a concentration in rangeland conservation and management, is one of three Colorado State University students to receive a prestigious Udall Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes students committed to careers in the environment, tribal public policy or Native American health care. |
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3rd International Equid Conference |
Sarah King, research scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, co-organized the 3rd International Wild Equid Conference held in Nanyuki, Kenya in April. Warner College of Natural Resources and NREL were two of the conference sponsors. The meeting brought together 110 equid management and conservation professionals from 21 countries, and included opening addresses from Director General of the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Director of the Wildlife Research and Training Institute.
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| CitSci and Leave No Trace's Trash Clean-Up |
Recent ecosystem science and sustainability graduate, Maddie McNeil, shared her experience with CitSci's partnership with the #LeaveNoTrace University Challenge, which encouraged universities to plan local clean-ups and collect data about the trash that was picked up. |
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In Memoriam: Craig MacFarland, CPAM Co-Founder |
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The Center for Protected Area Management is deeply saddened by the passing of co-founder, colleague, mentor, and friend, Dr. Craig MacFarland. He led key organizations including the Charles Darwin Research Station, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and the Charles Darwin Foundation before co-founding CPAM in 1990. |
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In Memoriam: Dale Hein, Warner College Professor Emeritus |
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Dale Hein, Warner College of Natural Resources professor emeritus passed away on February 21, 2025. Hein retired from Colorado State University in 1999 after 34 years of teaching. Everyone who knew Dale is invited to his celebration of life on Saturday, June 7 at 4 p.m. in the Lory Student Center’s Longs Peak Room. |
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Forests FM: Episode 9 - Collaborative Management |
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How do one-on-one conversations lead to management decisions on the landscape? Forestry is as much about people as it is about ecology, and in an uncertain future it’s critical to have dialogues about how we apply human values to the landscape. Tony Cheng, interim director for the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, and Matt McCombs, state forester and director of the Colorado State Forest Service, discuss the people and politics of forest management in Colorado on the podcast Forests FM.
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Colorado Natural Heritage Program and City of Louisville BioBlitz Survey |
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Photo by: City of Louisville |
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The Colorado Natural Heritage Program and The City of Louisville Open Space Division are partnering for a weeklong BioBlitz to uncover the diverse species that call Louisville’s Open Space home. Taking place June 9 - 13, 2025, this large-scale scientific survey will span more than 800 acres of natural land. Public participation is at the heart of this effort. On Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 11 community members are invited to work alongside scientists and fellow volunteers to explore and document the wildlife in the open spaces by assisting with surveys, species identification, event logistics, and more.
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Showcasing the Power of CSU Research |
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Colorado State University is elevating its research enterprise front and center. Visitors to the CSU homepage will now see a dedicated space highlighting groundbreaking research that reflects the university’s impact and innovation. A newly redesigned CSU Research page offers a dynamic overview, featuring powerful stories, key stats, and achievements from across all colleges. For those who want to dive deeper, our new SOURCE High-Impact Research Stories hub provides an ever-growing collection of research features, updated regularly to showcase the breadth and depth of CSU’s discovery and scholarship.
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Warner College Service Portal |
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The Warner College Service Portal is a one-stop shop for all the service tickets you send into the Dean’s Office service units. You can track your tickets with Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, and the Communications Team all in one, easy-to-use website! To submit service tickets, you can use the Portal’s Service Catalog for some IT and Communications requests, or you can send an email to the following addresses: |
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Warner College Business Services is your integrated support team for all
Financial Services, Human Resource Services, and Proposal Support Services |
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As of May 27, Warner College of Natural Resources has raised $5,450,021 towards an $8,200,000 goal. As fiscal year 2025 comes to a close, please keep the following dates in mind: |
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Friday, June 13 – The CSU Foundation must receive non-cash gifts, pledges, and planned gifts by Friday, June 13 for them to be included in FY25 reports.
- Monday, June 30 by 2 p.m. – Cash assets (checks and credit card contributions) must be received by the CSU Foundation by 2 p.m. to be processed as FY25 contributions.
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Tuesday, July 22 – FY25 fund activity reports, including June gifts and deposits, will be available by July 22.
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| The annual 2025 Warner College Scholarship Dinner and Celebration will be held on Friday, October 24 in the Lory Student Center Ballrooms. More information about the event will be available soon. |
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International Affairs Committee |
International Affairs Committee |
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About the International Affairs Committee |
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The mission of Warner College's International Affairs Committee is to celebrate the international diversity of the college, and build connections, learning, and engagement with our international community among students, staff, and faculty. Learn more about the IAC by visiting their website. |
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| New tool helping Coloradans understand forest management across the state |
The Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute have recently launched an online database designed to help Coloradans understand forest management activities across the state. The Colorado Forest Tracker uses federal, state, and local data to create a user-friendly online database. The tool informs people of activities like where trees and bushes have been cut down, prescribed burns, along with where trees are being planted.
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Expanding One Health: Researching wildlife health will benefit everyone and the planet |
In a recent publication, CSU researchers advocate for taking a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach to solving our most pressing health and environmental problems. As human populations expand and climate change alters species’ behaviors and habitats, domestic animals, wildlife and humans are sharing spaces like never before. These interactions inevitably lead to conflict, requiring scientists to rethink approaches to public health and long-term environmental sustainability. |
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| Could the goo and gunk in your home be solutions to climate change? |
Climate change solutions might be lurking in the recesses of your home, according to CSU microbiologist James Henriksen. He's encouraging everyone to get involved in the search for extremophiles, organisms that survive in extreme environments – including your water heater, air conditioner and dishwasher. Henriksen said these microbes have adapted to harsh conditions and have developed specialized traits – some of which could be beneficial to people by gobbling up carbon dioxide or cleaning harmful pollutants from the environment. The Extremophile Campaign: In Your Home – a partnership among CitSci, the Two Frontiers Project and SeedLabs – launched in October to leverage participatory science in the quest to identify helpful organisms.
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Forests help keep climate change in check by absorbing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide in their leaves, branches, trunks, roots – and in surrounding soil. But the story is more complicated in Colorado. Overall, forests in the state emitted slightly more carbon into the atmosphere than they absorbed from 2002 to 2019, according to the 2024 Colorado Forest Carbon Inventory, a state-mandated report from the Colorado State Forest Service and the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. |
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| Extremely Rare Video Shows the Earth Being Violently Torn Apart During an Earthquake |
A striking video captured in Myanmar during March's devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake shows what scientists believe may be a first-of-its-kind recording of a surface fault rupture, the visible point where the ground over a major faultline splits apart, in action. "To my knowledge," Rick Aster, professor in the Department of Geosciences, told Live Science, "this is the best video we have of a throughgoing surface rupture of a very large earthquake." |
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Colorado Water Center grant supports farm management decision research |
The Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University recently awarded nearly $25,000 to support research into how farming decisions affect input efficiency and profitability. The research will use data from Testing Ag Performance Solutions farming competitions, including CSU-TAPS and programs at Kansas State University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The project, “Understanding profit and efficiency relationships through farm management competitions,” will be led by Tian Guo, assistant professor in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources.
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ESA's Science Communication in the Parks Fellowship Program |
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Sharpen your Science Communication skills and learn how to engage National Park Service managers and the public. The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce that applications for the 2025-2026 Science Communication in the Parks Fellowship program are open!
The program will support six Sci-Comm Fellows in cooperation with the NPS to implement the strategic communications goals of the Northeastern National Parks. The fellowship program is supported by NPS through the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units program.
Applications are due by Friday, June 20. For more information about the program, the benefits, and the criteria, please visit the ESA website. |
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Call for Proposals - CSU Symposium 2025 |
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The Office for Inclusive Excellence is now accepting proposals for The Symposium, which will be held November 3 – 6, 2025.
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Opening Doors: Access in Higher Education
- Reimagining Success: Opportunity, Engagement, and Growth
- Community in Action: Centering People and building Resilience
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Only proposals aligning with the stated criteria will be considered for selection. All proposals, including a session abstract, are due by Monday, June 30 at 11:59 p.m. For more information about the proposal process, please visit the link below. |
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Funding Opportunities with Pivot-RP |
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The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Research Acceleration Office are excited to announce a new institutional subscription to Clarivate’s Pivot-RP, a database of funding opportunities for all disciplines and project types. This tool replaces the previous SPIN funding database.
Pivot-RP’s web-based suite of tools is designed to support researchers in funding discovery, dissemination, and collaboration. Pivot-RP will allow you to find, share, and track new matching funding and partnership opportunities based on specific criteria and your customizable faculty profile. More information about this helpful tool can be found below. |
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The Warner Wire: Dean's Digest |
The Warner Wire: Dean's Digest |
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You are receiving this Warner College digest because you are a member of the College community. If you would like to submit an update, announcement, or kudos for consideration, submissions are due by the last Monday of each month for inclusion in the following month’s digest. Please submit ideas to Director of Communications and Strategy, Rob Novak. |
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