Minnegram

Extension shares education, tools to help producers protect the environment while remaining profitable. Featuring Water Resources Team Extension Educator, Brad Carlson.

Doctoral student Eduardo Garay Lagos writes about his experience on a WINS project evaluating the impact of annual vs. perennial cover crop systems and their interaction with different nitrogen rates on irrigated sandy soils.

Molly Wick, doctoral student in the Water Resources Science graduate program, writes about her recent case analysis published in Ethics & Human Research which highlighted how research universities may not have adequate policies in place to support research in collaboration with sovereign Indigenous communities.

Graduate student, Katie Hembre, has spent the last two summers alongside her lab mates assessing the water quality and plant communities in nine MN and WI lakes across the Upper Mississippi Basin. Hembre's research aims to provide insight into the relationships between alum applications, water quality dynamics, and native and invasive aquatic plants.

After a long career with the U of M Water Resources Center, Minnegram editor Chris Hansen will retire on April 19. In what will be her last Minnegram post, we asked her a little about her time with the WRC, and what she anticipates life will be like in her well deserved retirement.