Rebecca (Becky) Niemiec, an assistant professor in Colorado State University’s Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, has been named manager of the state’s Bureau of Animal Protection program.
Matt McCombs will take leadership of the Colorado State Forest Service and become Colorado’s new state forester in early 2022.
Science and storytelling are two words rarely used together. However, Karina Branson, a graphic facilitator and illustrator and Warner College of Natural Resources alumna is breaking this barrier. Branson’s video series Drawing Connections to Climate Change garnered her a 2021 Silver Telly award for excellence in video and television across all screens.
After generations of owning and operating a family ranch, Mike and his wife Jan continue to pass along a legacy of land ethic and conservation stewardship by funding scholarships to students in the Warner College of Natural Resources and the College of Agricultural Sciences aimed at bridging the gap between the goals of conservation and those of agricultural production.
After a decade working in the fields of forest, agriculture and disease entomology, Seth Davis, an assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, will take his research even further with a $1 million CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
John Hayes, dean of the Warner College of Natural Resources, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year in June 2022.
“It was a really humbling moment,” said Colorado State University alumna Audrey Ramsey of her experience diving under Darwin’s Arch in the Galapagos Islands mere hours before it collapsed due to natural erosion on May 17, 2021.
A partnership with Colorado's ranching community develops the modern ranch manager.
CSU researchers have created a roadmap for using unmanned aerial systems in ponderosa pine forest monitoring and management.
When spatial ecologist Jody Vogeler arrived at Colorado State University in 2018 as a research scientist in the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, her temporary management of a remote sensing lab quickly evolved into building her own independent research group. Less than three years later, the Vogeler Research Group and collaborators have been awarded four separate NASA grants totaling over $3 million in project funds, among a variety of other funded research projects.