Tag: Cofrin Center for Biodiversity
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Heirloom plant sale is Saturday at UW-Green Bay
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The annual UW-Green Bay Heirloom Vegetable Sale returns on Saturday, May 14, to the Laboratory Sciences Greenhouse on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. All plants are $1.50. Doors open at 9 a.m., with numbers passed out starting at 7 a.m. for those who’d like to reserve a prime spot in line. The sale is…
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Howe, UW-Green Bay take role in EPA wetlands grant
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Scientists from 14 universities and agencies have been awarded a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to systematically monitor the health of coastal wetlands across the U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes. Among the investigators is Robert Howe, professor of Natural and Applied Sciences and director of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity.…
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Return of the exotic tomatoes… and other plants
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The annual UW-Green Bay Heirloom Vegetable Sale returns on Saturday, May 14, to the Laboratory Sciences Greenhouse. The goal, as always, is to introduce local gardeners to new varieties, protect agricultural biodiversity, and raise money for Natural and Applied Sciences initiatives helping students. This year the sale features 63 different varieties of tomatoes (6,500 plants),…
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Snapshots: Researchers collaborate at Watershed Symposium
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Area high school students, teachers and university researchers gathered at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Tuesday, March 15 for the eighth annual Watershed Symposium hosted by the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program and the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity. They were also treated to tours of the Richter Museum, which contains one of Wisconsin’s…
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Busy day Tuesday with Watershed Monitoring Symposium on campus
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Area high school students, teachers and university researchers will gather here Tuesday (March 15) for the eighth annual watershed symposium hosted by the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program and the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity. The program provides hands-on science education for young people and has yielded important data on tributaries that feed the Fox…
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Students, researchers to gather at watershed symposium
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Area high school students, teachers and university researchers will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Tuesday, March 15 for the eighth annual watershed symposium hosted by the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program and the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity.
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UW-Green Bay’s annual watershed symposium is March 15
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Area high school students, teachers and university researchers will gather in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall on Tuesday, March 15, for the eighth annual watershed symposium hosted by the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program and the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity. Pat Robinson, freshwater estuary specialist with the UW-Extension, will provide the keynote address on “Great…
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UW-Green Bay to host Fox River watershed symposium
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Area high school students, teachers and university researchers will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Tuesday, March 15 for the eighth annual watershed symposium hosted by the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program and the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity.
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Student researchers to present at UW-Green Bay
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The Cofrin Center for Biodiversity at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will hold its largest student research symposium ever on Tuesday, March 1 from 1-4:30 p.m. in Phoenix Room B in the University Union, 2420 Nicolet Drive.
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Medland speaks Thursday on heirloom seeds, seed genetics
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Vicki Medland from the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity will be giving two talks on heirloom seeds and seed genetics this spring. The first is 5:30 pm, Thursday (Jan. 27) at House of Tawet, 601 N. Broadway. The gathering will include discussion of the genetics of heritage, hybrid, and GMO seeds and how current agricultural practices…