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Community List Advanced Biology Logan View High School Be sure to ask Mr. Ready if you have any questions! Mr. Sid Ready Logan View High School Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. Apps This site contains information about all Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary aps. Explore available and under-development aps in the menu to the left.  CenUSA Bioenergy Online Peer Network Deana Namuth-Covert dcovert2@unl.edu Welcome to the CenUSA Bioenergy Online Peer Network! This space is designed for learning and collaboration. Feel free to browse the reference materials located within the community.  If you would like to view current discussion topics and collaborate with other community members, you'll need to create an account.  Here are instructions to create an account. If you are visiting the community page to attend a webinar, here are instructions on how to use the Adobe Connect meeting room. The CenUSA Bioenergy Online Peer Network is currently funded in part by a USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant. It is a collaboration among the Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary, eXtension, university and college educators/students, and researchers. Partners from over 9 states, USDA and 7 universities are members. We launched the fall of 2011.  Please take a look around and we hope you find the materials, webinars, classes and interactions with colleagues in this environment to be rewarding. Together we can meet the fuel needs of a growing population, in the midst of climate challenges. We hope you become a frequent visitor of this site to share with us the experiences of this exciting project.     Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. Access to any assessment section from this Community requires approval by its owner. CenUSA Education Material Deana Namuth-Covert What is the Cenusa Bioenergy Project? The Cenusa Bioenergy project is funded by the USDA and includes faculty and staff from 8 institutions working together to investigate perennial grasses as a feedstock for bioefuels and the creation of a regional sustainable biofuels system in the Midwest. Cenusa Bioenergy Vision Our vision is to create a regional system for producing advanced transportation fuels derivedfrom perennial grasses grown on land that is either unsuitable or marginal for row crop production.  In addition to producing advanced biofuels, the proposed system will improve the sustainability of existing cropping ystems by reducing agricultural runoff of nutrients and soil and increasing carbon sequestration. To learn more about the Cenusa project, please visit the Cenusa home page at http://www.cenusa.iastate.edu/     Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. Community of Plant and Soil Sciences Education/Teachers Martha Mamo University of Nebraska-Lincoln This is the place for placing some description about the community Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. Crop Science Investigation (CSI) Network Brandy VanDeWalle bvandewalle2@unl.edu Crop Science Investigation (CSI) Network         This site is designed to serve as a clearinghouse of lesson plans and other materials useful for teaching 4-H and FFA youth about crop and soil sciences.  Check out this site for information to use in your classroom, workshops, or 4-H meetings.        As youth become less connected with agriculture, it is essential to teach them about agriculture. A series of workshops, called Crop Science Investigation or CSI was created to help spark the interest of youth to learn about crops and plants. Dig into some interesting facts about Nebraska crops. Learn how crops grow and factors that affect them. Learn about exciting career opportunities related to crop and plant science. The University of Nebraska offers great majors for anyone interested in anything plants!  Check it out! Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining the eLibrary. CSS408 - Soil Judging Soil Judging at OSU-Cascades Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. Experiential Learning in Agricultural Sciences (ELAS) Martha Mamo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mmamo3@unl.edu Our hope is that this community will become a wealth of information shared.  Please use the Discussion Board above (and within each specific area)  to post lesson plans, images, and other items of interest.  From time to time we will move items that have been posted to the most appropriate areas of the site. In the Discussion Board above, the first few postings contain materials to help you learn how to create dynamic posts and attach materials to your posts. ELAS Events and Workshops will be a place for us to provide lists of specific events of interest to ELAS. ELAS Pedagogical Resources link in the left menu is an area where we will share information about materials available on the web and through other sources. ELAS Teaching Tips link in the left menu will be used to share tips and tricks that have been found useful, and possibly warnings of things that don't seem to work. ELAS Activities and Lesson Plans will eventually contain a variety of actual activities and lesson plans for your use. ELAS Leader Contacts provides you with a list of the original leaders of this site, including their affiliations and email addresses. Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. Irrigation Home Study Course Chuck Burr Extension Educator Univ of Nebraska chuck.burr@unl.edu The intent of this Home Study Course is to increase the user’s awareness and understanding of irrigation management concepts. This in turn can help producers reduce irrigation application amounts and increase uniformity of application, thereby reducing deep percolation and runoff. The end result can be reduced irrigation costs, increased efficiency, increased yields and reduced surface and groundwater contamination. The target audience for this course includes: crop consultants, agency personnel, irrigated crop producers and others interested in improving their irrigation water management skills. There is additional information on irrigation management on the UNL Water webpage: http://water.unl.edu/web/cropswater/home It is hoped that you find this course both helpful and enjoyable. To begin work in the course click on "Lessons" in the task bar above.  This will take you to a page where you can click on links to view each chapter.  We recommend that you print a few of the addenda, especially the Tables and the Equations.  For best printing results, set the printing properties to Portrait and, if available, to print both sides.  Upon completing a chapter you can take the quiz by clicking on the "Quiz" link included in each lesson; you may use your printed addenda while taking each quiz.  To earn CEU credit, you'll need to get 8 of 10 questions correct.  You may retake quizzes as many times as you wish. Chuck Burr Extension Educator, Univ of Nebraska chuck.burr@unl.edu   Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. MSI Faculty Community Future home of MSI faculty discussions and documents. If you are an MSI faculty member, please join this community and be sure your eLibrary profile includes some information about you, your institution, and your current research/projects.  Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. NAIPSC High School Community Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. New Instructor Testing Community Deanna Leingang Deanna.Leingang@gmail.com Welcome to the new instructor testing community! This community will serve as a testing area for new passel instructors; you can practice editing different features of this community before starting to build your own class or community. If you do not yet have an instructor account and would like to use the Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary to create a class or community space, please contact us via the link below.  If you are a new instructor in contact with our team, we can grant you ownership access to this community. Please contact us using the link below if you do not yet have ownership access. To begin (and determine if you have access), click on the home icon in the upper right of your screen. Your homepage should have a list of all PASSeL communities you have created or joined. You should see "New Instructor Testing Community" under "My Owned Communities." You will see several options under the title, including View, which will bring you back to this page, and Edit. To see a complete list of the community editing tools and instructions for navigating your instructor account, click here.  Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. North American Invasive Plant Ecology and Management Short Course Steve Young syoung4@unl.edu Welcome to the North American Invasive Plant Ecology and Management Short Course (NAIPSC) Online Community! The NAIPSC Online Community houses information about the NAIPSC Field Course, instructors, resources, and future opportunities to increase your knowledge of invasive plants. NEW! 2012-2013 NAIPSC Webinar Series! The NAIPSC is hosting a series of webinars throughout 2012 and 2013. These webinars will be provided free to past NAIPSC participants, and for a fee to all other potential attendees. Your webinar series fee may apply toward enrollment in the 2013 offering of the NAIPSC. For more information about the webinar series and the course, go to http://ipscourse.unl.edu or contact Steve Young at steve.young@unl.edu.  You may attend webinars and view all archived webinars in the series by joining the NAIPSC Online Community. To the left of this page, you will see a link to the NAIPSC Online Community under "Related Communities." Approval of your request to join will be subject to past course participation or payment of the webinar series registration fee.  Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining the eLibrary. PBTN Advisory Board Deana Namuth-Covert dcovert2@unl.edu Welcome to the Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN) Advisory Board Community. This community is designed for members of the PBTN advisory board to access information from current and past advisory board meetings, as well as provide a forum in which members may discuss the progress and future of the PBTN.  Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. Pesticide Resistance Management Deana Namuth-Covert, PhD dcovert2@unl.edu This is a drafted site of where we will place all learning materials developed for pest resistance management - weeds, plant diseases, insect pressures, and genetics principles.           Funding for the development of materials found in this site has been provided by the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. Access to any assessment section from this Community requires approval by its owner. Plant Breeders without Borders Deana Namuth-Covert dcovert2@unl.edu Place for us to organize people and classes/training opportunities interested in working together. Plant Breeding and Genetics Online Certificate Program Deanna Leingang Deanna.Leingang@gmail.com The Plant Breeding and Genetics Professional Development - Certificate Program is being offered by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Here, in this eLibrary community, you will find a sample genetics exam. Use  it to help determine whether you should take the Refresher Genetics module to begin the certificate, or if you are ready to start with the advanced core/elective modules.  More details of the certificate program are found in the left-hand menu links, including all available modules. To begin the sample genetics exam, click here or on the Lessons link above. Click on the "Sample Genetics Exam" lesson and then "Take Quiz."  Follow the simple pop-up instructions for creating an account which will appear next in the yellow screen. Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee Jamie Sherman, Secretary   To view additional success stories click on the link in the left menu   Please click here to report your plant breeding success stories.     The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (SCC 080) is the USDA-sponsored advisory group of representatives from land grant universities.    The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee represents national plant breeding with a focus on education in the broader sense, including providing information to the public and administrators, and encouraging the development of formal educational opportunities, continuing education, and lifelong learning.   Mission: To provide a forum for leadership on issues and opportunities of strategic importance to national core competency in plant breeding research and education   Membership: The PBCC members will consist of the representatives of the SCC-080 committee and others by request.   Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. Plant Breeding Graduate Student Community Jamie Sherman jsherman@montana.edu Growing the Future With the loss of plant breeding positions in the public sector, there has been a loss of the infrastructure that supports plant breeding training, including a reduction in professors with plant breeding expertise, a critical mass of students often too low to provide a stimulating learning environment, and the inability to offer courses with sufficient audience. Although studies support the positive impact of a strong community on learning, currently, students are often trained in isolation.  The PBTN has been established to mitigate isolation barriers that currently limit plant breeding education at most institutions and in most plant breeding work places around the world.  PBTN supports online course sharing (See list of courses).  The PBTN online graduate student community  is a place for students around the world to make contact with other plant breeding students, providing an opportunity  to exchange ideas, develop interpersonal skills (such as communication and collaboration) and build a plant breeding student community. If you have questions about the community, graduate work in plant breeding, or career oportunities, please contact us.  Jamie Sherman Director-TCAP graduate community and PBTN jsherman@montana.edu   Mary Brakke Director-TCAP undergraduate community brakk001@umn.edu   Deana Namuth-Covert Director-Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN) dcovert2@unl.edu     This community is funded by the Triticeae CAP project.  Plant Breeding Training Network Deana Namuth-Covert, PhD dcovert2@unl.edu   Dr. Arron Carter, Assistant Professor and Winter Wheat Breeder at Washington State University discusses a new formed partnership with the Biology Department at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff.  Click on the image below to view the interview.                  Click on image to view video describing the importance of plant breeding   Welcome to the Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN)!  Feel free to browse the reference materials located within the community.  If you would like to view current discussion topics and collaborate with other community members, you'll need to create an account Here are instructions about how to create a PBTN account. If you are visiting the community page to attend a webinar, here are instructions on how to use the Adobe Connect meeting room. Please click the Adobe Connect icon above. Enter as a guest with your name and institution.  Building on infrastructure created through the support of NSF, The Plant Breeding Training Network has been created as part of the Triticeae CAP funded through USDA NIFA. PBTN launched the summer of 2011. As it grows and develops, we anticipate breeding and genetics collaborators from other plant species will be added. Please take a look around and we hope you find the materials, webinars, classes and interactions with colleagues in this environment to be rewarding. Together we can meet the food needs of a growing population, in the midst of climate challenges. We hope you become a frequent visitor of this site to share with us the experiences of this exciting project. Deana Namuth-Covert and Jamie Sherman PBTN Directors Gary Muhelbauer and Jorge Dubcovsky TCAP Project Directors             Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. Access to any assessment section from this Community requires approval by its owner. Self-Paced Learning Community Deana Namuth-Covert dcovert2@unl.edu This community houses all lessons and animations that have been published to the eLibrary. If you are a registered user of the eLibrary (click here for instructions on creating an account), you may join this community to access the learning quizzes that accompany many eLibrary lessons. Please click "Join now" in the upper right corner of this box to access the quiz features of the eLibrary. To see the entire list of lessons or animations available in the eLibrary, click on the tabs above. Once you have joined this community, you may take a quiz from a lesson anywhere in the eLibrary; lessons can be accessed alphabetically from the "Lessons" tab on the eLibrary homepage, or you may view lessons by category in the branch menus.   If you have questions or comments about eLibrary learning materials, please contact us via the link at the bottom of the page.  Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. Soil Resources 153 Fall 2013 Martha Mamo, mmamo3@unl.edu Tim Kettler, tkettler2@unl.edu Characteristics of soils in relation to their appropriate uses and protection. Principles and practices using cooperative exercises including discussion, assessment, planning, problem-solving, writing, and presentation involving all aspects of soils. Syngenta Breeding Academy Tom Francis tomroyfrancis@gmail.com Welcome to the SBA training site, where you will find pre-workshop materials. To the left, you will see a break-down of site contents. In the How to Use This Site section you will find information about using the discussion board, as well as other helpful tips and outside resources. In the Presenters and Participants tab, you will find information about SBA Subject Matter Experts, who will be presenting to you in Beijing, as well as information about your fellow work-shop attendees. The Modules tabs break down the pre-reading materials by topic. Please review the materials in each module prior to the workshop in March. We will also use discussion posts as a way to generate thought about each module.  *Please note that within the modules are several webinars that use YouTube. Due to security restrictions of the Syngenta network, you cannot view these webinars from the Syngenta network. However, you may access these webinars from your home computer. Your login ID (your Syngenta email address) and password will remain the same. We look forward to hearing from all of you! Please send any questions to tomroyfrancis@gmail.com Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. TCAP Graduate Courses Jamie Sherman Deana Namuth-Covert  The Triticeae CAP will offer several graduate course modules each year. You will find links to each module in the left-hand menu of this page.  Please join this community to receive updates about upcoming TCAP graduate courses. Plant Breeding strategies is an entry level 6 week module that will challenge students to design a plant breeding program differentiating between a variety of approaches.  Next offering: TBD Entering Mentoring is an 8 week module that will be offered next in winter of 2013.  The Entering Mentoring Seminar will accelerate the process of learning to be a mentor by providing an intellectual framework, an opportunity to experiment with different mentoring techniques, a forum to discuss mentoring dilemmas, and second-hand exposure to more students and situations through group sharing.Attendees must be actively involved in mentoring a student to participate. Quantitative Genetics was last offered in April of 2012.    Basic elements of quantitative genetics will be presented so that students might fully understand implications to plant breeding. Practical experience in linkage and QTL mapping will also be provided.  Next offering TBD. Association mapping will be offered late in the fall of 2012, registration will be September of 2012.  Topics to be covered will include: Review of Quantitative Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Methods and Software for Association Mapping, Design and Interpretation of QTL mapping, Genomic Selection and Comparison of MAS, Association Breeding and Genomic selection.  Pre-requisites - Plant Breeding strategies and Quantitative genetics.   TCAP Undergraduate Community Jamie Sherman jsherman@montana.edu Mary Brakke brakk001@umn.edu Deana Namuth-Covert dcovert2@unl.edu Undergraduate Students in TCAP Click on the map below to see where TCAP students are located across the country.  Once the map opens in a new tab you can click on the red dots to learn more.   Undergraduate Research Internships in Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding The Plant Breeder Training Network for Undergraduate Students (PBTN – US) provides an excellent experience for students who wish to understand the science of plant genetics and plant breeding and acquire training in research. Students will gain knowledge and skills by assisting a graduate student with research and, with advice from their graduate mentor, planning and implementing an independent research project.   Purpose To meet global demand for food in the coming decades, new crop varieties adapted to conditions of changing climate, limited land, water and nutrient resources and unyielding disease pressure are needed.  This work requires the collaborative efforts of scientists with knowledge in the areas of genetics, genomics, breeding strategies and experimental design and the application of tools of molecular genetics and computational biology.   PBTN-US provides a way for undergraduate students to gain experience and skills in many of these areas, to learn about careers in research, and to prepare for the next step in their own research career. PBTN – US provides: paid research internships mentoring by trained graduate students interaction with undergraduate interns at other institutions interaction with professional plant breeders in academia and industry funds for travel to a scientific conference to present research results   To learn more about research internships, click below for a description of research projects and contact information. Research Projects http://triticeaecap.org/?q=node/11   Please contact us with any questions you have about plant breeding or internship opportunities.   Mary Brakke brakk001@umn.edu   Jamie Sherman  jsherman@montana.edu   Deana Namuth-Covert dcovert2@unl.edu UNL Plant Breeding and Genetics Symposium Click here to watch the recorded presentations from the 2012 UNL Plant Breeding and Genetics Symposium! UNL Soils Home Course Contact Keith Glewen with any questions. kglewen1@unl.edu Welcome to the UNL Soils Home Course!   The purpose of this course is to increase the users' knowledge of soil science including the origins, physical properties and chemical properties of soil.  This will aid users in making management decisions related to soil fertility and crop production.  This in turn can improve the efficiency of fertilizer applications, reduce nutrient loss, an improve crop yields. This course is intended for crop consultants, agency personnel, crop producers, and others interested in soil science and soil fertility management. We hope you find this course to be enjoyable and informative.  To begin working in the course click on "Lessons" in the task bar above.  This will take you to a page where you can click on links to view each chapter.  Upon completing a chapter you can take the quiz by clicking on the "Quiz" link included in each lesson.  To obtain CEU credits for the Certified Crop Advisor program, you will need to earn 75% on the quiz(zes).  You may take quizzes as many times as you wish. For any questions, please contact Keith Glewen at kglewen1@unl.edu. Contents of this Community may be viewed only after joining. A joining request requires approval by the Community owner before access is provided. Total: 27

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