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2022 FNR News & Stories

Find out what our students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners are doing by our Forestry and Natural Resources' News and Stories.

 

August

A bobcat in Indiana
Forestry & Natural Resources

Researchers Develop Tools to Assess Habitat Selection, Suitability for Bobcats

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 08 August 2022
Hackberry leaves
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Hackberry

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 05 August 2022

July

Leaves of a sweetgum tree
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Sweetgum

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 29 July 2022
Wednesdays in the Wild Tour group in the woods at Stephens Forest
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Brings Wednesdays in the Wild to Stephens Forest

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 28 July 2022
Passenger pigeon mount is handed off from April Shepherd to FNR's Dr. Barny Dunning, Laura Fehling and Rachel Brent.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Alumni Donation Brings Rare Passenger Pigeon to FNR Collection

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 25 July 2022
Black gum tree showing its bright red fall foliage
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Black Gum

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 22 July 2022
Slippery elm leaves and bark
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Slippery Elm

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 15 July 2022
American elm leaves
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: American Elm

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 08 July 2022
Professor Emeritus Harvey Holt throughout his career
Forestry & Natural Resources

Tales from FNR with Professor Emeritus Harvey Holt

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 06 July 2022
Flowering dogwood flowers
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Flowering Dogwood

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 01 July 2022

June

Eastern cottonwood tree
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Cottonwood

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 24 June 2022
Kentucky coffeetree leaves and trunk
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Kentucky Coffeetree

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 17 June 2022
Eastern Hellbender salamander
Forestry & Natural Resources

Local Brewery Creates Beer to Help the Hellbender

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 16 June 2022
Lake Erie
Forestry & Natural Resources

Alumna Zoe Almeida Investigates Hypoxia, Environmental Impacts on Fish

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 13 June 2022
Black cherry flowers
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Black Cherry

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 10 June 2022
northern leopard frog
Forestry & Natural Resources

Research Shows Toxicity of Forever Chemicals Varies Among Amphibian Species

  • Marisa Lubeck, USGS
  • 09 June 2022
Costa Rica study abroad group photo
Forestry & Natural Resources

Costa Rica Study Abroad Trip Teaches Biodiversity Through Hands-On Experiences

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 08 June 2022
Northern Catalpa leaves
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Northern Catalpa

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 03 June 2022

May

Soraida Garcia stands in front of convention banner at Esri
Forestry & Natural Resources

Garcia Shares Experiences as Underrepresented Minority in Magazine Article

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 31 May 2022
Freshman aquatic sciences major Jack Dempsey at Machu Picchu with his study abroad classmates.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Dempsey Learns Culture, Conservation Studying Abroad in Peru

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 27 May 2022
Ohio Buckeye leaves and flowers
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Ohio Buckeye

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 27 May 2022
Boxelder leaves
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Boxelder

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 20 May 2022
Purdue Gateway Arch
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Celebrates 53 Spring 2022 Graduates

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 16 May 2022
Pfendler Hall on the Purdue campus
Forestry & Natural Resources

Flaherty Honored; Hardiman, Liang Promoted

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 13 May 2022
Group of students on Smoky Mountain trip.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Smoky Mountain Trip Gives Students In-Person Look at Disturbance Ecology

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 09 May 2022
River birch trunks with peeling bark
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: River Birch

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 06 May 2022
Students at the Natural Resources Teachers Institute, researchers working on a progeny project with the Tropical HTIRC, man on a boat emptying water from crane
Forestry & Natural Resources

2021 Year in Review: The Collaboration

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 06 May 2022
Shaneka Lawson pictured with REEU interns and members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Forestry & Natural Resources

Lawson Receives Forest Service Cultural Diversity Award

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 05 May 2022

April

Blue beech trunk and branches
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Blue Beech

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 29 April 2022
Dr. Bryan Pijanowski holds a field microphone
Forestry & Natural Resources

Pijanowski Speaks on Biodiversity, Soundscapes at Think Corner Helsinki

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 26 April 2022
Dr. Bob Wagner and Dean Karen Plaut cut the ribbon to officially open the WERF Building
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Dedicates Wildlife Ecology Research Facility

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 22 April 2022
American beech tree leaves
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Beech

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 22 April 2022
2022 FNR scholarship winners
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Celebrates 2021-22 Award Winners at Annual Banquet

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 20 April 2022
Glenn Juday gives a presentation at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Forestry & Natural Resources

Glenn Juday Named FNR Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 18 April 2022
American Basswood leaf and bark
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: American Basswood

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 15 April 2022
Petra Bohall Wood pictured with her family in front of a mountain rangeily
Forestry & Natural Resources

Petra Bohall Wood Tabbed as FNR Distinguished Alumna

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 15 April 2022
Seth Harden with his family near a stream
Forestry & Natural Resources

Seth Harden Honored as Outstanding Young Alumnus

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 14 April 2022
Scott Johnson holding a bobcat
Forestry & Natural Resources

DNR's Scott Johnson Earns Osborn Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 13 April 2022
Patrick Ruhl pictured with his family
Forestry & Natural Resources

Patrick Ruhl Selected for Osborn Early Career Award

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 12 April 2022
Leah Griffin, Ruby Sanders, Madison Kresse, Lina Bernabe
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Names Outstanding Students of the Year

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 11 April 2022
A grove of quaking aspen trees
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Quaking Aspen

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 08 April 2022
Long-Tailed Salamander lays on a cover board
Forestry & Natural Resources

How Do Terrestrial Salamanders Respond to Timber Harvest

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 04 April 2022
Large tooth aspen
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Large Tooth Aspen

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 01 April 2022

March

White Ash Leaves.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Intro to Trees of Indiana: White Ash

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 25 March 2022
A map of trees of the world and a photo of black vultures eating
Forestry & Natural Resources

2021 Year in Review: The Research

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 25 March 2022
A Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton at the Field Museum
Forestry & Natural Resources

Advanced Mammalogy Class Goes Behind the Scenes at Field Museum

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 16 March 2022
Alumnus Steve Creech relaxes on a wildfire scene, Dr. Elizabeth Flaherty holds on a small mammal trap, wildlife student Amanda Heltzel stands in front of a lake
Forestry & Natural Resources

2021 Year in Review: The People

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 14 March 2022
Dr. Barny Dunning with Dean Karen Plaut and newly named University Faculty Scholar Pat Zollner
Forestry & Natural Resources

Zollner Named University Faculty Scholar

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 11 March 2022
Weather station at Martell Forest
Forestry & Natural Resources

Researchers Add Weather Station at Martell Forest

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 09 March 2022
Dr. Russell Mumford pictured with (Left to Right) Charles Keller, Amy Wilms and Carl Wilms at an Indiana Audubon Society meeting in 2010.
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Remembers Professor Emeritus Russell Mumford

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 04 March 2022

February

Forest displaying fall colors
Forestry & Natural Resources

MacGowan, Carlson to Speak at Ohio River Valley Workshop

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 24 February 2022
Adult hellbender laying on rocks
Forestry & Natural Resources

Hellbender Research Featured in New Documentary

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 24 February 2022
A northern leopard frog held by Dr. Marisol Sepulveda
Forestry & Natural Resources

Sepulveda Receives AgSeed Grant for Northern Leopard Frog Research

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 22 February 2022
Urban forester Lindsey Purcell was honored for his work on a micro tree injector.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Purcell's Tree Microinjector Earns Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 21 February 2022
Dr. Eva Haviarova, professor of wood science, poses in the Forest Products building.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Haviarova Selected as Woman Ambassador of Wood Science

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 11 February 2022
Llamas on a farm in Peru
Forestry & Natural Resources

Researchers Share Lessons Learned From Peru's Water Management Program

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 02 February 2022

January

Purdue Landscape Report team teaching a workshop.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Purdue Landscape Report Selected for TEAM Award

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 20 January 2022
Forestry & Natural Resources

Purdue Alumni Magazine Goes Into the Woods with FNR Foresters

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 13 January 2022
Young Forest in a Clearcut Area on the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment
Forestry & Natural Resources

New Videos Stress Importance of Young Forests

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 10 January 2022
Pfendler Hall on the Purdue campus
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Faces in the Crowd: Dante Francomano, Matthew Aghai

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 07 January 2022
Block P carved rock statue located on the Purdue campus.
Forestry & Natural Resources

FNR Announces 2021 Service Award Winners

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 03 January 2022
Nature of Teaching Banner, wildlife, food waste, health and wellness.
Forestry & Natural Resources

Nature of Teaching Program Receives Environmental Education Award

  • Wendy Mayer
  • 25 January 2021

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