NOAA Reps To Discuss Upcoming Weather Possibilities For NE Montana In ARS Brownbagger

The USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory (NPARL) in Sidney will open its 11th winter Brown Bagger series at noon on Friday, Jan. 18th with a special weather “preview” presentation by Dr. William Martin and Brad Mickelson with the National Weather Service Office in Glasgow, MT. The event is open to the public.

Entitled “Near-Term and Long-Term Weather Possibilities in Northeast Montana,” the presentation will review current expectations for the weather and climate of Northeast Montana including near-term climate predictions for the next couple seasons, and what might be expected to result longer-term from global warming. The Weather Service duo will also look at the extremes of what could happen, based on events of the historical past.

Dr. Martin is the Science and Operations Officer at the National Weather Service Office in Glasgow, MT; and Mickelson is a forecaster with that same office.

This kickoff presentation for NPARL’s 2013 Brown Bagger series will be held in the lab’s Tech Transfer Room on Friday, Jan. 18, from noon to 1 p.m. The lab is located at 1500 N. Central Avenue in Sidney, MT.

Other speakers in this year’s series include:

· Friday, Feb. 1: Brett Allen, NPARL Agronomist, “Update on NPARL Dryland Cropping Research”

· Friday, Feb. 15: Gadi V.P. Reddy, Superintendent & Associate Professor of Entomology/Insect Ecology at Montana State University’s Western Triangle Ag Research Center; “Integrated Control Tactics of insect pests in Tropical and Subtropical Crops” (Note: Reddy is a new arrival at MSU and was most recently at the University of Guam.)

· Friday, March 1: Erin Espeland, NPARL Plant Ecologist; “Production farm location affects subsequent seed performance in Sandberg’s bluegrass”

· Friday, March 15: Robert Srygley, NPARL Insect Ecologist, “U.S. Agriculture in a Changing Climate”

· Friday, March 29:Upendra Sainju, NPARL Soil Scientist; “Life-cycle assessment of dryland greenhouse gas emissions affected by cropping sequence and nitrogen fertilization”

For more information, contact Beth Redlin at 406-433-9427.

 

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