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School of Renewable Natural Resources Newsletter, Fall 2008 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons Research Matters & RNR Newsletters School of Renewable Natural Resources 2008 School of Renewable Natural Resources Newsletter, Fall 2008 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/research_matters Recommended Citation Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, "School of Renewable Natural Resources Newsletter, Fall 2008" (2008). Research Matters & RNR Newsletters. 12. http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/research_matters/12 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Renewable Natural Resources at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Matters & RNR Newsletters by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fall 2008 Managing resources and protecting the environment . making a difference in the 21st century School of Renewable Natural Resources 1 ies and wildlife resources and other local and national Director’s Comments resource topics (global warming, biofuels, etc.). Deal- ing with environmental and natural resource problems It doesn’t seem possible, but it’s requires urgent attention of scientists and land managers been over a year since I became the who appreciate the complexity and interdependence of School’s director. I guess it’s true natural ecosystems and human populations. Traditional that time flies when you’re having approaches may be inadequate to address some of these fun! During this time, I have had the complex problems. We as a School envision that our privilege of meeting many alums and role is to develop creative and novel solutions to these supporters of the School, and I look problems, which we believe requires an understanding forward to meeting many more in the years to come. of the complexity of natural systems. Because of this, Even though I’ve been part of the School for more the School will continue to offer a broad-based natural than 20 years, as director I have discovered we have a resource curriculum and will embrace a wide range of talented and productive faculty, a great group of re- applied and basic research topics, with a strong commit- search associates, a supportive staff and a terrific group ment to extension. of graduate and undergraduate students. Even with the As part of developing, refining and implementing considerable talents and abilities of these groups, we our vision for the future, we will need support from still have room for improvement. We can be better in all the School’s alumni and friends. Support of the School areas and will continue to work toward that goal. comes in many forms other than gifts and contributions To that end, in June we underwent a USDA-CS- and includes keeping us aware of emerging research REES review of our research and extension programs problems and sources of research funding, constructive and have used the results of this review as a springboard criticism of our teaching, research and extension pro- for thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of all grams, available service opportunities, undergraduate aspects of the School. To further this examination we and graduate student recruiting and general promotion have begun updating our strategic plan in an effort to of the School around the state. We welcome any and build on our strengths, improve our weaknesses and all inquires about anything going on in the School, and outline a course for the future. encourage you to contact or visit us whenever you can. We know that the citizens of Louisiana and the We would love to be able to contact each of you by nation will continue to be confronted with challenges email and encourage you to provide us with your email for dealing with environmental management concerns. address. We want you to feel like you are part of the These issues include the sustainability of coastal and School, and, to that end, I look forward to visiting with upland forests, wetland restoration, depletion of fisher- each and every one of you in the coming year. Contents Allen Rutherford Research Notes. 3 Ph.D. Program Ranked in Top 10 A Decade of Duck Production . 4 In 2006 and 2007, the wildlife science program Understanding Louisiana’s White-tail . 5 at LSU was ranked in the top 10 in the nation in King Rails, Waterbirds and Conservation . 6 faculty productivity by Academic Analytics Sweetgum Possible Cancer Antidote . 7 (www.academicanalytics.com). Academic Analytics Politics and Science Interact in Washington . 7 claim their Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP Spring Flood Alters Research. 8 Index) is a method for evaluating doctoral programs Whooping Crane Research Update . 9 at research universities (across all Carnegie research RNR Graduate Students. 10 classifications). The FSP is based on publications International Crossings . 12 (books and journal articles), citations of journal Extension News . 14 publications, federal research funding and awards and Who’s Who . 16 honors. The basis for this ranking is not transparent In the Classroom . 17 because Academic Analytics claims that the School of In the Field . 19 Renewable Natural Resources (SRNR) has 28 wildlife Student News . 20 and fisheries faculty whereas SRNR has only seven Club News . 22 wildlife faculty, three fisheries faculty and five aqua- Alumni News . 23 culture faculty. Apparently, the difference was made up by forestry faculty, who therefore deserve credit ON THE COVER: as well. SRNR has about 70 graduate students with Spring camp students Randy Graves (L) and Kevin Borne collect slightly more than half enrolled in M.S. programs regeneration data at Lee Memorial Forest. and the rest in Ph.D. programs. 22 School of Renewable Natural Resources Research Notes Society of Wetland Scientists International Conference The Dynamic Atchafalaya The School of RNR represented LSU and the – A Complex System LSU AgCenter at the 2008 Society of Wetland The Atchafalaya River originates in central Louisiana Scientists International Conference, which was held where all that flows from the Red River combines with in Washington, D.C. in May. Meetings such as this almost 30% of the flow of the Mississippi River. The are important because AgCenter researches can learn Atchafalaya River stretches only 220 km from its origin first-hand about research that relates to wetland to its mouth, yet only four rivers discharge more water management and restoration in Louisiana. Louisi- to North America’s coast. Without human intervention ana’s wetland issues are unique in scale, but the is- in the 1950s, the Atchafalaya River would have captured sues themselves are not unique. On the West Coast, a majority of the discharge of the Mississippi River. for example, the Sacramento River delta looks much Since the 1970s, the Atchafalaya River has created more like southeastern Louisiana with roads perched up than 65 km2 of emergent wetlands in a delta that con- high on levees, with high water on one side of road tinues to grow. Furthermore, water and sediment from and with crop fields and even the roofs of encroach- the Atchafalaya River affect geomorphologic, biologi- ing subdivisions below sea level on the other side of cal and ecological processes across thousands of square the road. The landscapes are similar because both miles of south central Louisiana in the floodway, delta, lie on drained, deltaic wetlands. On the East Coast, coastal marshes and coastal waters. Along its length, the rapid subsidence in parts of Chesapeake Bay com- river influences millions of hectares of wetland forests bine with global sea-level rise to cause marsh loss and coastal marshes that yield tremendous benefits in and create landscapes that look remarkably similar to the form of oil and gas resources, timber, commercial coastal Louisiana. In addition to learning, AgCenter and recreational fishing, hunting and non-consumptive wetland researchers also teach. Louisiana wetland wildlife use and regional navigation. The Atchafalaya scientists have long been a leader in identifying River Basin is managed partly for navigation but primar- how wetlands function, how they can be managed, ily as a floodway that receives water from the Mississippi and how they can be restored. This year’s meeting and Red rivers and is undergoing rapid geomorphic included AgCenter representatives from both faculty changes as it develops as a distributary. Understand- and students. ing this complex system is difficult because it is being changed by the Atchafalaya River itself and by people, intentionally and otherwise. RNR Helps with Floodplain Conference RNR Organized Meeting Floodplain ecosystems include rivers and their cur- to Review Atchafalaya rent and historic floodplains. In the southeastern Unit- In January, 2008, School of RNR and the Co- ed States, the floodplain was historically dominated by alition to Restore Coastal Louisiana organized the bottomland hardwood forests and associated wetlands. meeting “Ecosystem Functions and the Dynamic Large-scale land clearing, primarily for agriculture, has Atchafalaya River from the Old River Control Struc- altered the structure and function of these systems. A ture to the Continental Shelf.” Researchers, manag- group of scientists and managers designed a conference ers and policymakers met to review what is known entitled “Integrating Science into the Restoration and about the river and its associated environments, to Management of Floodplain Ecosystems of the South- report on recent and ongoing research and to iden- east” to provide natural resource professionals with the tify information gaps that complicate decision making most up-to-date information on these systems. by land managers, water managers and policymakers. The conference, held in Little Rock, Arkansas in More than 150 people attended the two-day meeting March 2008, was attended by more than 300 natural to hear 32 technical presentations followed by a panel resource professionals, including several RNR students discussion led by private landowners, elected officials and faculty.
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