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Mar

Natural Resources Week 2025

Special Event

Natural Resources Week 2025
Monday, March 24th
-Breakfast with the Dean: 9:30am -11am
Swing by the NR Patio for a free breakfast of pancakes, sausage, and fruit-by the NR Student Council and our very own Dean Nagel
-Yoga: 11am -12pm
Drop by for an hour of relaxing and grounding yoga and meditation exercises. Bring a yoga mat or towel.

Tuesday, March 25th
-Snacktivity: 11am-2pm, TSC Patio
-Tacos & Trivia: 6pm-8pm, NR 105
Get some Navajo tacos to support the Native American Student Council (NASC). Then stay for trivia. Show off your knowledge and win prizes!

Wednesday, March 26th
-Pots & Swap: 1pm-3pm, NR Atrium
Need a container for your spring sprigs? Come decorate a terra cotta pot! When you’re done, swing by our table and grab some summer field gear - courtesy of True Blue Rescue & Repair.

Thursday, March 27th
-Rapid-Fire Research: 6pm-7:30pm, BNR 102
Join us as QCNR members showcase their research with 5 slides in 5 minutes. Come get free food and vote for your favorite presentations - winners get prizes! Open to anyone conducting natural resource-related research - scan the QR code or email nrsenator.ususa@usu.edu to sign up!

Friday, March 28th
-Savor the Sound: 6pm-7:30pm, NR Building
Enjoy a dinner in support of our amazing student clubs and stay for an open-mic night (bring your own acoustic instrument). Meal tickets $5 for kids and $10 for adults. All proceeds go to our QCNR student organizations. Families welcome.

From 3/24 , All Day to 3/28 , All Day | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Mar

Spring Runoff Conference

Conference/Seminar

The USU Spring Runoff Conference is an annual gathering that provides a forum for interdisciplinary sharing of ideas on water-related issues in Utah and the Intermountain Region extending to all aspects of water science, ecology, policy, engineering, and management. We invite students, faculty, consulting and government agency professionals as well as environmental and citizen organizations to participate.

USU and the Northern Utah Water Users are again combining for the 2025 conference, which will be held March 25-26, 2025. This two-day conference will feature invited speakers, student presentations, and multiple opportunities to connect.

With this year’s conference theme, Advancing Solutions for Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability, we join the Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) in celebrating its 60th anniversary while looking to the future of research and water management in an era of unprecedented challenges. By establishing the UWRL 60 years ago, the state of Utah recognized the important contribution of research for managing our scarce water resources. With growth and environmental change, this research remains critical and the UWRL looks forward to serving the state.

On March 25, the event will be held at the Cache County Event Center. On March 26, it will be held on campus at the Eccles Conference Center.

From 3/25 at 9:00 am to 3/26 at 5:00 pm | More Info

Mar

Data Science Workshops with the Ecology Center

Workshop/Training

This is a free skill sharing program though the Ecology Center that lets grad students learn immediately applicable techniques from their peers. All students from all departments are welcome! Tell your friends! This semester, we are pleased to offer 5 new workshops in addition to our most popular classics. Please review the schedule below and sign up for the workshops that you would like to attend via the event URL.

Jan 16 - Data management with data.table - Michael Stemkovski
Jan 23 - Iteration with loops/apply - Dani Berger
Jan 30 - Writing custom functions - Michael Stemkovski
Feb 6 - Script organization with Rmarkdown - Annie Schiffer *
Feb 13 - Visualizations with ggplot - Soren Struckman
Feb 20 - Working with words using regex & stringr - Michael Stemkovski *
Feb 27 - Wrangling spatial data - Dani Berger
Mar 6 - Plotting maps - Maria Stahl
Mar 20 - Demystifying R model formulas - Michael Stemkovski
Mar 27 - Generalized linear mixed models - Kelvyn Bladen *
Apr 3 - Bayesian models with RStan/BRMS (NR 202) - Annie Schiffer *
Apr 10 - Machine learning methods - Kelvyn Bladen
Apr 17 - Working with databases using SQL - Soren Struckman *
* brand new workshop

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

QCNR Mid-Morning Mingle

Social/Networking

Eat a free pastry, sip a free hot beverage, and get some face-to-face with your QCNR community. Please bring your own mug if possible!

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

Data Science Workshops with the Ecology Center

Workshop/Training

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

Data Science Workshops with the Ecology Center

Workshop/Training

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

USU Wildland Fire Club - S130 - Firefighter Training Field Exercise

Workshop/Training

Learn what it takes to become a Wildland Firefighter at the USU Ecological Center. Part of the ongoing S130 - Wildland Firefighter Training. One does not need to be in the S130 training to participate in the field exercise. Held in conjunction with the USU Wildland Fire Club and a number of wildland fire agencies will be helping with the training.

9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr