Environmental Science Presentations

One … two … three …. Four: How do we know how old something is? USU geoscientist Evey Gannaway Dalton says the principle of fossil succession is fundamental to our understanding of the relative age of different rocks.

Summer is hot, winter is cold and spring is wet. But have you ever wondered why some seasons are hotter or colder, wetter or drier than normal?

How can we use science to foster a healthier world? Using Utah Lake as an example, ecologist Ben Abbott will discuss ways to encourage productive interaction between scientific knowledge and public policy.

“How boring our meals would be without pollinators,” says Theresa Pitts-Singer, research entomologist, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research Laboratory on the USU campus in Logan. She presents “All the Reasons that ‘Bee’” a...

Jim Lutz, assistant professor in USU’s Dept. of Wildland Resources, presents “Why the World Needs Big Trees,” at Science Unwrapped. “Big trees can be hundreds or thousands of years old, but few trees in forests reach these elite sizes,” he says. “...Big t...