February 28-29, 2024 | Nebraska Environmental Education Conference
Jamila Bajelan and Gwendolynn Folk presented outcomes of their graduate projects at Ponca State Park, Nebraska, which featured the Cool Critters program and projects at KOLA.
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April 13, 2023 | University of Nebraska at Kearney
Students Gwendolynn Folk, Jamila Bajelan, and Kristen Wetovick presented posters at the annual UNK Student Research Day highlighting research at the Kearney Outdoor Learning Area and creative activities to support science communication.
January & February 2023 | UNK Walker Art Gallery
An exhibition “Witnessing a Watershed” that showcases multimedia selections from the Platte Basin Timelapse project, including contributions by Jamila Bajelan and Mary Harner and media from KOLA, shows on the university campus.
October 25, 2022 | Platte River Basin Conference
Mary Harner presented “An introduction to the Kearney Outdoor Learning Area (KOLA) for experiential learning in ecohydrological research” with co-authors Troy Gilmore, Ken Chapman, Jamila Bajelan, Alison Klein, and Cody Wagner.
July & August 2022 | Kearney Outdoor Learning Area (KOLA)
Troy Gilmore, Mary Harner, and Jamila Bajelan added instrumentation for continuous measurement of stream and groundwater levels at KOLA.
June 10, 2022 | Western Institute for Lifelong Learning
Mary Harner presented talk “Tales of Three Rivers” at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico.
May 18, 2022 | Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting
Mary Harner presented “Understanding audiences to engage communities in river science” with co-authors Becky Bixby and John Fleck from UNM and Emma Brinley Buckley.
Troy Gilmore presented “GRIME-AI software for incorporating information from ground-based camera imagery with other sensor data” with co-authors Mary Harner and UNL graduate students John Stranzl and Ken Chapman.
December 1, 2020 | MRGESCP Science Symposium
Mary Harner and colleagues from UNK and the University of New Mexico presented the talk, “Loss of open areas and a changing Albuquerque bosque and river.”
June 2020 | SFS Summer of Science
Mary Harner and Emma Brinley Buckley virtually shared the poster, “Witnessing Watersheds: A multimodal approach for river research and communication,” in lieu of presenting at the annual meeting that was canceled.
April 21, 2020 | UNK News
Mary Harner and the lab’s research were highlighted in a story, The Water’s Edge, Mary Harner connecting people, river systems, on the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s website
February 28, 2020 | Natural History of the Gila Symposium
Mary Harner presented the talk, “Shifting channels of the Gila: Historical analysis of landcover change along the Cliff-Gila Valley floodplain from 1935 to 2016,” with contributions from co-authors from UNK, New Mexico, and the University of Montana.
November 21, 2019 | Art for Conservation
Emma Brinley Buckley and Platte Basin Timelapse exhibited work as part of Art for Conservation, an event hosted by the School of Natural Resources at UNL.
November 7, 2019 | New Mexico Water Conference
Emma Brinley Buckley presented poster “Witnessing Watersheds: A multimodal approach for river research and communication” at the 64th Annual New Mexico Water Conference in Pojoaque, New Mexico.
October 28, 2019 | EPSCoR National Conference
Mary Harner presented poster “Advancing ecosystem monitoring and science communication related to rivers” at the 26th National Science Foundation EPSCoR National Conference in Columbia, South Carolina.
October 14, 2019 | Fall Seminar Series
Mary Harner presented ‘Research and Communication Opportunities for the Nebraska Sandhills’ as part of the Fall Seminar Series at the Center for Grassland Studies.
June - August 2019 | New Mexico
Mary Harner and Emma Brinley Buckley work with colleagues at the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program as part of an EPSCOR grant. They are using multimodal systems to study watersheds.
February 8, 2019 | Sandhills Workshop
Mary Harner with the assistance of UNK and UNL colleagues, hosted a symposium at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Over 50 attendees gathered for presentations and workshop events.
October 09 - 11, 2018 | Watershed Storytelling Workshop, Whitefish MT
Mary Harner, Emma Brinley Buckley, Michael Forsberg, Mariah Lundgren, and Brooke Talbott partnered with Chris Johns and the National Geographic Society to offer a watershed storytelling workshop at the Montana Watershed Coordination Council Symposium.
March 15, 2017 | Art & Science of the Platte River
Mary Harner, Emma Brinley Buckley, and Simon Tye presented research and multimedia content at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska.