Natural Resources University

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#06 | Deer University: When are deer attracted to acorns? ft. Moriah Boggess Dec 08, 2020

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Just when are deer most attracted to acorns? You might think - all the time! And hey, you may be right. In this episode with former MSU Deer Lab graduate student Moriah Boggess, we review his research where he monitored deer acorn use throughout the year and see that deer can be attracted to acorns much later in the year than you might expect. This can have important implications when hunting during the post rut.

#05 | Deer University - Buck habitat selection during hunting season, ft. Colby Henderson Dec 01, 2020

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Where do bucks go during hunting season? Does hunting pressure change where bucks spend time? In this episode Bronson, Steve, and former MSU Deer Lab graduate student Colby Henderson, review research findings from a 2-year study where about 50 bucks were marked with GPS-enabled collars and we monitored their movements throughout a hunted landscape over the hunting season. First, what is habitat "selection"? Selection is a measure of how much time an animal spends in a particular vegetation type relative to how much of that vegetation type exists on the landscape. For example, if hardwood forest is only 5% of a property and deer spend 50% of their time there, then selection for hardwood forest would be very high – deer are differentially selecting for hardwood forest relative to the amount available to them on the landscape. We compared not only what vegetation types bucks selected, but also what hunters selected, and how that changed over the hunting season.

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#04 | Pond University - More than just a hole in the ground, ft. Logan Halderman Dec 01, 2020

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Welcome to the very first episode of Pond University! Pond University is hosted by Mitchell Zischke and Megan Gunn from Purdue University and Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant. In this first episode, we talk with Purdue Aquatic Sciences major Logan Halderman about all the different parts of the pond ecosystem. Please see below for useful links:

Mitch's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mzischke&intDirDeptID=15

Megan's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mlgunn&intDirDeptID=15

Pond and wildlife management website: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/

Purdue's Department of Natural Resources website: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/default.aspx

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant website: https://iiseagrant.org/

Logan's book recommendation "The Founding Fish": https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374528836

Mitchell's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAussieWahoo

Megan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_TFFP

#03 | Habitat University - Introduction, ft. Jarred Brooke & Adam Janke Dec 01, 2020

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Welcome to Habitat University! In this introductory Episode, Habitat University co-hosts Jarred Brooke and Adam Janke discuss the vision for the podcast and how it fits into the new collaborative science-based podcast series called Natural Resources University. Jarred and Adam share information about their background, what they do as state wildlife extension specialists, and where they plan to take this new podcast exploring the in's and out's out of wildlife habitat management and conservation in the U.S.

Learn more about Jarred and his work here: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/wildlife/

Learn more about Adam and his work here: https://naturalresources.extension.iastate.edu/wildlife

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Habitat_U

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habitatuniversity/

#02 | Fire University - Introduction, ft. Dr. Marcus Lashley & Charlotte Nowak Dec 01, 2020

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Fire University is a science-based podcast covering the latest research in fire ecology and how it relates to management of wildlife and plant communities. In this first episode, Dr. Marcus Lashley sits down with communications specialist Charlotte Nowak to introduce this series on fire ecology.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5orPZezH2fNGe97ZHAb9Hg

#01 | Introducing the Natural Resources University podcast network, ft. the NRU team Dec 01, 2020

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In this first episode, meet the team of researchers and extension specialists that make up the Natural Resources University network! Subscribe to NRU for all episodes or join an individual series on its respective podcast feed.

Fire University | Dr. Marcus Lashley

Deer University | Dr. Bronson Strickland & Dr. Steve Demarais

Habitat University | Adam Janke & Jarred Brooke

Pond University | Dr. Mitchell Zischke & Megan Gunn

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NR_University

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nr_university/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Natural-Resources-University-101131418502616

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ-uehW5nyQ8uZMDSHG_low