Mizzou School of Natural Resources

Shaping a sustainable future for Missouri’s forests! 🌳 Some of our SNR Community helped lead a recent Forest and Wildlife Management Workshop hosted by MU Extension! Landowners from across Missouri gathered in Portland, MO for a property tour to learn about sustainable harvesting, prescribed fire and management for wildlife. Forestry professionals presented at each tour stop, including: Brain Schweiss, SNR instructor and State Extension Specialist in Sustainable Forestry; Billy McCaslin, a recent SNR graduate and Forestry Management Educator for MU Extension; and Ren Steevens, a current Natural Resources Science and Management student. Landowners also had the opportunity to meet with professionals from Missouri Department of Conservation and Consulting Foresters.

Family Weekend at #Mizzou was a blast! 🎉🐯 From campus tours to fun-filled activities, it was a joy to see families and students making lasting memories together. Check out the highlights and relive the magic! 💛 📸 https://brnw.ch/21wMJ5Y

In recognition of Patriot Day, #Mizzou and the City of Columbia held a wreath-laying ceremony to remember the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. See photos from the event ➡️ https://brnw.ch/21wMznP

Taking our learning to the great outdoors!  🌳 Students taking dendrology - the study of trees - get up close with trees throughout Columbia for hands-on learning! This course is an introduction to the biology of trees, allowing students to practice identifying trees and learn about ecology, geographic distribution and the economic significance of forest species. Last week, our fall dendrology labs took a tour of the types of trees here on Mizzou’s campus!

Welcoming Katherine Nelson, Ph.D. to SNR! 📙 Dr. Nelson is joining us as an Associate Professor in Sustainability. Her areas of expertise are Ecosystems and Environment and Regional Economic Development, and her research examines the joint influences of environmental hazards, land use and socioeconomic conditions on the sustainability of socioenvironmental systems. Through her work, her goal is to identify policy and practice solutions that promote social equity and the preservation of natural resources and ecosystems for future generations.

Welcome to SNR, Seunguk Shin, Ph.D.! 📕 Joining our Parks, Recreation, Sport and Tourism faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall is Dr. Shin! His areas of expertise are Human Dimensions of Natural Resources such as environmental psychology and outdoor recreation management. In his research, Shin explores how humans and nature influence each other and how we can manage natural resources in a sustainable way and suggests that contact with nature can improve human health and foster motivations to benefit the environment.

Welcome to SNR, Kristin Gibson, Ph.D.! 📗 Dr. Gibson is joining us as an Assistant Professor in Conservation & Environmental Education! Her areas of expertise are Ecosystems & Environment, Recreation & Tourism, and Methods of Informal Teaching. Her research focuses on how people interact with the environment, and explores the most effective methods for educating and communicating with the public about environmental issues.

We’re excited to welcome Qian Liu, Ph.D. to SNR! 📘 Joining us as an Assistant Professor in Climate Science, Dr. Liu’s expertise is in Atmosphere & Climate. Her research pursues high-efficient and automatic approaches to develop methodologies and frameworks to detect, retrieve, classify and analyze climate factors. With her results, this research directly benefits the scientists, decision makers and the public for natural disaster and public health issue research and mitigation purposes.

Join us in celebrating and congratulating our CAFNR faculty on these 2024 promotions and tenure awards! ⭐Michael Byrne, Mizzou School of Natural Resources, promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure ⭐Eric Bailey, Division of Animal Sciences, promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure ⭐Mary Hendrickson, Mizzou Division of Applied Social Sciences, promoted to Professor ⭐Kerry Clark, Division of Applied Social Sciences, promoted to Associate Research Professor ⭐Alba Argerich, School of Natural Resources, promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure ⭐Jaume Padilla, Division of Food, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences, promoted to Professor ⭐Jon Simonsen, Division of Applied Social Sciences, promoted to Professor ⭐Jasper Grashuis, Division of Applied Social Sciences, promoted to Associate Research Professor We appreciate our faculty for their innovative research, compassionate care for our students and CAFNR community contributions!

Welcoming SNR’s newest faculty members! 📚 Five new faculty have joined us this semester – and we are introducing them all this week! Wonjin Jeong, Ph.D. has joined us as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Parks, Recreation, Sport and Tourism. Her expertise is in Ecosystems & Environment, Human Health, and Recreation & Tourism, and her research focuses on the intersection of leisure, urban greening and well-being. Her overarching goal as a teacher and scholar is to build better inclusive policies and practices for communities to address disparities in recreation opportunities and health outcomes.