April 23, 2024
Soil and Water Conservation Society presents: Planning for Kansas' Water Future with Jean Steiner
Submitted by Jessica Bezerra De Oliveira
Join the meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society: Planning for Kansas' Water Future with Jean Steiner. The lecture will be at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Room 2002 of Throckmorton Hall.
Steiner is a Manhattan native and received her master's and doctoral degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University. In graduate, postdoctoral and subsequent research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, she worked in arid to humid regions on a wide range of irrigated cropping, rainfed cropping and grazing systems, with emphasis on climate adaptation and sustainability of agriculture at farm and watershed scales.
Steiner has been recognized as fellow of four international scientific societies and has served as president of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the American Society of Agronomy. She moved to Manhattan in 2018, following retirement as director of the USDA Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Oklahoma. She continues research collaborations as an adjunct professor at Kansas State University and as a researcher at New Mexico State University. She was appointed by Gov. Laura Kelly as a member of the Kansas Water Authority in 2020.
If you have more questions, contact jbezerra@k-state.edu.