From: Don Flaten
Sent: January-04-13 4:26 PM
To: Lynda Closson; Martha Blouw; Kim Ominski; Danny Mann; Currie, Robert
Cc: Martin Entz; Gwen Donohoe (gwendolyn_11@hotmail.com); Amanda Taylor (amanda_m_taylor@umanitoba.ca); Henry Janzen (Henry.Janzen@agr.gc.ca)
Subject: New graduate course on ag sustainability with Dr. Henry Janzen

Hi everyone … fyi, this term we are offering a graduate reading course with Dr. Henry Janzen on evaluating and improving the sustainability of agricultural systems.  The outline for the course is attached for your reference.  Please share this announcement with other staff and students in your department.

Although the course will be offered under the course number, SOIL 7250 Topics in Soil Science, it will be broad and multi-disciplinary in nature; therefore, we would welcome graduate students from outside as well as well as inside the Dept. of Soil Science.  We intend to meet on a weekly basis on Wednesday afternoons, connecting with Henry in person in some cases by videoconference or telephone in others.  Our first class session in the last week of January, so if you or anyone else you know is interested, please let me know as soon as possible.

For those of you that don’t know Henry, he is a prominent Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientist who works on "big picture" issues such as the effects of agricultural management on carbon in agricultural soils, quantifying and reducing net greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural ecosystems, interactions between agroecosystems and the global carbon cycle, nitrogen exchanges between agroecosystems and the atmosphere and long-term trends in the productivity and other ecosystem services of farmlands.  Although Henry is a soil scientist by training, he has a very broad range of research interests and expertise; therefore, his adjunct professor's appointment at the University of Manitoba is with the Dept. of Animal Science.

Thanks!

Dr. Don Flaten, Professor

Dept. of Soil Science

362 Ellis Building

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB  Canada  R3T 2N2

Phone (204) 474-6257

Email:  Don.Flaten@ad.umanitoba.ca