Fulbright Fellowship, Mark Anderson, EcoSun Prairie Farm

Dakota Midday - 04/17/2012

Dakota Midday is hosted by Karl Gehrke in Vermillion, SD.

W. Carter Johnson is an Ecology Professor at South Dakota State University.  Johnson joins us to talk about the EcoSun Prairie Farm near Brookings.  EcoSun Prairie Farms Inc., was established to demonstrate the potential economic and ecological benefits of establishing grass-based farms on converted cropland on some of the most productive soils in the former tall grass prairie region of central North America.

Mark Anderson, Director of the SD Water Science Center for the USGS, talks about a free conference about critical South Dakota water resources and the Missouri River flood of 2011 is being held Thursday in Rapid City. The 10th annual Western South Dakota Hydrology Conference will allow a variety of scientists, students, and other interested individuals to meet and exchange ideas, discuss mutual problems, and present the results of studies.

Eric Jepsen, assistant professor of political science at the University of South Dakota, is the recipient of a nine month Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship for research and lecturing at Kerala University in Kerala, India.  The fellowship, awarded by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, provides Jepsen with an opportunity to conduct research for his book project tentatively titled, "Kerala in the Economic Reform Era: Ideas, Institutions, and Interest Groups."  

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