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WAFERx researchers set up a booth at MSU Family Science Night in February 2020. Bozeman 5th graders and other community members came to participate in fun hands-on educational activities.WAFERx student, Natalie Sturm, dressed as an enthusiastic Red Delicious, helped at the apple tasting booth--where people could sample different types of apples.WAFERx students, Hannah Goemann and Alyssa Stewart, also helped at the apple tasting booth. After sample, people got to decide which they liked better--the conventionally grown or organically grown apples.WAFERx graduate students doing outreach by dressing up as fruit and talking to people about their research of diet and health.Hannah Goemann wears a backpack filled with cyanobaterial bio-fertilizer and applies it to the test plots of switchgrass and tall wheatgrass. This post-harvest fertilizer application will be the last one of the season.Just outside of Bozeman, MT, this field is where WAFERx researchers are testing Switchgrass and Tall Wheat Grass as possible bioenergy feed-stock.WAFERx grad student, Hannah Goemann, is growing cyanobacteria to use as a bio-fertilizer at the Plant Growth Center on MSU campus.Kelli Roemer explains her research about energy transitions at the AERO Expo in Bozeman, MT in October of 2019.WAFERx researcher, Teresa Warne, presenting a poster on food security at the AERO Expo in Bozeman, MT in October of 2019. While gathered at USD for our annual WAFERx meeting, PI Paul Stoy, lead a discusion about how the research of different team members could be integrated to answer some big picture questions.MSU's Brent Peyton updated the WAFERx team on the research he and grad student, Hannah Goeman, have been doing on switchgass responses to biofertilizers. The WAFERx team taking a coffee break during the Year 3 meeting--an opportunity to chat and check out the grad students' research posters.UW grad student, Eilish Hanson, discusses her research on the economics of producing bioenergy crops with WAFERx PI, Paul Stoy.WAFERx team members brainstormed interdisciplinary paper ideas during the Year 3 Meeting.On the second day of the Year 3 meeting, we broke out into small groups to discuss plans for outreach related to our WAFERx research.A road trip through North and South Dakota provided an opportunity for WAFERx team members from University of Wyoming to check out the landscapes in the eastern part of the Upper Missouri River Basin.The day before the WAFERx Year 3 Meeting began, team members gathered for a Community River Appreciation Potluck in Vermillion, SD.The WAFERx team joined other community members in a round dance at the River Appreciation Potluck.WAFERx co-PI, Meghann Jarchow, taking part in the River Appreciation festivities.WAFERx co-PI, Jack Brookshire, participating in the round dance at the River Honoring.WAFERx graduate students, Kelli Roemer and Bryce Curry, doing the round dance with other community members in Vermillion, SD.WAFERx Outreach Coordinator, Selena Gerace, does the round dance with one of the younger community members, RosaElena, and her mother, Megan. RosaElena's dad, William Underbaggage, Oglala Lakota, led the round dance and said the opening prayer at the River Honoring.WAFERx team members touring the Integrated Test Center (ITC) at the Dry Folk Station outside Gillette, Wyoming. The ITC is a facility designed to study Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS).WAFERx Students listen to Ray DeStephano talk about the ITC and the organizations studying CCUS there. WAFERx team members taking in the scale of the Dry Folk Station, where flue gas will be diverted and used to study CCUS technologies.Ray DeStefano, the operations manager at the Dry Folks Station, showing the WAFERx team one of the small test bays at the ITC.A field of crops in early spring in Eastern South Dakota.Photo of WAFERx researchers using mirrors to view nests and eggs while doing field tests in South Dakota.Photo of eggs in nest taken while collecting data on bird populations in South Dakota.WAFERx graduate student, Hannah Goemann, applying blue-green algae biofertilizer to switchgrass bioenergy crops in Bozeman, MT.Applying blue-green algae biofertilizer to switchgrass bioenergy crops in Bozeman, MT.WAFERx field tests in Bozeman, MT to measure carbon and nitrogen levels in the soil under different land management practices.WAFERx field tests in Bozeman, MT to measure carbon and nitrogen levels in the soil under different land management practices.WAFERx field tests in Bozeman, MT to measure carbon and nitrogen levels in the soil under different land management practices.PhD student, Bryce Currey, doing WAFERx field tests in Bozeman, MT.WAFERx field tests in Bozeman, MT to measure carbon and nitrogen levels in the soil under different land management practices.MSU student, Jackson Rose, won an award at the Energy Policy Research Conference in September, 2018 for his poster presentation about the WAFERx research he is doing with Dr. Julia Haggerty. The poster was titled "Planning for the Local Impacts of Coal Facility Closure: Emerging Strategies in the U.S. West".The award that MSU student, Jackson Rose, won at the Energy Policy Research Conference for the WAFERx research he is doing with Dr. Julia Haggerty.

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WAFERx
Montana State University
P.O. Box 1234
Bozeman, MT 59717-1234
 
Principal Investigator
Selena Ahmed

selena.ahmed@montana.edu