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Feb 15, 2007

NIRS Symposium at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management

Reno, NV

A half-day symposium addressing the application of fecal near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS) to monitor the nutrition and physiology of rangeland herbivores has been scheduled during the 60^th annual meeting of the Society for Range Management in Reno Nevada, February 10-16^th, 2007. The symposium is being dedicated to the late Dr Jerry Stuth of Texas A&M University who was instrumental in fostering the development of fecal NIRS. 

Co-chaired by Dr John Walker, Professor and Resident Director of the Texas Agricultural Research and Extension Center in San Angelo, and Doug Tolleson, Director of the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab in College Station, this session will offer attendees the opportunity to hear a panel of US and international scientists presenting the current state of knowledge about this technique. The list of speakers and topics is scheduled to include:

"Historical Perspective of FNIRS"

Dr. Sam Coleman, Research Leader, Sub-Tropical Agricultural Research Station, USDA-ARS, Brooksville, FL. 

 

"Determining diet quality with FNIRS"

Dr. Bob Lyons, Professor and Extension Range Specialist, Texas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Uvalde, TX. 

 

"Validation of pen-fed and pasture derived FNIRS equations"

Dr. David Coates, Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 

 

"Grazing observation to derive FNIRS calibrations"

Dr. Yan Landau, Agricultural Research Organization, Department of Natural Resources

Bet Dagan, Israel. 

 

"Statistical Evaluation of Fecal NIRS Calibrations"

David W Hopkins, NIR Consultant Battle Creek, MI.

 

"Diet composition via FNIRS"

Dr. Walker

 

"Physiological monitoring via FNIRS"

Mr. Tolleson

For location and schedule of speakers, see the SRM 2007 Meeting program in its entirety or click here for just the NIRS symposium schedule.

Additional links:

Society of Range Management (SRM) homepage
http://www.rangelands.org/srm.shtml

60th Annual Meeting, Feb 9-16, 2007
http://www.ag.unr.edu/srm2007/

Contact information:

Dr. John Walker (jw-walker@tamu.edu)

Mr. Tolleson (tolleson@cnrit.tamu.edu)

Send mail to  ganlab@cnrit.tamu.edu with questions or comments about this web site.
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