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CBHR's Dr. Wendell Haag Announced as Presidential Early Career Scientist Award Winner
Southern Research Station News Release
Learn more about Dr. Haag's research.
Learn more about Dr. Haag's technique for aging mussel shells.
CBHR's Dr. Susan Adams Launches New "Mississippi Crayfishes" Website
The Mississippi Crayfishes website (http://maps.fs.fed.us/crayfish/) brings together species distribution data (from Adams' research as well as from the Missississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the Illinois Natural History Survey), photographs, and general information about the roughly 63 crayfish species in the state.
Southern Research Station News Release
Dr. Adams' new "Crayfishes of Mississippi" poster is also available on-line (Jpeg or PDF), or a free poster may be requested from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.
Learn more about Dr. Adams' research.
Spotlights
Chinese Delegation Visits Stoneville
 | Dr. Qing Xu, Dr. Chengfang Zhou, and Mr. Yuanqi Cheng visited the Southern Hardwoods Lab during their recent tour of the Delta. Learn more about their visit. |
2008 Wings Across the Americas Award for International Cooperation
 | El Grupo Cerúleo, a subcommittee of the Cerulean Warbler Technical Group, was recently awarded the 2008 Wings Across the Americas Award for International Cooperation. CBHR's Dr. Paul Hamel, Chairman of el Grupo Cerúleo, accepted the award from Joel Holtrop, Forest Service Deputy Chief, National Forest Systems, during the 73rd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference on March 27th. Article and photo courtesy of FS Today. |
 | We've all heard of counting a tree's rings to determine its age, but did you know a similar procedure is used to determine the age of mussel shells? CBHR technician Mickey Bland takes us through the process using a technique known as thin sectioning. Also, learn about Dr. Wendell Haag's upcoming publications related to shell rings. |
USDA Agriculture Handbook No. 181
 | Management and Inventory of Southern Hardwoods (USDA Agriculture Handbook No. 181) by John A. Putnam, George M. Furnival, and J. S. McKnight, originally published in 1960, is now available on-line in PDF format (11.1 MB). |
 | An interview with CBHR's own Dr. Paul Hamel, a wildlife biologist in Stoneville,MS is featured in issue #9 of Compass. |
 | Recent work by CBHR's Dr. Diane De Steven, research ecologist in Stoneville, MS, is highlighted in Issue #8 of Compass. |
