Faculty Advisor |
Jim Benes
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Contact Email | jbenes2@unl.edu |
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Advisor College: |
Arts and Sciences
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Potential Student Tasks |
Students will learn lab procedures associate with sub-sampling sediment cores. This includes chemical processing, slicing sediments, using a muffle furnace, serving materials and much more. Students will also be required to read and learn about past environmental change in the Nebraska Sandhills. |
Student Qualifications |
Curiosity is the most important qualification for this position. Openness to new experiences, and an aptitude for clear communication is important. Lab work can be tedious, so must be able to work on your own., |
Training, Mentoring, and Workplace Community |
My mentoring style is to be a servant leader. I aim to guide and ask questions to help those that I am mentoring for them to discover the solutions on their own. One of my values is to offer an ecosystem of learning where anyone can ask a question as many times as they need. I like repeat questions or, revisiting concepts as needed. Students are curious and meeting their curiosity with open-endedness and encouragement usually leads to continued growth in academic relationships. |
Available Positions |
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Using sediment cores taken from marsh ecosystems in the Nebraska Sandhills, this project aims to reconstruct past changes in climate, fire and vegetation to understand how these factors influence fire in the region.