Football interview - Wisconsin

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10/08/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the recent groundbreaking of the new men's and women's gymnastics training facility on the northwest corner of the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Ronnie also talks about critical research being conducted to better understand the age of the groundwater in the High Plains Aquifer, otherwise known as the Ogallala Aquifer.

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[00:00:00.000](steel drum island music)
[00:00:01.640]Welcome back, Countdown to Kickoff
[00:00:02.473]here on the Husker Sports Network,
[00:00:04.160]and we like to sit down and chat
[00:00:05.680]with the chancellor of University of Nebraska Lincoln
[00:00:07.560]each and every week before we kick off a football games.
[00:00:10.260]Ronnie Green is here with us today,
[00:00:11.880]and Husker Athletics known for a lot of things,
[00:00:14.340]winning, number one,
[00:00:16.230]student life skills and the academics
[00:00:19.300]that we provide for our student athletes
[00:00:21.270]but also great facilities.
[00:00:22.510]And we've added to that with an incredible,
[00:00:24.760]ground-breaking ceremony last week.
[00:00:26.310]Let's tell our audience about that.
[00:00:27.860]Yeah, Greg, we say everyday
[00:00:30.680]that there's no place like Nebraska
[00:00:32.610]to be a student athlete,
[00:00:33.820]and because of all of things that you mentioned
[00:00:36.620]including facilities.
[00:00:38.100]And we're always seeking to enhance those facilities
[00:00:41.050]and one of the things that we've known for some time
[00:00:43.710]is that our Men's and Women's Gymnastics programs
[00:00:46.750]have kind of been sandwiched a bit in the Devaney Center
[00:00:51.150]where they, of course, they compete as well.
[00:00:53.700]And because of some of the changes on campus
[00:00:56.680]that are planned around our facilities
[00:00:59.230]for the College of Education of Human Sciences
[00:01:01.250]where our Women's Gymnastics practice facility
[00:01:04.180]is located in Mabel Lee Hall on campus,
[00:01:07.460]we had the opportunity to really address
[00:01:09.850]the need for a training facility for our Gymnastics program.
[00:01:14.020]So we broke ground about a week ago
[00:01:17.330]on the new facility for building that
[00:01:20.950]new gymnastics training facility on the northwest corner
[00:01:24.730]if you will of Devaney is now a construction zone
[00:01:28.670]where we're planning a new 13,000 square foot
[00:01:32.080]training space for both Men's and Women's Gymnastics.
[00:01:35.300]And it'll become one of the nation's premier facilities
[00:01:39.070]funded through private donations
[00:01:41.700]and athletic funds as we've built most
[00:01:44.240]of our facilities in that way.
[00:01:47.500]And I know both of our coaches,
[00:01:49.300]Coach Chmelka and Coach Kendig,
[00:01:52.150]in our men's and women's programs
[00:01:54.110]are really looking forward to having
[00:01:56.410]those world-class facilities.
[00:01:59.120]We've had eight national championships,
[00:02:01.030]historically, in Men's Gymnastics.
[00:02:02.980]We've had 25 conference championships
[00:02:05.430]in Women's Gymnastics, so we're looking forward
[00:02:08.260]to seeing that facility completed
[00:02:10.070]in 2020 for our Gymnastics program.
[00:02:12.710]I saw both Coaches Kendig and Chmelka this week,
[00:02:15.300]and you can't wipe the smile off their face.
[00:02:17.210]They're ecstatic about this. Yes, yeah, absolutely.
[00:02:18.680]Yeah.
[00:02:19.600]Water's a major area of research here at the university.
[00:02:23.290]Now there's an important study being led
[00:02:25.240]by the university on ground water in Nebraska.
[00:02:27.620]What should Nebraskans know about this?
[00:02:29.300]Yeah, Greg, we're kinda considered the world leader
[00:02:32.940]in water resources, especially water
[00:02:35.650]around food security and around ag
[00:02:38.233]as we're the largest irrigated region in the world.
[00:02:41.370]In Nebraska, the largest irrigated state in the US.
[00:02:44.900]And one of the heaviest users of water
[00:02:49.650]for ag production and that's because
[00:02:51.110]we have this immense resource, ground water resource,
[00:02:54.900]known as the Ogallala Aquifer,
[00:02:56.830]the High Plains Aquifer, 2/3 of which
[00:02:59.100]sits underneath the state of Nebraska
[00:03:02.280]and is a very healthy water resource
[00:03:04.690]that has allowed us to be such a breadbasket
[00:03:07.020]for the world.
[00:03:08.780]So understanding that water supply,
[00:03:11.190]managing that water supply, has been a key component
[00:03:15.470]of the university's research for a long, long time
[00:03:18.130]including with our Water for Food Institute
[00:03:20.670]across the university now.
[00:03:21.930]It affects every Nebraskan.
[00:03:23.200]And there's some new research being done in that group.
[00:03:27.870]Three of our researchers who leading a study,
[00:03:31.490]three-year study to determine the age of ground water.
[00:03:34.800]Because seeing as that water comes out
[00:03:37.210]and goes into say one of the riversheds in the state,
[00:03:40.130]the Loup River in this particular case up in the Sandhills,
[00:03:44.780]we're able to see where that water reserve is coming from.
[00:03:48.490]We can get some idea of the age of that water if you will.
[00:03:52.770]Being led by Troy Gilmore in our School of Natural Resources
[00:03:56.840]and our Conservation and Survey Division
[00:03:59.070]in the Ag and Natural Resources program
[00:04:01.280]along with colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
[00:04:04.170]and in Biological Systems Engineering
[00:04:06.630]where they have modeling work
[00:04:08.320]where they're able to date that water
[00:04:10.200]using various technologies.
[00:04:12.810]So, it's really helpful to ground water managers
[00:04:16.740]to understand this and understand
[00:04:19.950]how that water is being pulled out of the ground
[00:04:22.530]and where it's coming from.
[00:04:24.080]And that information we think's gonna be
[00:04:25.810]very, very useful in the future.
[00:04:28.380]So just another example of world-leading research
[00:04:32.000]in the water arena that Nebraska is known for
[00:04:35.200]internationally as the leader in the globe.
[00:04:37.396]Have you been able to get out
[00:04:38.229]and see some of these areas of the state
[00:04:39.800]where this is all taking place?
[00:04:41.040]I'm sure you have.
[00:04:42.045]I have.
[00:04:43.480]I don't keep count, Greg
[00:04:45.200]but I'm pretty sure I've been in every one
[00:04:46.800]of the 93 counties in the state of Nebraska.
[00:04:50.320]Most of em went multiple times.
[00:04:52.190]So where this works being done in Cherry, Grant,
[00:04:54.680]and Hooker counties up in the central Sandhills region
[00:04:57.800]on the Loup River watershed, been there many times.
[00:05:00.830]We actually have a ranch that the university
[00:05:04.510]manages as a research facility
[00:05:06.520]that's been with the university in the cattle industry
[00:05:09.800]since 1968 called the Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory.
[00:05:14.120]It sits at that juncture of those three counties.
[00:05:17.880]Yeah, pretty amazing country, and pretty amazing resources
[00:05:22.930]that we're learning more and more about every day.
[00:05:24.649]No doubt, it's a beautiful part of the state out there.
[00:05:26.370]Great to see you.
[00:05:27.203]We'll see you in Evanston, Illinois next week.
[00:05:29.070]Absolutely, we'll be in Chicago
[00:05:30.900]and hope for a good game here in Madison today.
[00:05:34.800]Go Huskers! Go Big Red!
[00:05:36.150]Ronnie Green with us here on Countdown to Kickoff.

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