Student

  • Thursday, January 11, 2007
    Time: 5:00 p.m.
    Location: NR 217      
    Speaker: NR Students
    Title: "Options for summer work experience"

Ecology Center

 CNR Graduate Student Council Sponsored Events

    All graduate students are welcome and lunch will be provided. 

  • Friday, January 12, 2007 
    Time: 12:30-1:20 p.m.        
    Location: NR 217
    Speaker: Cody Johnson, PhD Candidate
    Title: "Fish mediated movement of Nitrogen between benthic and pelagic habitats in arctic lakes."
  • Friday, January 19, 2007
    Time: 12:30-1:20 p.m.
    Location: NR 217
    Speaker: Brian Bell, MS Candidate
    Tiitle: "Effects of Cheatgrass on growth and water relations of native
    wheatgrass"
  • Friday, January 26, 2007
    Time: 12:30-1:20 p.m.
    Location: NR 217
    Speaker: Drew Rayburn, PhD Student
    Title: "GIS analysis of landscape change in a Midwestern watershed"
  • Friday February 2, 2007
    Time: 12:30-1:20 p.m.
    Location: NR 217
    Speaker: Dave Cole, PhD Candidate
    Title:"Eco-morphological Investigations of the Utah Lake Sucker Complex"
  • Friday, February 9, 2007
     Time: 12:30 p.m.
     Location:NR 217
     Speaker: Steven Ostoja, PhD Candidate, Ecology
     "Rodent Granivory and Ecological Restoration"
                 AND
     Speaker: Joel Diamond, PhD Candidate, Ecology
    "Effects of intensive grazing on fire behavior, seed dynamics and composition of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) dominated landscapes"
  • Friday, February 16, 2007
     Time: 12:30 p.m.
     Location: NR 217
     Speaker: Randy Larsen, PhD Candidate
     "Conservation implications of Chukars in western North America"
  • Friday, February 23, 2007
     Time: 12:30 p.m.
    Location: NR 217
     Speaker: Dave Cole, PhD Candidate
     "Eco-morphological Investigations of the Utah Lake Sucker Complex"
  • Friday, March 2, 2007
     Time: 12:30 p.m.
     Location: NR 217
     Speaker: Amanda Bakin, PhD Candidate
     "Finding biological relevance in the home range and core area concepts:
     A case study using Willow Flycatchers"

 Ecology Center Seminar Series 

    Graduate Student Hosts:    Cody Johnson codyrjohnson@gmail.com and
                                            David Stoner dstoner@cc.usu.edu
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
    Time: 6:00 p.m.
    Location: NR 105
   Speaker: Dr. Steve Zack, Pacific West Coordinator, Wildlife Conservation Society, Portland, ORTitle: "Arctic Alaska,
     Energy and Climate: Wildlife Conservation Challenges in a Moving Target"
Thursday, January 18, 2007   
    Time: 2:30 p.m. Refreshments in the Atrium            
     3:00 p.m. Presentation begins
    Location: NR 105
     Speaker:Dr. Steve Zack, Pacific West Coordinator, Wildlife Conservarion Society, Portland, OR
     Title: "Fighting Fire with Fire: Restoring Eastside Ponderosa Pine and Wildlife"
 Thursday, February 22, 2007      
     Time: 2:30 p.m. Refreshments in the Atrium
             3:00 p.m. Presentation begins
    Location: NR 105
    Presenter: Lawrence Walker, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nevada
     Title: To be announced 
Thursday, March 8, 2007     
    Time: 2:30 p.m. Refreshments in the Atrium
             3:00 p.m. Presentation begins
    Location: NR 105
    Presenter: Emily Bernhardt, Department of Biology, Duke University
     Title: To be announced
Thursday, April 12, 2007     
    Time: 3:00 p.m.
     Location: NR 105
     Presenter: Jordi Bascompte, Associate Professor of Research,
     Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Seville, Spain
     Title: To be announced 
 

    Watershed Sciences

  • Monday, January 22, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Jon Cole, Cornell University
    Title:  " Cargo cults and allochthonous input: a examination of the consequences of terrestrial carbon inputs to aquatic ecosystems "
    Abstract        
  • Monday, January 29, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Brian Bledsoe, Colorado State University
    Title:  " Hydrogeomorphic Characterization and Classification of Pacific Northwest Streams for biomonitoring " 
  • Monday, February 5, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Amilcare Porporato, Duke University
    Title:  " Stochastic Soil Moisture Dynamics and Ecosystem Response "
  • Monday, February 12, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Fred Ogden, University of Wyoming
  • Tuesday, February 20, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  BNR 314
    Presenter:  Bob Wismar, University of Washington
  • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    Time:  12:00 pm
    Presenter:  Gabriel Montes-Llamas, Inter American Development Bank
  • Monday, February 26, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Dara Entekhabi, MIT
    Title:  " Coupled Land-Boundary Layer System "
  • Monday, March 5, 2007
    Time:  4:00 p.m.
    Location:  BNR 314
    Presenter:  Krissy Wilson, Species Program Coordiantor, Utah
  • Monday, March 19, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Barbara Misnker, University of Illinois
    Title:  " CLEANER "
  • Monday, March 26, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  BNR 314
    Presenter:  Wayne Wurtsbaugh, USU, Watershed Sciences Dept.
  • Monday, April 2, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  ENGR 101
    Presenter:  Susan Solarz, The Wilerness Society
    Title:  "Fish Barriers on Idaho Streams: Meeting a New Management Imperative for Inland Migratory Fish Species "
  • Monday, April 16, 2007
    Time:  4:00 pm
    Location:  BNR 314
    Presenter:  Warren Coyler, Trout Unlimited

    Wildland Resources

  • Thursday,  January 11, 2007      
    Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
    Location: NR 105
    Presenter: Bret Collier, animal population ecology candidate
    Title: "Stochastic population modeling for biological environments; uncertainty and prediction" 
    • Thursday, January 25, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: David Koons, animal population ecology candidate
      Title: "The importance of structure in population models for conservation and management"       
    • Thursday, February 1, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: TBA (wildlife biology candidate – Uintah Basin campus)
      Title:        
    • Thursday, February 8, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Joe Fargione, visiting ecologist from Purdue
      Title: To be announced
    • Thursday, February 15, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Melvin Hoote
      Title: To be announced

    • Thursday, March 1, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Karen Beard
      Title: "Mechanisms and consequences of coqui frog invasions in Hawaii"
    • Thursday, March 22, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Fee Busby           
      Title: "Impact of off-highway vehicle use on wildland soil and vegetation resources"
    • Thursday March 29, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Helga van Miegroet
      Title:       To be announced
    • Thursday April 5, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Juan Villalba
      Title:       "Self-medication and homeostatic endeavor in animals: staying alive and well in the face of change"
    • Thursday April 19, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Tom Monaco
      Title:       To be announced
    • Thursday April 26, 2007
      Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
      Location: NR 105
      Presenter: Tom Jones
      Title:       "Issues surrounding plant materials for restoration with examples from bluebunch wheatgrass, squirreltail, and Indian  ricegrass"