DEPARTMENT OF WILDLAND RESOURCES

 

Spring semester 2008 the weekly seminar slot is Wednesday (4:00-5:00 pm, NR 105). 

 

Date       Speaker and topic

 

                Introduced by Harmony Dalgleish.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/Jan162008Koons.wmv
              

23 Jan   Leila Shultz:  Sagebrush systematics: evolutionary patterns in the Great Basin"

                Introduced by Lesley Morris.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/Jan232008Shultz.wmv

 

30 Jan   Stewart Breck:  "Solving human-wolf conflicts"

            Dr. Breck is from the National Wildlife Research Center at Fort Collins and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Wildland Resources.

                Introduced by Lynne Gilbert-Norton.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/Jan302008Breck.wmv

06 Feb   Randall Eaton:  "Hunting as a rite of passage, and the philosophical foundation for Leopold's land ethic"

            Dr. Eaton is a freelance author and Research Associate at the Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta.  He is visiting USU as a contact of Fred Provenza.  Visit his website: http://www.eoni.com/~reaton/index.html

                Introduced by Fred Provenza.

                 mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/Feb062008Eaton.wmv

 
13 Feb   Barbara Bentz:  "Bark beetles and climate change"

            Dr. Bentz is with the USDA Forest Service in the Rocky Mountain Research Station's laboratory in Logan and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Wildland  Resources.

                Introduced by Ryan Bracewell.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/Feb132008Bentz.wmv

               

20 Feb   Eric Gese:  "Swift fox population ecology"

                Introduced by Renee Seidler.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/feb202008gese.wmv

 

27 Feb   Lindsey Christensen:  "Hydrological and ecological sensitivities of western US mountain ecosystems to historic climate variability"

            Dr. Christensen is a researcher with the Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University, based in Salt Lake City.  She is visiting USU as a collaborator with Mark Brunson.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/feb282008christensen.wmv

 

05 Mar   Tom Edwards:  "Species habitat models for conservation: models, models, everywhere, and not a thought to think"

                Introduced by Tammy Wilson.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/mar052008edwards.wmv

 

12 Mar   SPRING BREAK -- no seminar

 

19 Mar   Josh Leffler:  "Consequences of forest manipulations to regenerate aspen:  the beginning"

                Introduced by Chad Oukrop.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/mar192008leffler.wmv

 

26 Mar   Mary Conner:  "Facets of chronic wasting disease population and spatial epidemiology"

                Introduced by Leslie McFarlane.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/wildlandres/mar262008conner.wmv

 

02 Apr   Harmony Dalgleish:  Bet-hedging and population dynamics:  how will prairie plants respond to climate change?"

            Harmony is a postdoc working with Peter Adler.

                Introduced by Luke Zachmann.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/april022008dalgleish.wmv

 

09 Apr   Terry Bowyer:  "Detecting top-down versus bottom-up regulation of ungulates by large carnivores: implications for management"

            Dr. Bowyer is Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University.  He is visiting USU as a guest of Johan du Toit.

                Introduced by David Stoner.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/april092008bowyer.wmv

 

16 Apr   Peter Adler:  "Population, community, and ecosystem consequences of altered climate variability"

                Introduced by Jayanti Mukherjee.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/Apr162008Adler.wmv

 

23 Apr   Jeremy James:  "Impacts of fluctuating environmental conditions on grass seedling establishment in the Great Basin"

            Dr. James is a plant physiologist with the USDA-ARS Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Station in Burns, and is visiting USU as a collaborator with Tom Monaco.

                mms://stream.usu.edu/misc/WildlandRes/april232008james.wmv

 

    

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ECOLOGY CENTER

 

GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL - ECO-LUNCH SEMINARS

All graduate students and faculty are invited to attend.

 

Ecolunch serves a variety of purposes.  It was created to provide a casual venue where graduate students can informally present their reseasrch to a friendly audience of their peers.  This means a variety of presentations are appropriate for this forum.  You may present anything ranging from summaries of unanalyzed data to formal powerpoint presentations that you would like to practice for a professional presentation.  You may use this venue to kick around research ideas or get advice about the most appropriate way to analyze or summarize your data.  Ecolunch can be a casual roundtable discussion or a formal practice talk environment.  Use Ecolunch to get advice from your peers, to practice your pre-project talk or to introduce your peers to your thesis research.  Ecolunch presenters can choose a 15-minute or 30-minute time slot with a possibility of a full hour for exit seminar practice presentations.  Ecolunch was designed to help grad students support each other.  Through Ecolunch the GSC hopes to promote discussion and collaboration between graduate students.

 

If you would like to present at an upcoming Ecolunch, contact Stacey at stacey.frisk@gmail.com.

 

 

Pizza and drinks provided.

 

 

Friday, January 18 -- 12:30 -- NR 217