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Ecology Seminar - Spring 2009
Spring Semester 2009
BIOL 400-01 SEMINAR
Ecology Department
Thursdays 3:30-4:30, 304 Lewis Hall
Information subject to change. Additional information including seminar titles/abstracts will be updated and posted to this site. Advance notice is requested so that accommodations can be made for special needs, thank you.
Jan. 15 David Roberts : "Introduction to Biol 400"
Jan. 22 All Faculty & Students: "Graduate Student Introductions"
Jan. 29 Jackson Gross. MSPH, PhD, Research Scientist, Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Montana State University: “The effects of cadmium on amphibian growth and development”
Feb. 5 Thomas C. Edwards, Jr., Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Professor in the Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University: "Our Future Landscapes: Forecasting the Spatial Consequences of Interactions Between Changing Climate and Human Land-use"
Feb. 12 Henry Shovic, PhD, Member, Shovic Associates, LLC and the Rocky
Mountain Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit, MSU Affiliate: “Water Use and Watershed Resource improvement in Afghanistan: A Remote Sensing Approach”
Feb. 19 CANCELLED
Feb. 26 Pete Coppolilli, PhD, Coordinator of Yellowstone Rockies Program, North American Wildlife Conservation Society: "The Ecohydrology and Restoration of the Great Ruaha River in Tanzania"
Mar. 5 Geoffrey Poole, Assistant Professor of Fluvial Landscape Ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University: "Geomorphic and Hydrologic Controls on Water Temperature in Salmon Bearing Rivers: the Umatilla River as a Case Study"
Mar. 12 Cory Cleveland, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula: "Too much of a good thing? Nitrogen Deposition and Ecosystem Processes in Mountain Soils"
Mar. 16-20 Spring Break Week
Mar. 26 David Koons, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildland, Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University:"Harvest, Environmental Stochasticity, and Why Managers Need to Be Evolutionary Biologists"
Apr. 2 CANCELLED
Apr. 9 Emily Almberg, MS Candidate, David Mech,University of Minnesota, and Paul Cross, NRMSC, MSU: "Persistence of Canine Distemper Virus in the Greater Yellowstone Ecowywtem's Carnivore Community"
Mathematical Sciences and Ecology Colloquium
Apr. 16 Gary White, Professor emeritus, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University: "Program MARK Overview and Recent Additions"
April 23 Steven Kalinowski, PhD, Department of Ecology, Montana State University: "We see what we look for" and other lessons I've learned about science in the past ten years
Apr. 30 Daniel Tyers, PhD, Wildlife, Wilderness, and Trails Program Manager, Gardiner Ranger District, Gallatin National Forest, USFS: "Winter Ecology of Moose on the North Yellowstone Winter Range"
May 4-8 Final Examination Week
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