MSU Ecology Seminar Series
Fall Semester 2020
Thursdays 3:30-4:30
Due to COVID-19 concerns, seminars will not be open to the public at this time; however,
seminars can be viewed live via webex or watched later when recordings are available.
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Undergraduate students may get credit for viewing seminars and writing critiques in course BIOE 494, a 1-credit, fall only course. Please see your advisor if interested.
For Webex login information or other questions, please contact [email protected]. We ask that you request login information 24 hours in advance. Login information
will not be given once the seminar has started.
| Date | Seminar Details | More Info |
|---|---|---|
| August 27 |
Department Introductions |
Current Grad Students |
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September 3 CANCELLED We hope to reschedule! |
Eckerd College "Salt marsh microbial communities in response to nutrient enrichment and other stressors" |
Virtual
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| September 10 |
Colorado State University "Disease contact networks: Management questions inform ecological theory" |
Virtual |
| September 17 |
Mike Mitchell, PhD University of Montana "An ecologist's plea for more sociology in wildlife science: Lessons learned from structured decision making" |
Virtual |
| September 24 |
Dave Roberts, PhD Montana State University Sabatical Seminar: "Life and Science in Die Schweiz: Statistical foundations of biodiversity models" |
In-person and Virtual |
| October 1 |
Scott Collins, PhD Texas Tech University "The ties that bind: Exploring the reverberating effects of resource exchanges in aquatic-terrestrial food webs" |
Virtual |
| October 8 |
Caryn Vaughn, PhD University of Oklahoma "Freshwater mussels act as hotspots of ecosystem function and services in rivers" |
Virtual |
| October 15 |
Whisper Camel-Means, MS Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes "Relationships across a highway (roadkill, politics, and cooperation in landscape connectivity on the Flathead Indian Reservation" |
Virtual |
| October 22 |
Checo Colon-Guad, PhD Georgia Southern University "Many rivers to cross: Towards a more diverse community of freshwater scientists" |
Virtual |
| October 29 |
Paul CaraDonna, PhD Chicago Botanical Garden "Dynamics of plant-pollinator interactions: Climate change, existing variation, and flexibility" |
Virtual |
| November 5 |
Andrea Litt, PhD Department of Ecology, MSU Sabbatical Seminar: "Developing a Framework to Understand and Predict animal Responses to Plan Invasion (and Other Sabbatical Adventures).” |
Virtual |
| November 12 |
Becky Irwin, PhD North Carolina State University "The role of floral traits in pollination and bee disease transmission" |
Virtual |
| November 19 |
No Seminar; Finals Week |