MSU Ecology Seminar Series
Spring Semester 2022
Thursdays at 3:30-4:30pm via webex (please contact [email protected] for login information).
The basis of the Spring Ecology Seminar Series is BIOE 555, Communication in Ecological Sciences, a course in which Ecology graduate students gain experience presenting scientific information using a variety of communication methods. The seminar format and schedule are significantly different than the fall semester series, but the topics continue to be centered in ecology. Graduate students in the course prepare several presentations and topics presented in a variety of formats. The first four sessions consist of presentations focused on scientific papers, the next four sessions consist of no-slide presentations on each student's thesis or dissertation research, and the last two sessions are 6-Minutes of Science presentations, formatted for the lay audience on a topic not directly related to students' thesis or dissertation topic. The titles of the presentations will be provided a week in advance and listed in campus-wide seminar announcements.
Attendance from campus and extended communities is encouraged and requested.
All who attend will be invited to evaluate each presentation.
Advance notice is requested so that accommodations can be made for special needs. Contact [email protected] or (406) 994-4548.
Podcasts
In addition to presentations, students are interviewed about their research and what
inspired them to get into a career in conservation for the podcast “Today’s Voices
of Conservation Science.” You can listen to the podcast on Buzzsprout or on iTunes or Stitcher.
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March 3 (This session begins at 4:15pm) |
15-Minute Scientific Presentation with Slides Fritz Kalakay:Assessing Effectiveness of a Revised Restoration Plan in the Custer-Gallatin Thomas Meinzen: Bees and Butterflies in Unlikely Landscapes: Roadside Pollinator Diversity of Idaho's Snake River Plain Nathaniel Heili: Irrigation Ditches as Novel Ecosystems that Promote Ecological Connections |
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March 10
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15-Minute Scientific Presentation with Slides Anna French: The Influence of Ecosystem Engineering by the Invasive Signal Crayfish on
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March 17
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Spring Break--No Seminar |
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March 24
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15-Minute Scientific Presentation with Slides Keith Wellstone:Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Conservation in the Lamar River Watershed,
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March 31
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15-Minute Scientific Presentation with Slides Cayley Faurot-Daniels:Assessing Temporal Changes of High Elevation Pollinator Communities
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April 7 |
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April 14 |
10-15 Minute Whiteboard Presentations Jessica Harris:Using Physiological Traits to Understand Interspecific Variation in High
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April 21 |
10-15 Minute Whiteboard Presentations Katherine Sparks: For the Foxtails: Measuring Morphology to Inform Management
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April 28 |
10-15 Minute Whiteboard Presentations Carlisle Segal: Evaluating the Combined Factors of Bison Grazing and Vegetation Heterogeneity on Arthropod Communities
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May 5 |
10-15 Minute Whiteboard Presentations Drew MacDonald: Juvenile Lake Trout Ecology: A Black Box
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