All seminars start at noon in Alcee Fortier 301 unless otherwise indicated
January 25 - Vojtech Novotny
“Alpha and Beta Diversity of Insects in Tropical Rainforests, Particularly
in Papua New Guinea”
Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Entomology
, Czech Republic
Email: novotny@entu.cas.cz
Web site: http://www.entu.cas.cz/png/novotny.html
(Sponsor: Lee Dyer)
February 8 - Mark Peterson
“How Estuarine Ecosystems Function to Maintain Coastal Resource Resilience
and Sustainability: Linked & Nested Habitat Mosaics?”
Professor, Department of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
Email: mark.peterson@usm.edu
Web site: http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/contacts/view_vitae.php?id=281
(Sponsor: David C. Heins)
February 14 (TH) - Dr. David G. Campbell
"The Ontogeny of a Feral Forest: Maya Domestic Gardens as Biodiversity
Hotspots"
Professor of Biology, Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and the Global Environment;
Chair, Environmental Studies
Email: Campbell@grinnell.edu
Web site: http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/environmentalstudies/
(Sponsor: Tom Sherry)
February 15 - Dr. Cagan H. Sekercioglu
“Persistence of Forest Birds in the Costa Rica Agricultural Countryside”
Sr. Research Scientist, Stanford University Dept. of Biology
3:00 p.m., Stone Auditorium (In the Woldenberg Art Center)
Email: cagan@stanford.edu
February 29 - Dr. Van Savage
"Modeling and Measuring Ecological Diversity"
Harvard Medical School - Candidate for the faculty position in Computational
Biology
Email: van_savage@hms.harvard.edu
Web site: http://fontana.med.harvard.edu/www/Documents/VanSavage/Van%20Savage/homepage.htm
March 3 - Dr. Karen Beard
"Global Change at Local Scales: Examples From Species Introduction
and Climate Change"
Utah State University - Candidate for the faculty position in Global Change
Biology
Email: kbeard@cc.usu.edu
Web site: http://www.cnr.usu.edu/htm/facstaff/memberID=761
March 7 - Gary Grossman
"The Importance of Interactive Versus Individualistic Processes in a Southern
Appalachian Fish Assemblage?”
Distinguished Research Professor - Animal Ecology, Warnell School of Forestry
& Natural Resources, University of Georgia
Email: grossman@uga.edu
Web site: http://grossman.myweb.uga.edu/
(Sponsor: David Heins)
March 10 - Dr. Stan Harpole
"Limiting Resources, Biodiversity, and Global Change"
University of California, Irvine. Dr. Harpole is a Candidate for the faculty
position in Global Change Biology.
LBC 203 – Stibbs Conference Room
Email: wharpole@uci.edu
Web site: https://webfiles.uci.edu/wharpole/www/
March 14 - Dr. Robert Matlock
"How to Stop a Traveling Wave: Impeding the Spread of the Screwworm"
College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Dr. Matlock is a Candidate
for the faculty position in Global Change Biology.
Email: matlock@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Web site: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/biology/
March 28 - Rachel Barnett-Johnson
"Genes and Isotopes Reveal Spatial Scales of Mixing of Salmon Populations
in the Coastal Ocean"
Research Faculty, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa
Cruz
(Sponsor: Mike Blum)
March 31 - Dr. Stefan Schnitzer
"Treefall Gaps, Lianas, and the Maintenance of Species Diversity in Tropical
Forests"
A Candidate for the faculty position in Global Change Biology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Email: Schnitze@umn.edu
Website: http://www.fem.wur.nl/UK/Staff/RA/schnitzer/
April 4 - Jeremy W. Lichstein
"Predicting Forest Dynamics with a Simple, Tractable Model: Implications
for Studying Climate-vegetation Feedbacks"
Princeton University. Dr. Lichstein is a candidate for the faculty position
in computational biology
Email: JWL@princeton.edu
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~jwl/
April 18 - Spencer Hall
"Friendly Competition” and “Eating Yourself Sick(er)”:
Linking Species Interactions and Disease in the Plankton”
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
Email: sprhall@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~halllab/
(Sponsor: David Heins)
April 25 - Pedro Barbosa
"Vast Discrepancies in Close Proximity – Ecological Interactions
Among Tree-Feeding Lepidoptera"
Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland
Email: pbarbosa@umd.edu
Lab Website: http://www.barbosalab.umd.edu
(Sponsor: Lee Dyer)