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The HSU Ecology Series

Spring 2010 ~

Wildlife Building Room 258, 4-5pm Thursday

(unless otherwise noted)
Jan 28David DeSante
The Institute of Bird Populations
Efforts to determine causes of landbird population trends
Feb 4Matt Johnson
Professor, HSU
Movement.  Spatial ecology of ecosystem services provisioned by birds.
Feb 11Marc Mangel Professor
UC Santa Cruz

Combining life history theory, experiments, and field studies in setting river flows for California steelhead

*** Lecture will be held in Goodwin Forum ***
Feb 18Alison Purcell
Professor, HSU
Dipteran larvae as predators of macroinvertebrate egg masses
Feb 25Jay Iwasaki,
Undergraduate, HSU
The Lands of Fire and Ice: on the Natural History of Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica
Mar 4John Vradenburg
Biologist, Bosque del Apache NWR
Managing Snow Geese in the Middle Rio Grande Valley: landscape alterations and population explosions
Mar 11Mark Colwell
Professor, HSU
From the Equator to the "Uttermost End of the Earth" : Ecological Impressions of the Andes and Patagonia
Mar 18No LectureSPRING BREAK
Mar 25Desiree Early
M.S. Candidate
THESIS DEFENSE:  Intraspecific black bear spatial patterns and interactions at a small spatio-temporal scale
Apr 1Howard Stauffer
Professor, HSU
A monitoring system for the Cameroon rain forest
Apr 8Michael Wolder Wildlife Biologist
Sacramento NWR
TBA
Apr 15Justin Brashares
Professor
UC Berkeley
TBA
Apr 22Joshua Cocke
M.S. Candidate
THESIS DEFENSE:  Breeding status of Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska
Apr 29

Last semester's Lecture Schedule


~ Fall 2009 ~

 10 Sep  Dr. John A. Vucetich
Michigan Tech
Treating the ethical dimensions of conservation.
 11 Sep Dr. John A.  Vucetich
Michigan Tech
BGSA Seminar, 4pm in SciB 135
Fifty years of research on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale.
 17 Sep  Jennifer Terry
M.S. Candidate 
Stress response in northern river otters (Lontra canadensis): The influence of water quality, diet and disease.
 24 Sep No speaker - National TWS Meeting in Monterey, CA.
 1 Oct Dr. Hart Welsh
Redwood Sciences Lab, USFS
Population status of herpetofauna on Pacific Northwest landscapes: What are the primary threats to native species? 
 8 Oct Dr. Andrew Kinziger
HSU Professor
Genetic structure of Klamath-Trinity Basin Chinook Salmon
 15 Oct Dr. Rosemary Sherriff
HSU Professor
Disturbance ecology, climate and tree-rings: case studies from Colorado and Alaska
 22 Oct Christina Rockwell M.S. Candidate  Foraging selectivity in Steller's Jays
 29 Oct Dr. Mahesh Rao
HSU Professor
 Mapping and evaluation of conservation lands using geospatial  techologies
 5 Nov Judd Howell, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center  Politicians, bureaucrats and adventures in wildlife management
 12 Nov Jared Wolfe
M.S. Candidate
 Habitat use and dietary patterns of migrant birds in Costa Rica  (thesis defense)
 19 Nov Dr. Fred Sharpe Alaska Whale Foundation     Memes, Screams & Teams: Social Foraging by Humpback Whales
 26 Nov       No speaker - Thanksgiving Break
 3 Dec  No Speaker    
 10 Dec Pia Gabriel
Ph.D Candidate
    Individual variation in Steller's Jay behavioral traits

Contact information: Dr. Jeff Black (826-3439)

 


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