Ecology seminars, 2008
All seminars organized for 2008 by the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology.
This series is co-sponsored by the Penn State Institutes of Energy & the Environment, the Environment and Natural Resources Institute, the Transitional Zone Ecosystem Initiative and the Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Centre.
| when | who / what | where |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Jan 28 at 01:30PM |
Chris Uhl
(Penn State)
Sustainability: a question of perspective |
101 ASI |
| Mon Feb 04 at 01:30PM |
Margaret Palmer
(University of Maryland)
Stream ecosystems: restoration and resilience in the face of global change |
101 ASI |
| Mon Feb 11 at 01:30PM |
Barry Isaacs and Mike Pruss
(NRCS and Pennsylvania Game Commission)
Farmland conservation in Pennsylvania: the role of state agencies |
101 ASI |
| Mon Mar 03 at 01:30PM |
Paul Maeder
(FiBL, Switzerland)
The Role of Long-term Experiments in Understanding the Sustainability of Organic Farming |
101 ASI |
| Wed Mar 26 at 01:30PM |
Douglas G. Tiffany
(University of Minnesota)
Using Biomass to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Corn Ethanol Plants |
101 ASI |
| Mon Mar 31 at 01:30PM |
CANCELLED: Laurie Drinkwater
(Cornell University)
Ecological knowledge and the transition to sustainable agriculture |
101 ASI |
| Fri Apr 11 at 01:30PM |
Edward Barbier
(University of Wyoming)
Ecological Scarcity and Sustainability: Key Economic Challenges for the 21st Century |
101 ASI |
| Mon Apr 21 at 01:30PM |
Malcolm North
(UC Davis)
Seminar cancelled: Sustainable management of fire-dependent forests |
101 ASI |
| Wed Apr 30 at 01:30PM |
Morgan Grove
(USDA Forest Service & Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER)
From Pixels to Parcels: The anatomy of household and parcel based methods for urban social ecological research and applications. |
101 ASI |
| Fri May 02 at 02:30PM |
Bill Hansson
(Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Germany)
Drosophila olfaction in pollination: function and evolution |
101 ASI |
| Mon Sep 08 at 01:00PM |
Victoria Braithwaite
(Penn State)
How does ecology shape the way fish behave? |
ASI 118 |
| Mon Sep 15 at 01:30PM |
Annette Dathe
(Penn State)
Colloid movement through soils – fundamentals, experiments and implications for the environment |
118 ASI |
| Mon Sep 22 at 12:10PM |
Frederick Meinzer
(USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station)
Consequences of being tall: height-related trends in tree growth and hydraulic architecture |
108 Wartik Laboratory |
| Mon Sep 29 at 01:00PM |
Tomas Carlo-Joglar
(Penn State)
Ecology of frugivory and seed dispersal networks |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 06 at 01:00PM |
Bryan Grenfell
(Penn State)
Spatiotemporal dynamics and control of acute immunizing infections |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 13 at 01:00PM |
Tracy Langkilde
(Penn State)
Time changes everything: the impact of fire ants on native lizards across the invasion front |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 20 at 01:00PM |
Gian Rocco
(Penn State)
To be announced |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 27 at 01:00PM |
Emily Rauschert
(Penn State)
Quantifying invasive species spread: multiple vectors of Microstegium vimineum dispersal |
118 ASI |
| Mon Nov 03 at 01:00PM |
Mark Mescher
(Penn State)
The role of plant volatiles in mediating interactions among plants and insects |
118 ASI |
| Mon Nov 10 at 01:30PM |
Krista Jacobsen
(Penn State)
Turning Red Clay Brown: The intersection of organic agriculture, restoration ecology and economics in the Deep South |
118 ASI |