GDPE

Graduate Degree Program

in Ecology
 
 
  BMB Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminars are held at 11:00, 123 MRB
  BIO Biology seminars are held at 4:00 pm in W118 Anatomy/Zoology
  BSPM Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management , Wednesday at 12:10 p.m., E008 Plant Science Building
  CLS Colloquium in the Life Sciences, seminars are held Monday 4:10 - 5:00; Pre-seminar mixer at 3:40 in Clark A204
  CWRRI Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Monday, 4:10, A206 Clark
  FRWS Forest, Rangeland and Watershed, Thursday, 12:10 p.m. 232 Wagar
  FWB Fish & Wildlife Biology seminars are held on Friday, 3:10–4:00 in Room 133 Wagar
  HORT Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Tuesday, 4:10 p.m., 102 Shepardson Building
  LTER Shortgrass Steppe LTER project. A302 NESB, 2-3 pm Thursday
  NREL Natural Resource Ecology Lab seminars are held on Friday, 11:00 - 11:50 am; Room B215 NESB
     

 

SEMINARS FOR MONTH OF

SEPTEMBER, 2006

Date

Source

Details

 
1 NREL Jill Baron (US Geological Survey and NREL, CSU)
"Carbon Stocks for the South Platte Basin"
4   CSU OFFICES CLOSED
5 BIO Bruce McClure, Biochemistry Department, University of Missouri
Title: "An alternative model for S-RNase-based self-incompatibility"
6 BSPM Ingrid Aguayo, Colorado State Forest Service
Tree entomology
7 APHIS
Dr. Scott Werner, Birds Research Program
"Caffeine Formulation for Avian Repellency"
                                                                                                                                     
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Room: Longs Peak Conference Room
            National Wildlife Research Center
            USDA/APHIS/WS
7 FRWS Cynthia Brown CSU BSPM
Invasive Plants in Restoration Settings
8 BMB

Dr. P. Shing Ho, Oregon State University
 Subject: From Holliday Junctions to Halogen Bonds

8 FWB Robert G. Bailey, PhD, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, “Use of Ecosystem Patterns to Design Monitoring Networks and Sustainable Landscapes.”
8 NREL Connie Woodhouse (NOAA Paleo-Climatology Program)
"Colorado Climate: A Paleo Perspective"
11 BMB

Dr. Richard Goodman, Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland
Subject: Exploring the CREB regulon

11 CWRRI Bob Trout, Attorney
Colorado Water Law Principles (Part 1)
13 BSPM
Dr. Whitney Cranshaw
Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, CSU
"Writing About Entomology for the Popular Audience: Trials and Tribulations"
14 FRWS TBA
14 NREL

Michael Loik (Environmental Studies, Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz)
Out in the Cold, Rain, and Snow
15 FWB Delwin Benson, Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University. “Environmental Sustainability Initiatives at CSU: What Role should our Department Take?”
18 CWRRI

Bonny Colby, U. of Arizona
Interjurisdictional Water Settlements, A Venue for Water Management Innovation
19 BIO Speaker: June Medford, Department of Biology, Colorado State University
Title: "Development of a Plant Sentinel for terrorist agents and environmental pollutants using computationally designed receptors with synthetic and hybrid signal transduction"
20 BSPM Dr. Mary Stromberger, Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes as Emerging Concerns in Biosolids
21 FRWS Laura Perry – CSU FRWS Chemical Weapons for Restoration
22 FWB Michael Collyer, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University. “White Sands Pupfish.”
22 NREL Russ Monson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU, Boulder)
Carbon-climate Relations in a Colorado Sub-Alpine Forest
25 BMB Speaker: Dr. Andy Berglund, University of Oregon
25 CLS Dr. Michael Collyer, Iowa State University
Procrustes methods for evaluating attributes of morphological change
25 CWRRI Bob Trout, Attorney Colorado Water Law Principles (Part 2)
25 GDPE
Christina Alba will defend her M.S. thesis: "Prairie Dogs and Harvester Ants as Disturbance Agents on the Shortgrass
Steppe: Implications for Habitat Heterogeneity" 2:00 P.M., Room 214 Yates Hall
26 GDPE
Laurel Hartley will defend her Ph.D. dissertation: "Plague and the Black-tailed Prairie Dog: An Introduced Disease Mediates
the Effects of an Herbivore on Ecosystem Structure and Function"
1:00 P.M., Room 206 Yates Hall
27 BSPM Nathan Brandt, Graduate Student, Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University
28 FRWS Dan Binkley-CSU FRWS The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
28 LTER

Scott Newbold, SGS-LTER, CSU "Disentangling biotic and abiotic determinants of species distribution: Desert horned lizards (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) in a shrub-steppe ecosystem."
29 FWB Kurt Fistrup, Senior Acoustic Specialist, National Park Service, “Acoustic and Wireless Instrumentation to Monitor Free-Ranging Animals”
29 NREL

Matt Wallenstein (NREL, CSU and Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara)
"Implications of Soil Microbial Response to Global Change for Colorado Ecosystem Functioning"
30 BSPM

Dr. Whitney Cranshaw , Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University
Writing About Entomology for the Popular Audience: Trials and Tribulations