The following is the list of seminars scheduled for Fall 2009 in the Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University. Except where noted (*), seminars are held from 3:30-4:30 PM, in Fernow 304. For a printable (PDF) version of the Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule, click here.

September 2009
 
September 1 When can efforts to control nuisance and invasive species backfire?
     Cliff Kraft, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
September 8 Nutrition and food webs: diet determination, food quantity, food quality, and phylogenetic constraints
     SKim Schulz - Department of Environmental & Forest Biology (ESF)
September 15

The development of co-management in theory and practice
    Ryan Plummer - Tourism & Environment (Brock University)

September 22 Migratory fishes as functional linkages across tropical riverscapes
    Alex Flecker - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Cornell)
September 29 National security and land use planning: (dis)connecting the dots
    Chuck Geisler - Developmental Sociology (Cornell)
 
October 2009
 
October 6 Biofuels: are they environmentally sustainable?
     Bob Howarth - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Cornell)
October 13

Adaptive management of overabundant species
         Evan Cooch - Natural Resources (Cornell)

October 20 Modeling coral disease: within-host dynamics, individual demography, and population persistence
     Steve Ellner - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Cornell)
October 27 A dynamic systems approach for integrating ecological and human dimensions in fish and wildlife management
     Jody Enck - Natural Resources (Cornell)
 
November 2009
 
November 3 Plots, Pixels, and Parcels: Trends in conceptual approaches, sampling strategies, and sustainability informatics from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
     J. Morgan Grove - United States Forest Service
November 10 Measuring the GHG emissions effects of increased US biofuels production
     Antonio Bento - Applied Economics & Management (Cornell)
November 17 Human dominated ecosystems:  Do natural processes still matter?
    Steve Raciti - Natural Resources (Cornell)
 
December 2009
 
December 1 Ecosystem-based management in action: linking science to local planning for biodiversity conservation (in the Hudson River valley)
     Leslie Zucker, Karen Strong, and Laura Heady - Natural Resources (Cornell)
December 8 DNR Undergraduate research seminars
     L. Rudstam & P. Smallidge    (Note: 12:30-1:30 PM)