[ Current Semester ]

The following is the list of seminars that were scheduled in 2005-2006 in the Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University.

August 2005
August 30 Ecological monitoring: approaches based on nonlinear dynamics and information theory
     Evan Cooch (DNR - Cornell)
 
September 2005
September 6 Health, Environment and Sustainable Livelihoods: Indigenous knowledge in everyday learning action
     Rob O'Donoghue (Gold Fields Environmental Education Service Center - Rhodes University, South Africa)
September 13 Historical ecology of kelp forest ecosystems
     Jim Estes (USGS - Western Ecological Research Center)
September 20 Mysid shrimps in the Lake Ontario food web: analysis of diel vertical migrations
     Brent Boscarino (DNR - Cornell)
September 27 They're Pretty, but What Good Are They? - The Ecology, Economics, and Conservation of Wading Birds
     Donald A. McCrimmon (Cazenovia College)
 
October 2005
October 4 This is how we do it: Two countries and three provinces manage one lake (Ontario)
     Bill Werick (IJC Lake Ontario Regulation Planning Team)
October 18 Fire in our National Parks: Ecosystem Management in a World of Change
     Norman Christensen (Duke University)
October 25 Pacific salmon as keystone species in coastal freshwater ecosystems
     Daniel Schindler (School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington)
 
November 2005
November 1* Rewilding America
     Dave Foreman (Rewilding Institute)
   Note: seminar in Alumni Auditorium - Kennedy Hall - 5-6 PM
November 8 Worms, Fish, and 9/11: disaster recovery and biotic rehabilitation in the city
     Mark Bain (Center for the Environment & Natural Resources - Cornell)
November 15 Is ozone shaping the growth and composition of southern Appalachian Mountain forests?
     David Weinstein (DNR - Cornell)
November 29 Spatial heterogeneity of soil fertility in lowland tropical forests
     Joe Yavitt (DNR - Cornell)
 
December 2005
December 6 DNR Undergraduate research seminars
     Mills and Smallidge (DNR- Cornell)
 
January 2006
January 24 Lessons from evidence-based GMO risk analysis: why is it so hard to access data?
     Peter Kareiva (Nature Conservancy)
January 31 Soil organic matter accumulation in restored New York wetlands
     Katherine Ballantine (DNR - Cornell)
 
February 2006
February 7 Evaluating effects of ecological change on important sport fishes in Oneida Lake, NY
     Brian Irwin (DNR - Cornell)
February 14 Tracking Species Interactions with an Automated Radio Telemetry System
     Roland Kays (State Museum of New York)
February 21 Lake Ontario biocomplexity: Effects of embayment habitat on fish communities
     Kristi Arend (DNR - Cornell)
February 28 American Bird Conservation in the Twenty-first Century: Reality, Illusion, or Fraud?
     Charles Smith (DNR - Cornell)
 
March 2006
March 6* Deterministic and stochastic demography of the North Atlantic right whale
     Hal Caswell - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(* Joint DNR-EEB Seminar - Corson Hall - 12:30-1:30)
March 14 Cormorant and fish interactions in Oneida Lake
     Jeremy Coleman (DNR - Cornell)
March 21 Fall Break (no seminar)
March 28 Detecting Ecotones & Modeling Fish Distribution along a Lotic-Lentic Gradient of Lake Ontario
     Nuanchan Singkran (DNR - Cornell)
 
April 2006
April 4 Unraveling the mysteries of urban wildlife: Coyotes in the Chicago metropolitan area
     Stan Gehrt (Ohio State University)
April 11 On the Monitoring of Ecological Resources: Why, What and How?
     Jim Nichols (Patuxent Wildlife Research Center)
       (Joint DNR-EEB Seminar)
April 18 Evaluation of a wildlife-related human behavior modification intervention
     Meredith Gore (DNR - Cornell)
April 25 Conveying your research to the people that need it: The importance of research and communication to different sectors of the public
     DNR Faculty Roundtable
 
May 2006
May 2 Spatio-temporal analyses of loggerhead seaturtle interactions with pelagic fisheries
     Beth Gardner (DNR - Cornell)

top