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E&E Graduate Program Seminar Series

These seminars take place each Thursday during the semester at 4:00 pm in Marine and Coastal Sciences, the Alampi Room, Cook Campus. Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. In rare instances the seminar may be held in a different location or time. Those changes are noted on the individual notices and in the time slots below.

For further information, contact the chair of the seminar committee:

Dr. Rebecca Jordan at rebeccacjordan@yahoo.com

Everyone, regardless of whether you are affiliated with the E&E Graduate Program, is welcome
and encouraged to attend these seminars.

	Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 6	Dr. Carrie Reinhardt Adams Department of Environmental Horticulture University of Florida http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/restoration_plant_ecology "Adaptive management on a landscape scale: Effective restoration strategies for freshwater wetlands"	J.Grabosky
Sept. 13	Dr. Kathryn Hanley Department of Biology New Mexico State University http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/hanley/ *"The country mosquito and the city mosquito: the role of vectors in the emergence and evolutionary ecology of dengue virus."*	H. Vuong
Sept.20	Dr. Katharine Suding Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Califronia, Irvine http://sudinglab.bio.uci.edu/Main.html *"Living in a complex world: environmental change, resilience, and sustainability."*	S. Handel
Sept 27	Dr. Richard Bonney Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ "Bird watchers can help save the world: a citizen science story."	R. Jordan
Oct. 4	Dr. Betsey Dyer Department of Biology Wheaton College http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/BetseyDexterDyer.html "Hidden in Plain Sight: Finding Bacteria Without a Microscope."	D. Eveleigh
Oct. 11	Dr. Dina Fonseca Department of Entomology, Rutgers University http://vectorbio.rutgers.edu/ "Changes in the genetic makeup of an expanding mosquito species." NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Foran 138A	P. Morin
Oct. 18	Dr. Nina Fefferman The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers http://www.math.princeton.edu/~feferman/ *"Epidemics and the Evolution of Social Complexity."* NOTE ROOM CHANGE: FORAN 138A	R. Lathrop
Oct. 25	Dr. Ron Coleman Biological Sciences California State University, Sacramento http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/colemanr/ Fish, forests and floods: Costa Rican riverine cichlids". NOTE: ROOM CHANGE: Foran 138A	R. Jordan
Nov. 1	Dr. Donald Schaffner Department of Food Science Rutgers University http://foodsci.rutgers.edu/schaffner/ "What does food microbiology have to do with ecology and evolution?" NOTE: ROOM CHANGE: Foran 138A	P. Morin
Nov. 8	Dr. Marianne Krasny Department of Natural Resources Cornell University http://krasny.dnr.cornell.edu/ *"Civic Ecology"*	R. Jordan
Nov. 15	Dr. Eric Davidson Woods Hole Research Center http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_who/CV/edavidson.htm "Integrating the soil genesis paradigm of N and P limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with disturbance history in Amazonian forests."	W. Landesman
Nov. 22	THANKSGIVING
Nov 29	Dr. Ming Xu Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University http://crssa.rutgers.edu/people/mingxu/ *"Ecosystem Feedback to Climate Change: The Carbon Story".* Promotion Seminar	H. John-Alder
Dec. 6	Distinguished Lecture in Ecology Dr. David Tilman Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology and Director of the Cedar Creek Natural History Area University of Minnesota *"Competitive Coexistence and the Universal Tradeoff Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Perspective."* >	R. Goodman and P. Morin
	Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 31	Dr. Martin Montes-Hugo Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences http://marine.rutgers.edu/faculty_oschofield.html "Hot Days in Southern Ocean: Climate Induced Changes in the Antarctic Peninsula Ecosystem."	P. Morin
Feb. 7	Dr. Paige West Department of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University http://bc.barnard.edu/~pwest/index.html http://world.columbia.edu/programs-projects/profile-oceania.html http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/people/west.html *"Sustaining Conservation in Papua New Guinea: The life and death of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area."*	B. McCay
Feb. 14	Dr. Mikael Forup Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources; CURE "If you build it, will they come? Plant-pollinator interactions in restored vegetation."	S. Handel
Feb. 21	Dr. Weixing Zhu Binghamton University http://www.binghamton.edu/biology/facultyZhu.htm *"Nitrogen enrichment and N retention in terrestrial ecosystems."*	J. Ehrenfeld
Feb. 28	Dr. Todd Michael Waksman Institute of Microbiology Department of Plant Biology and Pathology *"Evolution of circadian transcriptional networks ."*	P.Morin
March 6	Dr. Steven Phillips AT &T Labs "Maximum entropy modelling of species geographic distributions."	R. Lathrop
March 13	Dr. Mark Lytle Bard College "Rachel Carson: Saint or Sinner" Co-sponsored with Biochemistry and Microbiology	D. Eveleigh
March 20	Spring Break
March 27	Dr. James Brown Biology Department University of New Mexico, Albuquerque http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/indexpage/indexframe03.htm "*Toward a Metabolic Theory of Ecology"*	EcoGSA 5th Annual Eminent Ecologist Seminar
March 28	Dr. Juli Wade Department of Zoology Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~wadej *“Sculpting Reproductive Circuits: Relationships among Hormones, Morphology and Behavior in the Green Anole Lizard.”* NOTE: Seminar will be held at 2:15 in Bartlett Hall 123 Co-Sponosored by the Graduate Program in Endocrinology and Animal Bioscience	H. John-Alder
April 3	Dr. Janine Caira Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/caira/caira.htm http://www.tapeworms.org *"The denizens of the deep reveal their secrets: A global look at elasmobranch tapeworms."*	M.Sukhdeo

April 10	Dr. Clive Jones Senior Scientist Cary Institute for Ecosystems Studies Millbrook NY http://www.ecostudies.org/people_sci_jones.asp "Ecosystem Engineering in a Landscape Context"	H. Vuong
April 17	Dr. Oswald Schmitz Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology Yale Univesrity http://www.eeb.yale.edu/schmitz/ *From Individuals to Ecosystems: Predator Identity and Pattern and Process in an Old-Field Ecosystem*	P. Morin
April 24	Dr. Walter Bien Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology Director; Pinelands Reseaarch Center Drexel University http://www.drexel.edu/coas/bioscience/bien.html	J. Dighton