ESPM Wildlife & Conservation Biology Seminar Series
Fridays at 12-1pm in 103 Mulford
May be taken for 1 credit as ESPM 198 (CC 29759) or 298 (CC 30075).
Instructor: Steve Beissinger
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Jan. 23 - Igor Lacan, Postdoctoral Researcher, ESPM – “Frogs, Fish, and Global Warming in the High Sierra”
Jan. 30 - John Wiens, Chief Scientist, Point Reyes Bird Observatory – “Climate Change and Conservation: Confronting the Uncertainty"
Feb. 6 - Wayne Linklater, Senior Lecturer, University of Wellington, New Zealand – “Sex Allocation in Conservation: Tests and Application of Theory in Animal Translocation”
Feb. 13 - Marm Kilpatrick, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz – “The Ecology and Impact of West Nile Virus Transmission”
Feb. 20 - Brett Furnas, Ph.D. student, ESPM – “Long Term Biodiversity Monitoring at the Ecoregion Scale in California”
Feb. 27 - Sarah Kupferberg, Research Scientist, UCB – “Assessing the Effects of Altered Flow Regimes on the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii) in California's Regulated Rivers Using a Population Projection Model”
March 6 - Stephanie Carlson, Assistant Professor, ESPM – “Did Biocomplexity Loss Contribute to California’s Recent Chinook Salmon Collapse?”
March 13 - Tom Allnutt, Postdoctoral Researcher, ESPM – “Expansion of Marine and Terrestrial Protected Areas in Madagascar: Contributions from Systematic Conservation Planning”
March 20 - Jennifer Wang, Ph.D. student, ESPM – “Microbial and Environmental Constraints on the Viability of Bird Eggs”
March 27 – SPRING BREAK
April 3 - Tony Barnosky, Professor, Integrative Biology – “New Needs for Nature in the Age of Global Warming”
April 10 - Alessandro Catenazzi, Postdoctoral researcher, Integrative Biology - "Understanding Amphibian Declines Along Elevational Gradients: Demise of Anuran Montane Communities in the Peruvian Andes”
April 17 - Emily Rubidge, Ph.D. student, ESPM – “Identifying Drivers of Range Shifts in Small Mammals in Yosemite National Park”
April 24 - Gary White, Professor, Colorado State University – “Program MARK: Overview and Recent Additions”
May 1 - Wendy Turner, Ph.D. student, ESPM – “Gastrointestinal Parasite and Anthrax Infections in Ungulates of Etosha National Park, Namibia”
May 8 - Bill Monahan, Research Scientist, Audubon California – “Climate Change and California Birds”
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