ESPM Wildlife & Conservation Biology Seminar Series
Fridays at 12-1pm in 103 Mulford
ESPM 298 Course Control Number 29197 Instructor: Steve Beissinger
Jan. 25 Stephen Hendrix, Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Iowa - "Community Ecology of Solitary Bees in the Fragmented Prairie Landscape”
Feb. 1 Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Senior research scientist, Stanford University - “Population dynamics of tropical forest birds in Costa Rican countryside”
Feb. 8 Morgan Tingeley, Ph.D. student, ESPM, UCB - “In the Footsteps of Grinnell – Longterm Changes of California Avifauna in Response to Climate Change”.
Feb. 15 Mark Denton, Consulting Scientist Pacific Gas and Electric Company – “How PG&E Protects Birds”
Feb. 22 Adina Rissman, Ph.D. student, ESPM, UCB – “Conservation Easements on Working Landscapes”
Feb. 29 Robert Pringle, Ph.D. Student, Stanford University – “How subterranean termites regulate aboveground food-web dynamics in an African savanna."
March 7 Jeffrey Walters, Professor, Virginia Tech University - “Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, Forests, Politics, and Conservation”.
March 14 Bill Laurence, Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Institution - “Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments”
March 21 Reg Barrett, Professor, ESPM, UCB - “Fire and Fisher in the Sierra Nevada”
March 28 – SPRING BREAK
April 4 Clint Epps, Postdoctoral researcher, ESPM, UCB – “Tracks across Tanzania: investigating connectivity for multiple species at a landscape scale"
April 11 Andy Lyons, Ph.D. student, ESPM, UCB - “Evolution of Community Based Conservation: Examples from Zambia".
April 18 Don Strong, Professor, U.C. Davis – “Invasive Spartina in San Francisco Bay”
April 25 Paul Henson, Assistant Regional Director (Region 8), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “USFWS and Endangered Species Conservation”
May 2 TBA
May 9 Andres López-Sepulcre, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Riverside – “The population consequences of breeding competition in the endangered Seychelles Magpie Robin”
Last updated on Friday, July 25 2008
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