spring 2022 Seminar Schedule
January 28, 2022
Learning Something from Nothing - Quantitative Modeling of Salmon Runs and Spine Growth Rings
Dr. Lynn Waterhouse
Assistant Unit Leader, USGS Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
February 4, 2022
Understanding pathogen transmission in a solitary, secretive carnivore (Puma concolor)
Dr. Meggan Craft
Associate Professor, UMN Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
February 11, 2022
Social inequality, urban biodiversity, and decoloniality in ecology and conservation science: five shifts in practice so we can do better
Dr. Madhusudan Katti
Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
February 18, 2022
2022 Minnesota Environmental Landscape: An Advocate's View
Aaron Klemz
Chief Strategy Officer, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
February 25, 2022
Finding the story in your science
Dr. Caitlin Looby
Science writer, editor, and educator
March 4, 2022
Decolonizing Land Management in Institutions of Higher Education
Dr. Praneeta Mudaliar
Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
march 11, 2022
** Spring Break - No seminar **
March 18, 2022
Mapping Tree Inequality: Why Many People Don’t Benefit from Tree Cover and Why it Matters for Climate Change and Covid19
Dr. Robert McDonald
Lead Scientist, Nature-Based Solutions, The Nature Conservancy
march 25, 2022
Fish movements and feeding in response to change and opportunity across space and time
Dr. Nathan Furey
Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
april 1, 2022
Quantifying the indirect effect of wolves on aspen in northern Yellowstone National Park: Evidence for a trophic cascade?
Dr. Lainie Brice
Post-doctoral Researcher, Cornell University
april 8, 2022
Developing and applying a population model to guide the control bigheaded carps in the Mississippi River and its sub-basins: My job at a USGS Science Center
Dr. Richie Erickson
Quantitative Ecologist, USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center
april 15, 2022
Towards Reconciliation: 10 Calls to Action to Natural Scientists Working in Canada – Role of Co-Production and Ethical Space in Indigenous Research
Lawrence Ignace
PhD Student, University of Victoria
april 22, 2022
Genetic biocontrol of pests
Dr. Michael Smanski
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
