Spring 2013 Department Seminars
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:40 PM in Natural Sciences Annex 101
(unless otherwise noted)
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability should call 831-459-4986 two weeks prior to the date of the seminar they wish to attend.
Courtesy reminder - turn off cell phones and please observe considerate eating habits during seminars.
Thomas Quinn
"Predation by bears on salmon: ecology, behavior and evolution"
Hosts: Dan Hasselman and Mark Carr
Eddie Watkins
"Not of a frondly persuasion: growing up in a world of diploid chauvinism"
Host: Jarmila Pittermann
Martin Stevens
“Deception and camouflage in parasites and prey”
Host: Bruce Lyon
Catherine Burns
"Wildlife responses to urbanization in a rapidly changing world"
Hosts: Don Croll and Bruce Lyon
Karen Goodell
"Responses of pollinator communities to native prairie restorations on reclaimed mines"
Host: Ingrid Parker
Brian Silliman
"Food webs, climate change and new paradigms in ecology"
Host: Kerstin Wasson
Peter Westley
“Biological invasions, adaptation, and the bride of Frankenfish”
Host: Dan Hasselman
Kristin Laidre
"Impacts of climate change on pack ice-associated Arctic marine mammals"
Host: Jim Estes
Larry Crowder
"Bycatch of Marine Megafauna: From Synthesis to Solutions"
Host: Mark Carr
Brandon Pratt
“Ecology and evolution of chaparral shrubs”
Host: Jarmila Pittermann