Spring 2012 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.
Terrie Williams
“Anatomy of a kill: Unique physiological constraints to hunting by large mammalian predators on land and in the sea”
Eric Bjorkstedt
"Growing up and going home: progress towards a synthetic understanding of recruitment dynamics in rockfishes"
Hosts: Mark Carr/Pete Raimondi
Healy Hamilton
“Conservation implications of climate space trends for western North American ecosystems”
Host: Jarmila Pittermann
Rachel Gallery
“Herbivores and pathogens maintain tree species diversity in tropical seedling communities”
Host: Kathleen Kay
Rob Raguso
"The ecology and evolution of perfume: insights from scents and non-scents in the Evening Primrose family"
Host: John Thompson
Santiago Ramirez
"Coevolution, Coadaptation, and Specialization in a Plant-Pollinator Mutualism"
Host: Kathleen KayRichard Gomulkiewicz
"Genetics, plasticity, and species' responses to environmental change"
Host: Kathleen Kay
Larry Crowder
"Bycatch of marine megafauna: From synthesis to solutions"
Host: Jim Estes
Matt Edwards
"The role of natural history in conservation biology: a kelp forest example"
Host: Jim Estes
Jeremie Brusini
Title: TBA
Host: Samantha Forde