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.


    April 3, 2013

  • Thomas Quinn

    "Predation by bears on salmon: ecology, behavior and evolution"

    Hosts: Dan Hasselman and Mark Carr


  • April 10, 2013

  • Eddie Watkins

    "Not of a frondly persuasion: growing up in a world of diploid chauvinism"

    Host: Jarmila Pittermann


  • April 17, 2013

  • Martin Stevens

    “Deception and camouflage in parasites and prey”

    Host: Bruce Lyon


  • April 24, 2013

  • Catherine Burns

    "Wildlife responses to urbanization in a rapidly changing world"

    Hosts: Don Croll and Bruce Lyon


  • May 1, 2013

  • Karen Goodell

    "Responses of pollinator communities to native prairie restorations on reclaimed mines"

    Host: Ingrid Parker


  • May 8, 2013

  • Brian Silliman

    "Food webs, climate change and new paradigms in ecology"

    Host: Kerstin Wasson


  • May 15, 2013

  • Peter Westley

    “Biological invasions, adaptation, and the bride of Frankenfish”

    Host: Dan Hasselman


  • May 22, 2013

  • Kristin Laidre

    "Impacts of climate change on pack ice-associated Arctic marine mammals"

    Host: Jim Estes


  • May 29, 2013

  • Larry Crowder

    "Bycatch of Marine Megafauna: From Synthesis to Solutions"

    Host: Mark Carr


  • June 5, 2013

  • Brandon Pratt

    “Ecology and evolution of chaparral shrubs”

    Host: Jarmila Pittermann