Spring 2019 Seminars
(unless otherwise noted)
To arrange for any disability accommodations needed to attend a seminar, call 831-459-5358 two weeks prior to the date of the seminar.
Taal Levi - Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University
“Biodiversity maintenance and ecosystem effects of large mammalian seed dispersers”
Host: Marm Kilpatrick
Justin Yeakel - Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources, UC Merced
“The dynamics of starvation and recovery provide insight into Cope's Rule and the evolution of grazing”
Host: Jim Estes & Ingrid Parker
Wesley Larson - USGS Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
"The importance of preserving adaptive genetic diversity: lessons from Pacific salmon and applications to Great Lakes fishes"
Host: Devon Pearse & Eric Palkovacs
Oscar Vargas - Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz
"Employing phylogenetics to understand the generation of plant diversity in the Neotropics"
Host: Kathleen Kay
Michael Bell - Research Associate, Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley
"Replicated Contemporary Evolution of Anadromous Threespine Stickleback After Colonizing Alaskan Lakes"
Host: Eric Palkovacs & Simone Des Roches
Curtis Deutsch - Associate Professor, School Oceanography, University of Washington
"Climate warming and the loss of marine aerobic habitat"
Host: Kristy Kroeker
Karen Crow - Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
"How the devil ray got its horns: the genetic basis of body plan remodeling in manta rays and their relatives"
Host: Giacomo Bernardi
Elizabeth Crone - Professor, Department of Biology, Tufts University
"Bumble bee population dynamics in changing environments"
Host: Marm Kilpatrick
Winifred Frick - Chief Scientist for Bat Conservation International, Associate Research Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz
"Saving bats around the world: Integrating science and conservation planning to address major threats to a diverse, data-deficient, and imperiled fauna"
Host: Kathleen Kay
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