SEMINAR SERIES

Spring 2013
Flyer

Wednesdays, 12:00 PM
225 BioSciences East
Note: Different times and locations for March 6th and 26th

Date                    Speaker/Affiliation           Talk Title

1/16/2013            Brian Powell (Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation)
“Pima County’s Multi-Species Conservation Plan: Balancing Development and Habitat Conservation” 

2/13/2013            William Reiners (Dept of Botany/Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming)       
“The Traits of a Good Ecologist: what do contemporary ecologists think?”

2/20/13                 Bill Matter (SNRE, University of Arizona)
“The Fence Effect: What Do We Know?  Why Should We Care?”

2/27/13                 Don Falk (SNRE, University of Arizona)
"Past, present, and future pyrogeography of western North American forests."

**3/6/2013, 3 pm      Felisa Smith (Dept. of Biology, University of New Mexico)
"Why organisms are the size they are." Genetics of GIDP Seminar Series, SNRE co-host
**Location: Student Union, Kiva Room

3/13/2013            Spring Break                                      

3/20/2013            Connie Woodhouse (Dept of Geography, UA)               
"Tree rings and their role in water resources decision-making."

**3/26/13              Craig Allen (USGS, Jemez Mountain Field Station, New Mexico)
Title: Forest Changes Near and Far: The Convergence of Climate, Land Management, and Disturbance Trends
**5:00-6:00 pm in CHEM 134
**NRGSO Invited Speaker

3/27/13                 Carlos Driscoll (Comparative Behavioral Genomics, NIH)
"Model cats: from domestication to personality disorder."

4/3/13                    Lou Pitelka (NEON)
"The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): From Petals to Petabytes."

4/17/13                  Matt Williamson (Program Director, Kane-Two Mile Ranch)
"Conservation through science: Developing resilience strategies on the Kane and Two Mile Ranches."
 
4/24/13                  Daniel Griffin (UA School of Geography)
William G. McGinnies Annual Lecture: "The Tree-Ring Record of Monsoon Climate in the American Southwest."