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Seminar Series

January 13, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Galatowitsch

Dr. Mark Galatowitsch

Assistant Professor of  Biology

Centre College

There and Back Again: Life History

Trade-offs & Dispersal Across

Dynamic Freshwater Environments

  

ASSOCIATED PAPERS:

Developmental constraints control generalist invertebrate distributions accross a gradient of unpredictable disturbance

Trait flexibility of generalist invertebrates exposed to contrasting predation and drying stressors

January 20, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Amy Boyd

Dr. Amy Boyd

Professor of Biology

Warren Wilson College

Death Watch in the Desert and Other Adventures

  

ASSOCIATED PAPER:

Growth and demography of a declining, endangered cactus in the Sonoran Desert

 

 

January 27, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

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Dr. Shea Tuberty

Professor

Appalachian State University

The Role of Adventure, Exploration, and Discovery in the Environmental Sciences: Why We Do It and Why It’s Good for You Too!

ASSOCIATED PAPER:

Belize's Ecosystems: Threats and Challenges to Conservation in Belize

  

 

February 3, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

stevenson

Dr. Steven L. Stephenson

Research Professor

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Subantarctic Macquarie Island: A Scientific Adventure of a

Lifetime

  

ASSOCIATED PAPERS:

Myxomycetes of subantartic Macquarie Island

Myxomycetes Of Norfolk Island, South Pacific Ocean 

 

Assemblages of myxomycetes on subantartic Macquarie Island and tropical Christmas Island

 

 

February 10 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Justin Wright

Dr. Justin Wright

Associate Professor of Biology

Duke University

From the Arctic to the Tropics, from the Desert to

Wetlands, Disturbance is Everywhere. Lessons from a

Globe-Trotting Ecologist

 

Intraspecific trait variability shapes leaf trait response to altered fire regimes

 

An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale 

 

  

February 17, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

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Dr. Marielle Postava-Davignon

Assistant Professor of Biology

Virginia Wesleyan University

Adventures of a Termite Ecologist: Learning to Make the

Most of What Nature Gives You

ASSOCIATED PAPER:

Termites like it hot and humid: the ability of aboreal tropical termites to mediate their nest environment against ambient conditions

 

 

February 24, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

noel cawley

Dr. Noel Cawley

Associate Professor of Biology

Lincoln Memorial University

Changes in Gopherus polyphemus Colony Population Structure in Response to Relocation

 

 

March 3, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

 DSILVA

Dr. Joseph D'Silva

Associate Professor of Biology

Norfolk State University

Parasites, Hosts & Pursuits

 

ASSOCIATED PAPERS:

Distribution Of Helminth Parasites In Size Groups And Organs Of Hilsa Shad, Tenualosa Ilisha

Experimental transmission of proliferative kidney disease in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson 

  

 

March 10, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Rachel Goodman

Dr. Rachel Goodman

Associate Professor & Chair of Biology

Hampden-Sydney College

Hunting for Wildlife Pathogens in Virginia and Hawaii

 

 ASSOCIATED PAPERS:

Survey of Ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Introduced Frogs in Hawaii.

 

Prevalence of Ranavirus in Virginia Turtles as Detected by Tissue Sampling Versus Oral-Cloacal Swabbing

 

 

March 17, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Steve nowicki

Dr. Stephen Nowicki

Professor of Biology, Psychology, Neuroscience, & Neurobiology

Duke University & Duke University Medical Center

Adventures with a Robotic Bird in a Marsh

 

ASSOCIATED PAPER:

Receiver response to an aggressive visual signal, the wing-wave display, in swamp sparrows.  

 

 

March 31, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Derrick Lindsay

Derrick Lindsay

AWB, Stewardship CoordinatorKentucky Natural Lands Trust

Grasslands to Wildlands: Adventures in Stewardship 

 

April 7, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

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Dr. Christopher Paradise

Professor of Biology & Environmental Sciences

Davidson College

Local Adventures in the Field: Student-Driven Ecological Research at a Liberal Arts College

 

ASSOCIATED PAPERS:

Accumulation of Non-Targe Arthropods on Sticky Tree Brands

 

Assessment of Beetle and Bug Diversity in Extensively Managed Cattle Farms of Varying Cattle Density, Sward Height, and Surrounding Land Use

Using Digital Macrophotography to Measure Biodiversity, Identify Insects and Enhance Outreach and Education.

 

 

April 14, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Dr. Steen

Dr. Andrew Steen

Asssitant Professor, Environmental Geology

University of Tennessee Knoxville

What to Eat When You’re 100,000 Years Late for dinner:
The Secrets of Slow, Uncultured Microbes  in Deep and Cold Places

April 21, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

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Dr. Stephanie Coster

Assistant Professor of Biology

Randolph-Macon College

Close Encounters: Field Adventures of a Wildlife Biologist

ASSOCIATED PAPER:

Anthropogenic influences on the spatial genetic structure of black bears

 

April 28, 2021

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Dr. Carlos Rojas

Dr. Rojas

Professor of Biosystems Engineering

University of Costa Risa

A Scientific Career in a Blue Zone of Happiness: Adventures, Friends, and Fun

 

ASSOCIATED PAPERS:

The Singularity of Latin American Patterns of Happiness. In: Rojas M. (eds) Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America

 

The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons from the World's Happiest People.

 

The paradigm of forests and the survival of the fittest.