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Everyone, regardless of whether you are affiliated with E&E, is welcome and encouraged to attend these seminars.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in the Alampi Room of the Marine and Coastal Sciences Building on the G. H. Cook Campus. Refreshments are served at 3:40 p.m.
For scheduling information contact Dr.Olaf Jensen at ojensen@marine.rutgers.edu
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
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| Sept. 20 | Dr. John Clark "Systematics of the Neotropical members of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae: tales of convergent evolution in a taxonomically confusing clade"
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Lena Struwe |
| Sept. 27 | Dr. Andrew Finley "Hierarchical models for quantifying forest variables over large heterogeneous landscapes with uncertain forest area" |
Brian Clough and Edwin Green |
| Oct. 4 | Dr. John Lill "Tritrophic interactions in forest caterpillars" |
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |
| Oct. 11 | CANCELED - ANSP Symposium http://www.ansp.org/explore/our-research/bicentennial-symposium/ |
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| Oct. 18 | Dr. J. Wilson White "Design and assessment of marine reserves: theory and practice" |
Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 25 | Dr. Yana Bromberg "Computing prokaryotic diversity using functional similarity" This is Dr. Bromberg's graduate program membership seminar. |
Nina Fefferman |
| Nov. 1 | Dr. Dov Sax "An evolutionary hypothesis for invasions and tests of climate niche models" |
Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 8 | Dr. Gregg Hartvigsen "Network topology and the emergence and persistence of diseases" |
Kevin Aagaard |
| Nov. 15 | Dr. Oscar Schofield Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "Observing the Mid-Atlantic Continental Shelf: Robotic sampling of upwellings to Hurricanes " |
Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 29 | Dr. Bryan Danforth “How have DNA sequence data changed our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution?”
Cosponsored with Department of Entomology |
Rachael Winfree |
| Dec 6 |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 24 | Dr. Edmund D. Brodie III "Time to Change the Channel: Predator-Prey Arms Races and the Evolution of Tetrodotoxin Resistance in Snakes" |
Henry John-Alder |
| Jan. 31 | Dr. Myla Aronson "Life in the concrete jungle: This is Dr. Aronson's program membership seminar. |
Olaf Jensen |
| Feb.7 | Dr. Diana Nemergut "Do we need to understand microbial community structure to predict ecosystem function? Insights from community assembly theory" Co-sponsored with the Office for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics |
Joan Bennett |
| Feb. 14 | Dr. Paul Falkowski "Reconstructing the Wiring Diagrams of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles" |
Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 21 | Dr. Sadie Ryan "Clash of the Titans: People, Environment, and Climate in the Albertine Rift "
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Brian Clough |
| Feb. 27*** | NOTE SPECIAL DAY (WEDNESDAY) "Urban transformations: Co-sponsored with Department of Landscape Architecture |
Julie Lockwood |
| March 1 | SPECIAL SEMINAR ; SPECIAL TIME: 1:00 p.m.; Alampi Room "A Natural Year In An Unnatural World" Dr. Safina, an E&E alumnus, is the recipient of the 2013 Graduate School-New Brunswick Alumni Award in the Biological Sciences. |
Julie Lockwood |
| March 7 | Dr. Paul Jivoff "Blue crabs in Barnegat Bay: Potential interactions between reproductive biology and fishing pressure" |
Olaf Jensen |
| March 14 | Dr. Sarah Gaichas "Ecological modeling for fisheries management advice" |
Olaf Jensen |
| March 21 | Spring Break |
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| March 28 | Dr. Dov Sax "An evolutionary hypothesis for invasions and tests of climate niche models" |
Julie Lockwood |
| April 4 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist: "The assembly of networks of coevolving species" |
EcoGSA |
| April 11 | Dr. Bernd Blossey Department of Natural Resources "How deer, earthworms and invasive plants transform our neighborhoods, forests and protected areas" |
Lena Struwe |
| April 18 | Dr. Eric Lonsdorf "Modeling Pollination Services Across Agricultural Landscapes" |
Rachael Winfree |