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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 3:30 p.m.
For scheduling information contact Dr.Olaf Jensen at ojensen@marine.rutgers.edu
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 15 | Dr. Philipp Neubauer "Fishing in the Dark: Inferring larval dispersal pathways in a reef fish meta-population in Cook Strait, New Zealand." |
Olaf Jensen |
| Sept. 22 | Dr.Julie Lockwood "The Biology of Nowhere: the changing face of biodiversity in the wake of species invasions and extinctions" This is Dr. Lockwood's promotion seminar. |
Henry John-Alder |
| Sept. 29 |
Dr. Malin Pinsky |
Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 6 | Dr. Alex Vagelli |
John Dighton |
| Oct. 13 | Dr. Mya Brietbart |
Siobain Duffy |
| Oct. 20 | Dr. Jeferson Gross "From an emerging oxygenic world to epigenomic evolvability, a journey across the eukaryotic evolution" |
Debashish Bhattacharya
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| Oct. 27 | Dr. John Wiedenmann Post-Doctoral Fellow Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "Change in the Southern Ocean ecosystem: from ice to krill to whales." |
Olaf Jensen |
| Nov. 3 | Dr .Nina Fefferman "Phalanx Defenses: Evolutionary pressures and self-organizing social systems." This is Dr. Fefferman's promotion seminar. |
Henry John-Alder |
| Nov. 10 | Dr.Tammy Long Division of Science and Mathematics Education Michigan State University "Rethinking the system: Can model-based instruction promote systems-thinking in introductory biology?" |
Rebecca Jordan |
| Nov. 17 |
Dr .Peter Del Tredici "Deeply Disturbed; The Emergent Forest of the Future" |
Frank Gallagher |
| Dec.1 | Dr. Mark Robson "Global Pesticide Use: Human and Ecological Effects" This is Dr. Robson's E&E Graduate Program membership Seminar |
Julie Lockwood |
| Dec 8 | Dr. Jason Grabosky "Tree root growth patterns in the zone of rapid taper, and the implications for pavement design" This is Dr. Grabosky's promotion seminar.
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Henry John-Alder |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | Dr. Steven D'Hondt |
CoSponsored with Oceanography |
| Jan. 26 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Seminar |
Karen Wylie and the EcoGSA |
| Feb. 2 | Dr. Jennifer Krumins " Embracing the Good: when negative interactions turn positive in soil" This is Dr. Krumins' Graduate Program membership seminar |
Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 9 | Dr. Robert Scott "From Grass to Well Done Steaks: Insights into Hominin Diets from Paleontology and Experimental Biology" This is Dr. Scott's Graduate Program membership seminar |
Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 16 | Dr. Erin Vogel "Behavioral, morphological, and physiological adaptations to fruit scarcity in wild orangutans. " This is Dr. Vogel's Graduate Program membership seminar |
Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 23 | Dr. Richard Ostfeld "Biodiversity Loss and the Rise of Emerging Infectious Diseases" |
Holly Vuong |
| March1 | Dr. Henry John-Alder “Hormonal Pleiotropy and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Body Size” |
Julie Lockwood |
| March 8 | Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall "Novel contaminants in aquatic ecosystems: inputs, fates and potential ecological effects." |
Brian Clough |
| March 15 | Spring Break | |
| March 22 | Dr. Todd LaJeunesse "The introduction and spread of invasive symbiotic dinoflagellates in a time of climate warming. " |
Debashish Bhattacharya and Paul Falkowski |
| March 29 | Dr. Amy Kamarainen "Engaging students in ecosystem science and ecological modeling using multi-user virtual environments, augmented reality and games." |
Olaf Jensen |
| April 5 | Dr. Bradley Stevens "Development of In-situ Assessment Methods for black sea bass (Centropristis striata L.) Abundance and Behavior "
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Olaf Jensen |
| April 12 | Dr. Andrew Kern "Local adaptation in Drosophila: insights from a reverse ecology perspective". This is Dr. Kern's Graduate Program membership seminar |
Julie Lockwood |
| April 19 | Dr. Monica Bricelj “Adaptation to neurotoxic Alexandrium blooms in softshell clam populations: a molecular to ecosystem approach” This is Dr.Bricelj's Graduate Program membership seminar
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Julie Lockwood |