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Fall 2023 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host, Platform
Sept. 14	Marci Meixler Associate Professor EENR-Rutgers University *"Teaching and research at the nexus of landscape ecology and sustainability*" Promotion Seminar	Siobain Duffy (Chair)
Sept. 21	Enoka Kudavidanage Senior Lecturer Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka *"Biodiversity conservation challenges: Sharing experiences from the tropical island of Sri Lanka"*	Julie Lockwood
Sept. 28	Alexa McKay Senior Editor Nature Ecology and Evolution *"Demystifying Nature Journals"*	Rae Winfree
Oct. 5	Jessica Stitt Post Doctoral Associate DEENR *"Unlocking Keystone Structures: Using lidar to remotely characterize dead trees and nest cavities for wildlife applications"*	Henry John-Alder & Rick Lathrop
Oct. 12	David Baltrus Associate Professor University of Arizona - Plant Sciences *"Developing phage derived bacteriocins as strain specific agricultural antimicrobials"*	Siobain Duffy (Chair)
Oct. 19	Lynn Rothschild Senior Research Scientist NASA Ames Research Center *"Could it happen again? Replaying the tape"*	Dylan Simpson
Oct. 26	Gea-Jae Joo Professor Pusan National University, South Korea *"30 years of a river LTER (Long term Ecological Research) in South Korea"*	Myla Aronson
Nov. 2	Cortni Borgerson Assistant Professor Anthropology, Montclair University *"Wildlife conservation: Understanding and addressing endangered species hunting in Madagascar"*	Lindsay Hauff
Nov. 9	Victoria Ramenzoni Assistant Professor SEBS - Human Ecology *"Adapting to environmental fluctuations: Behavioral ecology, dietary changes and energetics among rural populations in Central Cuba"* Membership Seminar	Rae Winfree
Nov. 16	Jonathan Cohen Associate Professor/Graduate Director SUNY-ESF *"Plovers and Rabbits: The Challenge of Recovering Early Successional Endangered Species"*	Lydia Heilferty
Nov. 30	Margaret Stanley Professor University of Auckland, New Zealand *"Drivers of ecological change in cities: backyards matter*"	Julie Lockwood
Dec. 7	Jordan Lewis Postdoctoral Fellow *"Investigating the Evolution of Host Defenses Through Experimental Evolution"*	Siobain Duffy (Chair)

Spring 2023 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host, Platform
Jan. 26	Darko Cotoras California Academy of Sciences Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow "Intraspecific niche partition without speciation: individual level web polymorphism within a single island spider population" Remote Seminar	Kelvin Chen
Feb. 2	Mike Hickerson Professor Department of Biology CUNY/AMNH "Macroecological population genetics - the next era of comparative phylogeography"	Dr. Malin Pinsky
Feb. 9	Brian Sturtevant Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture "Of clockwork and catastrophes: Interactions between forest landscape structure and defoliator outbreaks in time and space"	Dr. Rick Lathrop
Feb. 16	Rachel Katz Biometrician US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) "Decision Analysis: Bridging the Research-Implementation Gap in Conservation"	Dr. Brooke Maslo
Feb. 23	Michael Manhart Assistant Professor Biotechnology and Medicine Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology "The ecology and evolution of microbial growth traits" Membership Seminar	Dr. Malin Pinsky
Mar. 2	Chi Chen Assistant Professor DEENR "Terrestrial vegetation dynamics under climate change and human activities" Membership Seminar	Dr. Siobain Duffy
Mar. 9	Stephanie Campos Assistant Professor Department of Biology Villanova University "From physiology to pheromones: How chemicals control the competitive lives of lizards"	Dr. Henry John-Alder
Mar. 23	Thomas Schlacher Professor University of the Sunshine Coast-Australia "Ocean Beaches as Dynamic Edges of the Sea – A Moveable Feast of Wildlife and Cross-System Couplings"	Dr. Brooke Maslo
Mar. 30	Cynnamon Dobbs Brown Assistant Professor Department of Natural Resources and the Environment The University of Connecticut "The multiple dimensions of urban nature, beyond ecological benefits"	Dr. Myla Aronson
Apr. 6	Kristin Winchell Assistant Professor NYU "Urban environments as natural laboratories for rapid evolutionary change"	Dr. Julie Lockwood
Apr. 13	Jonathan Lefcheck Tennenbaum Coordinating Scientist Smithsonian Institution "From theory to the dinner plate: how seagrasses are progressing ecology and saving the planet"	Dr. Aurore Maureaud
Apr. 20	Rodney Richardson Assistant Professor Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science "Metagenetic applications in pollinator biology and conservation"	Dr. Katie Turo
Apr. 27	Bob Hedin President Hedin Environmental "Restoration of ecological values through the passive treatment of polluted mine water"	Dr. Brooke Malso

Fall 2022 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host, Platform
Sept. 15	Dr. John Wiedenmann Assistant Professor Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey Why aren't New England groundfish recovering despite more than two decades of management efforts? (Promotion Seminar)	Dr. Siobain Duffy (Professor & Chair)
Sept. 22	Dr. Juan Bonachela Assistant Professor Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey Going viral: understanding host-virus eco-evolutionary dynamics from the villain’s point of view (Promotion Seminar)	Dr. Siobain Duffy (Professor & Chair)
Sept. 29	Chris Lepczyk Professor of Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Auburn University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Michigan State University *“Ecology, Management, and Policy of Free-ranging Cats”* (Virtual Seminar)	Dr. Myla Aronson
Oct. 6	Dr. Lauren Toth Resarch Physical Scientist U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center *“The past, present, and future of coral-reef growth in south Florida”* (Virtual Seminar)	Dr. Brooke Maslo
Oct. 13	Dr. Corina Tarnita Professor and Director, Program in Environmental Studies Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Princeton University *"Self-organization and robustness across ecological and evolutionary scales"* (Virtual Seminar)	Dr. Juan Bonachela
Oct. 20	Adrian Castellanos Data Manager Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies *"Lions and tigers and deer, oh no!': Predicting mammal hosts for SARS-CoV-2"*	Morgan Mark
Oct. 27	Lara Roman Research Ecologist Forest Service / Northern Research Station U.S. Department of Agriculture *“Urban forests as inherited landscapes (or how an ecologist came to embrace history)”* (Virtual Seminar)	Dr. Jason Grabosky
Nov. 3	Sarah Hoy Research Assistant Professor College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Michigan Tech *"The causes and consequences of selective foraging behaviour: case studies from northern goshawks, moose and wolves"* (Virtual Seminar)	Christian Crosby
Nov. 10	Dr. Jennifer Powers University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences *"Regeneration in Tropical Dry Forests—From Seeds to Stands (+ A Bonus Dry Forest Travelogue!)"* 2:00 pm in the Alampi Room in the DMCS Building - 71 Dudley Road	Joint Seminar: The Department of Environmental Sciences and The Department of Geography, and Rutgers Climate Institute
Nov. 17	Dr. Tobias Kukula Professor School of Marine Science & Policy University of Delaware *"Hydrodynamic transport of marine debris: Why it matters for debris fate and ecological risk"*	Isabelle Zoccolo
Dec. 1	Dr. Subhasis Giri Assistant Research Professor Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey *"Integration of field observation and Modeling to Improve Water Resources Management"* Program Membership Seminar)	Dr. Malin Pinsky
Dec. 8	Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Department of Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science *"Unlocking the mysteries of coral immunity"*	Dr. Malin Pinsky

Spring 2022 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host, Platform
Feb. 3	Dr. Mayra Rodríguez González GUND Institute for Environment The Univesrity of Vermont Improving the relevance of ecosystem services research through knowledge co-production	Dr. Myla Aronson
Feb. 10	Dr. Mimi R. Koehl Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley Swimming and crawling in a turbulent ocean by marine larvae	Dr. Juan Bonachela
Feb. 17	Dr. Kevin Njabo Center for Tropical Research UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability	Dr. Julie Lockwood
Feb. 24	Dr. Simone Des Roches School of aquatic and Fisheries Sciences College of the Environment University of Washington,Seattle The importance of intraspecific variation for ecosystems and people	Dr. Brooke Maslo
Mar. 3	Dr. Lily Khadempour Earth, and Environmental Sciences Rutgers University- Newark Ecology and evolution in insect-microbial symbioses	Dr. Malin Pinsky
Mar. 10	Dr. Juniper Simonis DAPPER Stats Identifying, quantifying, and communicating the impacts of chemical weapons on urban communities and ecosystems	Dr. Brooke Maslo
Mar. 24	Dr. Ricardo Rocha CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources University of Porto and University of Lisbon Challenges and opportunities for the conservation of Malagasy bats (and their ecosystem services)	Erin McHale
Mar. 31	Dr. Marcelo Gehara Department of Biological Sciences Rutgers Univesrity - Newark Understanding Speciation with Evolutionary Modeling and AI	Dr. Brendan Reid
Apr. 7	Dr. Charles Nilon College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources University of Missouri Urban Biodiversity, Nearby Nature, and Environmental Justice	Dr. Myla Aronson
Apr. 14	Dr. Jessica Forrest Department of Biology University of Ottawa Drivers of population dynamics in a specialist solitary bee: does mismatch matter	Dylan Simpson
Apr. 19	Judith Bronstein - Eminent Ecologist University Distinguised Professor Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona Bad-News Bees? Nectar Robbing and the "Temptation to Cheat" in Mutualisms	ECO GSA
Apr. 21	Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Department of Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science SEMINAR CANCELLED!	Dr. Malin Pinsky
Apr. 28	Dr. Senay Yitbarek Department of Biology The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Elucidating ecological complexity across scales	Kelvin Chen

Fall 2021 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host, Platform
Sept. 16	Dr. Siobain Duffy Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University - New Brunswick Effects of host range mutations on subsequent emergence of a model RNA virus	Julie Lockwood
Sept. 23	Dr. Brendan Reid Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers Univesity - New Brunswick Genetics of marine communities through time	Malin Pinsky
Sept. 30	Dr. Andy Pershing Director of Climate Science Climate Central Survival skills for the Anthropocene: What marine heatwaves and other ocean surprises can teach us about living in a warming world	John Weidenmann
Oct. 7	Dr. Theresa Laverty Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Chicago Conservation ecology of desert bats	Brooke Maslo
Oct. 14	Dr. Javan Bauder School of Natural Resources and the Environment University of Arizona Individual-based approaches for landscape-scale conservation: Examples from the federally threatened eastern indigo snake	Tyler Christensen
Oct. 21	Dr. Francisco Ferreira Rutgers Center for Vector Biology Department of Entomology Rutgers University - New Brunswick Hawaiian bird malaria: dissecting vector-parasite relationships	Dina Fonseca
Oct. 28	Dr. Maria Miriti Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Ohio State University Driving change: Drought and other disasters	Zoë Kitchel
Nov. 4	CANCELLED: Dr. Lily Khadempour Earth, and Environmental Sciences Rutgers - Newark Ecology and evolution in insect-microbial symbioses	Malin Pinsky
Nov. 11	Dr. Matt Schuler Biology Department Montclair State University From pollution to policy: Understanding and mitigating human impacts on freshwater environments	Ryan Almeida
Nov. 18	Dr. Vianey Leos Barajas Bayesian Ecological & Environmental Statistics University of Toronto Fitting hidden Markov models in practice	Alexa Fredston
Dec. 2	Dr. Eduardo Colombo Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University - New Brunswick A multiscale approach to spatial patterns in plankton communities: the large-scale consequences of taxis-induced mesoscale patchiness in plankton communities	Juan Bonachela
Dec. 9	Dr. Marc Rius Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton University of Southampton Ecological and evolutionary consequences of the global redistribution of biodiversity	Bobby Kwait

Spring 2021 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 21	Dr. Christina Bergey Department of Genetics Rutgers University Genomic insights into adaptation of humans to rainforest environments Program membership seminar	Malin Pinsky
Jan. 28	Dr. Karen Warkentin Boston University Different people ask different questions: a queer perspective on studying diversity in life history and behavior	Katrina Catalano
Feb. 4	Dr. David Steen Reptile and Amphibian Research Leader Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) Founder and Executive Director of The Alongside Wildlife Foundation Using Snakes And Turtles to Understand Ecology and Conservation.	John Wiedenmann
Feb. 11	Dr. Sandra Knapp Natural History Museum London Past, present and future of floristics - the continued relevance of floras in a modern world	Lena Struwe
Feb. 18	Dr. Katie Barott Department of Biology University of Pennsylvania Regulation of acid-base homeostasis in reef-building corals undergoing a changing climate	Zoe Kitchel
Feb. 25	Dr. Tanisha Williams Department of Biology Bucknell University Conserving Biodiversity from South Africa to Australia	Kate Douthat
Mar. 4	Dr. Anthony Geneva Center for Computational & Integrative Biology Rutgers University - Camden Enabling evolutionary genomics with high-quality reference genome assemblies Program membership seminar	Malin Pinsky
Mar 11.	Dr. Darcy Bradley Sustainable Fisheries Group Co-Director University of Califormia, Santa Barbara Bridging movement ecology and fisheries science to improve conservation outcomes	Alexa Fredston
Mar. 18	Spring Break
Mar. 25	Dr. Matthew McCary Department of Biosciences Rice University Feast or famine: how resource availability can influence ecosystem dynamics	Kelvin Chen
April 1	Dr. Elizabeth Watson Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Wetlands Section Leader, Patrick Center for Environmental Research Drexel University	Rick Lathrop
April 8	Dr. Anne Maria Eikeset Norges Bank Investment Management (Oslo Area, Norway) Understanding crisis through interdisciplinary - A view from a large fund	Juan Bonachela
April 15	Dr. Scott V. Edwards Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Using genomics and natural experiments to probe the evolutionary history of birds	Alvin Crespo
April 22	Dr. Mary Whelan Department of Environmental Science Rutgers University	Julie Lockwood

Fall 2020 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 10	Dr. Carla Staver Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University Tropical biomes in a changing world	Zoe Kitchel
Sept. 17	Dr. Alexa Fredston Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers University Causes and consequences of species range shifts in a changing climate	Malin Pinsky
Sept 24	Dr. Brooke Maslo Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers University Expanding Traditional Paradigms of Sandy Beach Ecology to Inform Coastal Zone Management This is Dr. Maslo's promotion seminar	Jule Lockwood
Oct. 1	Dr. Sarah Smith Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University Weathering the Storm: Responses and Adaptation Strategies of Commercial Fishermen in the Northeast U.S. to Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic	John Wiedenmann
Oct. 8	Dr. Andrea J. Adams Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara Recovering California's frogs: mixed methods approaches for applied conservation science	Abigail Golden
Oct. 15	Dr. Micaela Martinez Bakker Department of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia University Biological Rhythms in the Anthropocene	Zoe Kitchel
Oct. 22	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Andrew Gonzalez Liber Ero Chair in Conservation Biology \| Killam Fellow \| Founding director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science McGill University Montreal, Canada Multiscale biodiversity science for the Anthropocene	Paulina Arancibia
Oct. 29	Dr. Helmut Hillebrand Director, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity University of Oldenburg, Changing biodiversity in changing environments: temporal turnover across scales of time and space	Malin Pinsky
Nov. 5	Dr. Peter Buston Director of the BU Marine Program Boston University Social Evolution in the Clown Anemonefish	Katrina Catalano
Nov. 12	Dr. Justin Yeakel School of Natural Sciences University of California, Merced The dynamics of starvation and recovery provide insight into Cope's Rule and the evolution of grazing	John Wiedenmann
Nov. 19	Dr. Brandon Chasco National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Lost at sea: unraveling the mysteries of marine salmon survival	John Wiedenmann
Dec. 3	Dr. Jessica Ware Curator of Odonata & non-Holometabolous Minor Orders American Museum of Natural History On dragonflies, damselflies and roaches: studying insect molecular and morphological evolution	Kimberly Russell

Spring 2020 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Feb. 6	Dr. Thomas M. Grothues Rutgers University Shoreline fish habitat function and dysfunction in New York Harbor Program Membership Seminar	Olaf Jensen
Feb. 13	Dr. Donnie Peterson Rutgers University *Impact, preference, and performance of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) on historic and novel hosts*	Julie Lockwood
Feb. 20	Dr. Joyce Ong Rutgers University Prevalence of synchrony among marine fisheries and its drivers	Olaf Jensen
Feb. 27	Dr. J. Angelo Soto-Centeno Rutgers University-Newark "Extinction and Survival in the Caribbean: Climate, humans, & the loss of vertebrate diversity"	Brooke Maslo
March 5	CANCELLED: Dr. Elizabeth Watson Drexel University	Rick Lathrop
March 5	Dr. Evan Eskew Rutgers University "Conservation, disease, and data"	Brooke Maslo
March 12	Dr. Mark Urban University of Connecticut "The Revolution of Evolution in Ecology"	Julie Lockwood
March 19	Spring Break
March 26	Dr. Peter Buston Boston Univeristy "Social Evolution in the Clown Anemonefish"	Katrina Catalano
April 2	Dr. Katie Barott University of Pennsylvania "Regulation of acid-base homeostasis in reef-building corals undergoing a changing climate"	Zoe Kitchel
April 9	Dr. Carla Staver Yale University	Zoe Kitchel

Fall 2019 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 19	Dr. Lisa McManus Rutgers University Coral reef dynamics in a changing world: a multiscale perspective	John Wiedenmann
Sept. 26	Dr. Laura Reynolds Rutgers University What's mud got to do with it? : how the geological record can inform studies on tidal marshes in the anthropocene	Julie Lockwood
Oct. 3	Dr. Michael Gallagher US Forest Service Northern Research Station Fire and Ticks: Fire management for forest health and public safety may also impact vectors of infectious disease to humans and animals	Jason Grabosky
Oct. 10	Dr. Craig W. Schneider Trinity College Bermuda: Tracing the Evolution of Seaweed Taxonomy Over Decades	Peter Morin
Oct. 17	Dr. Sarah Karpanty Virginia Tech Conservation complexities: How the red knot is a model for the challenges and opportunities of conserving shorebirds across the Atlantic Flyway	John Wiedenmann
Oct. 24	Dr. Jane Foster University of Minnesota Unexpected expansion of montane tree species under climate change: The puzzling case of red spruce in the eastern US	Bernie Isaacson
Oct. 31	Dr. Andrea Egizi Rutgers University The changing tick-borne disease landscape in Monmouth County, NJ	Dina Fonseca
Nov. 7	Adam Martiny University of California, Irvine Ecological stoichiometry of marine plankton	Juan Bonachela
Nov. 14	Dr. Stephanie Spielman Rowan University Cautionary tales in phylogenetic model selection	Siobain Duffy
Nov. 21	Dr. Lesley Thorne Stony Brook University Understanding urban whales: Studying cetacean ecology to inform management in the face of anthropogenic threats	Danielle Brown
Nov. 28	Thanksgiving
Dec. 5	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Mary O'Connor Our changing biosphere: understanding our future from first principles	Katrina Catalano

Spring 2019 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Feb. 7	Dr. Tetsuya Nakamu Rutgers University “The genetic mechanisms underlying fish diversity and fish-to-tetrapod transition”. This is Dr. Nakamu's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Feb. 14	Dr. Myla Aronson Rutgers University "Biodiversity in the Concrete Jungle: Understanding Nature in Cities for a Resilient Future" This is Dr. Aronson's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Feb. 21	Dr. Olaf Jensen Rutgers University "The River Wolf and the Blue Pearl: Ecology and Conservation of Mongolia’s Freshwater Ecosystems"	John Wiedenmann
Feb. 28	Dr. Derek Zelmer University of South Carolina - Aiken "Parasite communities: surveillance, scaling, and synchrony"	Rita Grunberg
March 7	Dr. Heather Lynch Stony Brook University "How many Adélie penguins are there? and other mysteries solved by satellites"	Abigail Golden
March 14	Dr. Cynthia Downs Hamilton College "Immunology Across Biological Scales."	Rita Grunberg
March 21	Spring Break
March 28	Dr. Emily Meineke Harvard University Herbaria "Herbivory through the ages: Novel methods for understanding how global change affects plant-insect interactions"	Myla Aronson
April 4	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Marlene Zuk University of Minnesota "Rapid evolution in silence: adaptive signal loss in the Pacific field cricket"	Rita Grunberg
April 11	Dr. Jennifer Dunne Vice President for Science Sante Fe Institute "The Deep Time Frontiers of Ecological Network Research"	Michael Roswell
April 18	Dr. Doug Zemeckis Rutgers University "Investigating the Movements, Stock Structure, and Mortality of Marine Fishes Using Electronic Tagging" This is Dr. Zemeckis' program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
April 25	Dr. Nicholas Dulvy Simon Fraser University	Olaf Jensen

Fall 2018 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 20	Dr. Stephanie Carlson Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley "Managing for resilience of inland fishes"	John Wiedenmann
Sept. 27	Dr. Chris Field National Socio-environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) University of Maryland "Integrating ecology and social science to predict ecosystem change for tidal marshes"	Julie Lockwood
Oct. 4	Dr. Amy Savage Department of Biology Rutgers University - Camden "Diversity, resilience, and nutritional ecology of urban arthropods" This is Dr. Savage's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Oct. 11	Dr. Juan Bonachela Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University - New Brunswick "Quantifying ecological transitions" This is Dr. Bonachela's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Oct. 18	Dr. Mary Caswell Stoddard Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University "The Evolution of Colorful Signals and Diverse Structures in the Avian World"	Michael Allen
Oct. 25	Dr. Holly Kindsvater Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Information from adaptation: how species' life histories help them cope with the Anthropocene." This is Dr. Kindsvater's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Nov. 1	Dr. Rich Hallett US Forest Service https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Hallett2 "Urban Forest Management: Seeing the forest through the street trees"	Myla Aronson
Nov. 8	Dr. Benjamin Lintner Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University- New Brunswick "Land-atmosphere interactions: What is the role of vegetation?" This is Dr. Lintner's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Nov. 15	Dr. Andrea Graham Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University "Rapid environmental effects on nematode susceptibility in rewilded mice: developing mesocosms for This Wormy World"	Seth Bromagen
Nov. 22	Thanksgiving
Nov. 29	Dr. Luis Zambrano Instituto de Biología, UNAM. Secretario Ejecutivo de la Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Ángel (REPSA) "The need of a socio-ecosystem approach to sustain urban spaces"	Steven Handel
Dec. 6	Dr. Katherine Dawson Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University - New Brunswick "Biogeochemistry and Ecology: Charismatic microbial and macrofaunal studies". This is Dr. Dawson's program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen

Spring 2018 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 25	Canceled; will be rescheduled Fall 2018. Dr. Matthew Palmer Columbia University "Plants in the urban landscape: Designing for function and dynamic change"	Joni Baumgarten
Feb. 1	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist 2017 Dr. Hopi Hoekstra Harvard University "From the lab to the field: the genetic basis of evolutionary change"	EcoGSA
Feb. 8	Dr. William Fagan University of Maryland "Animal Movement: Memory, Learning, and Autocorrelation"	Michael Roswell
Feb 15	Dr. Amy Savage Rutgers University - Camden "Diversity, resilience, and nutritional ecology of urban arthropods" Graduate Program Membership Seminar	Olaf Jensen
Feb. 22	Dr. David Post Yale University "The tale of two fish: eco-evolutionary feedbacks and evolutionary cascades in lakes"	Rachel Paseka
March 1	Dr. Ricardo Martinez-Garcia Princeton University "Causes and consequences of asynchrony in a transition to aggregative multicellularity: insights from non-aggregated cells".	Malin Pinsky
March 8	Dr. Mansha Seth-Pasricha Rutgers University "Epistasis poses limited genomic constraints on RNA virus emergence"	Malin Pinsky
March 15	Spring Break
March 22	Dr. Sarah Kocher Princeton University "Harnessing natural variation to study the evolution of social behavior in bees."	Michael Roswell
March 29	Rescheduled and moved to April 26 Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn Rutgers University	Malin Pinsky
April 5	Dr. Christopher Solomon Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies "A framework for understanding lake food web productivity: or, why we turned a lake brown and what we learned." Graduate Program Membership Seminar	Olaf Jensen
April 12	Dr. Katie Malcolm Rutgers University "Do prescribed burns affect the soil ecology of the NJ Pinelands?"	John Dighton
April 19	Dr. Mary Katherine (Katy) Gonder Drexel Unversity "The case for ecological speciation in chimpanzees from genome-wide SNP data from wild populations in Cameroon."	Malin Pinsky
April 26	Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn Rutgers University "Infectious disease in the anthropocene: ecological and evolutionary dynamics"	Malin Pinsky

Fall 2017 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 21	Dr. Herman Pontzer Hunter College, City University of New York “The Crown Joules: Energy, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and other Primates”	Henry John-Alder and Erin Vogel
Sept. 28	Dr. Malin Pinsky Rutgers University "Life in a giant water bath: Consequences for ecological dynamics in the ocean" Promotion Seminar	Henry John-Alder
Oct. 5	Dr. Vince Formica Swarthmore College "Natural selection for animal social networks".	Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar
Oct. 12	Dr. Amy Freestone Temple University "Biodiversity and bioinvasions: marine community ecology from local to latitudinal scales"	Julie Lockwood
Oct. 19	Dr. Sara Ruane Rutgers University - Newark "Understanding and Describing Snake Diversity in the Era of Phylogenomics" Graduate Program Membership Seminar	Olaf Jensen
Oct.26	Dr. Marci Meixler Rutgers University "Applications of spatial analysis to coastal ecosystems" Promotion Seminar	Henry John-Alder
Nov. 2	Dr. Brooke Maslo Rutgers University "Can Pathogens Shape the Potential for Evolutionary Rescue of Host Populations? " Reappointment Seminar	Henry John-Alder
Nov. 9	Dr. Nazia Arbab Rutgers University "Spatial analysis of land use/land cover change in the Raritan River Watershed"	Malin Pinsky
Nov. 16	Dr. Martin Turcotte University of Pittsburgh “The impact of plant rapid evolution on species interactions” Co-sponsored with the Department of Entomology	Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Nov 23	Thanksgiving
Nov. 30	Dr. Elizabeth Nichol Swarthmore College "Biodiversity and ecosystem services across a habitat loss gradient: thresholds, tradeoffs and traits, oh my!”	Rita Grunberg
Dec. 7	Dr. Thomas Mozdzer Bryn Mawr College "Alteration of ecosystem processes through rapid environmental filtering of foundation species"	Joni Baumgarten

Spring 2017 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 26
Feb. 2	Dr. Christina Riehl Princeton University "Cheaters and Collaborators: The evolution of cooperative breeding in a tropical bird"	Behthanne Socolar
Feb. 9	Dr. Herman Pontzer - CANCELLED - Will be rescheduled fall 2017 Hunter College, City University of New York "The Crown Joules: Energy, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and other Primates"	Henry John-Alder
Feb. 16	Dr. Kimberly Russell Rutgers University "Making Lemonade: Using Managed Land Under Transmission Lines to Inform Wild Bee Conservation Efforts" Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
Feb. 23	Dr. Emily Moberg Rutgers University	Malin Pinsky
March 2	Dr. Susan Perkins American Museum of Natural History "Malaria�s Many Mates: The Diversity and Evolution of Haemosporidians"	Rita Grunberg
March 9	H. Resit Akcakaya Stony Brook University "Species extinctions under climate change: prediction, understanding, prevention"	Oliver Stringham
March 16	Spring Break
March 23	Dr. Jeremy Fox University of Calgary "The spatial hydra effect: that which does not kill metapopulations makes them stronger"	Peter Morin
March 30	Dr. Jeremy Draghi Brooklyn College "Causes and consequences of variation in evolvability."	Siobain Duffy
April 6	Dr. Sybil Gotsch Franklin and Marshall College "Withstanding drought: Ecological strategies of canopy epiphyte communities in a tropical montane region"	Erin Vogel
April 13	Dr. Tad Fukami Stanford University "Embracing historical contingency in community ecology: current status of the field and some insights from nectar microbes"	Michael Roswell
April 20	Dr. Elizabeth Alter CUNY, York College "Life at the extremes: evolutionary convergence in rapids-adapted fishes of the lower Congo River"	Malin Pinsky

Fall 2016 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 22	Dr. Barbara Han Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies "Applications of machine learning for macroecology of zoonotic disease " Program membership seminar	Ariel Kruger
Sept. 29	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Marianne Krasny Department of Natural Resources Cornell University "Civic Ecology: is there a place for community environmental stewardship?"	EcoGSA / Amanda Sorensen
Oct. 6	Dr. Peter Rosenbaum SUNY Oswego *"Conservation of the bog turtle (Glyptemys = Clemmys muhenbergii) in Western and Central New York State”*	Joan Bennett
Oct. 13	Dr. Brooke Flammang Federated Department of Biological Sciences New Jersey Insitutute of Technology/Rutgers Newark "Morphological and Functional Diversity among Fishes" Program membership seminar	Henry John-Alder
Oct. 20	Dr. Jennifer Cherrier CUNY Brooklyn "The Green Horizon: Can green infrastructure address runoff & climate change challenges?"	Christina Kaunzinger
Oct. 27	Dr. S.Tonia Hsieh Temple University	Natalie Lemanski
Nov. 3	Dr. Subhasis Giri Rutgers University " Sustainable Raritan River Initiative".	Rick Lathrop
Nov. 10	250th Revolutionary Thinkers Dr. Amy Tuininga Montclair University "A Revolution of Inclusion: Building Partnerships to Achieve Sustainability in Ecosystem Health, Public Health, and Corporate Triple Bottom Line"	Henry-John-Alder
Nov. 17	Dr. Anne Nielsen Department of Entomology Rutgers University "Invasion Ecology of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: A Biological and Behavioral Perspective" Program membership seminar	Olaf Jensen
Nov. 24	Thanksgiving
Dec. 1	Dr. Melinda Rostal EcoHealth "A One Health Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Emerging Infectious Diseases"	Jennifer Hoey and Amanda Sorensen
Dec. 8	Dr. Melissa Pespeni University of Vermont "From Sea to Shining Beetle: Uncovering Mechanisms of Adaptation and Innovation"	Jennifer Hoey

Spring 2016 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan 28	Dr. Shahid Naeem Columbia University "The thermal significance of biodiversity: A new look into the invisible realm of the Arctic tundra."	Peter Morin
Feb. 4	Dr. Timothy Watkins National Park Service "Science and the National Parks: Context, Needs, and Opportunities"	Henry John-Alder
Feb. 11	CANCELLED : Dr. Mark Siddall American Musuem of Natural History "New Technologies for opening a can of worms".	Rachel Paseka
Feb 11	Dr. Jessica Castillo-Vardaro Princeton University "Pikas in Peril?: Assessing vulnerability to climate change for the American pika"	Malin Pinsky
Feb. 18	Dr. Elena Kramer Harvard University "Understanding the genetic basis of morphological novelty in flowers."	Lena Struwe
Feb. 25	Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant Princeton University "In search of the causes of evolution: Darwin's finches on Galápagos".	Malin Pinsky
March 3	Dr. Ana Carolina Carnaval City University of New York	Malin Pinsky
March 10	Dr. Tadashi Fukami Stanford University "Embracing historical contingency in community assembly"	Michael Roswell
March 17	SPRING BREAK
March 24	Dr. Jason Kolbe University of Rhode Island *"City slickers: ecological and behavioral responses of Anolis* lizards to urban environments**"	Julie Lockwood
March 31	Dr. Brenda Casper University of Pennsylania "Steppe changes? Predicting response to climate change in the Mongolian steppe"	Alexis Kleinbeck
April 7	Dr. Andrew Noble University of California, Davis "Synchrony across space in population dynamics, and magnets?"	Marci Meixler
April 14	Dr. Ken Andersen Danish Technical University Center for Ocean Life "Characteristic sizes of life in the ocean"

Fall 2015 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 10	Dr. Ming Xu Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources "Using Process-based Models to Estimate Ecosystem Services and Their Values in Qinghai Province, China." This is Dr. Xu's promotion seminar	Henry John-Alder
Sept. 17	Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt Princeton University "The molecular structure of domestication: A case study of canines"	Henry John-Alder and Malin Pinsky
Sept. 24	Dr. Mark Genung Rutgers University "Scaling up biodiversity-ecosystem services research from experiments to the landscape"	Malin Pinsky
Oct. 1	TIME CHANGE TO 2:00 P.M. in Alampi Room. Dr. Nick Kaplinsky Swarthmore College "A high resolution dynamic view of cellular responses to high temperature stress in plants."	Bethanne Socolar
Oct. 8	Dr. Joshua Ginsberg Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies *"Roaring Back?* A fragile global recovery of some large carnivores and what it tells us about conservation."	Nina Fefferman
Oct. 15	Dr. Jonathan Dushoff McMaster University "The ecology and evolution of infectious disease: Theoretical, computational and statistical approaches"	Rachael Winfree
Oct. 22	Dr. Mary Blair American Museum of Natural History " Scales of Wildlife Trade in Vietnam: Integrating Molecular Phylogenetics, Ethnography, and Econometrics to Address a Complex Problem"	Talia Young
Oct. 29	Dr. Ted Daeschler Drexel University "Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates"	Natalie Howe
Nov. 5	Dr. Angelica Gonzalez Department of Biology Rutgers Camden ?"Structure and dynamics of ancient and modern food webs in a changing world" This is Dr. Gonzalez's membership seminar	Nina Fefferman
Nov. 12	Dr. Jason Munshi-South Fordham University "A Tale of Two Rodents: population genomics of deer mice and rats in New York City"	Myla Aronson
Nov. 19	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Seminar Dr. Andrew Dobson Princeton University "The Eye of the Finch - Rapid Evolution in an Emerging Avian Pathogen”	EcoGSA
Nov. 26	Thanksgiving
Dec. 3	Dr. Susannah Lerman University of Massachusetts - Amherst "Beyond benefits for people: How backyard habitats support ecosystem services for wildlife"	Myla Aronson and Jason Grabosky

Spring 2015 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan 29	Dr. Samantha Chapman Villanova University "Mangroves marching northward: impacts of range shifts on carbon cycling and coastal protection"	Natalie Howe
Feb.5	Dr. Daniel Cariveau Rutgers University "Biodiversity, ecosystem services and conservation of native bees in agroecosystems"	Malin Pinsky
Feb. 12	Dr. Eunsoo Kim American Museum of Natural History "Green Algae: Phagocytosis, Endosymbiosis, and Genome Evolution"	Debashish Bhattacharya and Paul Falkowski
Feb. 19	Dr. Alison Sweeney University of Pennsylvania "Photosymbiotic Giant Clams are Transformers of Solar Flux"	Malin Pinsky
Feb. 26	Dr. David Wilcove Princeton University "Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia: the good, the bad, and the frightening."	Orion Weldon
March 5	CANCELLED Dr. Joshua Ginsberg Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies *"Roaring Back?* A fragile global recovery of some large carnivores and what it tells us about conservation."	Julie Lockwood
March 12	Dr. Mark Urban University of Connecticut "Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change."	Peter Morin
March 19	SPRING BREAK
March 26	Dr. Scott Gilbert Swarthmore College "We Are All Lichens: How Symbiosis Reshapes Individuality"	Michael Roswell
April 2	Colette Feehan Dalhousie University, Halifax "Increasing frequency of disease drives community dynamics in a kelp bed ecosystem."	Diane Adams
April 9	Dr. Daniel Weinreich Brown University "Evolution of the Roundest: Why Populations Reside on Domes and not Volcanoes on the Fitness Landscape"	Siobain Duffy
April 16	Dr. Volker Rudolf Rice University "Thinking inside the box: Community level consequences of stage-structured populations"	Peter Morin
April 23	Dr. Susanna Remold University of Louisville "Stalking the elusive generalist: Pseudomonas in the home”	Siobain Duffy

Fall 2014 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 11	Dr. Siobain Duffy Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "What they are vs what they do: the contribution of genomic architecture and ecology to long-term viral evolution " This is Dr. Duffy's promotion seminar	Henry John-Alder
Sept. 18	Dr. Lyndon Estes Princeton University "The sustainability of agricultural expansion in the 21st century's hotspot of global change"	Rick Lathrop
Sept. 25	Dr. Romain Libbrecht Rockefeller University "Division of labor in insect societies: Genetic components and physiological regulation"	Henry John-Alder and Malin Pinsky
Oct. 2	Dr. Frank Gallagher Department of Landscape Architecture Rutgers University "Brownfields to Green, the Easy Way" This is Dr. Gallagher's membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
Oct. 9	Dr. Helen Fox Director, Marine Science World Wildlife Fund "Solving the mystery of marine protected area (MPA) performance: linking governance, conservation, ecosystem services, and human well being"	Olaf Jensen
Oct. 16	Dr. Matthew Bolek Oklahoma State University "Unraveling a Gordian knot: Discovering the Biodiversity of Gordian Worms (Phylum, Nematomorpha)"	Sukhdeo Lab
Oct. 23	Dr. Dustin Brisson University of Pennsylvannia "Evolution and evolvability of antigenic variation"	Siobain Duffy
Oct. 30	Dr. Howard Rosenbaum Wildlife Conservation Society "CHARTING THE COURSE TO RECOVERY The Role of Genetics in Conservation"	Malin Pinsky
Nov. 6	Dr. Eric Wommack University of Delaware “Uncovering the biology of unknown viruses through metagenomics and nucleotide metabolism genes”	Kay Bidle
Nov. 13	Dr. John Wiedenmann Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Identifying effective strategies for sustainable fisheries management" This is Dr. Wiedenmann's membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
Nov. 20	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Barbara Block Stanford University "Sushi and Satellites: Tracking Giant Bluefin and Sharks Across the Blue Serengeti"	EcoGSA
Dec. 4	Dr. Nancy Knowlton Smithsonian Institute "The evolutionary diversity and ecological complexity of coral reefs"	Malin Pinsky
Dec. 11	CANCELLED: Collette Feehan University of Halifax "Increasing frequency of disease drives community dynamics in a kelp bed ecosystem"	Diane Adams

Spring 2014 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Feb.6	Dr. Morgan Tingley David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow Princeton University "How Should Climate Change Affect Land Conservation Strategies?"	Malin Pinsky
Feb. 13	Dr. Diane Adams Moved to March 13 Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "The neuroscience, ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in sea urchin larvae." This is Dr. Adams membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
Feb. 20	Dr. James Lendemer Research Associate New York Botanic Garden "Where have all the lichens gone? New Jersey as a case study of the unseen effects anthropogenic change has on biodiversity and ecosystem function."	Lena Struwe
March 6	Dr. Siobhan Mattison Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University	Siobain Duffy
March 13	Dr. Helen Fox CANCELED -See new seminar below Director, Marine Science World Wildlife Fund	Olaf Jensen
March 13	Dr. Diane Adams Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "The neuroscience, ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in sea urchin larvae." This is Dr. Adams membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
March 20	SPRING BREAK
March 27	Dr. Nicholas Preston Senior Research Scientist EcoHealth Alliance "EcoHealth at the Digital Frontier"	Olaf Jensen
April 3	Dr. Howard Rosenbaum CANCELED Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society-Ocean Giants Program	Malin Pinsky
April 10	Co-sponsored with Department of Entomology Dr. Colin Orians Department of Biology Tufts University “Induced Sequestration: An alternate defense strategy of plants?”	Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
April 17	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Jonathan Losos Curator in Herpetology Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America Harvard University "Experimental Studies in Evolution: Research on Lizard Adaptation in the Bahamas"	EcoGSA

Fall 2013 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 12	Dr. Lena Struwe Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Understanding patterns of floristic biodiversity on small to large scales - the integration of phylogenies, ecological species data, and GIS-based patterns to resolve new and old questions." This is Dr. Struwe's promotion seminar	Julie Lockwood
Sept. 19	Dr. Krista McGuire Department of Biology Barnard College "Responses of soil microbes to logging and oil palm agriculture in Malaysian dipterocarp forest".	Natalie Howe
Sept. 26	Dr. Peter Buston Department of Biology Boston University "Anemonefishes as Model Systems for Marine Evolutionary Ecology"	Malin Pinsky
Oct. 3	Dr. Frank LaSorte Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University “The biogeography of avian migration: towards a population-level perspective”	Myla Aronson
Oct. 10	NOTE: This seminar will be held in Room 123 ENR Dr. Lazoras Gallos Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Complex networks: the science of connections"	Nina Fefferman
Oct. 17	Dr. Samantha Joye Department of Marine Sciences University of Georgia, Athens "Hydrocarbon degradation following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Well Blowout: the role of the novel microbial groups and their rapid response to perturbation."	Olaf Jensen
Oct. 24	Dr. Deborah Finke Division of Plant Sciences University of Missouri, Columbia "The cascading effects of predator diversity on a vector-borne plant pathogen" Co-sponsored with Department of Entomology	Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Oct. 31	Dr. Malin Pinsky Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resorces Rutgers University "Fish, fisheries, and climate velocity"	Julie Lockwood
Nov. 7	NOTE: This seminar will be held in Room 123 ENR Dr. Gregory McGee Department of Environmental and Forest Biology SUNY ESF "Conserving Forest Biodiversity through Management of the Unit-Pattern"	Julia Perzley
Nov. 14	Dr. Winifred Frick Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Santa Cruz "Ecology and conservation of bats: Foraging plasticity, aeroecology, and wildlife disease"	Brooke Maslo
Nov. 21	Dr. Carol Lee Center of Rapid Evolution University of Wisconsin, Madison "Rapid Evolution following Habitat Transitions"	Dina Fonseca
Dec 5	Dr. Daphne Munroe Haskin Shellfish Research Lab Rutgers University "Intersecting larval connectivity and population ecology to understand change in marine resources." This is Dr. Munroe's E&E membership seminar	Julie Lockwood

Spring 2013 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 24	Dr. Edmund D. Brodie III Department of Biology University of Virginia, Charlottesville "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 Rutgers University "Life in the concrete jungle: patterns and drivers of biodiversity in the world's cities" This is Dr. Aronson's program membership seminar.	Olaf Jensen
Feb.7	Dr. Diana Nemergut INSTAAR and Environmental Studies Program University of Colorado "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 Bennett L. Smith Professor of Business and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Reconstructing the Wiring Diagrams of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles"	Olaf Jensen
Feb. 21	Dr. Sadie Ryan Department of Environmental and Forestry Biology SUNY ESF "Clash of the Titans: People, Environment, and Climate in the Albertine Rift "	Brian Clough
Feb. 27***	NOTE SPECIAL DAY (WEDNESDAY) Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies "Urban transformations: From the Sanitary to the Sustainable City" Co-sponsored with Department of Landscape Architecture	Julie Lockwood and Kate John-Alder
March 1	SPECIAL SEMINAR ; SPECIAL TIME: 1:00 p.m.; Alampi Room Dr. Carl Safina Founder; Blue Ocean Institute "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 Rider University "Blue crabs in Barnegat Bay: Potential interactions between reproductive biology and fishing pressure"	Olaf Jensen
March 14	Dr. Sarah Gaichas National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration "Ecological modeling for fisheries management advice"	Olaf Jensen
March 21	Spring Break
March 28	Dr. Dov Sax Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Studies Brown University "An evolutionary hypothesis for invasions and tests of climate niche models"	Julie Lockwood
April 4	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist: Dr. John Thompson Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Santa Cruz "The assembly of networks of coevolving species"	EcoGSA
April 11	Dr. Bernd Blossey Department of Natural Resources Cornell University "How deer, earthworms and invasive plants transform our neighborhoods, forests and protected areas"	Lena Struwe
April 18	Dr. Eric Lonsdorf Franklin and Marshall University "Modeling Pollination Services Across Agricultural Landscapes"	Rachael Winfree

Fall 2012 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 20	Dr. John Clark Visiting Scholar Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Systematics of the Neotropical members of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae: tales of convergent evolution in a taxonomically confusing clade"	Lena Struwe
Sept. 27	Dr. Andrew Finley Departments of Forestry and Geography Michigan State University "Hierarchical models for quantifying forest variables over large heterogeneous landscapes with uncertain forest area"	Brian Clough and Edwin Green
Oct. 4	Dr. John Lill Department of Biological Sciences The George Washington University "Tritrophic interactions in forest caterpillars" Cosponsored with Department of Entomology	Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Oct. 11	CANCELED - ANSP Symposium ansp.org/explore/our-research/bicentennial-symposium
Oct. 18	Dr. J. Wilson White Department of Biology and Marine Biology University of North Carolina- Wilmington "Design and assessment of marine reserves: theory and practice"	Olaf Jensen
Oct. 25	Dr. Yana Bromberg Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology Rutgers University "Computing prokaryotic diversity using functional similarity" This is Dr. Bromberg's graduate program membership seminar.	Nina Fefferman
Nov. 1	Dr. Dov Sax Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Studies Brown University "An evolutionary hypothesis for invasions and tests of climate niche models"	Julie Lockwood
Nov. 8	Dr. Gregg Hartvigsen Department of Biology SUNY- Geneseo "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 Department of Entomology Cornell University “How have DNA sequence data changed our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution?” Cosponsored with Department of Entomology	Rachael Winfree
Dec 6

Spring 2012 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 19	Dr. Steven D'Hondt Department of Oceanography University of Rhode Island "How slow can life go? Lesson from subseafloor life."	CoSponsored with Oceanography
Jan. 26	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Seminar Dr.Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University "Biodiversity: the most beautiful carbon"	Karen Wylie and the EcoGSA
Feb. 2	Dr. Jennifer Krumins Montclair State University " 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 Department of Anthropology Rutgers University "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 Department of Anthropology Rutgers University "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 Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies "Biodiversity Loss and the Rise of Emerging Infectious Diseases"	Holly Vuong
March1	Dr. Henry John-Alder Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Hormonal Pleiotropy and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Body Size"	Julie Lockwood
March 8	Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies "Novel contaminants in aquatic ecosystems: inputs, fates and potential ecological effects."	Brian Clough
March 15	Spring Break
March 22	Dr. Todd LaJeunesse Pennsylvania State University "The introduction and spread of invasive symbiotic dinoflagellates in a time of climate warming. "	Debashish Bhattacharya and Paul Falkowski
March 29	Dr. Amy Kamarainen Harvard University "Engaging students in ecosystem science and ecological modeling using multi-user virtual environments, augmented reality and games."	Olaf Jensen
April 5	Dr. Bradley Stevens University of Maryland Eastern Shore "Development of In-situ Assessment Methods for black sea bass (Centropristisstriata L.) Abundance and Behavior "	Olaf Jensen
April 12	Dr. Andrew Kern Department of Genetics Rutgers University "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 Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University *"Adaptation to neurotoxic Alexandrium* blooms in softshell clam populations: a molecular to ecosystem approach"** This is Dr.Bricelj's Graduate Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood

Fall 2011 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 15	Dr. Philipp Neubauer Post-Doctoral Fellow Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "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 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "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 Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University "New insights into the causes and consequences of fisheries collapse."	Olaf Jensen
Oct. 6	Dr. Alex Vagelli Director of Science & Conservation New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences "From direct development to the Wallace Line: a holistic research on the natural history and conservation of Pterapogon kauderni (Teleostei, Apogonidae), an endemic coral reef fish endangered by the international pet trade."	John Dighton
Oct. 13	Dr. Mya Brietbart Biological Oceanography University of South Florida "Virus Hunting in the Age of Metagenomics"	Siobain Duffy
Oct. 20	Dr. Jeferson Gross Post-doctoral Fellow Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "From an emerging oxygenic world to epigenomic evolvability, a journey across the eukaryotic evolution"	Debashish Bhattacharya
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 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "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 Senior Research Scientist Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University "Deeply Disturbed; The Emergent Forest of the Future"	Frank Gallagher
Dec.1	Dr. Mark Robson Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers University "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 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Tree root growth patterns in the zone of rapid taper, and the implications for pavement design" This is Dr. Grabosky's promotion seminar.

Spring 2011 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 27	Dr. Cintia Souto Universidad Nacional del Comahue Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University "Forest conservation in Patagonia: Molecular tools for Reconstructing the Past, Describing the Present, and Predicting the Future"	Peter Smouse
Feb. 3	Dr. Alycia Crall Department of Land Resources University of Wisconsin, Madison "The Art and Science of Invasive Species Monitoring with Citizen Scientists"	Rebecca Jordan
Feb. 10	Dr. Lars Hedin Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University "Molybdenum, nitrogen, and the global carbon cycle"	Paul Falkowski
Feb. 17	Dr. Robert Naczi Curator of North American Botany New York Botanical Garden "Systematics of Western Hemisphere Pitcher Plants *(Sarraceniaceae):* Old Problems and New Data from Symbiotic Arthropods."**	Lena Struwe
Feb. 24	Dr. Gary Lovett Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies "Big Changes from Little Bugs: Effects of Exotic Insects and Pathogens on Northeastern Forest Ecosystems"	Brian Clough
March 3	Dr. Alan Berkowitz Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies “Pathways to Environmental Science Literacy”	Rebecca Jordan
March 17	Spring Break
March 24	Dr. Andrew "Pete" Vayda, Professor emeritus Department of Human Ecology Rutgers University "Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Fires in Tropical Forests: Examples from Indonesia"	Peter Morin
March 31	Dr. Christina Grozinger Chemical Ecology Lab Pennsylvania State University "Genomics of chemical communication in honey bees" Co-sponsored with Department of Entomology	Rachael Winfree
April 7	Eco GSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin III Department of Biology and Wildlife Institute of Artic Biology University of Alaska, Fairbanks "Earth Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet"	EcoGSA
April 14	Dr. Ignasi Bartomeus Post-Doctoral Reseacher Department of Entomology Rutgers University "Biological Invasions: Where and Who?"	Rachael Winfree
April 21	Dr. Michael Moore Department of Biological Sciences University of Delaware “Interactions among hormones, behavior and immunity.”	Henry John-Alder

Fall 2010 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 16	Dr. Judith Weis Federated Departments of Biological Sciences Rutgers -Newark / NJIT "Predator/prey behavior and ecology in contaminated estuaries: A comparison of five species"	Peter Morin
Sept. 23	Dr. Joshua Caplan Post-Doctoral Associate Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Water relations, morphology, and the invasive success of Himalayan blackberry in the Pacific Northwest"	Peter Morin
Sept. 30	Dr. Danielle Kreeger Drexel University/Partnership for the Delaware Estuary "Climate Adaptation in the Delaware Estuary Region: Risks, Opportunities and Tough Choices"	David Bushek
Oct. 7	Dr. Frank Burbrink College of Staten Island CUNY " The influence of ecological opportunity on explosive diversification in ratsnakes"	Lena Struwe
Oct. 14	Dr. Robert Cox Post-doctoral Researcher Department of Biological Sciences Dartmouth College "Two genders, one genome: sexual dimorphism and the resolution of intralocus conflict"	Henry John-Alder
Oct. 21	Dr. Frank Gallagher Administrator: New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, Office of the Director. Visiting Scholar, Urban Forestry Program, Rutgers University "The Ecological Risk of Urban Brownfields, Lessons from Liberty State Park"	Peter Morin
Oct. 28	Dr. Maria Uriarte Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Columbia University "Forest community responses to environmental stressors at multiple spatial scales"	Holly Vuong
Nov. 4	Dr. T'ai Roulston Blandy Experimental Farm Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia "Flying Herbivores That Sometimes Pollinate: Toward A Revised Understanding of Bee - Plant Relations." Co-Sponsored with Department of Entomology	Rachael Winfree
Nov. 11	Dr. Tina Grotzer Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard University "Why Everyday Casual Reasoning Falss Short in a Complex World"	Steven Gray
Nov. 18	Dr. Andre Kessler Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University "Ecological cost of induced plant defenses?-- Herbivory compromising plant interactions with mutualists" Co-Sponsored with Department of Entomology	Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Dec. 2	Dr. Cintia Souto Universidad Nacional del Comahue Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University CANCELED	Peter Smouse

Spring 2010 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 28	Dr. Martin Ferris University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill "Dissecting the complex genetic architecture of virus-host interactions during influenza virus infection."	Siobain Duffy
Feb. 4	Dr. S. Luke Flory Department of Biology Indiana University "Causes and consequences of a non-native grass invasion in eastern forests." Co-Sponsored with the Plant Biology Graduate Program	Ari Novy
Feb. 11	CANCELLED: Rescheduled April 8th Sam Droege USGS, Patuxent VA "The Natural History Gap: Can We Track Climate Change Impacts to Species?"	Maria Stanko
Feb. 18	Dr. Olaf Jensen Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "Fisheries as ecosystem-scale experiments: using stock assessment to understand the dynamics of exploited marine ecosystems." Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
Feb. 25	CANCELED: Rescheduled March 25th Dr. Kevin Chen Department of Genetics Rutgers University "Evolution of MicroRNA and transcription factor binding sites." Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
March 4	Dr. Deborah Goldberg Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan "Clonality and Plant Invasion" Presented in conjunction with the Ecologies in the Balance seminar series	Joan Ehrenfeld
March 11	Dr. Robert Raguso Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Cornell University "Understanding hawkmoths as pollinators: from sensory biology to ecological services."	Elena Tartaglia
March 18	Spring Break
March 25	Dr. Kevin Chen Department of Genetics Rutgers University "Evolution of MicroRNA and transcription factor binding sites." Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
April 1	Dr. Charles Canham Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY "Neighborhood dynamics of forest ecosystems: Invasion of northeastern forests by Norway maple (Acer platanoides) and Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)”	Brian Clough
April 5	Special Time: 1:30 pm; Alampi Room Dr. Timothy Zimmerman Graduate School of Education Rutgers University "Learning Evolutionary Biology Through Inquiry Activities Across Contexts" Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
April 8	Sam Droege USGS, Patuxent VA "The Natural History Gap: Can We Track Climate Change Impacts to Species?"	Maria Stanko
April 15	Dr. Josh Kohut Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Institite of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University	Julie Lockwood
April 22	Dr. Michael Sears Department of Biology Bryn Mawr College "Why Good Models of Species Ranges Fail: Relationships of Individuals with Landscapes...It's Complicated"	Henry John-Alder

Fall 2009 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Sept. 17	Dr. Tracy Langkilde Department of Biology The Pennsylvania State University "Surviving invasion: native lizards alter their behavior and morphology in response to deadly fire ants"	Henry John-Alder
Sept. 24	Dr. Laura Miller Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill "Aerodynamic constraints in the smallest flying insects"	Nina Fefferman
Oct. 1	Dr. Michael Wimberly Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE) University of South Dakota "The macroscope meets the microscope: climate, land cover, and the biogeography of infectious disease"	Yangjing Zhang
Oct. 8	Dr. Ning Zhang Department of Plant Biology and Pathology Rutgers University "Population and evolutionary biology of fungal pathogens" Program membership seminar	Julie Lockwood
Oct. 15	Dr. Jessica Thomas Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Life history correlates of substitution rate in invertebrates"	Karl Kjer
Oct. 22	Dr. Edwin Green Department of Ecology, Evolution , and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Testing Hypotheses"	Julie Lockwood
Oct. 29	Dr. Mark Hauber Department of Psychology Hunter College, CUNY "Never trust a cowbird: life history lessons from avian brood parasites."	Julie Lockwood
Nov. 5	Dr. Marci Meixler Director, Global Map Analytics, Philadelphia "New techniques in aquatic conservation: fish passage prediction, community modeling, and biodiversity protection." Program membership seminar	David Ehrenfeld
Nov. 12	Dr. Karina V.R. Schafer Federated Departments of Biological Sciences Rutgers Newark and NJIT "Carbon sequestration of forests and wetlands"	Julie Lockwood
Nov. 19	EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Lecture Dr. Alison Power Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Past-President of the Ecological Society of America "Implications of host and vector diversity for the spread of plant viruses"	EcoGSA
Dec. 3	Dr. Jennifer Rudgers Godwin Assistant Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Rice University "Dynamics and consequences of mutualistic symbiosis: The ecology and evolution of fungal endophytes in grasses."	Cesar Rodriguez-Saona