Seminar Series Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers SEBS

Everyone, regardless if 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. John Wiedenmann at

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 2019 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 31
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

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Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series