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Department Seminars
Weekly Seminars on Biological Sciences Topics
For the remainder of the spring semester, department seminars will be held online. The links will be provided below as they become available.
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 23, 2020 | Dr. Hao Ye, University of Florida | Deducing Mechanism from Ecological Time Series using Data-driven Modeling | Julie Heath |
| January 30, 2020 Student Union Bishop Barnwell | Biology Graduate Student Proposal Showcase | Graduate Students in the Department of Biological Sciences will present their research proposals via a lightning talk and poster session | |
| February 4, 2020 | Dr. Jena Hickey, University of California Davis | Lessons Learned from Great Apes in Impenetrable Forests: Monitoring Wildlife that Break All the Rules | Marie-Anne de Graaff |
| February 6, 2020 | Dr. Brandon Chasco, National Marine Fisheries Service | Quantitative Ecology: Integrating Data, People, and Ideas | Jennifer Forbey |
| February 11, 2020 | Dr. Jennyffer Cruz, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Multispecies recoveries: challenges and opportunities | Jennifer Forbey |
| February 20, 2020 | Dr. Erin Zylstra, Michigan State University | Using Hierarchical Models to Understand Dynamics of Wildlife Populations: Characterizing Survival and Occupancy of a Desert Amphibian | Trevor Caughlin |
| March 10, 2020 | (Cancelled) Kirsten Hofmockel, PNNL | Effect of Nitrogen Inputs on Carbon Cycling in Grasslands from the Nutrient Network Experiment | Megan Kelly-Slatten |
| March 17, 2020 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/517809586 | Jamie Burke, MS Biology (Thesis Defense) | How Water Level and Irrigation Practices Affect Waterbird Community, Nesting, and Foraging Habitat Use on The Duck Valley Indian Reservation | Jay Carlisle, Advisor |
| April 9, 2020 | Dr. Megan Cattau, Boise State, Human-Environment Systems | Social-ecological Dynamics of Disturbance and Recovery in Fire-Affected Systems | Leonora Bittleston |
| April 16, 2020 | Dr. Matt Williamson, Boise State, Human-Environment System | Mapping Conservation Opportunity with Spatially-explicit Models of Social-Ecological Systems | Leonora Bittletson |
| April 30, 2020 | Dr. Liz La Rue, Purdue | TBD | Andrii Zaiats |