The Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology weekly seminar series will be held on Wednesdays from 1:30 – 2:30, in room 216 Russell Labs (see full schedule below). Seminars are free and open to the public – all are welcome!
Spring 2026 FWE Seminar Series
Seminar Contacts: Prof. Anna Pidgeon or Prof. Wendy Turner
| Date | Speaker Name | Speaker Institution | Seminar Title (Click blue titles to view seminar recording) | Mode (In-person or Online) | FWE faculty 'host' | Comments |
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| 2/11/2026 | Artur Stefanski | UW Stevens Point | Forest in the future climate: Will the Midwest's forests fulfill their role? | In-person | Townsend | |
| 2/18/2026 | no seminar | In-person | ||||
| 2/25/2026 | Michael Joyce | Univ of MN Duluth | Prey, poison, and people: Risk-reward trade-offs of carnivores in dynamic landscapes. | In-person | Childress | |
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| 3/11/2026 | Jared Beck | UW Madison Arboretum | In-person | Drake | ||
| 3/18/2026 | David Brundage | UW Madison School of Veterinary Medicine | From Pixels to Pathogens: A Multimodal Deep Learning Pipeline for Wildlife Health | In-person | Turner | |
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| The linked webpage is: https://plantpath.wisc.edu/seminars/ | ||||||
| The help doc on this spreadsheet can be found here: | ||||||
| https://kb.wisc.edu/rlit/internal/page.php?id=129946 |