Department Seminars
The Forest and Wildlife Ecology Seminar speaker schedule.
Seminars are held Fridays from 3:00-4:00pm during the fall and spring semesters, unless otherwise noted. Seminars are free and open to the public. They are held in Room 184 Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison.
Click on each speaker’s name for more information about them. Videos of certain seminars can be accessed by clicking on the highlighted titles.
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13 | Kaitlyn Gaynor | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis | Spatial and temporal responses of wildlife to predation risk and human disturbance |
| Sep 20 | None | ||
| Sep 27 | Charlotte Chang | National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at University of Tennessee - Knoxville | Solutions for nature and people: Bridging the ecological and social dimensions of conservation |
| Oct 4 | None | ||
| Oct 11 | Eliezer (Elie) Gurarie | University of Maryland - College Park and University of Montana - Missoula | Frontiers in movement Ecology: From cognitive foundations to global scales |
| Oct 18 | None | 25th Annual Wisconsin Ecology Fall Symposium | |
| Oct 25 | TBA | TBD | |
| Nov 1 | Jonathan Patz | Global Health Institute at University of Wisconsin - Madison | Climate Change & Health: the risks of no action and the benefits of a green economy |
| Nov 8 | Preston Cole | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TBD |
| Nov 15 | Katie Moriarty | United States Forest Service | Weasels worth waiting for - using new technology at multiple scales to describe marten and fisher ecology and habitat |
| Nov 22 | Mourad Gabriel | Integral Ecology Research Center | Cannabis and ecology |
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Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1 | Fabian Scheider | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Mapping forest functional diversity and ecosystem functioning using remote sensing and ecological modeling |
| Feb 8 | Dave MacFarland | WI-DNR | Navigating the Intersection of Wildlife Science and Policy |
| Feb 15 | Van Butsic | University of California - Berkeley | Cannabis: Environmental threat or the next frontier in sustainable agriculture? |
| Feb 22 | Thea Whitman | UW-Madison | From Wildfires to Biochar: Pyrophilous Soil Microbes and the Carbon Cycle |
| Mar 1 | Jalene LaMontagne | DePaul University | Population Ecology: Continental synchrony in mast seeding to urban ecology |
| Mar 8 | Graham Banes | UW-Madison Vet Med School/Henry Vilas Zoo | Outbreeding depression in orang-utans: Is it real and does it kill? |
| Mar 15 | Mike Dietze | Boston University | Solving the challenge of predicting nature: how close are we and how do we get there? |
| Mar 22 | None | Spring Break | |
| Mar 29 | None | ||
| Apr 5 | David Post | Yale University | Migrating wildebeest and raging hippos on Kenya's Mara River |
| Apr 12 | None | Wisconsin Ecology Spring Symposium | |
| Apr 19 | Eve-Lyn Hinckley | CU-Boulder/INSTAAR | Our changing manipulation of the sulfur cycle |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21 | Erika Marin-Spiotta | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Out of sight, out of mind? Belowground carbon response to landscape disturbance |
| Sep 28 | Sam Cushman | Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ | Integrating connectivity modeling, landscape genetics, and scenario analysis in conservation planning |
| Oct 5 | Karen Oberhauser | UW Arboretum | Monarchs, milkweed, and citizen monitoring: Setting conservation targets with messy data |
| Oct 12 | Wisconsin Ecology Fall Symposium | ||
| Oct 19 | Ben Zuckerberg | University of Madison | Disappearing winter refugia in a warming world |
| Oct 26 | Dan Linder | Forest Service, Madison, WI | Portrait of a Killer: Tracking the fungus that is decimating North American bat populations |
| Nov 2 | Jed Meunier | Wisconsin DNR, Madison, WI | Maintaining resilient landscapes in the Lake States requires re-evaluating fire history |
| Nov 9 | David Lewis | Oregon State University | Climate, adaptation, and the value of forestland: A national Ricardian analysis of the United States |
| Nov 16 | David Post | Yale University | Migrating Wildebeest and Raging Hippos on Kenya's Mara River |
Spring 2018