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Thursday, February 25, 2010
1:00-4:00 pm
1965 Room: University Union

Public is invited, Refreshments will be served.

(right to left) Aaron Groves, Jennifer Goyette, Andrew Mckenna-Foster with Cofrin Grant recipient Pao Vue (standing) check snake coverboards in the Cofrin Arboretum.

Thanks to a generous endowment from the family of Dr. David Cofrin and the late John Cofrin, annual awards are awarded for student research on the Cofrin Arboretum and UW-Green Bay natural areas. Students carry out a field project in collaboration with a UW-Green Bay faculty member and will present results in at our annual research symposium. The grants are competitive and must contribute to improving our understanding of ecology on one or more of the UW Green Bay Natural Areas.

Students interested in applying for a Cofrin Grant should contact a faculty member in the area of interest and design a brief (2-5 page) proposal containing an introduction (with literature review), objective, proposed methods, and anticipated outcomes of the work. Proposals for the upcoming year must be submitted online following the instructions on the website www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity and click on the Cofrin Research Grant link. Proposals are due on March 31 by 5 pm. For more information please visit the website or contact Vicki Medland at medlandv@uwgb.edu.

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Schedule of Presentations:

1:00--Introduction and Welcome by Cofrin Biodiversity Center Director Dr. Robert Howe

1:10--Santiago Ocariz (Faculty advisor: Michael Draney) "Comparison of canopy and sub canopy arthropod communities on the Cofrin Arboretum"

1:35--Pao Vue (Faculty advisor: Dan Meinhardt) "Snake species richness, abundance, and distribution on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Campus and Cofrin Arboretum"

2:00--Kymberly Ra Draeger and Adam Snippen (Faculty advisor: Amy Wolf) "The fungus among us: a snapshot of Mahon Woods’ hidden Kingdom"

2:25--Presentation of Sager Scholarship Award to Kari Petrashek for her paper “Northern Saw-whet Owl Fall Migration through  Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve in Two Rivers, Wis. from 2000-2008.”

2:30--Jacqueline Krall (Faculty advisor: Amy Wolf) "Temporal and spatial patterns of seed production by woody species in the Cofrin Arboretum forest dynamics plot"

3:00--Eric Struck (Faculty advisor: Amy Wolf) "Bioassessment of Mahon Creek using macroinvertebrate and fish communities"

3:25--Josh Martinez  (Faculty advisor: Mathew Dornbush) "The effect of herbivory by White-tailed deer on native forbs planted in a matrix of native grasses in urban parks"

3:50--Closing Remarks

Biodiversity Topics: Introduction . Plants . Animals . Mammals . Birds . Reptiles & Amphibians . Arthropods . Spiders . Insects

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Last updated on February 18, 2010