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Natural & Applied Sciences

Seminar Schedule

Spring Semester 2013
Tea: 3:00pm in ES 317 Talk: 3:30 - 4:30pm in ES 328
February 8 Dr. Greg Davis
Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay
Math and Population Dynamics or Hard to Swallow
February 22 Dr. Daniel Linder
US Forest Service, Northern Research Station Center for Forest Mycology Research
Portrait of a Killer: Tracking the Fungus that is Decimating Bat Populations in Eastern North America
March 8 Dr. Amy Wolf
Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay
A Global Approach to Understanding Forest Dynamics: The Smithsonian Institutions's International Network of Forest Dynamics Plots
April 5 Dr. Carrie Kissman
Dept. Biology; St. Norbert College
How do Species Invasions, Climate Change, and Eutrophication Affect Lake Ecosystems?
April 19 Dr. Stephen Meyer
Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay
How Good are the National Weather Service and The Weather Channel Temperature Forecasts? Enquiring Minds Want to Know
May 3 Dr. Thomas Sauer
USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Agriculture
Fall Semester 2012
Tea: 3:00pm in ES 317 Talk: 3:30 - 4:30pm in ES 328
September 7 Dr. Angela Bauer
Dept. Human Biology; UW-Green Bay
Are there hormones in your drinking water?
September 21 Dr. Brian Wilsey
Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology; Iowa State University
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning differences between native and novel exotic dominated ecosystems: Are we entering the Anthropocene epoch?
October 5 Dr. Heidi Fencl
Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay
The Box and the Boson: Reflections on Teaching Physics Process in an Answers-Oriented World
October 19 Dr. Michael Draney
Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay
What I’m trying to do in Panama
November 2 Dr. Joseph Peterson
Dept. of Geology; UW-Oshkosh
Dinosores - Injury and Behavior in Cretaceous Dinosaurs
November 16 Dr. Christopher Martin
Dept. Humanistic Studies; UW-Green Bay
The Rational Structure of the Order of Things
November 30 Dr. Michael Zorn
Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay
Environmental Sensors for Continuous, In-Situ Water Monitoring in the Great Lakes
Spring Semester 2012
Tea: 3:00pm in ES 317 Talk: 3:30 - 4:30pm in ES 328
January 27 Dr. Daniel Meinhardt
UW-Green Bay
Shishmaref, Alaska: On the front line of global climate change
February 10 Dr. David Dolan
UW-Green Bay
Lake Erie: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated (Again!)
February 24 Dr. Patricia Terry
UW-Green Bay
Sustianability: Lessons from Europe
March 23 Dr. Daniel H. Zitomer
Marquette University
Anaerobic co-digestion for sustainable waste management
April 6 Dr. Stephen Weeks
University of Akron
Patterns of evolutionary transitions between hermaphroditism and dioecy in animals
April 20 Dr. Dallas Blaney
UW-Green Bay
Environmental flows, political dams
May 4 Dr. Steven Dutch
UW-Green Bay
How the West dominated technology, or what I learned from my general ed course
Fall Semester 2011
Tea: 3:00pm in ES 317 Talk: 3:30 - 4:30pm in ES 328
September 16 Dr. Mathew Dornbush
UW-Green Bay
Colonization and consumer mechanisms promote dominance of the exotic herb garlic mustard in a Wisconsin, USA forest
September 30 Dr. John Luczaj
UW-Green Bay
The geology of Brown County: Challenges of bedrock mapping in a glaciated landscape
October 14 Dr. Robert Howe
UW-Green Bay
Termites, fire, and cane toads: ecology in Australia's Northern Territory
October 28 Dr. John Katers
University of Akron
Life cycle inventory for wood pellet manufacturing in Wisconsin
November 11 Dr. Alma Rodriquez-Estrada
UW-Green Bay
Genes up, genes down, attack!
December 2 Dr. Jorge Estevez
UW-Green Bay
Removing a carcinogen from groundwater: the alkaline reaction pathway for chloroform decomposition in solution