Seminar Series - USGS EcoLunch

Upcoming Seminar

Date: May 21
Time: 12:00 pm MDT
Location: First Floor Conference Room "Madison Room"- NOROCK, 2327 University Way, Suite 2
(Click HERE for directions)

Speaker: Timothy Dean, MSU
Title: Scenario Analysis for Sage Grouse Management: A Probabilistic Approach
Webinar Info: Click here to register

Teleconference: 760-569-0111
Access code: 294333*

Upcoming Speakers:

May 28 Suzanna Soileau, Leslie Allen & Lance Clampitt

Archives:

2013

March 19 - Meghan Layhee, USGS - Ecological relevance of state-agency Assessment Units in an Idaho River. l Stream Webinar l

April 16 - Paul Cross, USGS - The good, bad and ugly of data visualization. l Stream Webinar l

April 23 - Stephen Corn, USGS - Amphibian monitoring in National Parks on the Continental Divide. l Stream Webinar l

April 26 - Erin Shanahan, USGS, PechaKucha - Whitebark Pine in Peril? l Stream Webinar l

April 30 - Pete Gogan, USGS - Subpopulation Structure in Yellowstone Bison. l Stream Webinar l

May 14 - Rebecca Manners, University of Montana - Geomorphic-vegetation linkages in environmental flows l Stream Webinar l

2012
Videos of past seminars available upon request. Contact Leslie Allen or Suzanna Soileau.

Jan 17 - Virginia Kelly, GYCC: Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee

Jan 30 - Marcel Huijser, Western Transportation Institute: Effectiveness of wildlife mitigation measures along US Hwy 93 North, Flathead Indian Reservation; preliminary results

Feb 7 - Emily Almberg, US Geological Survey: Parasite invasion following host reintroduction: A case study of Yellowstone’s wolves

Mar 13 - Dave Stagliano, Montana Natural Heritage Program: Distribution, Population Status and Conservation of Freshwater Mussels in the Upper Columbia and Missouri River Basins of Montana: New Research and Updates

Mar 20 - Kristin Legg, National Park Service: Greater Yellowstone Network Program

Mar 27 - Jake Weltzin, Executive Director of the USA National Phenology Network: The USA National Phenology Network: A national observatory for the assessment of biotic response to environmental variation

Apr 10 - Bob Gresswell, USGS: Struggling to Suppress Invasive Lake Trout in Yellowstone Lake

Apr 17 - Kezia Manlove: AIC in Ecology - Appropriate uses and common problems

May 22 - Lucy Marshall, MSU: Field observations and modeling synthesis in hydrologic systems

Oct 16 - Jodi Hilty, Wilderness Conservation Society (WCS): Climate and Conservation: Landscape and seascape science, planning and action

Nov 6 - Julio Benavides, USGS: Socio-ecological and anthropogenic drivers of parasites in social mammals: lessons from baboons and gorillas

Nov 13 - Elliott Barnhart, USGS: Characterization of Microbial Communities Associated with Powder River Basin Coals: Structure to Function Relationships

2011

April 16 - Ken Pierce, USGS Emeritus

May 10 - Rob Diehl, USGS: Remote sensing of flying animals. Using Doppler weather surveillance radar, Rob studies migratory bird behavior and the impacts of land use change on bird populations

May 17 - Erik Beever, USGS: Does status of, or magnitude of recent trend in, climate best predict pattern of distributional shifts in broadly distributed species?

May 25 - Andrea Litt, MSU Dept. of Ecology: Invasive plants - Changing the rules for populations, communities, and ecosystem processes

May 31 - Andy Ray, USGS: Denizens of the marsh: burreed to bullfrogs

June 7 - Jeff Kershner & Paul Cross, USGS, NOROCK: USGS Strategic Science Planning Teams Listening Session: Ecosystems and Environmental Health

June 28 - Greg Pederson, USGS, NOROCK: A Millennium of Snowpack and Glacier Change in Western North America

July 12 - Dave McWethy, Montana State University: Transforming landscapes with fire - rapid deforestation following early human settlement in New Zealand

July 26 - Meghan Burns and Allan Cox, Montana Heritage Program: Montana Natural Heritage Program Map

Sep 6 - Justin Gude, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks: Wolf harvest management in Montana, 2008-2011

Sep 13 - Cathy Whitlock, Montana State University: What's New with Paleo?

Sep 20 - Keith Aune, Wildlife Conservation Society: The Ecological Restoration of American Bison

Sep 27 - Paul Cross, USGS: Fetal Attraction - Brucellosis in the GYE

Nov 8 - Megan Parker, Dogs for Conservation

Nov 15 - Scott Powell, MSU: Forest Disturbance, biomass and the carbon cycle

Nov 22 - Robert Al-Chokhachy, USGS: Using models and fieldwork to characterize the influences of climate change on fishes in the Northern Rockies

Dec 6 - Tara Chesley-Preston and Todd Preston, Examining saline contamination associated with oil and gas development to aquatic resources in the Williston Basin

Dec 13 - Frank van Manen, USGS: Short-term Impacts of a New 4-Lane Highway on American Black Bears

Dec 20 - Doug Smith, NPS: Population Dynamics and Predator-prey relationships of wolves in YNP

Videos of past seminars available upon request. Contact Leslie Allen or Suzanna Soileau.


USGS EcoLunch is a forum for students, researchers, visiting scientists and collaborators in the environmental sciences to present their current and past work. Presentations will range from brown bag discussions of ongoing projects to more formal and polished seminar presentations.