Graduate Student Seminars

Fall 2011
All lectures held in room 1 Natural Resources at 3:30pm

Sept 2: No Seminar
Sept 9: No Seminar
Sept 16: Vince Cavalieri…………………… "The Great Lakes Piping Plover, Management of a Critically Endangered Species."
Sept 23: Barb Avers……………………….. Mute swan management in Michigan: Attempts to Balance Ecological and Social Issues
Sept 30:  Dr. Moermond…………………. “Conserving Giant Panda Habitat: Facing Institutional Management Barriers”
Oct 7:  Dr. Allen Burton…………………… "Assessing the ecological risk of contaminated sediments: Will the real stressor please stand up?"
Oct 14:  Adam Bump……………………… ”Michigan Bear Research Update”
Oct 21: Brent Rudolph……………………. ”Michigan Deer Research Update”
Oct 28: Jo Latimore…………………………. "Fisheries and Wildlife Outreach: Effective strategies for reaching out. "
Nov 4:  Carl Reutz……………………………  "Patterns of fish distribution in drowned river mouth lakes"
Nov  11: TBA
Nov 18:  Dr. Kendra Cheruvelli………..  "Landscape limnology and the role of the regional-scale for understanding patterns and processes across ecosystems".
Nov 25: No Seminar
Dec 2:  TBA
Dec 9: No Seminar
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” -Aldo Leopold