JANUARY
January 19, 2012
Dave Owen, University of Maine School of Law
Mapping, Modeling, and the Integration of Environmental Law
12:00 noon, 101 Norman Smith Hall
Sherri Mitchell and Bonnie Newsom
Wabanaki Scholars Series
6:00 - 9:00pm, Minsky Hall, Class of 1944 Building
Co-hosted by the Wabanaki Center and the Penobscot Nation Cultural and Historic Preservation Department
January 20, 2012
Adam Dick, New Brunswick Dept. of Natural Resources
Forest Inventory for the iPhone Generation
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the School of Forest Resources
January 30, 2012
Krista Capps, Wildlife Ecology, SSI
A plague of pets: the effects of a non-native grazing fish in tropical streams
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
FEBRUARY
February 2, 2012
Maria Girouard and Suzanne Greenlaw
Wabanaki Scholars Series
6:00-9:00pm, Minsky Hall, Class of 1944 Building
Co-hosted by the Wabanaki Center and the Penobscot Nation Cultural and Historic Preservation Department
Daniel S. Stitch, Wildlife Ecology
Dissertation Proposal
Smolt phenology and effects of dams on the success of Atlantic salmon smolt migrations in the Penobscot River, Maine
11:00 am, 218 Nutting Hall
February 3, 2012
Krista Capps, Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative, UMaine
Changing nutrient dynamics in response to species invasion: a case study of armored catfish in southern Mexico
3:10 pm, 102 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
Dr. Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Before Silent Spring: Workers and the Origins of Environmentalism in the United States
12:00pm, Bangor Room, Memorial Union
Supported by the Colonial James C. McBride Endowment for Enviromental History, The Dept. of History, The History Grad Student Association and the Undergrad History Club.
February 6, 2012
Dr. Greg Teegarden, St. Joseph's College
Understanding the Harpswell Sound/Lumbos Hole ecosystem as a sentinel site for harmful algal blooms on the coast of Maine
12:00 noon, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
February 10, 2012
Christopher Campbell, University of Maine
Species of Amelanchier (Rosaceae)
3:10 pm, 102 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
February 13, 2012
Kristine Hoffman, University of Maine
Testing the influence of Cuban treefrogs (Osteopilus septentrionalis) on native treefrog detection and abundance
12:00 noon, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
February 20, 2012
John Lichter, Bowdoin College
Ecological recovery in coastal Maine
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
February 23, 2012
Dr. Robert Jacobson, USGS
Conceptualizing and Communicating River Restoration
12:00 noon, Wells Conference Center Room 2
Re-engineering the Lower Missouri River for Ecosystem Recovery: A Long Strange Trip
3:00pm, Wells Conference Center Room 2
Sponsored by Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative and the Dept of Earth Sciences
MARCH
March 12, 2012
David Pimentel, Cornell University
Natural Resources, energy conservation, and our environmental future
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Co-sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series and EES
March 16, 2012
Ian Bricknell, SMS, University of Maine
Sea lice predation by an unexpected predator
3:10 pm, 102 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
March 19, 2012
Tony Sutton, Dept of Communication, SSI
Local Food and the Aroostook Band of Micmac
12:10om, 424 Dunn Hall
Sponsored by the CMJ Colloquium Series
David Sherwood, University of Maine
A blank spot on the conservation map: the sea turtles of Ostional, Costa Rica
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
March 23, 2012
Ivan Fernandez, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute
Bear Brook at 25 - Finding the Unknown
3:10 pm, 102 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
March 26, 2012
Mila Plavsic, University of New England
Testing a traits-based approach for predicting small mammal responses to fire-induced microhabitat changes
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
March 29, 2012
David Sloan Wilson, SUNY
Evolution, Sustainability and Human Condition
12:00 noon, Wells Conference Center Room 3
Sponsored by Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative, the School of Biology and Ecology, and CADLS
March 29, 2012
Jeff Podos, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Galapagos finches and the unfinished business of Charles Darwin
3:10 pm, 102 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
APRIL
April 2, 2012
Clint Muhlfeld, Northern Rocky Mtn. Science Center
Implications of hybridization between native and non-native salmonids
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
April 6, 2012
Brian Fagan, Author
Ice Ages & Christmas Children: An Archeaologist Looks at Ancient Climate Change
7:00 pm, Hutchins Hall, Collins Center for the Arts
Sponsored by the Climate Change Institute, Phi Kappa Phi, the Graduate School, Collins Ctr for the Arts, the Hudson Museum and support by a grant from the CADLS
April 9, 2012
Tom Gavin, Cornell University
My life as a field biologist: from deer to digital book in 40 short years
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
April 13, 2012
Phil Taylor, Acadia University
Advances in the Study of Bird Migration
3:10 pm, 102 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
April 16, 2012
Karen Wilson, University of Southern Maine
Assessing marine-freshwater linkages in food webs using stable isotopes: The Penobscot System
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
April 23, 2012
Evan Cooch, Cornell University
One too many: the conservation management of overabundant species
12:00pm, 204 Nutting Hall
Sponsored by the Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series
April 27, 2012
Dr. Mark Green, St. Joseph's College
Acidification in the coastal ocean: The effect on larval and juvenile bivalve population dynamics
3:10pm, 104 Murray Hall
Sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
MAY
