Seminars Archive
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 29 (IP) | Mike Acquafredda Assistant Extension Specialist Rutger's Marine and Coastal Sciences | Dr. Rachael Winfree |
| Feb. 5 (IP) | Sara Borsetti Fisheries Researcher Rutgers - Haskin Shellfish Lab | Dr. Rachael Winfree |
| Feb. 12 (V) | Lee Smee Senior Marine Scientist - Dauphin Island University of South Alabama | Sophia Piper (Munroe Lab) |
| Feb. 19 (IP) | Harman Jaggi Postdoctoral Research Associate Princeton University | Koustav Halder (Bonachela Lab) |
| Feb. 26 (IP) | David Klinges Assistant Professor Rutgers - EENR | Dr. Rachael Winfree |
| Mar. 5 (IP) | Lei Song Assistant Professor Rutgers - Geography | Dr. Rick Lathrop |
| Mar. 12 (V) | Evan Gora Researcher - Forest Ecology Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | Caleb Truscott (Lockwood Lab) |
| Apr. 2 (IP) | Hila Shamon Deputy Executive Director of Science and Conservation - Duke Farms | Dr. Rick Lathrop |
| Apr. 9 (IP) | Scott Yanko Research Ecologist Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute | Dr. Jeremy Cohen |
| Apr. 16 (IP) | Sara Zeigler Research Geographer USGS-St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center | Lydia Heilferty (Maslo Lab) |
| Apr. 23 (IP) | Tavis Anderson Research Biologist National Animal Disease Center, USDA | Dr. Bobby Kwait |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 11 (IP) | Erin Sauer DEENR Rutgers - New Brunswick (Grad Program Membership Seminar) | Dr. Rachael Winfree |
| Sep. 18 (IP) | Rohan Maddamsetti Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology Rutgers – New Brunswick | Dr. Rachael Winfree |
| Sep. 25 (IP) | Lauren Seyler School of Natural Sciences Biology Program Stockton University | Isabelle Zoccolo (Maslo Lab) |
| Oct. 2 (IP) | Bobby Kwait (Maslo Lab) | |
| Oct. 9 (IP) | Jeremy Cohen Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| Oct. 16 | MID-SEMESTER BREAK NO SPEAKER | |
| Oct. 23 (IP) | Peter Groffman Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | Lucien Fitzpatrick (Aronson Lab) |
| Oct. 30 (IP) | Kiersten Formoso DEENR Rutgers – New Brunswick | Dr. Siobain Duffy |
| Nov. 6 (IP) | Lydia Heilferty (Maslo Lab) | |
| Nov. 13 (IP) | Cara Brand University of Pennsylvania (soon to Be at RU Genetics) | Dr. Rachael Winfree |
| Nov. 20 (V) | Wayne Getz Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management UC - Berkley | Morgan Mark (Maslo Lab) |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
Jan. 23 | Special Seminar: Wildlife Disease Faculty Candidate Emily Cornelius-Ruhs In-Person Seminar | Dr. Julie Lockwood |
| Jan. 30 | Special Seminar: Wildlife Disease Faculty Candidate Evan Eskew "Pathogen spillover in a changing world" In-Person Seminar | Dr. Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 6 | Special Seminar: Wildlife Disease Faculty Candidate Erin Sauer "Behavioral and physiological drivers of wildlife disease" In-Person Seminar | Dr. Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 13 | William Zipse Seminar Title: TBD | Dr. Allyson Salisbury |
| Feb. 20 | Kyle P. McCarthy "Global wildlife conservation: Insights from ecological research on carnivores and habitat suitability" In-Person Seminar | Lydia Heilferty (Maslo Lab) |
| Feb. 27 | Mark Johnson "Environmental DNA monitoring for aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity" Virtual Seminar | Daniel Fisher (Maslo Lab) |
| Mar. 6 | Andrea Bodnar (Eminent Ecologist) Donald G. Comb Science Director Eminent Ecologist Seminar | Erin Chille (Bhattacharya Lab) |
| Mar. 13 | TBD
| TBD |
| Mar. 27 | Christina Rhiel Seminar Title: TBD In-person Seminar | Tyler Christensen (Maslo Lab) |
| Apr. 3 | Chris Paddock Seminar Title: TBD | Jose Ramirez-Garofalo (Lockwood Lab) |
| Apr. 10 | Mitchell LeSage "Carrion, scavenging, and sickness: A scavenger's role in the transmission of infectious diseases" Virtual Seminar | Morgan Mark (Maslo Lab) |
| Apr. 17 | Jeff Clements Virtual Seminar | Sophia Piper (Munroe Lab) |
| Apr. 24 | Gerald Carter In-Person Seminar | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| May 1 | Lukas Musher Postdoctoral Scholar Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel "The macroevolutionary and genomic signatures of diversification on dynamic landscapes" In-Person Seminar | Dr. Erin Vogel |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 19 | Daniela Shebitz In-Person Seminar | Dr. Erin Vogel |
| Oct. 3 | Jason Blackburn Virtual Seminar | Morgan Mark (Maslo Lab) |
| Oct. 10 | Lynsey Harper Virtual Seminar | Shannon Dickey (Lockwood Lab) |
| Oct. 17 | Justin Bernstein Virtual Seminar | Erin McHale (Maslo Lab) |
| Oct. 24 | Catherine Cullingham Virtual Seminar | Bobby Kwait (Maslo Lab) |
| Oct. 31 | Sergey Kryazhimskiy In-Person Seminar | Duhita Sant (Manhart Lab - CABM RBHS) |
| Nov. 7 | SEMINAR POSTPOSED: Dr. Bodnar will be the Eminent Evolutionary Biologist in the spring Andrea Bodnar In-Person Seminar | Erin Chille (Bhattacharya Lab) |
| Nov. 14 | SEMINAR CANCELLED - MOVED TO SPRING 2025 Virtual Seminar | Daniel Fisher (Maslo Lab) |
| Nov. 21 | Sarah Bassing Virtual Seminar | Christian Crosby (Maslo Lab) |
| Dec. 5 | David Bushek Virtual Seminar | Brooke Maslo |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 25 | Allyson Salisbury In-Person Seminar | Rachael Winfree (Chair) |
| Feb. 1 | Joyce Ong In-Person Seminar | Isabelle Zoccolo |
| Feb. 8 | No Seminar | No Seminar |
| Feb. 15 | Samantha Hoff In-Person Seminar | Bobby Kwait |
| Feb. 22 | Jay Kelly
| Kendall Eldredge |
| Feb. 29 | Laura Schneider In-Person Seminar | Tyler Christensen |
| Mar. 7 | Andrew Reinmann In-Person Seminar | Rick Lathrop |
| Mar. 21 | Remington Moll Assistant Professor University of New Hampshire, Natural Resources and the Environment "Scale-dependent landscapes of fear: Case studies with carnivores" Virtual Seminar | Chris Crosby |
| Mar. 28 | Angela Holland
| Daniel Fisher |
| Apr. 4 | Sebastian Stockmaier Assistant Professor University of Tennessee - Knoxville "Merging behavioral and disease ecology: Insights from bats to roaches" Virtual Seminar | Morgan Mark |
| Apr. 11 | Kayode Atoba Associate Research Scientist Texas A& M "Strategic Planning: Proactive vs. Reactive Approaches in Acquiring Flood-Prone Properties" Virtual Seminar | Brooke Maslo |
| Apr. 18 | Mark Stoeckle Senior Research Associate Rockerfeller University "Counting Mid-Atlantic Fish With eDNA" In-Person Seminar | Shannon Dickey |
| Apr. 25 | William Chang-Cuello Post Doctoral Associate Los Alamos National Laboratory "Inferring Long-term Dynamics of Ecological Communities Using Combinatorics" Virtual Seminar | Juan Bonachela |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 14 | Marci Meixler Promotion Seminar | Siobain Duffy (Chair) |
| Sept. 21 | Enoka Kudavidanage "Biodiversity conservation challenges: Sharing experiences from the tropical island of Sri Lanka" | Julie Lockwood |
| Sept. 28 | Alexa McKay Senior Editor Nature Ecology and Evolution "Demystifying Nature Journals" | Rae Winfree |
| Oct. 5 | Jessica Stitt "Unlocking Keystone Structures: Using lidar to remotely characterize dead trees and nest cavities for wildlife applications" | Henry John-Alder & Rick Lathrop |
| Oct. 12 | David Baltrus "Developing phage derived bacteriocins as strain specific agricultural antimicrobials" | Siobain Duffy (Chair) |
| Oct. 19 | Lynn Rothschild "Could it happen again? Replaying the tape" | Dylan Simpson |
| Oct. 26 | Gea-Jae Joo "30 years of a river LTER (Long term Ecological Research) in South Korea" | Myla Aronson |
| Nov. 2 | Cortni Borgerson Assistant Professor Anthropology, Montclair University "Wildlife conservation: Understanding and addressing endangered species hunting in Madagascar" | Lindsay Hauff |
| Nov. 9 | Victoria Ramenzoni "Adapting to environmental fluctuations: Behavioral ecology, dietary changes and energetics among rural populations in Central Cuba" | Rae Winfree |
| Nov. 16 | Jonathan Cohen Associate Professor/Graduate Director SUNY-ESF "Plovers and Rabbits: The Challenge of Recovering Early Successional Endangered Species" | Lydia Heilferty |
| Nov. 30 | Margaret Stanley "Drivers of ecological change in cities: backyards matter" | Julie Lockwood |
| Dec. 7 | Jordan Lewis Postdoctoral Fellow "Investigating the Evolution of Host Defenses Through Experimental Evolution" | Siobain Duffy (Chair) |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 26 | Darko Cotoras Remote Seminar | Kelvin Chen |
| Feb. 2 | Mike Hickerson Professor Department of Biology CUNY/AMNH "Macroecological population genetics - the next era of comparative phylogeography" | Dr. Malin Pinsky |
| Feb. 9 | Brian Sturtevant Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture "Of clockwork and catastrophes: Interactions between forest landscape structure and defoliator outbreaks in time and space" | Dr. Rick Lathrop |
| Feb. 16 | Rachel Katz Biometrician US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) "Decision Analysis: Bridging the Research-Implementation Gap in Conservation" | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| Feb. 23 | Michael Manhart Membership Seminar | Dr. Malin Pinsky |
| Mar. 2 | Chi Chen Membership Seminar | Dr. Siobain Duffy |
| Mar. 9 | Stephanie Campos Assistant Professor Department of Biology Villanova University "From physiology to pheromones: How chemicals control the competitive lives of lizards" | Dr. Henry John-Alder |
| Mar. 23 | Thomas Schlacher Professor University of the Sunshine Coast-Australia "Ocean Beaches as Dynamic Edges of the Sea – A Moveable Feast of Wildlife and Cross-System Couplings" | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| Mar. 30 | Cynnamon Dobbs Brown Assistant Professor Department of Natural Resources and the Environment The University of Connecticut "The multiple dimensions of urban nature, beyond ecological benefits" | Dr. Myla Aronson |
| Apr. 6 | Kristin Winchell Assistant Professor NYU "Urban environments as natural laboratories for rapid evolutionary change" | Dr. Julie Lockwood |
| Apr. 13 | Jonathan Lefcheck Tennenbaum Coordinating Scientist Smithsonian Institution "From theory to the dinner plate: how seagrasses are progressing ecology and saving the planet" | Dr. Aurore Maureaud |
| Apr. 20 | Rodney Richardson Assistant Professor Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science "Metagenetic applications in pollinator biology and conservation" | Dr. Katie Turo |
| Apr. 27 | Bob Hedin President Hedin Environmental "Restoration of ecological values through the passive treatment of polluted mine water" | Dr. Brooke Malso |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 15 | Dr. John Wiedenmann Assistant Professor Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey Why aren't New England groundfish recovering despite more than two decades of management efforts? (Promotion Seminar) | Dr. Siobain Duffy (Professor & Chair) |
| Sept. 22 | Dr. Juan Bonachela Assistant Professor Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey Going viral: understanding host-virus eco-evolutionary dynamics from the villain’s point of view (Promotion Seminar) | Dr. Siobain Duffy (Professor & Chair) |
| Sept. 29 | Chris Lepczyk (Virtual Seminar) | Dr. Myla Aronson |
| Oct. 6 | Dr. Lauren Toth (Virtual Seminar) | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| Oct. 13 | Dr. Corina Tarnita (Virtual Seminar) | Dr. Juan Bonachela |
| Oct. 20 | Adrian Castellanos "Lions and tigers and deer, oh no!': Predicting mammal hosts for SARS-CoV-2" | Morgan Mark |
| Oct. 27 | Lara Roman (Virtual Seminar) | Dr. Jason Grabosky |
| Nov. 3 | Sarah Hoy (Virtual Seminar) | Christian Crosby |
| Nov. 10 | Dr. Jennifer Powers 2:00 pm in the Alampi Room in the DMCS Building - 71 Dudley Road | Joint Seminar: The Department of Environmental Sciences |
| Nov. 17 | Dr. Tobias Kukula "Hydrodynamic transport of marine debris: Why it matters for debris fate and ecological risk" | Isabelle Zoccolo |
| Dec. 1 | Dr. Subhasis Giri Program Membership Seminar) | Dr. Malin Pinsky |
| Dec. 8 | Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles Department of Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science "Unlocking the mysteries of coral immunity" | Dr. Malin Pinsky |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 3 | Dr. Mayra Rodríguez González | Dr. Myla Aronson |
| Feb. 10 | Dr. Mimi R. Koehl Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley Swimming and crawling in a turbulent ocean by marine larvae | Dr. Juan Bonachela |
| Feb. 17 | Dr. Kevin Njabo Center for Tropical Research UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability | Dr. Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 24 | Dr. Simone Des Roches School of aquatic and Fisheries Sciences College of the Environment University of Washington,Seattle The importance of intraspecific variation for ecosystems and people | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| Mar. 3 | Dr. Lily Khadempour Earth, and Environmental Sciences Rutgers University- Newark Ecology and evolution in insect-microbial symbioses | Dr. Malin Pinsky |
| Mar. 10 | Dr. Juniper Simonis DAPPER Stats Identifying, quantifying, and communicating the impacts of chemical weapons on urban communities and ecosystems | Dr. Brooke Maslo |
| Mar. 24 | Dr. Ricardo Rocha CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources University of Porto and University of Lisbon Challenges and opportunities for the conservation of Malagasy bats (and their ecosystem services) | Erin McHale |
| Mar. 31 | Dr. Marcelo Gehara Department of Biological Sciences Rutgers Univesrity - Newark Understanding Speciation with Evolutionary Modeling and AI | Dr. Brendan Reid |
| Apr. 7 | Dr. Charles Nilon College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources University of Missouri Urban Biodiversity, Nearby Nature, and Environmental Justice | Dr. Myla Aronson |
| Apr. 14 | Dr. Jessica Forrest Department of Biology University of Ottawa Drivers of population dynamics in a specialist solitary bee: does mismatch matter | Dylan Simpson |
| Apr. 19 | Judith Bronstein - Eminent Ecologist University Distinguised Professor Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona Bad-News Bees? Nectar Robbing and the "Temptation to Cheat" in Mutualisms | ECO GSA |
| Apr. 21 | Dr. Nikki Traylor-Knowles SEMINAR CANCELLED! | Dr. Malin Pinsky |
| Apr. 28 | Dr. Senay Yitbarek Department of Biology The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Elucidating ecological complexity across scales | Kelvin Chen |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host, Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 16 | Dr. Siobain Duffy
| Julie Lockwood |
| Sept. 23 | Dr. Brendan Reid Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers Univesity - New Brunswick Genetics of marine communities through time | Malin Pinsky |
| Sept. 30 | Dr. Andy Pershing Director of Climate Science Climate Central Survival skills for the Anthropocene: What marine heatwaves and other ocean surprises can teach us about living in a warming world | John Weidenmann |
| Oct. 7 | Dr. Theresa Laverty Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Chicago Conservation ecology of desert bats | Brooke Maslo |
| Oct. 14 | Dr. Javan Bauder School of Natural Resources and the Environment University of Arizona Individual-based approaches for landscape-scale conservation: Examples from the federally threatened eastern indigo snake | Tyler Christensen |
| Oct. 21 | Dr. Francisco Ferreira Rutgers Center for Vector Biology Department of Entomology Rutgers University - New Brunswick Hawaiian bird malaria: dissecting vector-parasite relationships | Dina Fonseca |
| Oct. 28 | Dr. Maria Miriti Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Ohio State University Driving change: Drought and other disasters | Zoë Kitchel |
| Nov. 4 | CANCELLED: Dr. Lily Khadempour Earth, and Environmental Sciences Rutgers - Newark Ecology and evolution in insect-microbial symbioses | Malin Pinsky |
| Nov. 11 | Dr. Matt Schuler Biology Department Montclair State University From pollution to policy: Understanding and mitigating human impacts on freshwater environments | Ryan Almeida |
| Nov. 18 | Dr. Vianey Leos Barajas Bayesian Ecological & Environmental Statistics University of Toronto Fitting hidden Markov models in practice | Alexa Fredston |
| Dec. 2 | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources | Juan Bonachela |
| Dec. 9 | Dr. Marc Rius
| Bobby Kwait |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 21 | Dr. Christina Bergey Program membership seminar | Malin Pinsky |
| Jan. 28 | Dr. Karen Warkentin Boston University Different people ask different questions: a queer perspective on studying diversity in life history and behavior | Katrina Catalano |
| Feb. 4 | Dr. David Steen Reptile and Amphibian Research Leader Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) Founder and Executive Director of The Alongside Wildlife Foundation Using Snakes And Turtles to Understand Ecology and Conservation. | John Wiedenmann |
| Feb. 11 | Dr. Sandra Knapp Natural History Museum London Past, present and future of floristics - the continued relevance of floras in a modern world | Lena Struwe |
| Feb. 18 | Dr. Katie Barott Department of Biology University of Pennsylvania Regulation of acid-base homeostasis in reef-building corals undergoing a changing climate | Zoe Kitchel |
| Feb. 25 | Dr. Tanisha Williams Department of Biology Bucknell University Conserving Biodiversity from South Africa to Australia | Kate Douthat |
| Mar. 4 | Dr. Anthony Geneva Program membership seminar | Malin Pinsky |
| Mar 11. | Dr. Darcy Bradley Sustainable Fisheries Group Co-Director University of Califormia, Santa Barbara Bridging movement ecology and fisheries science to improve conservation outcomes | Alexa Fredston |
| Mar. 18 | Spring Break | |
| Mar. 25 | Dr. Matthew McCary Department of Biosciences Rice University Feast or famine: how resource availability can influence ecosystem dynamics | Kelvin Chen |
| April 1 | Dr. Elizabeth Watson Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Wetlands Section Leader, Patrick Center for Environmental Research Drexel University | Rick Lathrop |
| April 8 | Dr. Anne Maria Eikeset Norges Bank Investment Management (Oslo Area, Norway) Understanding crisis through interdisciplinary - A view from a large fund | Juan Bonachela |
| April 15 | Dr. Scott V. Edwards Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Using genomics and natural experiments to probe the evolutionary history of birds | Alvin Crespo |
| April 22 | Dr. Mary Whelan Department of Environmental Science Rutgers University | Julie Lockwood |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 10 | Dr. Carla Staver Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University Tropical biomes in a changing world | Zoe Kitchel |
| Sept. 17 | Dr. Alexa Fredston Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Rutgers University Causes and consequences of species range shifts in a changing climate | Malin Pinsky |
| Sept 24 | Dr. Brooke Maslo This is Dr. Maslo's promotion seminar | Jule Lockwood |
| Oct. 1 | Dr. Sarah Smith Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University Weathering the Storm: Responses and Adaptation Strategies of Commercial Fishermen in the Northeast U.S. to Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic | John Wiedenmann |
| Oct. 8 | Dr. Andrea J. Adams Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara Recovering California's frogs: mixed methods approaches for applied conservation science | Abigail Golden |
| Oct. 15 | Dr. Micaela Martinez Bakker Department of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia University Biological Rhythms in the Anthropocene | Zoe Kitchel |
| Oct. 22 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Andrew Gonzalez Liber Ero Chair in Conservation Biology | Killam Fellow | Founding director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science McGill University Montreal, Canada Multiscale biodiversity science for the Anthropocene | Paulina Arancibia |
| Oct. 29 | Dr. Helmut Hillebrand Director, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity University of Oldenburg, Changing biodiversity in changing environments: temporal turnover across scales of time and space | Malin Pinsky |
| Nov. 5 | Dr. Peter Buston Director of the BU Marine Program Boston University Social Evolution in the Clown Anemonefish | Katrina Catalano |
| Nov. 12 | Dr. Justin Yeakel School of Natural Sciences University of California, Merced The dynamics of starvation and recovery provide insight into Cope's Rule and the evolution of grazing | John Wiedenmann |
| Nov. 19 | Dr. Brandon Chasco National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Lost at sea: unraveling the mysteries of marine salmon survival | John Wiedenmann |
| Dec. 3 | Dr. Jessica Ware Curator of Odonata & non-Holometabolous Minor Orders American Museum of Natural History On dragonflies, damselflies and roaches: studying insect molecular and morphological evolution | Kimberly Russell |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 6 | Dr. Thomas M. Grothues Program Membership Seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 13 | Dr. Donnie Peterson Rutgers University Impact, preference, and performance of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) on historic and novel hosts | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 20 | Dr. Joyce Ong Rutgers University Prevalence of synchrony among marine fisheries and its drivers | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 27 | Dr. J. Angelo Soto-Centeno Rutgers University-Newark "Extinction and Survival in the Caribbean: Climate, humans, & the loss of vertebrate diversity" | Brooke Maslo |
| March 5 | CANCELLED: Dr. Elizabeth Watson Drexel University | Rick Lathrop |
| March 5 | Dr. Evan Eskew Rutgers University "Conservation, disease, and data" | Brooke Maslo |
| March 12 | Dr. Mark Urban
| Julie Lockwood |
| March 19 | Spring Break | |
| March 26 | Dr. Peter Buston Boston Univeristy "Social Evolution in the Clown Anemonefish" | Katrina Catalano |
| April 2 | Dr. Katie Barott University of Pennsylvania "Regulation of acid-base homeostasis in reef-building corals undergoing a changing climate" | Zoe Kitchel |
| April 9 | Dr. Carla Staver Yale University | Zoe Kitchel |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 19 | Dr. Lisa McManus Rutgers University Coral reef dynamics in a changing world: a multiscale perspective | John Wiedenmann |
| Sept. 26 | Dr. Laura Reynolds Rutgers University What's mud got to do with it? : how the geological record can inform studies on tidal marshes in the anthropocene | Julie Lockwood |
| Oct. 3 | Dr. Michael Gallagher
| Jason Grabosky |
| Oct. 10 | Dr. Craig W. Schneider Trinity College Bermuda: Tracing the Evolution of Seaweed Taxonomy Over Decades | Peter Morin |
| Oct. 17 | Dr. Sarah Karpanty Virginia Tech Conservation complexities: How the red knot is a model for the challenges and opportunities of conserving shorebirds across the Atlantic Flyway | John Wiedenmann |
| Oct. 24 | Dr. Jane Foster University of Minnesota Unexpected expansion of montane tree species under climate change: The puzzling case of red spruce in the eastern US | Bernie Isaacson |
| Oct. 31 | Dr. Andrea Egizi Rutgers University The changing tick-borne disease landscape in Monmouth County, NJ | Dina Fonseca |
| Nov. 7 | Adam Martiny
| Juan Bonachela |
| Nov. 14 | Dr. Stephanie Spielman Rowan University Cautionary tales in phylogenetic model selection | Siobain Duffy |
| Nov. 21 | Dr. Lesley Thorne Understanding urban whales: Studying cetacean ecology to | Danielle Brown |
| Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec. 5 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Our changing biosphere: understanding our future from first principles | Katrina Catalano |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 7 | Dr. Tetsuya Nakamu “The genetic mechanisms underlying fish diversity and fish-to-tetrapod transition”. This is Dr. Nakamu's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 14 | Dr. Myla Aronson "Biodiversity in the Concrete Jungle: Understanding Nature in Cities for a Resilient Future" This is Dr. Aronson's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 21 | Dr. Olaf Jensen "The River Wolf and the Blue Pearl: Ecology and Conservation of Mongolia’s Freshwater Ecosystems"
| John Wiedenmann |
| Feb. 28 | Dr. Derek Zelmer "Parasite communities: surveillance, scaling, and synchrony"
| Rita Grunberg |
| March 7 | Dr. Heather Lynch "How many Adélie penguins are there? and other mysteries solved by satellites" | Abigail Golden |
| March 14 | Dr. Cynthia Downs Hamilton College "Immunology Across Biological Scales." | Rita Grunberg |
| March 21 | Spring Break | |
| March 28 | Dr. Emily Meineke
| Myla Aronson |
| April 4 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Marlene Zuk University of Minnesota "Rapid evolution in silence: adaptive signal loss in the Pacific field cricket" | Rita Grunberg |
| April 11 | Dr. Jennifer Dunne Vice President for Science Sante Fe Institute "The Deep Time Frontiers of Ecological Network Research" | Michael Roswell |
| April 18 | Dr. Doug Zemeckis This is Dr. Zemeckis' program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| April 25 | Dr. Nicholas Dulvy Simon Fraser University | Olaf Jensen |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 20 | Dr. Stephanie Carlson "Managing for resilience of inland fishes" | John Wiedenmann |
| Sept. 27 | Dr. Chris Field "Integrating ecology and social science to predict ecosystem change for tidal marshes" | Julie Lockwood |
| Oct. 4 | Dr. Amy Savage Department of Biology Rutgers University - Camden "Diversity, resilience, and nutritional ecology of urban arthropods" This is Dr. Savage's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 11 | Dr. Juan Bonachela Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University - New Brunswick "Quantifying ecological transitions" This is Dr. Bonachela's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 18 | Dr. Mary Caswell Stoddard "The Evolution of Colorful Signals and Diverse Structures in the Avian World" | Michael Allen |
| Oct. 25 | Dr. Holly Kindsvater This is Dr. Kindsvater's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Nov. 1 | Dr. Rich Hallett "Urban Forest Management: Seeing the forest through the street trees" | Myla Aronson |
| Nov. 8 | Dr. Benjamin Lintner This is Dr. Lintner's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Nov. 15 | Dr. Andrea Graham Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University "Rapid environmental effects on nematode susceptibility in rewilded mice: developing mesocosms for This Wormy World" | Seth Bromagen |
| Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving | |
| Nov. 29 | Dr. Luis Zambrano
| Steven Handel |
| Dec. 6 | Dr. Katherine Dawson This is Dr. Dawson's program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 25 | Canceled; will be rescheduled Fall 2018. Dr. Matthew Palmer "Plants in the urban landscape: Designing for function and dynamic change"
| Joni Baumgarten |
| Feb. 1 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist 2017 "From the lab to the field: the genetic basis of evolutionary change" | EcoGSA |
| Feb. 8 | Dr. William Fagan "Animal Movement: Memory, Learning, and Autocorrelation" | Michael Roswell |
| Feb 15 | Dr. Amy Savage "Diversity, resilience, and nutritional ecology of urban arthropods" | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 22 | Dr. David Post "The tale of two fish: eco-evolutionary feedbacks and evolutionary cascades in lakes" | Rachel Paseka |
| March 1 | Dr. Ricardo Martinez-Garcia "Causes and consequences of asynchrony in a transition to aggregative multicellularity: insights from non-aggregated cells". | Malin Pinsky |
| March 8 | Dr. Mansha Seth-Pasricha "Epistasis poses limited genomic constraints on RNA virus emergence" | Malin Pinsky |
| March 15 | Spring Break | |
| March 22 | Dr. Sarah Kocher "Harnessing natural variation to study the evolution of social behavior in bees." | Michael Roswell |
| March 29 | Rescheduled and moved to April 26 Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn Rutgers University | Malin Pinsky |
| April 5 | Dr. Christopher Solomon Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies "A framework for understanding lake food web productivity: or, why we turned a lake brown and what we learned." Graduate Program Membership Seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| April 12 | Dr. Katie Malcolm Rutgers University "Do prescribed burns affect the soil ecology of the NJ Pinelands?" | John Dighton |
| April 19 | Dr. Mary Katherine (Katy) Gonder Drexel Unversity "The case for ecological speciation in chimpanzees from genome-wide SNP data from wild populations in Cameroon." | Malin Pinsky |
| April 26 | Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn "Infectious disease in the anthropocene: ecological and evolutionary dynamics" | Malin Pinsky |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 21 | Dr. Herman Pontzer Hunter College, City University of New York “The Crown Joules: Energy, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and other Primates” | Henry John-Alder and Erin Vogel |
| Sept. 28 | Dr. Malin Pinsky Promotion Seminar | Henry John-Alder |
| Oct. 5 | Dr. Vince Formica Swarthmore College "Natural selection for animal social networks". | Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar |
| Oct. 12 | Dr. Amy Freestone "Biodiversity and bioinvasions: marine community ecology from local to latitudinal scales" | Julie Lockwood |
| Oct. 19 | Dr. Sara Ruane Rutgers University - Newark "Understanding and Describing Snake Diversity in the Era of Phylogenomics" Graduate Program Membership Seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct.26 | Dr. Marci Meixler Promotion Seminar | Henry John-Alder |
| Nov. 2 | Dr. Brooke Maslo "Can Pathogens Shape the Potential for Evolutionary Rescue of Host Populations? " Reappointment Seminar | Henry John-Alder |
| Nov. 9 | Dr. Nazia Arbab Rutgers University "Spatial analysis of land use/land cover change in the Raritan River Watershed" | Malin Pinsky |
| Nov. 16 | Dr. Martin Turcotte University of Pittsburgh “The impact of plant rapid evolution on species interactions” Co-sponsored with the Department of Entomology | Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | |
| Nov. 30 | Dr. Elizabeth Nichol Swarthmore College "Biodiversity and ecosystem services across a habitat loss gradient: thresholds, tradeoffs and traits, oh my!” | Rita Grunberg |
| Dec. 7 | Dr. Thomas Mozdzer "Alteration of ecosystem processes through rapid environmental filtering of foundation species" | Joni Baumgarten |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 26 | ||
| Feb. 2 | Dr. Christina Riehl "Cheaters and Collaborators: The evolution of cooperative breeding in a tropical bird" | Behthanne Socolar |
| Feb. 9 | Dr. Herman Pontzer - CANCELLED - Will be rescheduled fall 2017 "The Crown Joules: Energy, Ecology, and Evolution in Humans and other Primates" | Henry John-Alder |
| Feb. 16 | Dr. Kimberly Russell Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 23 | Dr. Emily Moberg Rutgers University | Malin Pinsky |
| March 2 | Dr. Susan Perkins "Malaria�s Many Mates: The Diversity and Evolution of Haemosporidians" | Rita Grunberg |
| March 9 | H. Resit Akcakaya "Species extinctions under climate change: prediction, understanding, prevention" | Oliver Stringham |
| March 16 | Spring Break | |
| March 23 | Dr. Jeremy Fox "The spatial hydra effect: that which does not kill metapopulations makes them stronger" | Peter Morin |
| March 30 | Dr. Jeremy Draghi "Causes and consequences of variation in evolvability." | Siobain Duffy |
| April 6 | Dr. Sybil Gotsch "Withstanding drought: Ecological strategies of canopy epiphyte communities in a tropical montane region" | Erin Vogel |
| April 13 | Dr. Tad Fukami "Embracing historical contingency in community ecology: current status of the field and some insights from nectar microbes" | Michael Roswell |
| April 20 | Dr. Elizabeth Alter "Life at the extremes: evolutionary convergence in rapids-adapted fishes of the lower Congo River" | Malin Pinsky |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 22 | Dr. Barbara Han Program membership seminar | Ariel Kruger |
| Sept. 29 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. Marianne Krasny "Civic Ecology: is there a place for community environmental stewardship?" | EcoGSA / Amanda Sorensen |
| Oct. 6 | Dr. Peter Rosenbaum "Conservation of the bog turtle (Glyptemys = Clemmys muhenbergii) in Western and Central New York State” | Joan Bennett |
| Oct. 13 | Dr. Brooke Flammang New Jersey Insitutute of Technology/Rutgers Newark "Morphological and Functional Diversity among Fishes" Program membership seminar | Henry John-Alder |
| Oct. 20 | Dr. Jennifer Cherrier "The Green Horizon: Can green infrastructure address runoff & climate change challenges?" | Christina Kaunzinger |
| Oct. 27 | Dr. S.Tonia Hsieh Temple University | Natalie Lemanski |
| Nov. 3 | Dr. Subhasis Giri " Sustainable Raritan River Initiative". | Rick Lathrop |
| Nov. 10 | 250th Revolutionary Thinkers "A Revolution of Inclusion: Building Partnerships to Achieve Sustainability in Ecosystem Health, Public Health, and Corporate Triple Bottom Line" | Henry-John-Alder |
| Nov. 17 | Dr. Anne Nielsen Program membership seminar | Olaf Jensen |
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec. 1 | Dr. Melinda Rostal "A One Health Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Emerging Infectious Diseases" | Jennifer Hoey and Amanda Sorensen |
| Dec. 8 | Dr. Melissa Pespeni "From Sea to Shining Beetle: Uncovering Mechanisms of Adaptation and Innovation" | Jennifer Hoey |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Dr. Shahid Naeem "The thermal significance of biodiversity: A new look into the invisible realm of the Arctic tundra." | Peter Morin |
| Feb. 4 | Dr. Timothy Watkins "Science and the National Parks: Context, Needs, and Opportunities" | Henry John-Alder |
| Feb. 11 | CANCELLED : Dr. Mark Siddall "New Technologies for opening a can of worms". | Rachel Paseka |
| Feb 11 | Dr. Jessica Castillo-Vardaro "Pikas in Peril?: Assessing vulnerability to climate change for the American pika" | Malin Pinsky |
| Feb. 18 | Dr. Elena Kramer "Understanding the genetic basis of morphological novelty in flowers." | Lena Struwe |
| Feb. 25 | Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant "In search of the causes of evolution: Darwin's finches on Galápagos". | Malin Pinsky |
| March 3 | Dr. Ana Carolina Carnaval City University of New York | Malin Pinsky |
| March 10 | Dr. Tadashi Fukami "Embracing historical contingency in community assembly" | Michael Roswell |
| March 17 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 24 | Dr. Jason Kolbe "City slickers: ecological and behavioral responses of Anolis lizards to urban environments" | Julie Lockwood |
| March 31 | Dr. Brenda Casper "Steppe changes? Predicting response to climate change in the Mongolian steppe" | Alexis Kleinbeck |
| April 7 | Dr. Andrew Noble "Synchrony across space in population dynamics, and magnets?" | Marci Meixler |
| April 14 | Dr. Ken Andersen "Characteristic sizes of life in the ocean" |
Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 10 | Dr. Ming Xu "Using Process-based Models to Estimate Ecosystem Services and Their Values in Qinghai Province, China." This is Dr. Xu's promotion seminar | Henry John-Alder |
| Sept. 17 | Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt "The molecular structure of domestication: A case study of canines"
| Henry John-Alder and Malin Pinsky |
| Sept. 24 | Dr. Mark Genung "Scaling up biodiversity-ecosystem services research from experiments to the landscape" | Malin Pinsky |
| Oct. 1 | TIME CHANGE TO 2:00 P.M. in Alampi Room. Dr. Nick Kaplinsky "A high resolution dynamic view of cellular responses to high temperature stress in plants."
| Bethanne Socolar |
| Oct. 8 | Dr. Joshua Ginsberg "Roaring Back? A fragile global recovery of some large carnivores and what it tells us about conservation."
| Nina Fefferman |
| Oct. 15 | Dr. Jonathan Dushoff "The ecology and evolution of infectious disease: Theoretical, computational and statistical approaches"
| Rachael Winfree |
| Oct. 22 | Dr. Mary Blair " Scales of Wildlife Trade in Vietnam: Integrating Molecular Phylogenetics, Ethnography, and Econometrics to Address a Complex Problem" | Talia Young |
| Oct. 29 | Dr. Ted Daeschler "Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates" | Natalie Howe |
| Nov. 5 | Dr. Angelica Gonzalez ?"Structure and dynamics of ancient and modern food webs in a changing world" This is Dr. Gonzalez's membership seminar | Nina Fefferman |
| Nov. 12 | Dr. Jason Munshi-South "A Tale of Two Rodents: population genomics of deer mice and rats in New York City"
| Myla Aronson |
| Nov. 19 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Seminar Dr. Andrew Dobson "The Eye of the Finch - Rapid Evolution in an Emerging Avian Pathogen”
| EcoGSA |
| Nov. 26 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec. 3 | Dr. Susannah Lerman "Beyond benefits for people: How backyard habitats support ecosystem services for wildlife"
| Myla Aronson and Jason Grabosky |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 29 | Dr. Samantha Chapman "Mangroves marching northward: impacts of range shifts on carbon cycling and coastal protection" | Natalie Howe |
| Feb.5 | Dr. Daniel Cariveau "Biodiversity, ecosystem services and conservation of native bees in agroecosystems"
| Malin Pinsky |
| Feb. 12 | Dr. Eunsoo Kim "Green Algae: Phagocytosis, Endosymbiosis, and Genome Evolution" | Debashish Bhattacharya and Paul Falkowski |
| Feb. 19 | Dr. Alison Sweeney "Photosymbiotic Giant Clams are Transformers of Solar | Malin Pinsky |
| Feb. 26 | Dr. David Wilcove "Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia: the good, the bad, and the frightening." | Orion Weldon |
| March 5 | CANCELLED Dr. Joshua Ginsberg "Roaring Back? A fragile global recovery of some large | Julie Lockwood |
| March 12 | Dr. Mark Urban "Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change." | Peter Morin |
| March 19 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 26 | Dr. Scott Gilbert "We Are All Lichens: How Symbiosis Reshapes Individuality" | Michael Roswell |
| April 2 | Colette Feehan
| Diane Adams |
| April 9 | Dr. Daniel Weinreich "Evolution of the Roundest: Why Populations Reside on Domes and not Volcanoes on the Fitness Landscape" | Siobain Duffy |
| April 16 | Dr. Volker Rudolf "Thinking inside the box: Community level | Peter Morin |
| April 23 | Dr. Susanna Remold "Stalking the elusive generalist: Pseudomonas in the home” | Siobain Duffy |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 11 | Dr. Siobain Duffy "What they are vs what they do: the contribution of genomic architecture and ecology to long-term viral evolution " This is Dr. Duffy's promotion seminar | Henry John-Alder |
| Sept. 18 | Dr. Lyndon Estes "The sustainability of agricultural expansion in the 21st century's hotspot of global change" | Rick Lathrop |
| Sept. 25 | Dr. Romain Libbrecht "Division of labor in insect societies: Genetic components and physiological regulation" | Henry John-Alder and Malin Pinsky |
| Oct. 2 | Dr. Frank Gallagher "Brownfields to Green, the Easy Way" This is Dr. Gallagher's membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Oct. 9 | Dr. Helen Fox "Solving the mystery of marine protected area (MPA) performance: linking governance, conservation, ecosystem services, and human well being" | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 16 | Dr. Matthew Bolek "Unraveling a Gordian knot: Discovering the Biodiversity of Gordian Worms (Phylum, Nematomorpha)" | Sukhdeo Lab |
| Oct. 23 | Dr. Dustin Brisson "Evolution and evolvability of antigenic variation" | Siobain Duffy |
| Oct. 30 | Dr. Howard Rosenbaum "CHARTING THE COURSE TO RECOVERY | Malin Pinsky |
| Nov. 6 | Dr. Eric Wommack “Uncovering the biology of unknown viruses through metagenomics and nucleotide metabolism genes” | Kay Bidle |
| Nov. 13 | Dr. John Wiedenmann "Identifying effective strategies for sustainable fisheries management" This is Dr. Wiedenmann's membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 20 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist "Sushi and Satellites: | EcoGSA |
| Dec. 4 | Dr. Nancy Knowlton "The evolutionary diversity and ecological complexity of coral reefs" | Malin Pinsky |
| Dec. 11 | CANCELLED: "Increasing frequency of disease drives community dynamics in a kelp bed ecosystem" | Diane Adams |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Feb.6 | Dr. Morgan Tingley "How Should Climate Change Affect Land Conservation Strategies?" | Malin Pinsky |
| Feb. 13 | Dr. Diane Adams Moved to March 13 "The neuroscience, ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in sea urchin larvae." This is Dr. Adams membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 20 | Dr. James Lendemer "Where have all the lichens gone? New Jersey as a case study of the unseen effects anthropogenic change has on biodiversity and ecosystem function." | Lena Struwe |
| March 6 | Dr. Siobhan Mattison Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University | Siobain Duffy |
| March 13 | Dr. Helen Fox CANCELED -See new seminar below Director, Marine Science World Wildlife Fund | Olaf Jensen |
| March 13 | Dr. Diane Adams "The neuroscience, ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in sea urchin larvae." This is Dr. Adams membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| March 20 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 27 | Dr. Nicholas Preston "EcoHealth at the Digital Frontier" | Olaf Jensen |
| April 3 | Dr. Howard Rosenbaum CANCELED Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society-Ocean Giants Program | Malin Pinsky |
| April 10 | Co-sponsored with Department of Entomology Dr. Colin Orians “Induced Sequestration: An alternate defense strategy of plants?” | Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |
| April 17 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist "Experimental Studies in Evolution: Research on Lizard Adaptation in the Bahamas" | EcoGSA |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 12 | Dr. Lena Struwe "Understanding patterns of floristic biodiversity on small to large scales - the integration of phylogenies, ecological species data, and GIS-based patterns to resolve new and old questions." This is Dr. Struwe's promotion seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Sept. 19 | Dr. Krista McGuire "Responses of soil microbes to logging and oil palm agriculture in Malaysian dipterocarp forest". | Natalie Howe |
| Sept. 26 | Dr. Peter Buston "Anemonefishes as Model Systems for Marine Evolutionary Ecology" | Malin Pinsky |
| Oct. 3 | Dr. Frank LaSorte “The biogeography of avian migration: towards a population-level perspective” | Myla Aronson |
| Oct. 10 | NOTE: This seminar will be held in Room 123 ENR Dr. Lazoras Gallos "Complex networks: the science of connections"
| Nina Fefferman |
| Oct. 17 | Dr. Samantha Joye "Hydrocarbon degradation following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Well Blowout: the role of the novel microbial groups and their rapid response to perturbation." | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 24 | Dr. Deborah Finke "The cascading effects of predator diversity on a vector-borne plant pathogen" Co-sponsored with Department of Entomology | Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |
| Oct. 31 | Dr. Malin Pinsky "Fish, fisheries, and climate velocity" | Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 7 | NOTE: This seminar will be held in Room 123 ENR Dr. Gregory McGee "Conserving Forest Biodiversity through Management of the Unit-Pattern"
| Julia Perzley |
| Nov. 14 | Dr. Winifred Frick "Ecology and conservation of bats: Foraging plasticity, aeroecology, and wildlife disease" | Brooke Maslo |
| Nov. 21 | Dr. Carol Lee Center of Rapid Evolution University of Wisconsin, Madison "Rapid Evolution following Habitat Transitions" | Dina Fonseca |
| Dec 5 | Dr. Daphne Munroe "Intersecting larval connectivity and population ecology to understand change in marine resources." This is Dr. Munroe's E&E membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 24 | Dr. Edmund D. Brodie III "Time to Change the Channel: Predator-Prey Arms Races and the Evolution of Tetrodotoxin Resistance in Snakes" | Henry John-Alder |
| Jan. 31 | Dr. Myla Aronson "Life in the concrete jungle: This is Dr. Aronson's program membership seminar. | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb.7 | Dr. Diana Nemergut "Do we need to understand microbial community structure to predict ecosystem function? Insights from community assembly theory" Co-sponsored with the Office for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics | Joan Bennett |
| Feb. 14 | Dr. Paul Falkowski "Reconstructing the Wiring Diagrams of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles" | Olaf Jensen |
| Feb. 21 | Dr. Sadie Ryan "Clash of the Titans: People, Environment, and Climate in the Albertine Rift "
| Brian Clough |
| Feb. 27*** | NOTE SPECIAL DAY (WEDNESDAY) "Urban transformations: Co-sponsored with Department of Landscape Architecture | Julie Lockwood and Kate John-Alder |
| March 1 | SPECIAL SEMINAR ; SPECIAL TIME: 1:00 p.m.; Alampi Room "A Natural Year In An Unnatural World" Dr. Safina, an E&E alumnus, is the recipient of the 2013 Graduate School-New Brunswick Alumni Award in the Biological Sciences. | Julie Lockwood |
| March 7 | Dr. Paul Jivoff "Blue crabs in Barnegat Bay: Potential interactions between reproductive biology and fishing pressure"
| Olaf Jensen |
| March 14 | Dr. Sarah Gaichas "Ecological modeling for fisheries management advice" | Olaf Jensen |
| March 21 | Spring Break | |
| March 28 | Dr. Dov Sax "An evolutionary hypothesis for invasions and tests of climate niche models" | Julie Lockwood |
| April 4 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist: "The assembly of networks of coevolving species" | EcoGSA |
| April 11 | Dr. Bernd Blossey Department of Natural Resources "How deer, earthworms and invasive plants transform our neighborhoods, forests and protected areas" | Lena Struwe |
| April 18 | Dr. Eric Lonsdorf "Modeling Pollination Services Across Agricultural Landscapes" | Rachael Winfree |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 20 | Dr. John Clark "Systematics of the Neotropical members of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae: tales of convergent evolution in a taxonomically confusing clade"
| Lena Struwe |
| Sept. 27 | Dr. Andrew Finley "Hierarchical models for quantifying forest variables over large heterogeneous landscapes with uncertain forest area" | Brian Clough and Edwin Green |
| Oct. 4 | Dr. John Lill "Tritrophic interactions in forest caterpillars" Cosponsored with Department of Entomology | Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |
| Oct. 11 | CANCELED - ANSP Symposium ansp.org/explore/our-research/bicentennial-symposium | |
| Oct. 18 | Dr. J. Wilson White "Design and assessment of marine reserves: theory and practice" | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 25 | Dr. Yana Bromberg "Computing prokaryotic diversity using functional similarity" This is Dr. Bromberg's graduate program membership seminar. | Nina Fefferman |
| Nov. 1 | Dr. Dov Sax "An evolutionary hypothesis for invasions and tests of climate niche models" | Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 8 | Dr. Gregg Hartvigsen "Network topology and the emergence and persistence of diseases" | Kevin Aagaard |
| Nov. 15 | Dr. Oscar Schofield "Observing the Mid-Atlantic Continental Shelf: Robotic sampling of upwellings to Hurricanes " | Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 29 | Dr. Bryan Danforth “How have DNA sequence data changed our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution?”
Cosponsored with Department of Entomology | Rachael Winfree |
| Dec 6 |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | Dr. Steven D'Hondt Department of Oceanography University of Rhode Island "How slow can life go? Lesson from subseafloor life." | CoSponsored with Oceanography |
| Jan. 26 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Seminar Dr.Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University "Biodiversity: the most beautiful carbon" | Karen Wylie and the EcoGSA |
| Feb. 2 | Dr. Jennifer Krumins " Embracing the Good: when negative interactions turn positive in soil" This is Dr. Krumins' Graduate Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 9 | Dr. Robert Scott "From Grass to Well Done Steaks: Insights into Hominin Diets from Paleontology and Experimental Biology" This is Dr. Scott's Graduate Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 16 | Dr. Erin Vogel "Behavioral, morphological, and physiological adaptations to fruit scarcity in wild orangutans. " This is Dr. Vogel's Graduate Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 23 | Dr. Richard Ostfeld "Biodiversity Loss and the Rise of Emerging Infectious Diseases" | Holly Vuong |
| March1 | Dr. Henry John-Alder "Hormonal Pleiotropy and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Body Size" | Julie Lockwood |
| March 8 | Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall "Novel contaminants in aquatic ecosystems: inputs, fates and potential ecological effects." | Brian Clough |
| March 15 | Spring Break | |
| March 22 | Dr. Todd LaJeunesse "The introduction and spread of invasive symbiotic dinoflagellates in a time of climate warming. " | Debashish Bhattacharya and Paul Falkowski |
| March 29 | Dr. Amy Kamarainen "Engaging students in ecosystem science and ecological modeling using multi-user virtual environments, augmented reality and games." | Olaf Jensen |
| April 5 | Dr. Bradley Stevens "Development of In-situ Assessment Methods for black sea bass (Centropristisstriata L.) Abundance and Behavior "
| Olaf Jensen |
| April 12 | Dr. Andrew Kern "Local adaptation in Drosophila: insights from a reverse ecology perspective". This is Dr. Kern's Graduate Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| April 19 | Dr. Monica Bricelj "Adaptation to neurotoxic Alexandrium blooms in softshell clam populations: a molecular to ecosystem approach" This is Dr.Bricelj's Graduate Program membership seminar
| Julie Lockwood |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 15 | Dr. Philipp Neubauer "Fishing in the Dark: Inferring larval dispersal pathways in a reef fish meta-population in Cook Strait, New Zealand." | Olaf Jensen |
| Sept. 22 | Dr.Julie Lockwood "The Biology of Nowhere: the changing face of biodiversity in the wake of species invasions and extinctions" This is Dr. Lockwood's promotion seminar. | Henry John-Alder |
| Sept. 29 | Dr. Malin Pinsky Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University "New insights into the causes and consequences of fisheries collapse." | Olaf Jensen |
| Oct. 6 | Dr. Alex Vagelli Director of Science & Conservation New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences "From direct development to the Wallace Line: a holistic research on the natural history and conservation of Pterapogon kauderni (Teleostei, Apogonidae), an endemic coral reef fish endangered by the international pet trade." | John Dighton |
| Oct. 13 | Dr. Mya Brietbart Biological Oceanography University of South Florida "Virus Hunting in the Age of Metagenomics" | Siobain Duffy |
| Oct. 20 | Dr. Jeferson Gross "From an emerging oxygenic world to epigenomic evolvability, a journey across the eukaryotic evolution" | Debashish Bhattacharya
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| Oct. 27 | Dr. John Wiedenmann "Change in the Southern Ocean ecosystem: from ice to krill to whales." | Olaf Jensen |
| Nov. 3 | Dr .Nina Fefferman "Phalanx Defenses: Evolutionary pressures and self-organizing social systems." This is Dr. Fefferman's promotion seminar. | Henry John-Alder |
| Nov. 10 | Dr.Tammy Long "Rethinking the system: Can model-based instruction promote systems-thinking in introductory biology?" | Rebecca Jordan |
| Nov. 17 | Dr .Peter Del Tredici "Deeply Disturbed; The Emergent Forest of the Future" | Frank Gallagher |
| Dec.1 | Dr. Mark Robson "Global Pesticide Use: Human and Ecological Effects" This is Dr. Robson's E&E Graduate Program membership Seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Dec 8 | Dr. Jason Grabosky "Tree root growth patterns in the zone of rapid taper, and the implications for pavement design" This is Dr. Grabosky's promotion seminar. |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 27 | Dr. Cintia Souto
| Peter Smouse |
| Feb. 3 | Dr. Alycia Crall "The Art and Science of Invasive Species Monitoring with Citizen Scientists" | Rebecca Jordan |
| Feb. 10 | Dr. Lars Hedin "Molybdenum, nitrogen, and the global carbon cycle" | Paul Falkowski |
| Feb. 17 | Dr. Robert Naczi "Systematics of Western Hemisphere Pitcher Plants | Lena Struwe |
| Feb. 24 | Dr. Gary Lovett "Big Changes from Little Bugs: Effects of Exotic Insects and Pathogens on Northeastern Forest Ecosystems" | Brian Clough |
| March 3 | Dr. Alan Berkowitz “Pathways to Environmental Science Literacy” | Rebecca Jordan |
| March 17 | Spring Break | |
| March 24 | Dr. Andrew "Pete" Vayda, Professor emeritus Department of Human Ecology Rutgers University "Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Fires in Tropical Forests: Examples from Indonesia" | Peter Morin |
| March 31 | Dr. Christina Grozinger "Genomics of chemical communication in honey bees" Co-sponsored with Department of Entomology | Rachael Winfree |
| April 7 | Eco GSA Eminent Ecologist Dr. F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin III "Earth Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet" | EcoGSA |
| April 14 | Dr. Ignasi Bartomeus "Biological Invasions: Where and Who?" | Rachael Winfree |
| April 21 | Dr. Michael Moore “Interactions among hormones, behavior and immunity.”
| Henry John-Alder |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 16 | Dr. Judith Weis Federated Departments of Biological Sciences Rutgers -Newark / NJIT "Predator/prey behavior and ecology in contaminated estuaries: A comparison of five species" | Peter Morin |
| Sept. 23 | Dr. Joshua Caplan Post-Doctoral Associate Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Water relations, morphology, and the invasive success of Himalayan blackberry in the Pacific Northwest" | Peter Morin |
| Sept. 30 | Dr. Danielle Kreeger
| David Bushek |
| Oct. 7 | Dr. Frank Burbrink College of Staten Island CUNY " The influence of ecological opportunity on explosive diversification in ratsnakes" | Lena Struwe |
| Oct. 14 | Dr. Robert Cox
| Henry John-Alder |
| Oct. 21 | Dr. Frank Gallagher
| Peter Morin
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| Oct. 28 | Dr. Maria Uriarte "Forest community responses to environmental stressors at multiple spatial scales" | Holly Vuong |
| Nov. 4 | Dr. T'ai Roulston
| Rachael Winfree |
| Nov. 11 | Dr. Tina Grotzer Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard University "Why Everyday Casual Reasoning Falss Short in a Complex World" | Steven Gray |
| Nov. 18 | Dr. Andre Kessler Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University "Ecological cost of induced plant defenses?-- Herbivory compromising plant interactions with mutualists" Co-Sponsored with Department of Entomology | Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |
| Dec. 2 | Dr. Cintia Souto CANCELED | Peter Smouse |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 28 | Dr. Martin Ferris University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill "Dissecting the complex genetic architecture of virus-host interactions during influenza virus infection." | Siobain Duffy |
| Feb. 4 | Dr. S. Luke Flory Co-Sponsored with the Plant Biology Graduate Program | Ari Novy |
| Feb. 11 | CANCELLED: Rescheduled April 8th Sam Droege USGS, Patuxent VA "The Natural History Gap: Can We Track Climate Change Impacts to Species?" | Maria Stanko |
| Feb. 18 | Dr. Olaf Jensen Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University "Fisheries as ecosystem-scale experiments: using stock assessment to understand the dynamics of exploited marine ecosystems." Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Feb. 25 | CANCELED: Rescheduled March 25th Dr. Kevin Chen | Julie Lockwood |
| March 4 | Dr. Deborah Goldberg Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan "Clonality and Plant Invasion" Presented in conjunction with the Ecologies in the Balance seminar series | Joan Ehrenfeld |
| March 11 | Dr. Robert Raguso Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Cornell University "Understanding hawkmoths as pollinators: from sensory biology to ecological services." | Elena Tartaglia |
| March 18 | Spring Break | |
| March 25 | Dr. Kevin Chen Department of Genetics Rutgers University "Evolution of MicroRNA and transcription factor binding sites." Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| April 1 | Dr. Charles Canham Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY "Neighborhood dynamics of forest ecosystems: Invasion of northeastern forests by Norway maple (Acer platanoides) and Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)” | Brian Clough |
| April 5 | Special Time: 1:30 pm; Alampi Room Dr. Timothy Zimmerman "Learning Evolutionary Biology Through Inquiry Activities Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| April 8 | Sam Droege USGS, Patuxent VA "The Natural History Gap: Can We Track Climate Change Impacts to Species?" | Maria Stanko |
| April 15 | Dr. Josh Kohut Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Institite of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University | Julie Lockwood |
| April 22 | Dr. Michael Sears Department of Biology Bryn Mawr College "Why Good Models of Species Ranges Fail: Relationships of Individuals with Landscapes...It's Complicated" | Henry John-Alder |
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 17 | Dr. Tracy Langkilde Department of Biology The Pennsylvania State University "Surviving invasion: native lizards alter their behavior and morphology in response to deadly fire ants" | Henry John-Alder |
| Sept. 24 | Dr. Laura Miller Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill "Aerodynamic constraints in the smallest flying insects" | Nina Fefferman |
| Oct. 1 | Dr. Michael Wimberly Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE) University of South Dakota "The macroscope meets the microscope: climate, land cover, and the biogeography of infectious disease" | Yangjing Zhang |
| Oct. 8 | Dr. Ning Zhang Department of Plant Biology and Pathology Rutgers University "Population and evolutionary biology of fungal pathogens" Program membership seminar | Julie Lockwood |
| Oct. 15 | Dr. Jessica Thomas Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Life history correlates of substitution rate in invertebrates" | Karl Kjer |
| Oct. 22 | Dr. Edwin Green Department of Ecology, Evolution , and Natural Resources Rutgers University "Testing Hypotheses" | Julie Lockwood |
| Oct. 29 | Dr. Mark Hauber Department of Psychology Hunter College, CUNY "Never trust a cowbird: life history lessons from avian brood parasites." | Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 5 | Dr. Marci Meixler Director, Global Map Analytics, Philadelphia "New techniques in aquatic conservation: fish passage prediction, community modeling, and biodiversity protection." Program membership seminar | David Ehrenfeld |
| Nov. 12 | Dr. Karina V.R. Schafer Federated Departments of Biological Sciences Rutgers Newark and NJIT "Carbon sequestration of forests and wetlands" | Julie Lockwood |
| Nov. 19 | EcoGSA Eminent Ecologist Lecture Dr. Alison Power Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Past-President of the Ecological Society of America "Implications of host and vector diversity for the spread of plant viruses" | EcoGSA |
| Dec. 3 | Dr. Jennifer Rudgers Godwin Assistant Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Rice University "Dynamics and consequences of mutualistic symbiosis: The ecology and evolution of fungal endophytes in grasses." | Cesar Rodriguez-Saona |