http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=AdamWilson&feedformat=atomEEBedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T04:52:39ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.25.2http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=20450Seminar speaker sign-up2012-01-20T15:59:12Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Seminar Speaker: Dustin Rubenstein''' <br><br />
'''Institution: Columbia University''' <br><br />
'''Web site:http://www.columbia.edu/~dr2497/HOME.html <br><br />
'''Seminar Title: Environmental uncertainty and the evolution of complex sociality: patterns, processes, and mechanisms''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact: Jonathan Velotta''' <br />
==Thursday, January 26, 2012 ==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room''' <br />
<br />
<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00 a.m. || Jonathan Velotta || Breakfast Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30 a.m. ||Susan Herrick || TLS 470<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00 a.m. ||Johana Goyes-Vallejos || TLS 379<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30 a.m. ||Kent Wells || TLS 380<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00 a.m. || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30 a.m. || ||<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00 p.m. || Grad Student Lunch || Bamford Room <br />
|-<br />
| 1:30 p.m. || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00 p.m. || Hayley Kilroy M. || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30 p.m. || ||<br />
|-<br />
| 3:00 p.m. || ||<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30 p.m. || coffee & cookies || Bamford Room<br />
- Reminder: get laser pointer and seminar speaker form from Kathy <br />
|-<br />
| 4:00 p.m. || Seminar: "Environmental uncertainty and the evolution of complex sociality: patterns, processes, and mechanisms"|| BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| Dinner 6:00 p.m. ||Dinner at the Willimantic Brewing Company and Main Street Cafe|| <br />
|-<br />
<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=20448Seminar speaker sign-up2012-01-20T15:49:05Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Seminar Speaker: Dustin Rubenstein''' <br><br />
'''Institution: Columbia University''' <br><br />
'''Web site:http://www.columbia.edu/~dr2497/HOME.html <br><br />
'''Seminar Title: Environmental uncertainty and the evolution of complex sociality: patterns, processes, and mechanisms''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact: Jonathan Velotta''' <br />
==Thursday, January 26, 2012 ==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room''' <br />
<br />
<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00 a.m. || Jonathan Velotta || Breakfast Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30 a.m. ||Susan Herrick || TLS 470<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00 a.m. ||Johana Goyes-Vallejos || TLS 379<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30 a.m. || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00 a.m. || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30 a.m. || ||<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00 p.m. || Grad Student Lunch || Bamford Room <br />
|-<br />
| 1:30 p.m. || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00 p.m. || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30 p.m. || ||<br />
|-<br />
| 3:00 p.m. || ||<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30 p.m. || coffee & cookies || Bamford Room<br />
- Reminder: get laser pointer and seminar speaker form from Kathy <br />
|-<br />
| 4:00 p.m. || Seminar: "Environmental uncertainty and the evolution of complex sociality: patterns, processes, and mechanisms"|| BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| Dinner 6:00 p.m. ||Dinner at the Willimantic Brewing Company and Main Street Cafe|| <br />
|-<br />
<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Current_Topics_in_Conservation_Biology&diff=17885Current Topics in Conservation Biology2011-03-22T14:43:45Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>== EEB 5370 ==<br />
<br />
'''Topic:''' Climate Change and Conservation Biology<br />
<br />
'''Credits:''' 1<br />
<br />
'''Instructor:''' David Wagner and John Silander (contact: david.wagner[AT]uconn.edu) <br />
<br />
'''Meeting time:''' Friday @ 2<br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Bamford Conference Room, TLS 171B<br />
<br />
This semester we will focus on aspects of climate change relevant to conservation and biodiversity. Principal themes will include collecting and evaluating biological evidence for climate change, predicting consequences of climate change, conservation planning, and climate adaptation. Approximately one-third of the class meetings will be committed to issues surrounding communication, disinformation, and public perception regarding climate change. We may view Randy Olsen’s “Sizzle” and other topical media. There will be no assigned text. Prior to or over first half of the semester students are encouraged to read relevant sections of the [http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/contents.html IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007]. Dr. Bruce Kahn, Senior Investment Analyst for Climate Change, Deutsche Bank, an EEB UConn alumnus will lead our discussion on 18 February. On 28 April we will hear from Adam Whelchel (The Nature Conservancy) and Bill Hyatt (Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection) on climate change adaptation and conservation planning for the state of Connecticut.<br />
<br />
The course is required for students in the EEB BS/MS program, but is open to all graduate students. A few senior (and occasionally junior) undergraduates also take the course every year. Post-docs, adjuncts, and (even) faculty are welcome to join in the fun.<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
This semester's schedule is posted below. Two students will lead the discussion each week (see next section for tips on leading effectively). If you have EEBedia editing rights (i.e., if you are an EEB graduate student) you can go in yourself and add readings/links for your seminar. If you do not, email David Wagner the links, pdfs, or other material that you would like to see posted.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
!width="75"|Week<br />
!width="100"|Who<br />
!width="300"|Topic<br />
!width="170"|Readings<br />
!width="420"|Notes<br />
|- <br />
|Jan 28 ||John & Wagner ||IPCC ||http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/spm.html ||Executive summary for policy makers. <br />
|- <br />
|Feb 4 ||Summer & Kelly ||Physical evidence for climate change ||http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21527.full; http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/surface_temp.pdf ||Read PNAS. Skim the other document, but make sure to read pages 6 and 7. <br />
|- <br />
|Feb 11 ||Yingying & Allie ||Paleo-records of climate change || http://www.sciencemag.org/content/292/5517/662.short; http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/01/12/science.1197175.abstract || Two other ancillary links: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch6.html;<br />
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html<br />
<br />
|- <br />
|Feb 18 ||Dr. Bruce Kahn ||Climate change and financial risk management || read executive summary and highlights of http://www.mercer.com/climatechange; skim - http://www.dbcca.com/research ||optional links: carbon counter - www.dbcca.com; http://www.dbcca.com/dbcca/EN/_media/Inv_in_CC_2011_Final.pdf; watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ<br />
|-<br />
|Feb 25 ||Brigette & Jenica ||Biological evidence for climate change || || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 4 ||Sarah R & Johanna ||Greenhouse gasses: sources, sinks and dynamics || || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 11 || || NO MEETING: SPRING BREAK || ---- || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 18 ||Adam & Purbita || Climate modeling and predictions of future changes || Read: [http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-8-1.html IPCC AR4 FAQ8.1: How Reliable Are the Models Used to Make Projections of Future Climate Change?] and [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.climateviews.com%2FClimate_Views%2FDownload_Articles_files%2Fposter1iSmTit.pdf&rct=j&q=rogers%20ipcc%20fallacies&ei=IrSITYWyDsTKgQfb57C4DQ&usg=AFQjCNGJALqJcLEVLTKwA8RR1ggcYWtrfA&sig2=MM2BKSOu0vAkqMDciFcBXg&cad=rja a poster] by N.L. Rogers. Then we'll discuss a [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09763.html recent paper in Nature] about attributing precipitation extremes. Then a response to this paper by [http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/20/nature-unleashes-a-flood-of-bad-science/ a blog] || We'll discuss 1) climate models and 2) attributing change to anthropogenic activities. Like previous classes, we want to include some resources from 'climate sceptics' to keep the conversation interesting and highlight how it can be difficult to evaluate different sources of information. There are 3 (very short) required readings and 1 optional blog to read.<br />
<br />
|- <br />
|Mar 25 ||Rachel & Marilyn ||Climate change feedback on: oceans, atmospheric water vapor, etc. || || <br />
|- <br />
|Apr 1 ||Colin & Manette || Climate change biotic impacts || || <br />
|- <br />
|Apr 8 ||Sarah B & Ben ||Climate change skeptics, critics and deniers || ||<br />
|- <br />
|Apr 15 ||Kasey & Sam ||Climate change: economics and politics || ||<br />
|- <br />
|Apr 22 ||Guillermo & Graz ||Climate change mitigation: science and policy || ||<br />
|- <br />
|Apr 29 ||Adam Whelchel and Bill Hyatt ||Climate change adaptation and conservation planning || || <br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Logistical Matters ==<br />
<br />
We will read papers or have presentations and discuss them in class each week. Most discussions will be led by two students.<br />
<br />
Seminar Leaders: Prepare a seven to ten-minute overview of the subject matter. We recommend a brief PowerPoint presentation but such is not necessary. Other media are welcome as well, but again not necessary. Time your presentations beforehand so they don’t go over 10-12 minutes. Your presentations need not be exhaustive or comprehensive—-just introduce the class to major data sources, helpful graphics, or touch on matters that you think are likely to generate discussion. Feel free to return to the graphics and data in the IPCC documents and other previously visited papers and resources.<br />
<br />
Enrolled students: John and I will work with each team of presenters to make sure that (out-of-class) reading assignments are can be completed in about 90-120 minutes. Come to class prepared to speak and contribute to each week’s discussion. Part of that preparation may mean looking over some ancillary website, reference, or engaging in other activity that will give you a unique perspective or opinion on a given subject.<br />
<br />
Attendance: If you know that you are going to miss a class meeting, send me an email—if you miss two seminars there will be a make-up assignment.<br />
<br />
LCD Projector: We will have an LCD projector checked out for the semester and available in the EEB office by 1:30 PM. Otherwise it will be delivered to Bamford about 5 minutes before class. If you do not have a laptop, let me know and I will bring mine.<br />
<br />
== Grading ==<br />
<br />
The course is S/U and it is unusual for people to fail. But, if you hardly ever participate in the discussions, appear to have not done the readings, and/or have two unexcused absences, we will fail you. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Tips for Discussion Leaders ==<br />
<br />
Your introduction should draw on the readings, but should not simply re-state what we have all read. Instead, your job as leaders is to get a discussion going. Here are some suggestions from Chris Elphick (below "I" refers to Chris). <br />
<br />
* Make sure that you have enough to say to keep things moving, but do not feel that you have to say everything that you have thought of or cover every idea in the readings. If the conversation is going well, just let it take its course. The worst thing that can happen is that no one says anything. The next worst thing is that the leader or just one or two students (or the two faculty) dominate the conversation...so feel free to cut any off if they are talking too much.<br />
<br />
* In your introduction, try to synthesize the material and draw out the major points. What are the 3-5 things you'd tell your parents if you were going to explain this to them over dinner - the chances are good that these are the same things we should be focused on. Also, feel free to supplement the reading material with other information on the topic to broaden the discussion.<br />
<br />
* Come with a list of questions to ask (more than you think you'll need). The more specific the questions are the better, as this makes them easier for people to respond to. Consider, emailing some questions a day or two before class so that people can think about them while they are reading the materials (if you email them to Dave Wagner, he will forward them to the rest of the class).<br />
<br />
* Ask people what surprised them, and why. If you're not leading, think how you'd answer this question. If people complain about the readings, ask them how things could have been done better, or what needs to be done next.<br />
<br />
* Where possible, try to relate your topic to those we have discussed in previous weeks so that the ideas covered by the class build over the course of the semester. <br />
<br />
* Being purposefully provocative (even if you don't believe what you're saying) can often help to get people talking. If the material is appropriate, set the discussion up as a debate - tell half the class that they have to argue one side and the other half that they have to argue the opposite. This approach can force people to really think about the ideas and about their preconceptions. If you are going to do this, it is best to warn people ahead of time.<br />
<br />
* When you ask a question, give people lots of time to respond. A good rule is to (slowly) count to 10 in your head before moving on. This is because (a) it often takes people this long to formulate something to say and (b) the uncomfortable silence (and it can be excruciating) is often what it takes to get people talking. This sounds (and can feel) horrible, but it really works, and the discussions that result are much richer.<br />
<br />
* If no one answers a question, and there is a simple yes/no, do you agree/disagree, type answer, then ask for a show of hands - then you can focus in on individuals and ask them to explain their response.<br />
<br />
* Don't pick on individuals and make them comment unless you have to. But if no one says anything, then it is OK to do this. Everyone else is responsible for reading and thinking about the material too, so it should not be a surprise to them. Even though you are in charge of running things, the responsibility for maintaining a discussion lies with everyone in the room. If you think people are not engaging in the discussion enough, then it is '''your''' job to do something about it ... don't just expect us to do it for you.<br />
<br />
* Finally, in weeks when you are not leading, make sure that you have thought about the material enough that you can help the leader out. Come with at least 2 or 3 ideas to talk about if things get quiet. If the leader has sent out questions, actually think about them before class. And be responsible about doing the reading. If you do all this stuff, others will do the same when it's your turn to lead.<br />
<br />
The hardest part is getting the conversation started. Once it's going, it will often run itself - and if it is doing this you should let it. I've been running seminars for a few years now, and I'm only just getting to where I realize that my job is to say as little as possible. If I talk the whole time, then I'm essentially lecturing ... and this is not a lecture format ... the goals are very different, they are to get people thinking on their feet and discussing ideas to help them learn the stuff for themselves. But, it is your job to ensure that we are not just subjected to silence.<br />
<br />
'''PowerPoint:''' Often, it is not necessary, but sometimes it can help by putting up key talking points where everyone can see them. If there are figures that you want to ask questions about, then putting them up on a screen can be very useful. Likewise, having your questions on screen for people to refer to can help. <br />
<br />
'' If you have never led a discussion in a seminar course before, or feel nervous about doing so, please talk to me beforehand. It isn't as hard as it might seem, and it's always easier if you're well prepared and know what to expect.''<br />
<br />
== Discussion/News ==<br />
<br />
If you have any information related to the course (e.g., relevant news items, related web links, etc.), feel free to post it here. Please put the date first, then your name; be concise; and organize the list so that items are in reverse chronological order. For an example of the right format, check out Chris Elphick's Conservation Biology in the News site [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Conservation_biology_in_the_news here]. If you're not an EEB graduate student, then you can email items to me and I will add them, but please send them to me in the right format.<br />
<br />
== Other information ==<br />
<br />
For information about EEB's Joint B.S./M.S. degree program in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/department/BSMS/ click here]<br />
<br />
For information about the Society for Conservation Biology [http://www.conbio.org/?CFID=6617594&CFTOKEN=86148795 click here]<br />
<br />
For information on jobs in conservation biology [http://www.conbio.org/resources/?CFID=6617594&CFTOKEN=86148795 click here]<br />
<br />
For information on jobs in wildlife biology [http://wfsc.tamu.edu/jobboard/index.htm click here]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:EEB Seminars]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Current_Topics_in_Conservation_Biology&diff=17883Current Topics in Conservation Biology2011-03-22T14:39:03Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>== EEB 5370 ==<br />
<br />
'''Topic:''' Climate Change and Conservation Biology<br />
<br />
'''Credits:''' 1<br />
<br />
'''Instructor:''' David Wagner and John Silander (contact: david.wagner[AT]uconn.edu) <br />
<br />
'''Meeting time:''' Friday @ 2<br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Bamford Conference Room, TLS 171B<br />
<br />
This semester we will focus on aspects of climate change relevant to conservation and biodiversity. Principal themes will include collecting and evaluating biological evidence for climate change, predicting consequences of climate change, conservation planning, and climate adaptation. Approximately one-third of the class meetings will be committed to issues surrounding communication, disinformation, and public perception regarding climate change. We may view Randy Olsen’s “Sizzle” and other topical media. There will be no assigned text. Prior to or over first half of the semester students are encouraged to read relevant sections of the [http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/contents.html IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007]. Dr. Bruce Kahn, Senior Investment Analyst for Climate Change, Deutsche Bank, an EEB UConn alumnus will lead our discussion on 18 February. On 28 April we will hear from Adam Whelchel (The Nature Conservancy) and Bill Hyatt (Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection) on climate change adaptation and conservation planning for the state of Connecticut.<br />
<br />
The course is required for students in the EEB BS/MS program, but is open to all graduate students. A few senior (and occasionally junior) undergraduates also take the course every year. Post-docs, adjuncts, and (even) faculty are welcome to join in the fun.<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
This semester's schedule is posted below. Two students will lead the discussion each week (see next section for tips on leading effectively). If you have EEBedia editing rights (i.e., if you are an EEB graduate student) you can go in yourself and add readings/links for your seminar. If you do not, email David Wagner the links, pdfs, or other material that you would like to see posted.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
!width="75"|Week<br />
!width="100"|Who<br />
!width="300"|Topic<br />
!width="170"|Readings<br />
!width="420"|Notes<br />
|- <br />
|Jan 28 ||John & Wagner ||IPCC ||http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/spm.html ||Executive summary for policy makers. <br />
|- <br />
|Feb 4 ||Summer & Kelly ||Physical evidence for climate change ||http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21527.full; http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/surface_temp.pdf ||Read PNAS. Skim the other document, but make sure to read pages 6 and 7. <br />
|- <br />
|Feb 11 ||Yingying & Allie ||Paleo-records of climate change || http://www.sciencemag.org/content/292/5517/662.short; http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/01/12/science.1197175.abstract || Two other ancillary links: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch6.html;<br />
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html<br />
<br />
|- <br />
|Feb 18 ||Dr. Bruce Kahn ||Climate change and financial risk management || read executive summary and highlights of http://www.mercer.com/climatechange; skim - http://www.dbcca.com/research ||optional links: carbon counter - www.dbcca.com; http://www.dbcca.com/dbcca/EN/_media/Inv_in_CC_2011_Final.pdf; watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ<br />
|-<br />
|Feb 25 ||Brigette & Jenica ||Biological evidence for climate change || || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 4 ||Sarah R & Johanna ||Greenhouse gasses: sources, sinks and dynamics || || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 11 || || NO MEETING: SPRING BREAK || ---- || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 18 ||Adam & Purbita || Climate modeling and predictions of future changes || Read: [http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-8-1.html IPCC AR4 FAQ8.1: How Reliable Are the Models Used to Make Projections of Future Climate Change?] and [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.climateviews.com%2FClimate_Views%2FDownload_Articles_files%2Fposter1iSmTit.pdf&rct=j&q=rogers%20ipcc%20fallacies&ei=IrSITYWyDsTKgQfb57C4DQ&usg=AFQjCNGJALqJcLEVLTKwA8RR1ggcYWtrfA&sig2=MM2BKSOu0vAkqMDciFcBXg&cad=rja a poster] by N.L. Rogers. Then we'll discuss a [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09763.html recent paper in Nature] about attributing precipitation extremes. Then a response to this paper by [http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/20/nature-unleashes-a-flood-of-bad-science/ a blog] || <br />
|- <br />
|Mar 25 ||Rachel & Marilyn ||Climate change feedback on: oceans, atmospheric water vapor, etc. || || <br />
|- <br />
|Apr 1 ||Colin & Manette || Climate change biotic impacts || || <br />
|- <br />
|Apr 8 ||Sarah B & Ben ||Climate change skeptics, critics and deniers || ||<br />
|- <br />
|Apr 15 ||Kasey & Sam ||Climate change: economics and politics || ||<br />
|- <br />
|Apr 22 ||Guillermo & Graz ||Climate change mitigation: science and policy || ||<br />
|- <br />
|Apr 29 ||Adam Whelchel and Bill Hyatt ||Climate change adaptation and conservation planning || || <br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Logistical Matters ==<br />
<br />
We will read papers or have presentations and discuss them in class each week. Most discussions will be led by two students.<br />
<br />
Seminar Leaders: Prepare a seven to ten-minute overview of the subject matter. We recommend a brief PowerPoint presentation but such is not necessary. Other media are welcome as well, but again not necessary. Time your presentations beforehand so they don’t go over 10-12 minutes. Your presentations need not be exhaustive or comprehensive—-just introduce the class to major data sources, helpful graphics, or touch on matters that you think are likely to generate discussion. Feel free to return to the graphics and data in the IPCC documents and other previously visited papers and resources.<br />
<br />
Enrolled students: John and I will work with each team of presenters to make sure that (out-of-class) reading assignments are can be completed in about 90-120 minutes. Come to class prepared to speak and contribute to each week’s discussion. Part of that preparation may mean looking over some ancillary website, reference, or engaging in other activity that will give you a unique perspective or opinion on a given subject.<br />
<br />
Attendance: If you know that you are going to miss a class meeting, send me an email—if you miss two seminars there will be a make-up assignment.<br />
<br />
LCD Projector: We will have an LCD projector checked out for the semester and available in the EEB office by 1:30 PM. Otherwise it will be delivered to Bamford about 5 minutes before class. If you do not have a laptop, let me know and I will bring mine.<br />
<br />
== Grading ==<br />
<br />
The course is S/U and it is unusual for people to fail. But, if you hardly ever participate in the discussions, appear to have not done the readings, and/or have two unexcused absences, we will fail you. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Tips for Discussion Leaders ==<br />
<br />
Your introduction should draw on the readings, but should not simply re-state what we have all read. Instead, your job as leaders is to get a discussion going. Here are some suggestions from Chris Elphick (below "I" refers to Chris). <br />
<br />
* Make sure that you have enough to say to keep things moving, but do not feel that you have to say everything that you have thought of or cover every idea in the readings. If the conversation is going well, just let it take its course. The worst thing that can happen is that no one says anything. The next worst thing is that the leader or just one or two students (or the two faculty) dominate the conversation...so feel free to cut any off if they are talking too much.<br />
<br />
* In your introduction, try to synthesize the material and draw out the major points. What are the 3-5 things you'd tell your parents if you were going to explain this to them over dinner - the chances are good that these are the same things we should be focused on. Also, feel free to supplement the reading material with other information on the topic to broaden the discussion.<br />
<br />
* Come with a list of questions to ask (more than you think you'll need). The more specific the questions are the better, as this makes them easier for people to respond to. Consider, emailing some questions a day or two before class so that people can think about them while they are reading the materials (if you email them to Dave Wagner, he will forward them to the rest of the class).<br />
<br />
* Ask people what surprised them, and why. If you're not leading, think how you'd answer this question. If people complain about the readings, ask them how things could have been done better, or what needs to be done next.<br />
<br />
* Where possible, try to relate your topic to those we have discussed in previous weeks so that the ideas covered by the class build over the course of the semester. <br />
<br />
* Being purposefully provocative (even if you don't believe what you're saying) can often help to get people talking. If the material is appropriate, set the discussion up as a debate - tell half the class that they have to argue one side and the other half that they have to argue the opposite. This approach can force people to really think about the ideas and about their preconceptions. If you are going to do this, it is best to warn people ahead of time.<br />
<br />
* When you ask a question, give people lots of time to respond. A good rule is to (slowly) count to 10 in your head before moving on. This is because (a) it often takes people this long to formulate something to say and (b) the uncomfortable silence (and it can be excruciating) is often what it takes to get people talking. This sounds (and can feel) horrible, but it really works, and the discussions that result are much richer.<br />
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* If no one answers a question, and there is a simple yes/no, do you agree/disagree, type answer, then ask for a show of hands - then you can focus in on individuals and ask them to explain their response.<br />
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* Don't pick on individuals and make them comment unless you have to. But if no one says anything, then it is OK to do this. Everyone else is responsible for reading and thinking about the material too, so it should not be a surprise to them. Even though you are in charge of running things, the responsibility for maintaining a discussion lies with everyone in the room. If you think people are not engaging in the discussion enough, then it is '''your''' job to do something about it ... don't just expect us to do it for you.<br />
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* Finally, in weeks when you are not leading, make sure that you have thought about the material enough that you can help the leader out. Come with at least 2 or 3 ideas to talk about if things get quiet. If the leader has sent out questions, actually think about them before class. And be responsible about doing the reading. If you do all this stuff, others will do the same when it's your turn to lead.<br />
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The hardest part is getting the conversation started. Once it's going, it will often run itself - and if it is doing this you should let it. I've been running seminars for a few years now, and I'm only just getting to where I realize that my job is to say as little as possible. If I talk the whole time, then I'm essentially lecturing ... and this is not a lecture format ... the goals are very different, they are to get people thinking on their feet and discussing ideas to help them learn the stuff for themselves. But, it is your job to ensure that we are not just subjected to silence.<br />
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'''PowerPoint:''' Often, it is not necessary, but sometimes it can help by putting up key talking points where everyone can see them. If there are figures that you want to ask questions about, then putting them up on a screen can be very useful. Likewise, having your questions on screen for people to refer to can help. <br />
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'' If you have never led a discussion in a seminar course before, or feel nervous about doing so, please talk to me beforehand. It isn't as hard as it might seem, and it's always easier if you're well prepared and know what to expect.''<br />
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== Discussion/News ==<br />
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If you have any information related to the course (e.g., relevant news items, related web links, etc.), feel free to post it here. Please put the date first, then your name; be concise; and organize the list so that items are in reverse chronological order. For an example of the right format, check out Chris Elphick's Conservation Biology in the News site [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Conservation_biology_in_the_news here]. If you're not an EEB graduate student, then you can email items to me and I will add them, but please send them to me in the right format.<br />
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== Other information ==<br />
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For information about EEB's Joint B.S./M.S. degree program in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/department/BSMS/ click here]<br />
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For information about the Society for Conservation Biology [http://www.conbio.org/?CFID=6617594&CFTOKEN=86148795 click here]<br />
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For information on jobs in conservation biology [http://www.conbio.org/resources/?CFID=6617594&CFTOKEN=86148795 click here]<br />
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For information on jobs in wildlife biology [http://wfsc.tamu.edu/jobboard/index.htm click here]<br />
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[[Category:EEB Seminars]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Graduate_Student_Research_Symposium_2011&diff=17731Graduate Student Research Symposium 20112011-03-12T19:47:39Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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== Saturday, March 19, 2011 == <br />
==== Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm ====<br />
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The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings. <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 8:30-9:00 || || Coffee & Tea (drinks only) <br />
|- <br />
| 9:00-9:15 || Dr. Lee Allen Aggison, Jr. Interim Vice Provost for Graduate Education & Dean of the Graduate School || Welcome address <br />
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| 9:15-9:30 || Frank Smith || TBA <br />
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| 9:30-9:45 || Beth Wade|| Gene flow and species boundaries of 3 cicada species in NZ (Cicadidae: Kikihia)<br />
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| 9:45-10:00 || Bill Ryerson || The development and application of an inexpensive particle image velocimetry (PIV) system in animal biomechanics<br />
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| 10:00-10:15 ||Maria Pickering || Examining the cestode taxon ''Trilocularia'' in 2 host shark species and across 3 disparate localities<br />
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| 10:15-10:30 || Chris Owen || TBA <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 10:30-11:00 || || '''Morning Break - Drinks and Fruit'''<br />
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| 11:00-11:15 || [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Jonathan_Velotta Jon Velotta] || Functional consequences of land-locking in alewives<br />
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| 11:15-11:30 || Alejandro Rico || Hummingbirds´"pausing behavior" <br />
|- <br />
| 11:30-11:45 || Sarah Redmond || TBA<br />
|- <br />
| 11:45-12:00 || Geert Goemans || Field work in the Neotropics<br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 12:00-1:30 || || Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad<br />
|- <br />
| 1:30-2:00 || Dr. Karen Ober Assistant Professor of Biology at College of the Holy Cross || Keynote Address<br />
|- <br />
| 2:00-2:15 ||Adam M. Wilson || Conservation Photography in the Lower Rio Grande Valley<br />
|- <br />
| 2:15-2:30 ||Jose Pereira || Yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea) On Georges Bank: Testing Models of Habitat Use<br />
|- <br />
| 2:30-2:45 || [[Karolina Fucikova]] || ''Bracteacoccus'' and its relatives: a case of cryptic genera.<br />
|- <br />
| 2:45-3:00 || Alyssa Borowske || TBA<br />
|- <br />
| 3:00-3:15 || Manette Sandor || TBA<br />
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| 3:15-3:30 ||Alexander DeFrancesco || TBA<br />
|- <br />
| 3:30-3:45 ||Johana Goyes-Vallejos || TBA <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;" | 3:45-4:00 || || '''Speed Talks'''<br />
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| 3:45-3:50 ||Lily Lewis || Preliminary thoughts on the phylogeography of a dung moss<br />
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| 3:50-3:55 ||Chris Field || A Motion Chart of bird population trends.<br />
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| 3:55-4:00 || || [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/2011_Graduate_Student_Biological_Photo_Contest Biological Image Contest - 2011]<br />
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|}<br />
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==Abstracts==<br />
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<span id="NAME">''' Karolina Fucikova'''</span><br />
<br>''Bracteacoccus'' and its relatives: a case of cryptic genera <br><br />
''Bracteacoccus'', one of the most common soil algae, is taxonomically interwoven with several other genera. In particular, its relationship with the morphologically similar ''Dictyococcus, Muriella'' and ''Pseudomuriella'' is quite tangled because these share a similar overall morphology with ''Bracteacoccus''. This has raised questions about the validity of these genera and the proper taxonomic disposition for their species. Phylogenetic relationships for a number of these taxa can be addressed using molecular sequence data obtained from live type strains. Using analyses of the 18S and rbcL genes, we determined that monophyly of ''Bracteacoccus'' can be achieved only by excluding four unrelated lineages that historically have been included under this name. Firstly, B. engadinensis belongs in the genus ''Pseudomuriella'', along with ''Dictyococcus schumacherensis''. Secondly, ''B. cinnabarinus'' and ''B. minutus'' group with ''Muriella zofingiensis'', a species with its own obscure taxonomic history. These three species are distinct from the true ''Muriella'' lineage (Trebouxiophyceae) and we propose to assign them to the resurrected genus ''Chromochloris'' (Chlorophyceae). Lastly, ''Dictyococcus'' was shown to be an unrelated lineage that can be reliably distinguished from ''Bracteacoccus'' based on chloroplast morphology. Our results indicate that ''Pseudomuriella, Chromochloris'' and ''Bracteacoccus'' are morphologically cryptic genera, representing closely related yet divergent lineages. <br />
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[[Category:Graduate Research Symposium]]<br />
[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17508Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-21T15:31:52Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
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| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
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| 11:00am || Silander-Chazdon Lab Group || 2nd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Robert Colwell || TLS 375<br />
|-<br />
| 1:40pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner: Wilson, Allen, Silander, Colwell || Jao Praya (Thai)<br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || Castleman 313<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
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|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17507Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-21T15:30:48Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Silander-Chazdon Lab Group || 2nd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Robert Colwell || TLS 375<br />
|-<br />
| 1:40pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || Castleman 313<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17494Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-21T01:25:30Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robert Colwell || TLS 375<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || Castleman 313<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17493Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-21T01:21:37Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robert Colwell || TLS 375<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
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| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17492Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-21T01:21:05Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robert Colwell || TLS 375<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17491Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-21T01:02:07Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
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| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
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| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
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| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robert Colwell || TLS 375<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
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|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17452Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-17T21:34:19Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
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| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
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| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
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| 10:30am || || <br />
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| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
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| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17451Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-17T21:13:14Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
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==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
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===Monday February 21===<br />
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| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
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| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Jenica Allen|| BioPharm 225<br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Sarah Bois|| BioPharm 225A <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
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| 11:00am || || <br />
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| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am ||Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17302Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-07T18:29:45Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
<br />
==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
<br />
===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || Adam Wilson || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Guiling Wang and ASG || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17301Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-07T18:26:42Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
<br />
==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
<br />
===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Guiling Wang and ASG || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17300Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-07T18:15:59Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
<br />
==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
<br />
===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Guiling Wang and ASG || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Prepare for Seminar || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17299Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-07T18:15:18Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
<br />
==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
<br />
===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am ||Guiling Wang and ASG || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Speaker:_George_Hurtt&diff=17297Seminar Speaker: George Hurtt2011-02-07T18:09:57Z<p>AdamWilson: New page: '''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157) ==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011== ===Monday February 21=== {|border=1 cellpadding=8 | '''T...</p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Adam Wilson & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
<br />
==<span style="color:crimson">Monday - Tuesday</span>, February 21-22, 2011==<br />
<br />
===Monday February 21===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:00pm || Climate Module set-up || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm || Climate Module course || TLS 477<br />
|-<br />
| 6:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
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===Tuesday, February 22===<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar: Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for IPCC AR-5 || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room (TLS 171b)<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Dr. Hurtt Departs || <br />
|-<br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_Sepaker:_Walter_Jetz&diff=17285Seminar Sepaker: Walter Jetz2011-02-07T12:51:34Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>'''Contact''': Jenica Allen & John Silander (6-4157)<br />
<br />
==<span style="color:crimson">Tuesday</span>, February 8, 2011==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || || Breakfast @ Nathan Hale<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Seminar Set-up|| <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Seminar|| Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || Seminar|| Bamford Room 171b <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Brown Bag || Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Robin Chazdon || BioPharm 205C<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || || <br />
|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Graduate_Student_Research_Symposium_2011&diff=17251Graduate Student Research Symposium 20112011-02-03T20:47:24Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div><center> <big>''' <br />
== Saturday, March 19, 2011 == <br />
==== Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm ====<br />
'''</big> </center> <br><br />
<br><br />
The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings. <br />
<br><br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" <br />
!style="background:#efefef;" width="80" align="center"|Time<br />
!style="background:#efefef;" width="120"|Speaker<br />
!style="background:#efefef;" width="450"|Title<br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 8:30-9:00 || || Coffee & Tea (drinks only) <br />
|- <br />
| 9:00-9:15 || Dr. Lee Allen Aggison, Jr. Interim Vice Provost for Graduate Education & Dean of the Graduate School || Welcome address <br />
|- <br />
| 9:15-9:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:30-9:45 || Beth Wade|| Gene flow and species boundaries of 3 cicada species in NZ (Cicadidae: Kikihia)<br />
|- <br />
| 9:45-10:00 || Bill Ryerson || TBA<br />
|- <br />
| 10:00-10:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:15-10:30 || Chris Owen || TBA <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 10:30-11:00 || || '''Morning Break - Drinks and Fruit'''<br />
|- <br />
| 11:00-11:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:15-11:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:30-11:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:45-12:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 12:00-1:30 || || Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad<br />
|- <br />
| 1:30-2:00 || || Keynote Address<br />
|- <br />
| 2:00-2:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:15-2:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:30-2:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:45-3:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:00-3:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:15-3:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;" | 3:30-3:45 || || '''Speed Talks'''<br />
|- <br />
| 3:30-3:35 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:35-3:40 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:40-3:45 || || Best Grad/Postdoc Webpage - 2011<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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==Abstracts==<br />
<span id="NAME">''' Name Here'''</span><br />
<br> Title Here <br><br />
Abstract Here<br />
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----<br />
[[Category:Graduate Research Symposium]]<br />
[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Graduate_Student_Research_Symposium_2011&diff=16983Graduate Student Research Symposium 20112011-01-20T19:31:37Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div><center> <big>''' <br />
== Saturday, March 19, 2011 == <br />
==== Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm ====<br />
'''</big> </center> <br><br />
<br><br />
The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings. <br />
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==New Schedule==<br />
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!style="background:#efefef;" width="450"|Title<br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 8:30-9:00 || || Coffee & Tea (drinks only) <br />
|- <br />
| 9:00-9:15 || || Welcome address <br />
|- <br />
| 9:15-9:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:30-9:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:45-10:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:00-10:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:15-10:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
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|- <br />
| 11:00-11:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:15-11:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:30-11:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:45-12:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 12:00-1:30 || || Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad<br />
|- <br />
| 1:30-2:00 || || Keynote Address<br />
|- <br />
| 2:00-2:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:15-2:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:30-2:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:45-3:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:00-3:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:15-3:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;" | 3:30-3:45 || || '''Speed Talks'''<br />
|- <br />
| 3:30-3:35 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:35-3:40 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:40-3:45 || || Best Grad/Postdoc Webpage - 2011<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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==Abstracts==<br />
<span id="NAME">''' Name Here'''</span><br />
<br> Title Here <br><br />
Abstract Here<br />
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----<br />
[[Category:Graduate Research Symposium]]<br />
[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Graduate_Student_Research_Symposium_2011&diff=16982Graduate Student Research Symposium 20112011-01-20T19:31:28Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div><center> <big>''' <br />
== Saturday, March 19, 2010 == <br />
==== Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm ====<br />
'''</big> </center> <br><br />
<br><br />
The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings. <br />
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==New Schedule==<br />
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!style="background:#efefef;" width="450"|Title<br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 8:30-9:00 || || Coffee & Tea (drinks only) <br />
|- <br />
| 9:00-9:15 || || Welcome address <br />
|- <br />
| 9:15-9:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:30-9:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:45-10:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:00-10:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:15-10:30 || || <br />
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| 11:00-11:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:15-11:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:30-11:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 11:45-12:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 12:00-1:30 || || Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad<br />
|- <br />
| 1:30-2:00 || || Keynote Address<br />
|- <br />
| 2:00-2:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:15-2:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:30-2:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 2:45-3:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:00-3:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:15-3:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;" | 3:30-3:45 || || '''Speed Talks'''<br />
|- <br />
| 3:30-3:35 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:35-3:40 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:40-3:45 || || Best Grad/Postdoc Webpage - 2011<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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<span id="NAME">''' Name Here'''</span><br />
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[[Category:Graduate Research Symposium]]<br />
[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Graduate_Student_Research_Symposium_2011&diff=16981Graduate Student Research Symposium 20112011-01-20T19:31:15Z<p>AdamWilson: New page: <center> <big>''' == Saturday, March 19, 2010 == ==== Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm ==== '''</big> </center> <br> <br> The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is...</p>
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<div><center> <big>''' <br />
== Saturday, March 19, 2010 == <br />
==== Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm ====<br />
'''</big> </center> <br><br />
<br><br />
The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings. <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;" width="450"|Title<br />
|- <br />
!style="background:#efefef;"| 8:30-9:00 || || Coffee & Tea (drinks only) <br />
|- <br />
| 9:00-9:15 || || Welcome address <br />
|- <br />
| 9:15-9:30 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:30-9:45 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 9:45-10:00 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:00-10:15 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 10:15-10:30 || || <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 10:30-11:00 || || '''Morning Break - Drinks and Fruit'''<br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 12:00-1:30 || || Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad<br />
|- <br />
| 1:30-2:00 || || Keynote Address<br />
|- <br />
| 2:00-2:15 || || <br />
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| 2:15-2:30 || || <br />
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| 2:30-2:45 || || <br />
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| 3:00-3:15 || || <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;" | 3:30-3:45 || || '''Speed Talks'''<br />
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| 3:30-3:35 || || <br />
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| 3:35-3:40 || || <br />
|- <br />
| 3:40-3:45 || || Best Grad/Postdoc Webpage - 2010<br />
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==Abstracts==<br />
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[[Category:Graduate Research Symposium]]<br />
[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15973Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:27:48Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm (PBB) 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young (YNG) 312<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am ||Silander Lab || Biopharm (PBB) 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm (PBB) 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Torrey Life Science (TLS) Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm (PBB) 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm (PBB) 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || Biology/Physics Building (BPB) 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || Biology/Physics Building (BPB) 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || John Silander, Robin Chazdon, Adam Wilson<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || W.B. Young (YNG) 308c<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || Castle (CAST) 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15972Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:27:18Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm (PBB) 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young (YNG) 312<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am ||Silander Lab || Biopharm (PBB) 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm (PBB) 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Torrey Life Science (TLS) Bamford Room 171b<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm (PBB) 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm (PBB) 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || John Silander, Robin Chazdon, Adam Wilson<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || W.B. Young (YNG) 308c<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || Castle (CAST) 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15971Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:14:00Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young 312<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am ||Silander Lab || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || John Silander, Robin Chazdon, Adam Wilson<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || W.B. Young (YNG) 308c<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15970Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:05:44Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young 312<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am ||Silander Lab || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || John Silander, Robin Chazdon, Adam Wilson<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15969Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:04:33Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young 312<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am ||Silander Lab || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15968Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:03:15Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young 312<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || James Hurd || W.B. Young 312<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Silander Lab || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15967Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-15T15:01:24Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Silander || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || James Hurd || W.B. Young 312<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Silander Lab || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || Richard Anyah || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15947Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-14T13:26:28Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || Silander Lab || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15946Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-14T13:19:36Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am ||Rubega (& Sci Comm Students?) || Biopharm, 3rd Floor Fishbowl<br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am ||Robin Chazdon || Biopharm 205C <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 8:00am || John Volin || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15923Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-10T18:37:26Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || Adam Wilson || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Jenica Allen || Biopharm 223<br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15886Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-09T21:31:00Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || CLAS 427 <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || CAST 313<br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15885Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-09T21:28:21Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn<br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15884Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-09T21:27:46Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
Carbon management in some form will probably be a major part of the future economy. Consequently the people that understand the carbon cycle and can measure and interpret carbon fluxes in ecosystems will be in high demand....we hope. In fact they may even get rich, an ethical two-edged sword that I have not had to confront. This seminar will summarize current capabilities for monitoring terrestrial carbon and surmise what should happen next in climate and carbon policy.<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || Breakfast at Tolland Inn || <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15883Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-09T21:27:28Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30-7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || Breakfast at Tolland Inn || <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15882Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-09T21:27:15Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
'''Institution:''' University of Montana<br><br />
'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
'''Faculty or Student Contact:''' John Silander '''<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday, September 16th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || || Breakfast at Tolland Inn <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, with Grad Students || Bamford<br />
|-<br />
| 1:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2:30pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:00pm || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3:30pm ||Prep for seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
|-<br />
| 5:30/7:00pm || Dinner || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Friday, September 17th==<br />
{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room'''<br />
|-<br />
| 7:30am || Breakfast at Tolland Inn || <br />
|-<br />
| 8:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:00am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 9:30am || || <br />
|-<br />
| 10:00am || Anji Seth || <br />
|-<br />
| 11:00am || Guiling Wang || <br />
|-<br />
| 12:00pm || Lunch, Depart for Airport ||</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=15881Seminar speaker sign-up2010-09-09T21:26:41Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|border=1 cellpadding=8<br />
|'''To schedule a meeting:''' Click the 'edit' tab above. Enter '''your name''' to the right of the first pair of vertical lines <nowiki>(||)</nowiki> for the desired meeting time and the '''meeting location''' after the second pair of vertical lines.<br />
<br />
'''For seminar hosts:''' This page should be updated in order to reflect the schedule of the current week's seminar speaker. For an empty template of the source text, click [[Template:Seminar speaker sign-up|here]]. Customize the schedule to match the speaker's availability, and add events like meals and airport arrival/departure times as necessary.<br />
<br />
Click [[EEB Department Seminar|here]] for the EEB Department Seminar page.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Seminar Speaker:''' [http://www.ntsg.umt.edu/ Steve Running]<br><br />
<br />
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'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
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'''Thursday Seminar Title: "A new role for ecologists: the global carbon cops" 4:00 PM, BPB 130''' <br><br />
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== Saturday, March 27, 2010 == <br />
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| 9:00-9:15 || Debra Kendall || Welcome address by the associate dean for life sciences and for research and graduate education<br />
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| 9:15-9:30 || Susan Herrick || Temporal patterns in calling behavior of syntopic anurans.<br />
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| 9:30-9:45 ||Elizabeth Wade || Microsatellite and gene discovery using 454 sequencing in the cicada genus Kikihia<br />
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<span id="NAME">''' Susan Herrick'''</span><br />
<br> Temporal patterns in calling behavior of syntopic anurans <br><br />
Phenotypically similar species are hypothesized to adjust their behavior when they coexist to decrease competition. Pond-breeding frogs constitute an ideal system to address this hypothesis because multiple species may compete for noise-free periods to call for mates. American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) and green frogs (R. clamitans) commonly co-occur in breeding ponds. Males of both species vocalize to defend territories and attract females. However, bullfrogs call more aggressively than green frogs and are expected to control access to the limiting acoustic resources. I predicted that green frogs increase chorusing activity in periods of bullfrog inactivity and that these patterns can be detected at both diel and seasonal scales. I used automated acoustic software to identify bullfrog and green frog vocalizations through two breeding seasons. Temporal partitioning occurs on a seasonal time scale. Bullfrog and green frog calling rates are both high early in the season in late May but then diverge. Bullfrog calling rate peaks in mid-June and drops sharply thereafter. In contrast, green frog calling falls to low levels in June but then rebounds when bullfrog calling declines, so that green frog calling reaches a second peak in late June and tapers off thereafter, ceasing in early August. There is no evident temporal partitioning on shorter time scales. Both species call most from midnight until 0600. However, the diel timing of bullfrog calling is predictable, whereas green frog calling is more variable. These results suggest green frogs are responding to reduced bullfrog activity by adjusting their calling effort. <br><br />
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<span id="NAME">'''Alejandro Rico'''</span><br />
<br> Hummingbird feeding mechanics <br> <br />
Modulation of feeding behavior in hummingbirds, the most important vertebrate pollinators, has been demonstrated to affect the persistence of many kinds and number of plants, and subsequently the interactions and services provided by entire ecosystems. Similarly, composition and concentration of floral nectars has been shown to influence which flowers hummingbirds feed at, and their rate of movement among flowers. To date, our understanding of feeding behavior in hummingbirds is based on the theory that they use capillarity in order to feed on nectar. It is widely accepted as fact that hummingbirds feed by moving nectar up their tongues in the same way that water moves up a tiny capillary glass tube. Our entire understanding of the nature of the interaction of hummingbirds and plants has been based on this concept of the mechanics of feeding. My previous work on the structure of the hummingbird tongue suggests that the capillarity model of feeding in hummingbirds may be wrong. Preliminary results point to a novel and radically different nectar trapping mechanism; if true, our ideas about how external factors affect the rate at which hummingbirds gain nectar from flowers would change. In this presentation I document the process of nectar uptake using high-speed video and microscopy capabilities describing the fluid mechanics of tongue loading, discussing the implications of this new perspective at several different levels ranging from biophysics to ecology and evolution.<br><br />
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<span id="NAME">'''Jessica Budke'''</span><br />
<br> Examining the gametophytic calyptra and its role in sporophyte development using the cord moss (<i>Funaria hygrometrica</i>). <br><br />
In bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) the diploid sporophyte is small, unbranched, and physically attached to the maternal haploid gametophyte. One of the major maternal influences in moss plants is a cap of gametophyte tissue (the calyptra) that covers the sporophyte’s apex during early developmental stages. Previous studies indicate that the calyptra functions mechanically to influence sporophyte development and is necessary for spore formation. Sporophytes without their calyptra wilt at the apex; they survive only when placed in a high humidity chamber. These observations stimulated the hypothesis that the maternally derived calyptra functions as a waterproof cap, preventing desiccation of the developing sporophyte’s apex. In plants the cuticle, an external layer of lipids and waxes, maintains internal hydration. To explore this hypothesis, I am using scanning and transmission electron microscopy to examine cuticle morphology and development of both the calyptra and sporophyte in the moss <i>Funaria hygrometrica</i>. Results for this species indicate that the calyptra’s cuticle is thicker and more complex than other gametophyte tissues; the cuticle is also present on the calyptra throughout sporophyte development. These observations support the calyptra as a specialized maternal gametophyte structure and provide a mechanism by which the calyptra prevents harmful water loss during critical sporophyte developmental stages. Sporophyte development is directly related to reproductive output and thus evolutionary fitness in mosses. The maternal care provided by the calyptra and its cuticle may have been a critical innovation for the evolutionary success of the ~12,500 moss species worldwide.<br><br />
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<span id="NAME">'''Karolina Fučíková'''</span><br />
<br> Cryptic diversity of tiny green thingies: To barcode or not to barcode? <br><br />
The taxonomy of green coccoid algae traditionally has been limited by their character-poor morphology when solely using light microscopy. Alternative methods, especially the use of molecular sequence data, often reveal cryptic diversity and help clarify phylogenetic affiliations of green coccoids. The present study focuses on the genus Pseudomuriella Hanagata and its phylogenetic relationships to morphologically similar genera. Newly-discovered, morphologically cryptic diversity of the genus Pseudomuriella is reported here and examined using molecular markers – barcodes – from the three cellular compartments: the plastid rbcL gene, the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2, and the mitochondrial cox1 gene. The utility of the three markers is discussed using a comparison of their performance in species-level resolution within the Pseudomuriella clade, while also considering the ease of their use. All three genes examined were found to contain variation usable for species-level resolution, and provided largely consistent phylogenies. A joint use of the three markers may be the ideal tool for barcoding cryptic green algal species, but rbcL appears to be the most practical combination of good phylogenetic signal and ease of use.<br />
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<span id="NAME">'''Beth Wade </span><br />
<br> Microsatellite and gene discovery using 454 sequencing in the cicada genus Kikihia <br><br />
Genomic information for non-model organisms is becoming increasingly easier to obtain. Next generation sequencing is revolutionizing whole genome and transcriptome sequencing by providing large amounts of data relatively cheap. Traditional techniques for obtaining nuclear loci for population genetics studies, such as microsatellites and SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) are labor intensive and expensive. In addition, nuclear loci for phylogenetic analyses tend to be limited to a few loci with conserved primers that are used on a wide range of taxa. I have used 454 Life Sciences technology to whole genome sequence nine species of the New Zealand genus Kikihia in an attempt to isolate microsatellites and SNPs for population genetics analyses for this genus and protein-coding genes for systematic studies in the cicada family. In this presentation, I will briefly overview next generation sequencing technology and present my preliminary findings on the cicada genome. <br />
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<span id="NAME">'''[[Nic Tippery]]''' </span><br />
<br> It's Greek to me, but Latin to you: Notes on nomenclature <br><br />
The classical languages of Latin and Greek have trickled down to us through a variety of historical uses, from simple transmission of ancient texts to entirely new uses of the languages by speakers of modern languages. Although as scientists we all embrace the necessity of a certain familiarity with Latin and Greek, ever fewer people are actually familiar with the origins and meanings of the words they use. I will present a brief overview of these classical languages as they are used by scientists today, including the different grammatical forms of words, derivation of some popular names, and the ever-important and often-overlooked question of how to tell if a word construct is of Latin or Greek origin (yes, they are different languages!).<br />
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<span id="NAME">'''Kerri Mocko </span><br />
<br> "Service to the plant": Solar tracking and leaf shape in ''Pelargonium'' <br><br />
Solar tracking in plants describes the temporary and reversible movement of leaves in response to light. Darwin recognized that this phenomenon provided a “service to the plant” that has since been studied by ecophysiologists, most extensively in arid environments. Under cool temperatures and non-water stressed conditions, plants display diaheliotropic movements that maintain leaves perpendicular to incident light, maximizing photon flux density to achieve high photosynthetic rates throughout the day. Under hot, dry conditions, paraheliotropic movements parallel to solar incidence reduce photon flux density to prevent thermal damage and enhance water use efficiency. Examined mostly in species with pulvini and pinnate leaves, there has been little direct attention to the effect of leaf shape on the extent of solar tracking. Leaf energy exchange with the environment depends on the physical properties of a given leaf shape such that an entire leaf has a thicker boundary layer and less heat transfer with the environment than a highly dissected leaf. Therefore, dissected leaves are predicted to maintain temperatures closer to ambient. However, energy budgets for any shape of leaf can be influenced by changes in leaf angle. We measured diurnal changes in leaf inclination and azimuth of two closely related co-occurring geophytic ''Pelargonium'' species of contrasting leaf shape. While both species tracked the sun during the course of the day, there was more movement in highly dissected leaves. Under winter growing conditions, leaves of the dissected species moved to intercept more solar radiation and heat up more quickly than the non-dissected species. Between species, differences in leaf shape and solar tracking combined to result in similar maximum leaf temperatures. Thus the full extent of Darwin’s “service to the plant” results from the synergistic effects of leaf movement and morphology. <br />
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<span id="NAME">'''[[Yu Fan]]''' </span><br />
<br> Are you over-partitioning? <br><br />
Partitioned analyses have been routine in recent Bayesian phylogenetics because of three reasons. First, automated sequencing has made it feasible to sequence large amounts of nucleotide data. Second, genes or codon positions may endure different selective pressures, and models need to account for the resulting differences in substitution rates and/or pattern of substitution. Third, it is necessary to partition the data due to intrinsic differences; for example, molecular and morphological data can only be reasonably combined if a different models can applied to each separately. It is always a challenge, however, to avoid unnecessarily complex partitioning schemes. The Bayes Factor (BF) has been demonstrated to be a good model selection criterion, but its usage relies on the accurate estimation of the marginal likelihood of each model. The Harmonic Mean (HM) estimator of marginal likelihood is a computationally fast approach, and has been widely used in Bayesian phylogenetic research. However, it is known to be biased, which causes it to favor more complex (e.g. more highly partitioned) models. Here, we propose a new method of marginal likelihood estimation, the Stabilized Stepping-Stone (<math>\rm{S}^3</math>) method, and apply it to a simulation study. 200 nucleotide data sets of various sizes (number of taxa and sites) were simulated from an unpartitioned General Time Reversible model with Gamma rate heterogeneity (GTR+G), and later analyzed by both unpartitioned and partitioned (with 2 equal subsets) models.The BF calculated from HM (HM-BF) and <math>\rm{S}^3</math> (<math>\rm{S}^3</math>-BF) showed very different results, not only in magnitude but also in repeatability, despite the fact that both HM and <math>\rm{S}^3</math> analyses were based on samples of equal size. The HM-BF method chose the more complex partitioned model 21.5% of the time, compared with 0.5% for the <math>\rm{S}^3</math>-BF method. The <math>\rm{S}^3</math> method was strikingly better than HM in terms of repeatability. Pairs of independent <math>\rm{S}^3</math> analyses had regression <math>R^2</math> 0.9991, whereas <math>R^2</math> for pairs of HM analyses was only 0.1636.<br />
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<span id="NAME">'''Kristiina Hurme'''</span><br />
<br> Anti-predator Behavior in Schooling and Non-schooling Tadpoles (Anura, Leptodactylidae) <br> <br />
Tadpoles developing in temporary ponds must grow quickly to reach metamorphosis before the pond dries; these tadpoles must be more active and spend more time foraging than tadpoles of species developing in permanent ponds, but are also more susceptible to predation. Tadpole schooling may allow individuals to reduce predation risk by finding safety in numbers, and achieve foraging rates that would be too risky for individual tadpoles. While maximizing growth rates, schooling tadpoles might sacrifice their ability to escape from predators since individuals cannot maximize both growth rate and burst swimming speed. If tadpoles are unable to escape from predators, they may avoid capture by remaining inconspicuous within the selfish herd and avoiding detection. This strong selection for not being an “odd” individual can minimize variation in growth and behavior among individuals, and may result in stereotyped anti-predator behaviors. To determine if schooling tadpoles experience depressed anti-predator behavior, I performed predation trials with both schooling (Leptodactylus insularum) and non-schooling (Physalaemus pustulosus) Leptodactylid tadpoles. For each predation trial, I recorded the activity levels of 10 tadpoles before and after the addition of a lethal insect predator. I found that schooling tadpoles exhibited significantly higher activity levels and were more vulnerable to predation than non-schooling tadpoles were. I will also test to see if schooling tadpoles experience a higher encounter rate with predators.<br />
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[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Graduate_Research_Symposium_2010&diff=14287Graduate Research Symposium 20102010-02-09T14:24:25Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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== Saturday, March 27, 2010 == <br />
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The '''EEB Graduate Student Symposium''' is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings. <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 8:30-9:00 || || Coffee & Tea (drinks only) <br />
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| 9:00-9:15 || Debra Kendall || Welcome address by the associate dean for life sciences and for research and graduate education<br />
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| 9:15-9:30 || || <br />
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| 9:30-9:45 || ||<br />
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| 9:45-10:00 || || <br />
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| 10:00-10:15 || ||<br />
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| 10:15-10:30 || || <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 10:30-11:00 || || '''Morning Break - Drinks and Fruit'''<br />
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| 11:00-11:15 || ||<br />
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| 11:15-11:30 || || <br />
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| 11:30-11:45 || || <br />
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| 11:45-12:00 || || <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;"| 12:00-1:30 || || Lunch - Sandwiches and Salad<br />
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| 1:30-2:00 || || <br />
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| 2:00-2:15 || || <br />
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| 2:15-2:30 || || <br />
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| 2:30-2:45 || || <br />
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!style="background:#efefef;" | 2:45-3:00 || || '''Speed Talks'''<br />
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| 2:45-2:50 || || <br />
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| 2:50-2:55 || || <br />
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| 2:55-3:00 || || <br />
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[[Category:Graduate Research Symposium]]<br />
[[Category:Graduate Student Resources]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=Seminar_speaker_sign-up&diff=14080Seminar speaker sign-up2010-01-26T19:31:50Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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'''Seminar Speaker:''' Mac Hunter <br><br />
'''Institution:''' Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine<br><br />
'''Seminar Title:''' '''''Effects of forestry on amphibians: a 17-year retrospective from Maine''''' <br><br />
'''Web Site:''' http://www.wle.umaine.edu/faculty/Hunter/hunter.htm<br><br />
'''Contact:''' Chris Elphick: (860) 486-4547, chris.elphick@uconn.edu<br />
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==Thursday, 28 January==<br />
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| '''Time''' || '''Name''' || '''Room''' <br />
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| 11:30am || Chris Elphick || PharmBio 300A<br />
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| 12:00pm || Grad Student Lunch || TLS 171<br />
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| 1:00pm || || <br />
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| 1:30pm || Silander lab || Biopharm 223<br />
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| 2:00pm || Z Grabowski || BioPharm 218<br />
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| 2:30pm || Susan Herrick and Kristiina Hurme ||TLS 379<br />
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| 3:00pm || EEB 3894 || TLS 171 <br />
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| 3:30pm || EEB 3894 cont. & seminar prep || <br />
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| 4:00pm || Seminar || BPB 130<br />
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|| 5:30 PM || DINNER @ Thai place || Elphick, et ....<br />
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|}</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=South_Africa_-_IRES_2010&diff=13950South Africa - IRES 20102010-01-21T16:20:29Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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== South Africa IRES 2010 ==<br />
<br />
'''Faculty:'''<br />
<br />
John A. Silander <br />
<br />
Summary here<br />
<br />
'''Meeting time:''' Thursdays 2 - 3 p.m.<br />
<br />
'''Location:''' NOTE THAT THE ROOM HAS CHANGED (again, but hopefully for the last time) to TLS 263.<br />
<br />
== Required Reading: == <br />
<br />
You should arrive every week having read the preceding Tuesday’s Science Section in the New York Times, and ready to discuss it. <br />
You have several options for access to the NYT: You can use the order form to order a personal subscription '''OR''' You can pick up a FREE copy of the paper at selected locations on campus, as long as you arrive before the free copies are all gone ''' OR ''' You can read the paper FREE [http://www.nytimes.com online]. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Expectations for Students ==<br />
<br />
<br />
READING: We would like you to read the articles in the Science section critically, assessing the quality of articles from the point of view of:<br />
<br />
''Accuracy:'' does the article say things you know or suspect to be wrong?<br />
<br />
''Evidence:'' is there sufficient evidence presented for you to believe the conclusions drawn by the reporter?<br />
<br />
''Balance:'' does the reporter consider alternative explanations? Are experts from all sides of an issue interviewed and quoted?<br />
<br />
''Clarity:'' how hard is it to understand the article? Pretend to be your grandmother while thinking about this one! <br />
<br />
''Newsworthiness:'' why did the reporter decide to focus on this story? Why did the editor run it? How likely it that the information presented will change policy/technology/behavior/the world?<br />
<br />
<br />
PRESENTATIONS: Every student will be expected to present an analysis of a news article to the rest of the group at least once. Students should pick an article, read it, then investigate the background of the story in the primary scientific literature. Read the technical paper that prompted the story, at least. Reconsider all issues listed above; your presentation should address how good a job the reporter did achieving accuracy, balance, and clarity. Your presentation should also address what the scientist did, or could have done, to increase the chances that the reporter would produce an accurate, clear, engaging story. <br />
<br />
Given the level of enrollment, and the limited number of weeks for presentation, ''at least some students will have to present in pairs''. '''Presentation partners should consist of graduate/undergraduate pairs'''; NO undergrad/undergrad or grad/grad pairs. Talk to Margaret if you would like to present with a partner and you aren't sure how to secure one.<br />
<br />
== Discussion Schedule ==<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
!width="75"|Week of:<br />
!width="150"|Who<br />
!width="400"|Topic<br />
!width="400"|Notes<br />
|- <br />
| 28 Aug || M.Rubega || Class intro: organization. || :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/images/6/6b/Cai2009.pdf}} Some paper<br />
|- <br />
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<br />
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The two main scientific articles referenced in the NYT piece are [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2219763 here] and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg12587263076803/ here], but feel free to read them casually as they are a bit technical.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
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== Related Reading ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:EEB Seminars]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=South_Africa_-_IRES_2010&diff=13949South Africa - IRES 20102010-01-21T16:19:44Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<br />
== South Africa IRES 2010 ==<br />
<br />
'''Faculty:'''<br />
<br />
John A. Silander <br />
<br />
Summary here<br />
<br />
'''Meeting time:''' Thursdays 2 - 3 p.m.<br />
<br />
'''Location:''' NOTE THAT THE ROOM HAS CHANGED (again, but hopefully for the last time) to TLS 263.<br />
<br />
== Required Reading: == <br />
<br />
You should arrive every week having read the preceding Tuesday’s Science Section in the New York Times, and ready to discuss it. <br />
You have several options for access to the NYT: You can use the order form to order a personal subscription '''OR''' You can pick up a FREE copy of the paper at selected locations on campus, as long as you arrive before the free copies are all gone ''' OR ''' You can read the paper FREE [http://www.nytimes.com online]. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Expectations for Students ==<br />
<br />
<br />
READING: We would like you to read the articles in the Science section critically, assessing the quality of articles from the point of view of:<br />
<br />
''Accuracy:'' does the article say things you know or suspect to be wrong?<br />
<br />
''Evidence:'' is there sufficient evidence presented for you to believe the conclusions drawn by the reporter?<br />
<br />
''Balance:'' does the reporter consider alternative explanations? Are experts from all sides of an issue interviewed and quoted?<br />
<br />
''Clarity:'' how hard is it to understand the article? Pretend to be your grandmother while thinking about this one! <br />
<br />
''Newsworthiness:'' why did the reporter decide to focus on this story? Why did the editor run it? How likely it that the information presented will change policy/technology/behavior/the world?<br />
<br />
<br />
PRESENTATIONS: Every student will be expected to present an analysis of a news article to the rest of the group at least once. Students should pick an article, read it, then investigate the background of the story in the primary scientific literature. Read the technical paper that prompted the story, at least. Reconsider all issues listed above; your presentation should address how good a job the reporter did achieving accuracy, balance, and clarity. Your presentation should also address what the scientist did, or could have done, to increase the chances that the reporter would produce an accurate, clear, engaging story. <br />
<br />
Given the level of enrollment, and the limited number of weeks for presentation, ''at least some students will have to present in pairs''. '''Presentation partners should consist of graduate/undergraduate pairs'''; NO undergrad/undergrad or grad/grad pairs. Talk to Margaret if you would like to present with a partner and you aren't sure how to secure one.<br />
<br />
== Discussion Schedule ==<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
!width="75"|Week of:<br />
!width="150"|Who<br />
!width="400"|Topic<br />
!width="400"|Notes<br />
|- <br />
| 28 Aug || M.Rubega || Class intro: organization. || :[[Image:Cai2009.pdf]] Some paper<br />
|- <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The two main scientific articles referenced in the NYT piece are [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2219763 here] and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg12587263076803/ here], but feel free to read them casually as they are a bit technical.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Related Reading ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:EEB Seminars]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=South_Africa_-_IRES_2010&diff=13948South Africa - IRES 20102010-01-21T16:19:20Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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|}<br />
[[Image:SAFLag.gif|right]]<br />
<br />
== South Africa IRES 2010 ==<br />
<br />
'''Faculty:'''<br />
<br />
John A. Silander <br />
<br />
Summary here<br />
<br />
'''Meeting time:''' Thursdays 2 - 3 p.m.<br />
<br />
'''Location:''' NOTE THAT THE ROOM HAS CHANGED (again, but hopefully for the last time) to TLS 263.<br />
<br />
== Required Reading: == <br />
<br />
You should arrive every week having read the preceding Tuesday’s Science Section in the New York Times, and ready to discuss it. <br />
You have several options for access to the NYT: You can use the order form to order a personal subscription '''OR''' You can pick up a FREE copy of the paper at selected locations on campus, as long as you arrive before the free copies are all gone ''' OR ''' You can read the paper FREE [http://www.nytimes.com online]. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Expectations for Students ==<br />
<br />
<br />
READING: We would like you to read the articles in the Science section critically, assessing the quality of articles from the point of view of:<br />
<br />
''Accuracy:'' does the article say things you know or suspect to be wrong?<br />
<br />
''Evidence:'' is there sufficient evidence presented for you to believe the conclusions drawn by the reporter?<br />
<br />
''Balance:'' does the reporter consider alternative explanations? Are experts from all sides of an issue interviewed and quoted?<br />
<br />
''Clarity:'' how hard is it to understand the article? Pretend to be your grandmother while thinking about this one! <br />
<br />
''Newsworthiness:'' why did the reporter decide to focus on this story? Why did the editor run it? How likely it that the information presented will change policy/technology/behavior/the world?<br />
<br />
<br />
PRESENTATIONS: Every student will be expected to present an analysis of a news article to the rest of the group at least once. Students should pick an article, read it, then investigate the background of the story in the primary scientific literature. Read the technical paper that prompted the story, at least. Reconsider all issues listed above; your presentation should address how good a job the reporter did achieving accuracy, balance, and clarity. Your presentation should also address what the scientist did, or could have done, to increase the chances that the reporter would produce an accurate, clear, engaging story. <br />
<br />
Given the level of enrollment, and the limited number of weeks for presentation, ''at least some students will have to present in pairs''. '''Presentation partners should consist of graduate/undergraduate pairs'''; NO undergrad/undergrad or grad/grad pairs. Talk to Margaret if you would like to present with a partner and you aren't sure how to secure one.<br />
<br />
== Discussion Schedule ==<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
!width="75"|Week of:<br />
!width="150"|Who<br />
!width="400"|Topic<br />
!width="400"|Notes<br />
|- <br />
| 28 Aug || M.Rubega || Class intro: organization. || :{{Image:Cai2009.pdf}} Some paper<br />
|- <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The two main scientific articles referenced in the NYT piece are [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2219763 here] and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg12587263076803/ here], but feel free to read them casually as they are a bit technical.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Related Reading ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:EEB Seminars]]</div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=File:Cai2009.pdf&diff=13947File:Cai2009.pdf2010-01-21T16:18:35Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
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<div></div>AdamWilsonhttp://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=South_Africa_-_IRES_2010&diff=13946South Africa - IRES 20102010-01-21T16:18:06Z<p>AdamWilson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{|align=right<br />
|__TOC__<br />
|}<br />
[[Image:SAFLag.gif|right]]<br />
<br />
== South Africa IRES 2010 ==<br />
<br />
'''Faculty:'''<br />
<br />
John A. Silander <br />
<br />
Summary here<br />
<br />
'''Meeting time:''' Thursdays 2 - 3 p.m.<br />
<br />
'''Location:''' NOTE THAT THE ROOM HAS CHANGED (again, but hopefully for the last time) to TLS 263.<br />
<br />
== Required Reading: == <br />
<br />
You should arrive every week having read the preceding Tuesday’s Science Section in the New York Times, and ready to discuss it. <br />
You have several options for access to the NYT: You can use the order form to order a personal subscription '''OR''' You can pick up a FREE copy of the paper at selected locations on campus, as long as you arrive before the free copies are all gone ''' OR ''' You can read the paper FREE [http://www.nytimes.com online]. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Expectations for Students ==<br />
<br />
<br />
READING: We would like you to read the articles in the Science section critically, assessing the quality of articles from the point of view of:<br />
<br />
''Accuracy:'' does the article say things you know or suspect to be wrong?<br />
<br />
''Evidence:'' is there sufficient evidence presented for you to believe the conclusions drawn by the reporter?<br />
<br />
''Balance:'' does the reporter consider alternative explanations? Are experts from all sides of an issue interviewed and quoted?<br />
<br />
''Clarity:'' how hard is it to understand the article? Pretend to be your grandmother while thinking about this one! <br />
<br />
''Newsworthiness:'' why did the reporter decide to focus on this story? Why did the editor run it? How likely it that the information presented will change policy/technology/behavior/the world?<br />
<br />
<br />
PRESENTATIONS: Every student will be expected to present an analysis of a news article to the rest of the group at least once. Students should pick an article, read it, then investigate the background of the story in the primary scientific literature. Read the technical paper that prompted the story, at least. Reconsider all issues listed above; your presentation should address how good a job the reporter did achieving accuracy, balance, and clarity. Your presentation should also address what the scientist did, or could have done, to increase the chances that the reporter would produce an accurate, clear, engaging story. <br />
<br />
Given the level of enrollment, and the limited number of weeks for presentation, ''at least some students will have to present in pairs''. '''Presentation partners should consist of graduate/undergraduate pairs'''; NO undergrad/undergrad or grad/grad pairs. Talk to Margaret if you would like to present with a partner and you aren't sure how to secure one.<br />
<br />
== Discussion Schedule ==<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
!width="75"|Week of:<br />
!width="150"|Who<br />
!width="400"|Topic<br />
!width="400"|Notes<br />
|- <br />
| 28 Aug || M.Rubega || Class intro: organization. || :{{pdf|https://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/scicomm/WyssJournalistPerspectiveIntroOptimized.pdf}} Some paper<br />
|- <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The two main scientific articles referenced in the NYT piece are [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2219763 here] and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg12587263076803/ here], but feel free to read them casually as they are a bit technical.<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Related Reading ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:EEB Seminars]]</div>AdamWilson