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| Ecology Seminars, Mondays at URI |
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| Thursday, 18 October 2007 | |
| URI is offering a series of ecology seminars by eight visiting speakers, on Monday afternoons. The talks are open to the public. Topics range from wildlife management, to genetic modification of mosquitoes to fight malaria, to the impact of humans on desert ecosystems and food webs in the wild. For more info, click on "Read more." The Ecology Seminar Series, a set of ecologically-themed talks of general interest to faculty, graduate students, professionals, and the general public, will host the following eight distinguished speakers: 10/22/07: Doug Levey, University of Florida: "Do habitat corridors really work?" (Host: Scott McWilliams, NRS) 11/19/07: Kevin McGarigal, UMass Amherst: "Metapopulations and their application to wildlife conservation: A case study of the marbled salamander in Massachusetts" (First Annual Ledermann Lecture) (Host, Peter Paton, NRS) 12/3/07: Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware: "Are Non-native Plants the Ecological Equivalents of the Native Plants They Displace?" (Host, Lisa Tewksbury, PLS) 2/4/08: Scott Collins, University of New Mexico: "Global change impacts on chihuahuan desert ecosystems" (Host: Stephen Swallow, ENRE) 3/3/08: Fred Gould, North Carolina State University: "Can genetically engineered mosquitoes eradicate malaria?" (Host: Marian Goldsmith, BIO) 3/24/08: Kristina Rothley, Kutztown University: "Disturbance and species interactions: implications for species and food webs" (Host: Laura Meyerson, NRS) 4/7/08: Nicholas Gotelli, University of Vermont: "Community assembly: From small to large spatial scales" (Host: Jason Grear, US EPA). 4/21/08: Jason Link, NMFS: "Multiple modeling applications for ecosystem-based management of living marine resources" (Host: Dave Bengston, FAVS) The seminars are free, open to the public, and take place 3 PM on Mondays in Weaver Auditorium at the Coastal Institute in Kingston. For more info, contact Evan Preisser, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, 874-2120, or by email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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