Fridays from 12:20 to 1:10 in Holdsworth Hall Room 305
February 6 – The Oregon Biscuit Fire: A Large Ecological and Political Disturbance
Jonathan Thompson, Harvard Forest
February 13 – The Asian Longhorned Beetle in Massachusetts
Robert Childs, University of Massachusetts
February 20 – Crown Reconfiguration and Trunk Stress in Deciduous Trees
Brian Kane, University of Massachusetts
February 27 – TBA – Faculty candidate seminar
March 6 – TBA – Faculty candidate seminar
March 13 – TBA – Faculty candidate seminar
March 20 – No seminar – Spring Break
March 27 TBA – Faculty candidate seminar
April 3 – Landscape Genetic Approach to the Study of Landscape Connectivity: Case Study for Black Bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Sam Cushman, U.S. Forest Service
April 10 – Is There a Better Way to Count Elephants: Assessment of Strip Transect and Distance Sampling on Aerial Surveys of Elephants in Kruger National Park
Curtice Griffin, University of Massachusetts
April 17 – Preparing for the Sea: Behavior, Physiology and Conservation of Atlantic Salmon
Stephen McCormick, U.S. Geological Survey
April 24 – Responses of Tropical Avian Populations to Habitat Fragmentation
Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Cornell University
May 1 – Paying Privately for the Playing Public: Maine’s Finite Family Forests
Jessica Leahy, University of Maine
May 8 – Timescapes: A Landscape Ecological Approach to the Study of Streamflow
Richard Koehler, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
For additional information, contact: Brett Butler (; 545-1387)