University of Massachusetts – Amherst
College of Natural Sciences
Department of Environmental Conservation
Fall 2010 Seminar Series

Fridays from 12:20 to 1:10 in Holdsworth Hall Room 202
(unless otherwise noted)


Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

24-Sep

Keith Nislow

U.S. Forest Service

Bioaccumulation Nation: Factors That Make Stream Fishes Vulnerable to Mercury Contamination

1-Oct

Simi Hoque

University of Massachusetts

Energy and Buildings

8-Oct

Boze Hancock

The Nature Conservancy

Bivalve Ecosystem Services, Nearshore Ecosystem Health, and Oyster Restoration in Massachusetts and the U.S.

15-Oct

Sam Cushman

U.S. Forest Service

Three Views of Population Connectivity

22-Oct

Brian Olsen

University of Maine

Habitat as Social Architect: How Spatial Variability Could Drive Animal Behavior, Evolution, and Management

29-Oct

Jack Ahern

University of Massachusetts

Sustainability and Cities: A Landscape Planning Approach

5-Nov

Charlie Schweik

University of Massachusetts

Success and Abandonment of Open Source Commons: Implications for  Environmental Conservation

12-Nov

Jan Dizard

Amherst College

Forestry, Wildlife, and the Loss of Biodiversity

19-Nov

Timothy Randhir

University of Massachusetts

Climate Change and Hydrology: Uncertainty and Resilience

3-Dec

John Herbohn

University of Queensland

Improving the Financial Returns to Smallholder Treefarmers in the Philippines