Student Seminars

​NOTE: All student seminars will be HYBRID on Fridays during the Fall of 2022. For access to the Zoom link, contact Kathleen Kyle or Bobby Kwait. Socializing will begin at 3:45 pm, with talks scheduled to begin at 4:00 pm. 

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Fall 2022 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA Meeting
9/16/22		Welcome back!	Value
9/23/22	Erin Chille	Hawaiian coral 'omics updates	✓
9/30/22	Kelvin Chen	Socio-ecological drivers of urban mosquitoes
10/7/22	Jeewantha Bandara	...
10/14/22	Koustav Halder	Pakistan floods, climate change, & monetary policy - A broad discussion
10/21/22	Dylan Simpson	Ecological neighborhoods of wild bees - what are they and how big?	✓
10/28/22	Lindsey Hauff	Lemur genomics pilot project
11/4/22	Malin Pinsky	GPD discussion with grad students
11/11/22	​Daniel Fisher	Using eDNA to detect bridge-roosting bats
11/18/22	​Rene Clark	Macrogenomics	​✓
11/25/22	NO SEMINAR	HAPPY THANKSGIVING
12/2/22	Julia Van Etten	Modeling DNA transfer through a microbial community
12/9/22	Zoë Kitchel	Fun, Fish, Friends	✓

Spring 2022 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA Meeting
1/28/22	Dylan Simpson, etc.	COVID check in	✓
2/4/22	Carolyn Iwicki	Angler knowledge source use
2/11/22	Katrina Catalano	...
2/18/22	Dylan Simpson	Contract and raise update
2/25/22	Dylan Simpson	Bumblebees	✓
3/4/22	Kate Douthat	Defense warm up
3/11/22	Lucy Weinman	Does bees' transport of pollen differ from their scopal pollen collection?
3/18/22	NO SPEAKER	SPRING BREAK
3/25/22	Kathleen Kyle	eDNA and species	✓
4/1/22	Koustav Halder	Modeling the structure &  resilience of spatially explicit communities
4/8/22	Erin Chille	Hawaiian coral project
4/15/22	Ryan Almeida	​TBA
4/22/22	Megan King	Tour of the herbarium!
4/29/22	Andrew Aldercotte	Intra-population variation in phenology in tropical trees	✓

Fall 2021 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA Meeting
9/10/21	Dylan Simpson, Kate Douthat, TBD	​SPEED TALKS	✓
9/17/21	Kathleen Kyle	Design of an environmental DNA assay and sampling methodology for an endophagous arthropod species
9/24/21	Ryan Almeida	E&E Code of Conduct
10/1/21	Tyler Christensen	Movements and resource selection by Long-eared Owls
10/8/21	Evan Drake	Bats and Birds and Invasive Plants
10/15/21	Jaelyn Bos	Are corals screwed?
10/22/21	Zoë Kitchel	Morphological variation in Atlantic croaker larvae	✓
10/29/21	Rene Clark	TBD
11/5/21	Elizabeth Bouchard	The distribution of horseshoe crab eggs and other prey around intertidal oyster farms
11/12/21	Emma Waltman	Integrated pest management: An overview and how a tiny wasp may control a stinky bug
11/19/21	Jeewantha Bandara, Ryan Almeida	Wildlife trade in Sri Lanka	✓
11/26/21	​NO SPEAKER	​HAPPY THANKSGIVING
12/3/21	Lucia Weinman	Pollen use by forest bees: conservation, diet breadth across space, and bee-plant conflict
12/10/21	Malin Pinsky	Discussion with GPD	✓

Spring 2021 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA Meeting
1/29/21	Speed Talks
2/5/21	N/A		✓
2/12/21	Abigail Golden	Focusing on what matters: Evaluating mechanisms of collapse in recreational fisheries
2/19/21	Zoë Kitchel	​"When the going gets hot, the fish (and inverts) get going"
2/26/21	Jaelyn Bos
3/5/21	Kathleen Kyle		✓
3/12/21	RESERVED
3/19/21	​NO SPEAKER	​SPRING BREAK
3/26/21	Kate Douthat
4/2/21	Elizabeth Bouchard		✓
4/9/21	Ryan Almeida
4/16/21	Lucy Weinman
4/23/21	Leon Tkacenko
4/30/21	Katie Russell		✓

Fall 2020 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA meeting
9/4/20	NO SPEAKER	N/A	✓
9/11/20	Katrina C., Ryan A., Emily M., Kate D., Laina L.	Speed Talks​
9/18/20	Evan Drake	Golf Bats: The Muscial
9/25/20	Alvin Crespo	Conversation of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
10/2/20	Tyler Christensen, Bobby Kwait	Relating spatial activity to microhabitat resources in New Jersey copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix​)
10/9/20	Ryan Almeida, Julia Van Etten, Malin Pinsky	State of the graduate program discussion
​10/16/20	TBA	TBA	✓
10/23/20	Dylan Simpson	TBA
10/30/20	Rene Clark	TBA
11/6/20	Chris Crosby	Beach predators
11/13/20	Kyra Fitz	Impacts of ocean acidification on early life stages of coastal fish
11/20/20	Abigail Golden	Mechanisms of complexity in recreational fisheries & social-ecological systems	✓
​11/27/20	NO SPEAKER	Thanksgiving Break
​12/4/20	Julia Van Etten	Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes
12/11/20	Mike Acquafredda	Knauss fellowship

Spring 2020 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA meeting
1/24/20	NO SPEAKER		✓
1/31/20	Ryan Almeida	Wildlife Trade
2/7/20	Abigail Golden + Olaf Jensen	​Discussion of grad program climate survey results
2/14/20	Jeewantha Bandara	​Sustainable fisheries in the developing world
2/21/20	Alvin Crespo	​Recombination drives speciation of cassava mosaic begomoviruses
2/28/20	Julia, Zoë, others	Mission Statement Development for Program	✓
​3/6/20	Abigail Golden	Indirect effects of thunderstorms on catchability of Mongolian salmonids
3/13/20	Lucia Weinman	TBA
​3/20/20	SPRING BREAK
3/27/20	Emily Manuel	​Salinity stress of oysters at different life stages	✓
4/3/20	Laina Lockett
4/10/20	Zoë Kitchel	​Patterns in colonization and extinction in marine ectotherms
​4/17/20	Julia Van Etten	Something about horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes
​4/24/20	René Clark	​Evolutionary consequences of overexploitation in tropical marine fish	✓
4/25/20	RUTGERS DAY!

FALL 2019 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA meeting
​9/13/19	Evan Drake Zoe Kitchel ​Rene Clark	3-minute slide shows about summer adventures!	HAPPY HOUR
9/20/19	Ashley Trudeau	Applying a landscape approach to recreational fishing effort dynamics	✓
9/27/19	Michael Roswell	Assessing diversity estimators and their uncertainty with checkplots
10/4/19	Carolyn Iwicki	When a Fluke's a Fluke: Evaluating recreational anglers' regulation preferences in a multi-species fishery
10/11/19	Katrina Catalano	integrating design elements into scientific communication
10/18/19	Evan Drake	​Systematic Review of the Roost-Site Characteristics of North American Forest Bats: Implications for Conservation	✓
10/25/19	Dylan Simpson	​Specialists on specialists: isolating the effects of isolation
11/1/19	​Rachael Sacatelli	Change is happening: a look at coastal forest death over the past 80 years
11/8/19	Abigail Golden	​Effect of extreme environmental conditions on catchability of Mongolian salmonids
11/15/19	Colleen Smith	Forest fragmentation and diversity	✓
11/22/19	Julia Van Etten	​Communicating science on social media
11/29/19	NO SPEAKER	THANKSGIVING BREAK
12/6/19	Amy Gage	Fostering inclusion in a diverse classroom - tips for teaching
12/13/19			​✓

SPRING 2019 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA Meeting
1/25/19	1. Abigail Golden 2. Michael Roswell 3. Katrina 4. LaShanda Williams 5. Johnny Quispe​	​Happy Hour and Prospective Students Day - Five 5-minute talks
2/1/19	LaShanda Williams	Revisiting the old "microbial" friends hypothesis: insights from early 20th century oral microbiota	​✓
2/8/19	​Joseph Paulin	Conservation in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa ​
2/15/19	​Max Piana	TBD
2/22/19	Colleen Smith	Something about forest bees
3/1/19	Lauren Frazee	Urban phenotypic differentiation in a native perennial herb	​✓
3/8/19	​Katrina Catalano	​Updating the annual progress report -- open forum
3/15/19	​Agnesa Redere	TBD
3/22/19	​NO SPEAKER	SPRING BREAK
3/29/19	​Kate Douthat	​Plants and soils in stormwater detention basins: the story so far (title TBD)	✓
4/5/19	​Rene Clark	TBD	Election meeting?
4/12/19	Mike Allen	Spatial synchrony in grassland birds and agriculture
4/19/19	​Laina Lockett	Something About Frogs
4/26/19	​Rita Grunberg & Jennifer Hoey	​Latitudinal variation in Summer Flounder parasite communities	​✓
4/27/19	RUTGERS DAY	Book Sale, Outreach opportunities
5/3/19

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FALL 2018 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	EcoGSA Meeting
9/7/18	HAPPY HOUR	HAPPY HOUR
9/14/18	Seth Bromagen	Monogeneans increase in size with infrapopulation abundance for some reason	​✓
9/21/18	Amy Gage	​Native edible plants: fostering conservation through use in residential gardens
9/28/18	Justin Bernstein ​(RU Newark)	Snake scale keels: a three-dimensional investigation of function
10/5/18	Kat Catalano	Variable dispersal rates in a marine metapopulation
10/12/18	Alex Safiq	TBA (something about my systematic review)
10/19/18	Mike Acquafredda	Possible niche partitioning among four ecologically and economically important bivalve species: a case for bivalve polyculture	​✓
10/26/18	Jeff Brown	The Smallest Patch of Green: The Importance and Challenges of Conservation in Urban Areas
11/2/18	CANCELLED	​CANCELLED
11/9/18	Olaf Jensen	Conversation about the E&E Grad Program
11/16/18	Ariel Kruger	Inducible defenses in Pine Barrens Tree frog tadpoles	✓
11/23/18	​No speaker	THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/30/18	Jennifer Hoey	Using natural tags to infer connectivity in summer flounder
12/7/18	Carolyn Iwicki	TBA: More preliminary results from creeling WI anglers	✓