Student Seminars
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NOTE: All student seminars will be held ONLINE over Zoom on Fridays during the Fall of 2021. For access to the link, contact Kathleen Kyle or Leon Tkacenko. Socializing will begin at 3:30 pm, with talks scheduled to begin at 4:15 pm.
Print Student Evaluation Form |
Spring 2021 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
EcoGSA Meeting |
1/29/21 |
Speed Talks |
Value |
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2/5/21 |
N/A |
✓ |
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2/12/21 |
Abigail Golden |
Focusing on what matters: Evaluating mechanisms of collapse in recreational fisheries |
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2/19/21 |
Zoë Kitchel |
"When the going gets hot, the fish (and inverts) get going" |
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2/26/21 |
Jaelyn Bos |
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3/5/21 |
Kathleen Kyle |
✓ |
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3/12/21 |
RESERVED |
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3/19/21 |
NO SPEAKER |
SPRING BREAK |
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3/26/21 |
Kate Douthat |
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4/2/21 |
Elizabeth Bouchard |
✓ |
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4/9/21 |
Ryan Almeida |
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4/16/21 |
Lucy Weinman |
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4/23/21 |
Leon Tkacenko |
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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 |
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9/18/20 |
Evan Drake |
Golf Bats: The Muscial |
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9/25/20 |
Alvin Crespo |
Conversation of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging |
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10/2/20 |
Tyler Christensen, Bobby Kwait |
Relating spatial activity to microhabitat resources in New Jersey copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) |
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10/9/20 |
Ryan Almeida, Julia Van Etten, Malin Pinsky |
State of the graduate program discussion |
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10/16/20 |
TBA |
TBA |
✓ |
10/23/20 |
Dylan Simpson |
TBA |
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10/30/20 |
Rene Clark |
TBA |
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11/6/20 |
Chris Crosby |
Beach predators |
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11/13/20 |
Kyra Fitz |
Impacts of ocean acidification on early life stages of coastal fish |
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11/20/20 |
Abigail Golden |
Mechanisms of complexity in recreational fisheries & social-ecological systems |
✓ |
11/27/20 |
NO SPEAKER |
Thanksgiving Break |
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12/4/20 |
Julia Van Etten |
Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes |
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12/11/20 |
Mike Acquafredda |
Knauss fellowship |
Spring 2020 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
EcoGSA meeting |
1/24/20 |
NO SPEAKER |
✓ |
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1/31/20 |
Ryan Almeida |
Wildlife Trade |
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2/7/20 |
Abigail Golden + Olaf Jensen |
Discussion of grad program climate survey results |
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2/14/20 |
Jeewantha Bandara |
Sustainable fisheries in the developing world |
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2/21/20 |
Alvin Crespo |
Recombination drives speciation of cassava mosaic begomoviruses |
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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 |
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3/13/20 |
Lucia Weinman |
TBA |
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3/20/20 |
SPRING BREAK |
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3/27/20 |
Emily Manuel |
Salinity stress of oysters at different life stages |
✓ |
4/3/20 |
Laina Lockett |
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4/10/20 |
Zoë Kitchel |
Patterns in colonization and extinction in marine ectotherms |
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4/17/20 |
Julia Van Etten |
Something about horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes |
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4/24/20 |
René Clark |
Evolutionary consequences of overexploitation in tropical marine fish |
✓ |
4/25/20 |
RUTGERS DAY! |
Value |
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 |
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10/4/19 |
Carolyn Iwicki |
When a Fluke's a Fluke: Evaluating recreational anglers' regulation preferences in a multi-species fishery |
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10/11/19 |
Katrina Catalano |
integrating design elements into scientific communication |
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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 |
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11/1/19 |
Rachael Sacatelli |
Change is happening: a look at coastal forest death over the past 80 years |
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11/8/19 |
Abigail Golden |
Effect of extreme environmental conditions on catchability of Mongolian salmonids |
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11/15/19 |
Colleen Smith |
Forest fragmentation and diversity |
✓ |
11/22/19 |
Julia Van Etten |
Communicating science on social media |
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11/29/19 |
NO SPEAKER |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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12/6/19 |
Amy Gage |
Fostering inclusion in a diverse classroom - tips for teaching |
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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 |
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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 |
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2/15/19 |
Max Piana |
TBD |
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2/22/19 |
Colleen Smith |
Something about forest bees |
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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 |
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3/15/19 |
Agnesa Redere |
TBD |
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3/22/19 |
NO SPEAKER |
SPRING BREAK |
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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 |
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4/19/19 |
Laina Lockett |
Something About Frogs |
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4/26/19 |
Rita Grunberg & Jennifer Hoey |
Latitudinal variation in Summer Flounder parasite communities |
✓ |
4/27/19 |
RUTGERS DAY |
Book Sale, Outreach opportunities |
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5/3/19 |
FALL 2018 Student Seminar and Meeting Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
EcoGSA Meeting |
9/7/18 |
HAPPY HOUR |
HAPPY HOUR |
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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 |
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9/28/18 |
Justin Bernstein (RU Newark) |
Snake scale keels: a three-dimensional investigation of function |
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10/5/18 |
Kat Catalano |
Variable dispersal rates in a marine metapopulation |
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10/12/18 |
Alex Safiq |
TBA (something about my systematic review) |
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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 |
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11/2/18 |
CANCELLED |
CANCELLED |
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11/9/18 |
Olaf Jensen |
Conversation about the E&E Grad Program |
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11/16/18 |
Ariel Kruger |
Inducible defenses in Pine Barrens Tree frog tadpoles |
✓ |
11/23/18 |
No speaker |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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11/30/18 |
Jennifer Hoey |
Using natural tags to infer connectivity in summer flounder |
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12/7/18 |
Carolyn Iwicki |
TBA: More preliminary results from creeling WI anglers |
✓ |
