Student Seminars

​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. 

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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!		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
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	✓