Student Seminars

123 Environmental and Natural Resource Building (ENR), Cook Campus 
Fridays: 3:40pm (refreshments); Seminar begins at 4:00pm 
For questions on the schedule please contact:
Julia Van Etten or Zoe Kitchel


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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	✓