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Friday Seminar
​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
 
 
 


​
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
✓
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