Seminars
Systems Ecology Seminar
Systems Ecology Seminar Series Spring 2020
Location: FOR 305 | Time: Thursdays 3:30 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.
For information contact Diana L. Six at diana.six@umontana.edu
Generously supported by the NSF Institute on Ecosystems, The UM Water Center, and the Higuera, Valett, Metcalf, and Six Labs
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
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Host |
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Jan 16 |
No speaker |
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Intro meeting with enrolled students |
Diana Six |
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Jan 23 |
Angie Luis
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Assistant Professor WBIO/DECS UM |
Diversity, density, decorum and drama determine disease dynamics: Diversity has both positive and negative effects on hantavirus transmission in deer mice |
Diana Six |
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Jan 30 |
Dean Pearson
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Research Scientist, USFS Forest Sciences Lab, Missoula |
Preventing a series of unfortunate events: Applying qualitative models for improved conservation in species introductions and extirpations |
Diana Six |
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Feb 6 |
Marco Maneta
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Associate Professor, Geosciences, UM |
Imbalances in water supply and demand alter terrestrial systems |
Cory Cleveland |
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Feb 13
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Di Yang
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Postdoc, Spatial Analysis Lab, UM |
Forest mosaics: Spatial vegetation biodiversity patterns from stand to regional scales in the eastern US |
Diana Six |
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Feb 20 |
Arthur Endsley
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Postdoc, NTSG, UM |
Global assessment of topsoil health and its role in terrestrial carbon balance using NASA's Soil Moisture Active/ Passive Level-4 Carbon product |
John Kimball |
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Feb 27 |
Tabitha Graves
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Research Scientist, USGS, Glacier National Park |
Bears to bees |
Diana Six |
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Mar 5 |
Shawn Devlin
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Research Scientist, FLBS UM |
A vibrant oasis in the world’s coldest desert: Benthic ecology of Antarctic lakes |
Diana Six |
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Mar 12 |
TBA
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Mar 19 |
Spring Break |
No seminar |
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Mar 26 |
Kenneth Wallen |
Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, Moscow |
The Four Fixes: A Behavioral Design Framework for Social-Ecological Systems |
Alex Metcalf/SE grad students
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Apr 2 |
Tara Hudiburg
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Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, Moscow |
Forest-atmosphere interactions in an era of fire and drought |
Phil Higuera/SE grad students
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Apr 9 Room change possible |
Cathy Whitlock
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Regents Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman |
Paleoecology, conservation, and the future
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Diana Six/Phil Higuera/SE grad students
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Apr 16 |
Kerry Kemp
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Forest Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy, Baker City, OR |
Restoring social-ecological resilience in fire-prone forest landscapes of the Pacific Northwest |
Phil Higuera, Kim Davis |
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Apr 23 |
Steve Thomas
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Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
Using isotopes to track elemental cycling in stream ecosystems: foundations and frontiers |
Maury Valett/SE graduate students |
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WED Apr 30 4PM ISB 110 |
Jose Hierro
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CONICET and UNLPam, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina |
NOTE: This is a joint Seminar with DBS-OBEE TBA |
Supported by DBS-OBEE |
Society & Conservation Seminar
2020 FCFC SoCon Spring Seminar
Location: FOR 206 | Time: Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic (Tentative) |
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January 14th |
No Public Meeting |
Class overview and orientation |
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January 21st |
Dr. Kyle Bocinsky Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; MT Climate Office |
Climate challenges and opportunities for the alpine ski industry in MT: A preliminary assessment |
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January 28th |
Dr. Sarah Church MSU Dept. of Earth Sciences |
Common ground, common water: Film as a tool for shared understanding of water resource management |
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February 4th |
Dr. Shandin Pete Salish Kootenai College |
Heart of the Monster, Buffalo Trails, and River Crossings: Intersecting ancient Salish hydrological knowledge with modern hydrological tools |
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February 11th |
Three common marketing analyses underutilized by environmental social science |
Three common marketing analyses underutilized by environmental social science |
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February 18th |
Dr. John Chandler UM College of Business |
Conservation opportunities to apply business analytics techniques |
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February 25th |
No Public Meeting |
Grad student professional development |
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March 3rd |
Dr. Jill Belsky Dept. of Society & Conservation |
Powers of inclusion: Challenges for environmental social scientists in Montana and beyond |
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March 10th |
Dr. Kristal Jones JG Research & Evaluations |
Empirical and epistemological challenges of social-environmental research |
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March 17th |
No meeting |
SPRING BREAK |
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March 24th |
Dr. Carina Wyborn Luc Hoffmann Institute |
Biodiversity futures: The pragmatic, political, and philosophical dimensions of transformative ecological change |
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March 31st |
Dr. Lauren Miller Yellowstone National Park |
Social Science in Yellowstone and the National Parks |
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April 7th |
Mr. Monte Mills, Esq. Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic; UM Law |
‘Third Way’: The future of legal protections for sacred sites and indigenous cultures |
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April 14th |
Dr. Leigh Welling National Park Service, Alaska |
Managing Protected Areas under a Changing Climate: Examples from Alaska and the Arctic |
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April 21st |
Dr. Zack Wurtzebach Center for Landscape Conservation |
Policy tools for adaptive decision-making in large landscape conservation |
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April 28th |
Dr. Lance Gunderson Emory University |
TBD |
WBIO Seminar
Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Biology - WILD 594
Location: FOR 206 | Time: Fridays from 1:00 to 2:50
For dates and more information vistit the Wildlife Biology webpage.
Fall FCFC Seminar
This seminar is only offered during the fall semester.
Fall FCFC Seminar 2020
Location: FOR 106 | Time: Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.
These informative talks are free and open to the public.
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Date |
Title |
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September 3, 2019 |
Post-Fire Transport and Persistence of Pyrogenic Carbon by Asmeret Berhe, UC Merced |
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September 10, 2019 |
A Political Ecology of the Biophysical Contradictions of Climate-Smart Agroforestry in Northern Ghana by Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver |
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September 17, 2019 |
Learning More About Informal Leaders in Environmental Governance through Social Network Analysis by Brian Chaffin, FCFC SoCon |
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September 24, 2019 |
Forestry Takes the Fork in the Road. Which Fork Will You Take? by Jerry Franklin, University of Washington |
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October 1, 2019 |
Carbon Cycling in Some Streams by Bob Hall, UM Flathead Lake Biological Station |
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October 8, 2019 |
Saving Forest History: A Unique Organziation and Its Storied Past by Steven Anderson, Forest History Society, Duke University |
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October 15, 2019 |
George Bird Grinnell and the Origins of Progressive Conservation by author John Taliaferro |
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October 22, 2019 |
A Street-View of Earth’s Changing Climate by Solomon Dobrowski, FCFC DFM |
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October 29, 2019 |
Return Migration to Geographically Disadvantaged Rural Communities by Christiane VonReichert, FCFC GEOG |
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November 5, 2019 |
The Geography of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism in Montana by Jeremy Sage, FCFC GEOG/Institute of Tourism and Recreation Research |
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November 12, 2019 |
Adoption of Agricultural Conservation Practices: Can We Move the Needle? by Linda Prokopy, Purdue |
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November 19, 2019 |
Application of Emerging Ideas in Plant Ecology and Evolution to the Selection of Plant Materials for Ecological Restoration by Cara Nelson, FCFC DECS |
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November 26, 2019 |
Thanksgiving Week – No Lecture |
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December 3, 2019 |
Overview of the Fire Fuels and Smoke Science Program at the Missoula Fire Lab by Sara Brown, USFS Fire Lab |
Wilderness Lecture Seminar
Wilderness Lecture Seminar 2020
Location: GBB 123 | Time: Tuesdays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:20 p.m.
Sign up for NRSM 371 Wilderness Issues Lecture Series! The work required for the UG section (NRSM 371, CRN: 30238) includes attendance at all course meetings, 2 page reflection/response paper on 5 of 6 lectures, your choice.
Please note: for the first time there is a graduate seminar associated with these lectures!
NRSM 594 03 River Science and Conservation (1 credit). The workload for G section includes the same as UG section, plus synthesis/integration of assigned readings (1 or 2 per speaker) in the paper.
All talks are open to the public so if you can’t make enough to sign up for the seminar, please stop by to the ones that you find interesting.
For more information, please contact: Joanna Campbell (joanna.campbell@mso.umt.edu) or visit the Wilderness Institute website.
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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3/10 |
Ellen Wohl – Professor, Geosciences, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University |
Messy Rivers are Healthy Rivers: The Role of Spatial Heterogeneity in Sustaining River Ecosystems |
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3/24 |
Les Evarts – Fisheries Program Manager Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes |
Rewilding the Jocko River Watershed |
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3/31 |
Erin Sexton – Senior Scientist, Flathead Lake Biological Station University of Montana |
A Tale of Two Rivers; The Transboundary Flathead and Kootenai Watersheds |
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4/14 |
George Pess – Program Manager of the Watershed Program NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Ecosystem Response to the Removal of the Elwha River Dams |
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4/21 |
Daniel Schindler -Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences University of Washington |
Bristol Bay, Alaska: Where the Worlds Last Great Salmon Fishery is Threatened by Development of Industrial-Scale Mining |
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4/28 |
Ladd Knotek – Fisheries Management Biologist Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks |
Fisheries and Wildlands Management in the Rattlesnake: Balancing Watershed Restoration, Native Trout Recovery, and Wilderness Character |
