Seminars
Systems Ecology Seminar
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
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 |
Dr. Nadia White Environmental and Natural Resource Journalism Program |
The news media and climate change: Why earnest efforts to alert, inform, and rouse the public to action were so slow to gain traction |
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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
WBIO Seminar
Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Biology - WILD 594
Location: FOR 106 | Time: Fridays from 1:00 to 2:50
For dates and more information vistit the Wildlife Biology webpage.
Fall FCFC Seminar
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 |
