1/26

Dr. Patricia (Pat) Kennedy, Guest Speaker

"Modeling Montana elk winter habitat as a response to winter weather severity"

Mike Mitchell, Guest Speaker

"Working together on gender equity in Wildlife Biology"

2/2

Colleen Piper, PhD Proposal

"Beavers, Bats, and Bugs: Influence of dynamic water availability on terrestrial systems"

Meeting in FOR 106

2/9

 TWS meeting – No Seminar

TWS meeting – No Seminar

2/16

 Aidan Beers, Guest Speaker

"Montana elk winter habitat as a response to weather severity"

2/23

Milan Vinks, PhD Proposal

"Effects of forest management and wildfire disturbance on grizzly bear space use and movement in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem"

3/1

Kaitlyn Reintsma, Postdoctoral Researcher

"Fine-tuning harvest surveys: a simulation study to improve cost, accuracy, and precision of hunter harvest estimates in Texas"

3/8

 Colton Padilla, Research Update.

Title: Disease, climate, and abundance impacts on bighorn sheep lamb:ewe ratios

3/15

Leah Simantel, MS Proposal

"Wildfire in the Wilderness: Exploring Impacts of Pyrodiversity on Sensitive Aquatic Species"

3/22

Spring Break - no seminar

3/29

Hannah Sipe, Postdoctoral Researcher

"Exploring complexity, uncertainty, and risk in avian reintroduction decisions through structured decision making."

4/5

Amanda Emmel, MS Thesis

"The Hare and The Hawk: Predator, Prey, and Coat Color Mismatch in a Polymorphic Snowshoe Hare Population"

 Matthew Webster, PhD Proposal

"Investigating drivers of aquatic community composition in prairie streams"

4/11

Off-Seminar slot (1PM - FOR 305)
Birch Gano, MS proposal

Assessing potential for competition between feral horses and native ungulates in Alberta’s upper foothills

4/12

Off-Seminar (@10am): Jennifer Wall - PhD Defense

A closer look at Denali's alpine wildlife: Assessing the influences of climate and vegetation changes on species in Alaska.

1pm: Andrei Dinu, MS Proposal

"Assessing the ecological state of a Eurasian lynx source population in the Eastern Romanian Carpathians"

Mary Venegas, MS Proposal

"A smelter’s legacy: drivers and impacts of landscape contaminants in insectivorous songbirds"

4/19

Read Barbee, MS Thesis

"Habitat selection and connectivity of mountain lions (Puma concolor) on the Olympic Peninsula: a multi-method comparison"

Megan Euclide, MS Professional Paper

"Conservation planning: developing a framework for a small Land Trust"

4/22

Off-Seminar slot (8AM - FOR 106)

Kaitlyn Strickfaden, PhD Proposal

"Disease dynamics of a chronically infected bighorn sheep herd"

4/26

Off-seminar (@8AM - FOR 106):
Marco Salvo, MS Proposal

"Using Dedicated Bird Radar to Classify Avian Targets and Identify Meteorological and Temporal Drivers of Bird Risk to Aircraft"

Dr. Francesca Marucco, Guest Speaker

"Wolves in the Alps: challenges and perspectives for the conservation of a transboundary population in the most anthropized mountains of Europe"

 

GSA Elections!

5/3

Ross Hinderer, PhD Defense

"Using Life History Traits to Inform Conservation of Data-Deficient Species"

Molly Mcdevitt, PhD Defense

"Pronghorn Population Dynamics and Habitat Across their Northern Distribution"

5/10

Finals Week - no seminar