Fall Semester 2024
Thursdays 3:30-4:30

Live talks will be held in 346 Leon Johnson Hall unless otherwise noted.  Please check the individual seminars below for information on which seminars will be live and/or virtual. In-person seminars will not be offered virtually, and are not recorded.

Undergraduate students may get credit for attending/viewing seminars and writing critiques in course BIOE 494, a 1-credit, fall-only course. Please see your advisor if interested.  

Date Seminar Details More Info

August 29

Department Introductions
Faculty and lab group introductions

Graduate students describe their current research

 

346 Leon Johnson Hall

 

September 5

 

 
September 12

Erim Gomez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology,  University of Montana

"Parallels Between the Importance of Charismatic Minifauna Research and Increasing Human Diversity in the US Conservation Field"

346 Leon Johnson Hall

September 19

Nancy Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester

"The complex consequences of dispersal in a fragmented landscape"

346 Leon Johnson Hall
September  26  

 

October 3

David Christianson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Ecosystem Science and Management at the University of Wyoming

"Animal Distributions:  Social and Spatial"

 
October 10    
October 17

Michael Quist, Ph.D.

Professor of Fisheries Management and Assistant Unit Leader, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Idaho

"Beyond Wilford Brimley:  Using Science to Guide Population-Level Management"

346 Leon Johnson Hall
October 24

No Seminar

 

October 31

Cecily Costello, Ph.D.

Biologist with Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, & Parks

"Studies on Grizzly Bear Strategies for Obtaining and Allocating Food Energy"

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November 7

Susan Adams, Ph.D.

Fisheries Research Scientist, U.S.F.S.

"A plague of invaders or native delights?  Montana crayfish conundrums"

346 Leon Johnson Hall

November 14

Stella Capoccia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Montana Technical University

"Progressive Ecological Management of a Superfund Site:  Biodiversity of the Berkeley Pit"

346 Leon Johnson Hall
November 21

Gabriella Pardee, Ph.D.

Research Director, The Wild Basin Creative Research Center

"Examining Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Plant Reproduction in a Changing World"

346 Leon Johnson Hall
November 28

Thanksgiving Break

 
December 5