Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars - Fall 2024
Seminar Leads: Christina Romagosa and Mike Moulton
Room 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall & Zoom at 3:30 pm
Aug 26th
Class Orientation
Sep 2nd
Holiday ** No Seminar **
Sep 9th
Glaucia Del-Rio, Assistant Curator of Ornithology, Florida Museum of Natural History
https://www.gdel-rio.com/
"Insights into the speciation process from the most non-model organism ever"
Seminar Recording
Sep 16th
TBA
Sep 23rd
TBA
Sep 30th
Jonathan Nations, Assistant Curator of Mammalogy, Florida Museum of Natural History
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-faculty-highlight-jonathan-nations-curator-of-mammals/
"Quantifying complex, multivariate ecologies (and other calming pursuits in mammalogy)"
Seminar Recording
Oct 7th
Coleman Sheehy, Collection Manager, Herpetology, Florida Museum of Natural History
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Coleman-Sheehy-Iii
"Aquatic caecilians (Gymnophiona, Typhlonectidae, Typhlonectes natans) in Florida, with notes on their relative abundance, distribution, and natural history."
Seminar Recording
Oct 14th
Bob McCleery and Vanessa Hull, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF
"International Research Experiences for Students (IRES): from China to Africa and Beyond"
Seminar Recording
Oct 21st
Carla Dove, Program Manager, Feather Identification Lab, Smithsonian Institution
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/carla-dove
"Snakes and Planes: Feather Identification at the National Museum of Natural History"
Seminar Recording
Oct 28th
Chris Gulick, PhD candidate, WEC
PhD Exit seminar
"Unraveling white ibis (Eudocimus albus) movements: insights into dispersal, networks, and survival in the southeastern U.S.”
Seminar Recording
Nov 4th
Andrew Kramer, Assistant Professor, USF - Dept of Integrative Biology
https://kramera3.github.io/
“Using models to explore multiscale processes in disease ecology”
Seminar Recording
Nov 11th
Holiday ** No Seminar **
Nov 18th
WEC MS Students
Masters Symposium
Kyra English - "Florida Panther diet shifts linked to Burmese python-induced changes in mammal communities" - Dr. Jim Austin
Alex Furst - "Incorporating population estimates into the active management of Argentine black and white tegu in Charlotte County, FL, USA" - Dr. Hance Ellington
Deanna Riente - "Pathogen Prevalence and Behavior of Gopher Tortoises in the Red Hills" - Dr. Marcus Lashley
Seminar Recording
Nov 19th
Ke Zhang, PhD candidate, WEC
** Special Seminar - 2pm **
WEC Exit Seminar
Nov 25th
Holiday ** No Seminar **
Dec 2nd
Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Co-Director, Center for Avian Population Studies, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/staff/viviana-ruiz-gutierrez/
WGSA invited speaker
"Science to action through partnerships: Using eBird data to inform conservation, management, and restoration"
Seminar Recording
WEC Seminar Archive