Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars - Spring 2024

Seminar Leads:  Katie Sieving chucao@ufl.edu, Ethan White ethanwhite@ufl.edu, Lameace Hussein  lhussain1@ufl.edu    

Room 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall & Zoom

WEC events – speakers/events handled by Sieving and White (via email).

Seminars begin at 3:30 PM

NRDI events - speakers/events handled by Hussein (via email & Instagram and Twitter)

Seminars begin at 4 PM

Faculty Lab events – speaker schedules will be handled by the faculty member listed, use the contact email provided for info and speaker schedule.

To schedule an open date: Contact seminar leads

Jan 8^th             

open

Jan 22^nd          

(NRDI) Dr. Hollis-Ann Stewart (DVM) 
"Becoming a Wildlife Vet"
Seminar will be at 4pm
Seminar Recording

Jan 29^th          

(NRDI) Dr. Christine Wilkinson, University of California, Berkeley 
"Carnivore Ecology"
Seminar will be at 4pm

Feb 5^th            

(NRDI) Dr. Sinlan Poo, Arkansas State University
"Women in Herpetology"
Seminar will be at 4pm

Feb 12^th                 

(Austin Lab) Dr. John Hargrove, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Eagle Fish Genetics Lab
"Management and conservation of salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest: a molecular perspective"
Seminar will be at 3:30 pm – contact austinj@ufl.edu for speaker scheduling.
Seminar Recording

Feb 19^th         

(WEC) Robinson Botero-Arias, WEC PhD Candidate
“The Revival of the Black Caiman: The Role of Protected Areas in the Recovery and Conservation of an Endangered Species”
Seminar Recording

Feb 26^th         

(WEC) Diego Santiago-Alarcon, University of South Florida
“Parasite ecology across environmental gradients”

Mar 4^th          

(WEC) Danny Karp, University of California Davis
“Harmonizing biodiversity conservation with food production across working landscapes”
Seminar Recording

Mar 11^th    

Spring Break, No Seminar

Mar 18th

Open

Mar 25^th                

Open

April 1^st         

(WEC) Keenan Adams, US Forest Service, Puerto Rico
“The Connection between Community-based Economic Development and the North American Wildlife Conservation Model”
Seminar Recording

April 8^th         

(WEC) Elina Garrison, Becky Peters, FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
"Whitetail Tales: A Journey Into Deer Research and Management in Florida"
Seminar Recording

April 15^th       

Open

April 22^nd      

(WEC) MS Symposium
Seminar Recording

WEC Seminar Archive