Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars - Spring 2019
All Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars are held Mondays at 3:30PM, in 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall. Cookies and coffee are always served.
7 January
No Seminar, class meeting
14 January
Dr. Ken Meyer, Executive Director, Avian Research and Conservation Institute
"Remote tracking and the conservation ecology of imperiled birds"
Website: http://arcinst.org/arci-staff-and-colleagues-2
Seminar Recording
21 January
Holiday No Seminar
28 January
Dr. Matt Betts, Professor of Landscape Ecology, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University
"How and why should we conserve forest biodiversity?"
Website: http://www.fsl.orst.edu/flel/
Seminar Recording
4 Febuary
Dr. Betsie Rothermel, Associate Research Biologist, Archbold Biological Station
"Demographic and behavioral responses of Gopher Tortoises to altered disturbance regimes in southern Florida"
Website: http://www.archbold-station.org/html/aboutus/staffpages/brothermel/brothermel.html
Seminar Recording
11 Febuary
Dr. Rob "Oz" Ossiboff, Clinical Assistant Professor, UF College of Veterinary Medicine
"Advancing herpetofaunal disease characterization and diagnosis"
Website: https://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/about-the-college/faculty-directory/robert-ossiboff/
Seminar Recording
18 Febuary
Dr. Liz Braun, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
"Fire, farming and the swamp: Bat conservation in a changing world"
Seminar Recording
25 Febuary
Silvio Marchini, University of São Paulo, Brazil
"People and wildlife: Planning for coexistence in a human-dominated world"
Website: https://www.esalqlemac.com/post-doctoral-research
4 March
Holiday Spring Break, No Seminar
11 March
Cassia Santos Camillo, WEC PhD Candidate
"Reproductive Ecology of Six-tubercled Amazon river turtle, Podocnemis sextuberculata, in Central Amazon, Brazil"
Seminar Recording
18 March
Dr. Rindy Anderson, Assistant Professor,Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
"A tale of two sparrows: song, reliability, and the evolution of animal communication systems"
Website: http://rindy1.wixsite.com/rindyandersonlab
Seminar Recording
25 March
Mauro Galetti, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Defaunation in the Anthropocene"
Website: https://www.maurogaletti.com/
Site for publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8zr5fEMAAAAJ&hl=en
Seminar Recording
1 April
No seminar this week.
8 April
Rashidah H. Farid, WEC PhD Candidate
"A Prairie Dog Tale: Population Ecology of Gunnison's Prairie Dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)"
Seminar Recording
15 April
Jason Byrd, Associate Director of the Maples Center for Forensic Science, UF
"CSI: Animals. The Forensic Science and Medicine of animal cruelty and wildlife crime"
22 April
WEC MS Students
MS Symposium
Seminar Recording