Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars - Spring 2022
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Seminars will be held virtually this semester, please see the email announcements for meeting information. Seminars will be recorded and available on this page each week.
10 January
Colin Chapman, Department of Anthropology and Wilson Fellow, George Washington University
Title: “30 years of primate research: What does the future bring?”
17 January
Martin Luther King Day – no seminar
24 January
Brett Scheffers, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
Title: "Using studies across space and time to inform the Ecology of Climate Change"
31 January
Colin Carlson, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University
Title: “Predict and prevent: chasing Disease X in a post-Covid world”
7 February
Twanna Hodge, UF DEI Librarian, George Smathers Libraries
Title: “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Librarian, George Smathers Libraries”
14 February
C. Daniel Cadena, Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Andes
Title: “The Colombia Resurvey Project: Natural history collections and the responses of tropical birds to a century of change in climate, landscape, and culture”
21 February
Zuzana Buřivalová, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin
Title: “Soundscapes can inform us about rainforest conservation status”
28 February
Jedediah Brodie, Division of Biological Sciences and Wildlife Program, University of Montana
Title: “Habitat change, hunting, and their synergies”
7 March
Spring Break – no seminar
14 March
Stephanie Fazekas Salyer, Africa CDC
Title: "Event-based surveillance in Africa: getting ahead of the next pandemic"
21 March
Thomas Smith, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
Title: “Does the matrix matter? Using experimentally manipulated landscapes to isolate the effects of habitat fragmentation and landscape change across scales”
28 March
Lauren Trotta, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
Title: “Community dynamics of the urban pine rockland flora”
4 April
Christian Rivera, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
Title: “Interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing the harvest and trade of wildlife”
11 April
Kimberly Ledger, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
Title: “The role of land use and host exclusion on ticks and tick-borne pathogens in southern Africa”
18 April
MS Symposium