The Applied Ecology Seminar Series has lined up a full schedule for the 2012 fall semester.
The seminar season opened with talks from Casey Schoenebeck and John Carter in August and continues through the first week of December. Schoenebeck, a University of Nebraska-Kearney biology professor, opened the series Aug. 24 with his lecture, “Sex-Specific Activity in Fish.” Carter, a historian with the Nebraska State Historical Society, delivered his lecture, “A Brief History of the Introduction of Cattle to the Great Plains,” on Friday, Aug. 31.
The series closes on Dec. 7 with Mary Brown’s seminar, “Nebraska’s Interior Least Terns and Piping Plovers in the Great Plains and Beyond.”
All seminars are open to the public, and most will be held on Fridays in room 163 of Hardin Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus at 3 p.m. The Oct. 5 seminar is co-sponsored by the Geography Department, and begins at 2 p.m. in room 901.
A complete list of the Applied Ecology seminars is listed below, or can be found at: http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15
August 24
Sex-Specific Activity in Fish
Casey Schoenebeck, Professor, Biology, University of Nebraska-Kearney
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15
August 31
A Brief History of the Introduction of Cattle to the Great Plains
John Carter, Senior Research Historian, Nebraska State Historical Society
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar2
September 7
Improving Telemetry Technology for Wildlife Studies
Mehmet Can Vuran, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar3
September 14
Sound and Tiger Conservation
Edward Walsh, Director, Developmental Auditory Physiology Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar4
September 21
The Impacts of Guppy Introduction and Resource Manipulation on Invertebrates in Trinidadian Streams
Tom Heatherly, Ph.D. Student, School of Natural Resources, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar5
September 28
Dynamic Changes in the State of Nebraska's Forest Resources
Scott Josiah, Nebraska State Forester, Nebraska Forest Service
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar6
October 5
Rules of Engagement: the Spatiality of Judicial Review
Melinda Benson, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of New Mexico
(Note: Seminar will be held in HarH 901.)
http://snr.unl.edu/geographygis/students/seminars.asp
October 12
TBA
Wyatt Hoback, Professor, Biology, University of Nebraska-Kearney
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar7
October 19
Expansion of Tick Distribution in North America, With Particular Reference to Lone Star Ticks in Nebraska
Roberto Cortinas
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar8
October 26
Whole lake research in Ohio
Amy Burgin, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar9
November 2
Is there an "Ecological" Economics? Toward a Metaeconomics Approach
Gary Lynne, Professor, Agricultural Economics, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar10
November 9
Accounting for Parametric Uncertainty in Markov Decision Processes
Adam Schapaugh, Ph.D. Student, School of Natural Resources, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar11
November 16
Long-Term Grassland Plot Research: Results and Potential
Tom Bragg, Professor, Biology, UNO
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar12
November 30
The Nebraska Creel Survey: Why We Stay Up All Night
Christopher Chizinski, Post Doctorate, School of Natural Resources, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar13
December 7
Nebraska's Interior Least Terns and Piping Plovers in the Great Plains and Beyond
Mary Bomberger Brown, Research Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership, SNR, UNL
http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/when/seminarseries.asp?seminarseriesid=15#seminar14