Date	Speakers for Fall 2012	Title
Aug 29	Ron Coleman CSUS Biological Sciences	Introduction to Course
Sept 5	Bob Metcalf CSUS Biological Sciences	The Energy Crisis in Africa, with a Solar Alternative
Sept 12	Tim Horner CSUS Geology	If you build it, will they come? Salmon restoration on the American River
Sept 19	Robert Shields Environmental Consultant with Harvey & Associates	A Year in the Field for a Wildlife Biologist
Sept 26	Erika Fritsch UC Davis	Environmental chemical impacts on Ca2+ signalling in fish species
Oct 3 * Journals due for M-Z	Matt McGee UC Davis	Underwater Predators: The Evolution of Suction Feeding in Fishes
Oct 10* Journals due for A-L	Jamie Kneitel	A Drop in the Bucket: Threats to Vernal Pools and Conservation Implications
Oct 17	Students (Sam Borstein, Esther Tracy, Alex Webb)	Undergraduate Research
Oct 24	Ramona Swenson Cardno/Entrix	The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Water, Fish, Floods and Money
Oct 31	Ron Coleman	Fish Parental Care
Nov 7	Gail Patricelli UC Davis	Courtship negotiations in sage-grouse: experiments using a robotic female
Nov 14	Keith Miles USGS	Sea Otters as Indicators of the Condition of the Nearshore Environment
Nov 21	Thanksgiving eve	----- No seminar ------
Nov 28	Lily Douglas Bureau of Land Management	How to Get a Federal Job
Dec 5	Ben Sacks UC Davis	California Foxes

 

Date	Speakers for Fall 2010	Title
Sept 1	Ron Coleman CSUS Biological Sciences	Introduction to Course
Sept 8	Tim Horner CSUS Geology	If you build it, will they come?  Gravel restoration projects on the American River
Sept 15	Bob Metcalf CSUS Biological Sciences	The Energy Crisis in Africa, with a Solar Alternative
Sept 22	Sarah van Ruiten, Tracy Audisio and Angela DePalma CSUS Biological Sciences	Summer Research Experiences
Sept 29	Tom Gohring Sacramento Water Forum	The Sacramento Water Forum
Oct 6	no talk -- Journals due	* Journals due
Oct 13	Rich Bireley CA Dept. Pesticide Regulation	Evaluation of Pesticides for Effects to Nontarget Organisms
Oct 20	Rob Grasso US Fish and Wildlife Service	Tapped out: Preserving Aquatic Biodiversity in Forested Landscapes
Oct 27	Larry Brown USGS	Climate Change and Effects on Fishes in the San Francisco Estuary
Nov 3	G.O. Graening	Use of Stable Isotopes in Speleobiology
Nov 10	Ramona Swenson Cardno ENTRIX	Restoration at the Salton Sea: Opportunities, constraints, and things your professor didn't teach you about working
Nov 17	Robert Shields	A Year of Working in the Field
Nov 24	Thanksgiving eve	----- No seminar ------
Dec 1	Ron Coleman	Parental Investment in Fishes
Dec 8	Geoff Teigen	The Power of Poop

 

Date	Speakers for Fall 2009	Title
Sept 2	Ron Coleman CSUS Biological Sciences	Introduction to Course
Sept 9	Bob Metcalf CSUS Biological Sciences	The Energy Crisis in Africa, with a Solar Alternative
Sept 16	Leah Fisher US Army Corps of Engineers	Clean Water
Sept 23	Michelle Stevens CSUS Environmental Studies	The Tragedy of the Mesopotamian Marshes: a Lack of Water in the Tigris Euphrates Watershed.
Sept 30	Rich Bireley CA Dept. Pesticide Regulation	Evaluation of Pesticides for Effects to Nontarget Organisms
Oct 7	Melanie Loo CSUS Biological Sciences	Darwin, Evolution, and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands
Oct 14	Ron Coleman CSUS Biological Sciences	Earthquakes, fishes and floods: Dynamics of tropical riverine ecosystems
Oct 21	Shannon Datwyler CSUS Biological Sciences	Pollination in the beardtonges
Oct 28	Tim Washburn SAFCA	Flood Risk Management Challenges in the Lower Sacramento Valley
Nov 4	Erika Holland UC Davis	Eco-toxicology
Nov 11	Veterans Day -- University closed
Nov 18	Mark Dendy CSUS/ARC	Seals and salmon in the Delta
Nov 25	Thanksgiving eve	----- No seminar ------
Dec 2	Dan Airola Airola Environmenal Consulting	Sacramento's urban Purple Martins
Dec 9	Stephanie Carlson, UC Berkeley	Central Valley salmon

 

 

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