CSUS: Biological Sciences: Bio 186B/Envs 186B

Updated: December 1, 2010

Instructor: Dr. Ron Coleman

Seminar: Wednesday from 5:30pm to 6:20pm.

A series of at least 14 seminars in ecological and environmental issues. Topics within each seminar will vary each semester. May be repeated for credit. No more than one unit of BIO 186 may be counted toward the upper division major requirement.

Field trips. None
Prerequisite: BIO 1,2; Cross-listed as ENVS 186B; only one may be counted for credit
Graded: Credit/No credit
Scheduling: Every fall
Units: 1
Text: No text.

Syllabus: WordPerfect, Word, HTML, PDF

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

CSUS BIO SCI

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