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Bio 186B/Envs 186B: Ecological and Environmental Issues Seminar
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Updated: November 19, 2009

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.

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Date Speaker 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 Scott Crosbie UC Davis Impact of West Nile Virus on California Corvids
Dec 9 Stephanie Carlson, UC Berkeley Central Valley salmon

 

 

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