Dr. Erin Bertrand Assistant Professor Dept. of Biology and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Proteomics Dalhousie University Marine phytoplankton are responsible for roughly half of global net primary production, support marine food webs and play critical roles in the global carbon cycle. Phytoplankton often require exogenous sources of specific organic and organometallic micronutrients for growth; […]
Ph.D. Defense Lu Wang School of Forest Resources Advanced Structures and Composites Center Host: Dr. Douglas Gardner, Advisory Committee Chair.
Dr. Alexandre Ponomarenko Harvard University Dr. Alexandre Ponomarenko is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a physicist fascinated by plants and how they achieve the movement of large amounts of sap in the xylem. In particular, Dr. Ponomarenko is interested in how this mechanism fails […]
Dr. Chris Sutherland UMass Amherst, Department of Environmental Conservation
Dr. Chris Sutherland UMass Amherst- Department of Env. Conservation
The School of Earth and Climate Sciences presents Dr. Joellen Russell University of Arizona Floats deployed by oceanographers are giving us all ringside seats to the epic battle between the wind and the deep ocean around Antarctica which will determine the rate of atmospheric warming over the next century. The poleward-shift and intensification of the […]
Dr. Kevin Geyer University of New Hampshire Dr. Geyer is a microbial ecologist interested in processes that govern community structure along biogeochemical gradients. He has worked extensively in both temperate forest ecosystems and polar deserts in Antarctica. His talk will focus on his research on community assemblages in polar desert soils. If you have any […]
The Barbara Wheatland Seminar Series presents Cynthia Loftin | Unit Leader and Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology | USGS Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit & Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology | University of Maine The Barbara Wheatland Seminar Series seeks to recruit prominent speakers on advanced, cutting edge research and applications […]
School of Biology and Ecology Fall Seminar Series Presents: Dr. Matthew Johnson Plumas National Forest, US Forest Service Dr. Johnson will discuss his experiences applying spatial and movement ecology to conservation and ecosystem management. He will also discuss what it's like to conduct research to inform natural resource management, both from the perspectives of someone […]
Dr. Matthew Kauffman University of Wyoming - Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit Leader
Pauline L. Kamath, PhD Assistant Professor of Animal Health School of Food and Agriculture University of Maine