Seminar Schedule

Spring 2023

Date/Time Location Presenter Topic
Thursday, 1/12 @ 4:30pm NR 105 Derrik Tollefson
Professor, USU Department of Social Work
Director, I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies
Mind-Body Bridging for Self-Care
Thursday, 1/19 @ 4:30pm ENGR 108 Robert Boes
Director, Hydraulics, Hydrology, and Glaciology Lab at ETH Zurich
Hydraulic infrastructure for a better world
Wednesday, 1/25 @ 4pm LSB 133 Katharine Jacobs
Professor, Environmental Science,
Director, AIRES Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions,
University of Arizona
Accelerating Climate Solutions at the National Level
Thursday, 1/26 @ 4pm LSB 133 Katharine Jacobs
Professor, Environmental Science,
Director, AIRES Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions,
University of Arizona
Moving Beyond Climate Adaptation vs. Mitigation
Thursday, 2/2 @ 4:30pm NR 105 Marc Mayes
Adjunct Professor, USU Department of Watershed Sciences
Ecosystems and Remote Sensing Scientist, SIG-NAL
Research Associate, Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara
High-resolution remote sensing catalyzes landscape awareness to address forest health and wildfire challenges for watershed conservation
Thursday, 2/9 @ 4:30pm NR 105 Sarah Yarnell
Associate Professional Researcher, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Supporting Climate Resiliency in California's Headwaters and Stream Ecosystems
Wednesday, 2/15 @ 4pm LSB 133 Gillian Bowser
Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Pollinators and citizen science: broadening perspectives and participation in the applied sciences
Wednesday, 2/16 @ 4pm LSB 133 Gillian Bowser
Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Management actions and participant-based datasets: using citizen science to address pollinator decline
Monday, 3/13 @ 3pm ENGR 104 Assistant Professor of Fish Biology Candidate Two perspectives on Rainbow Trout management
Wednesday, 3/15 @ 4pm LSB 133 Malin Pinsky
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources,
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Affiliate,
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Unifying climate change biology across realms and biological scales
Thursday, 3/16 @ 9:30am NR 217 Assistant Professor of Fish Biology Candidate Unveiling ecological mechanisms to inform conservation of freshwater biodiversity
Thursday, 3/16 @ 4pm LSB 133 Malin Pinsky
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources,
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Affiliate,
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Can evolution save species from global change?
Friday, 3/17 @ 10:30am HH 326 Assistant Professor of Fish Biology Candidate Fisheries Management and Conservation Through Novel Applications of Aquaculture and Genetics
Thursday, 3/23 @ 4:30pm NR 105 Daniel Nelson
Research Taxonomist,
USU Department of Watershed Sciences
Effects of climate change on freshwater ecosystems: Evidence from multiple experimental scales
Thursday, 4/6 @ 4:30pm NR 105 Sara Yeo
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Utah
The Science of Science Communication
Wednesday, 4/12 @ 4pm LSB 133 Samuel Temidayo Osinubi
Postdoctoral Researcher, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Getting From Here to There and Back: an overview of the study of avian migration patterns and strategies
Wednesday, 4/13 @ 4pm LSB 133 Samuel Temidayo Osinubi
Postdoctoral Researcher, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
A Tale of Three Kings: studying the intra-African migration of the Woodland Kingfisher
Thursday, 4/20 @ 4:30pm Zoom Traci Brynne Voyles
Professor and Chair, Women's and Gender Studies,
University of Oklahoma
Water, Power, People, and the West: Perspectives from the Humanities (presenting remotely via Zoom; Zoom broadcast available in NR 105)
Friday, 4/21 @ 1:30pm LIB 154 Tanya Petach
Climate Science Fellow,
Aspen Global Change Institute
The Colorado River: Research in a watershed context