Final Spring Seminar: Tuesday April 29th - Piyumi Obeysekara, Geoscience Graduate Student . 3:30pm Beach Hall 233. Click here for flyer!

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Seminar Schedule for Spring 2008:

  Tuesday April 29, 2008
Piyumi Obeysekara, Geoscience Grad
"Integrating Fluvial Geomorphology and Stream Ecology: Processes Shaping the Distribution of Freshwater Mussels in Connecticut"
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

Past seminars for this semester:

Tuesday February 5 , 2008
Dr. Robert Naiman, University of Washington
“Rainforests and Savannas: Understanding Ecological Processes in Riverine Floodplains”
3:30pm BPB 131

Tuesday February 19, 2008
Dr. Daniel Civco, UConn NRME
“Object-oriented Classification and Mapping of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using in situ Radiometry and Multi-seasonal, High Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Data”
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

Tuesday February 26, 2008
Dr. Tim Byrne, UConn Geosciences
"Looking for Earthquakes with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program"
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

  Tuesday March 4, 2008
Dr. Dana Royer, Wesleyan University
“The Potential of Using the Sizes and Shapes of Fossil Leaves to Quantify Paleoclimate and Paleoecology”
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

Tuesday March 25, 2008
Dr. Heidi Dierssen, UConn Marine Sciences
"Unraveling the Mysterious Bahamian Sediment Whitings"
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

Tuesday April 1, 2008
Dr. Peter Schultz, Brown University
"Chicken Little or Armegeddon: Past and Future Cosmic Threats"
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

Tuesday April 8, 2008
Dr. Elisabeth Almgren, Harvard Forestry
"The Biocultural Heritage of Traditional Farming Landscapes – Examples from Sweden and Massachusetts"
3:30pm Beach Hall 233

Tuesday April 15, 2008
Dr. Penny Vlahos, UConn Marine Sciences
"From Urn to Earth: Global Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants"
3:30pm Beach Hall 233