LRES Seminar Series
Fall 2017 Schedule
1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
346 Leon Johnson Hall (Annex)
available in the LRES Archives
September 11th
Tony Hartshorn, MSU LRES
"Why the Soil Carbon Emperor is not wearing any clothes."
Watch the Seminar ... Presentation starts at 5:55
September 18th
Tom DeLuca, UM- Forestry
"Boreal Nitrogen Cycle: A Perspective of Scales"
September 25th
Byron Amerson, MSU LRES
"Large Scale Channel Restoration and its Effect on Stream Temperature"
Watch the Seminar ... coming soon
October 2nd
David Quammen
"Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and National Geographic"
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October 9th
Emma Bode, M.S. Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Advisor: Rick Lawrence
"Spatiotemporal Patterns of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in Colorado and Montana"
Florence Miller, M.S. Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, student
Advisor: Stephanie Ewing
"Strontium and uranium isotopes suggest changing water storage and groundwater exchange along a mountain stream (Hyalite Canyon, MT)"
October 16th
Justine Karst, University of Alberta
"A Macrocosm Experiment in the Boreal Forest: Restoration of Mycorrhizal Communities Following Oil Sands Mining"
October 23rd
Madelyne Willis, Ph.D Ecology & Environmental Sciences, student
Advisor: John Priscu
"Characterization of organics in ices from Greenland and Antarctica"
October 30th
Russell K. Monson, University of Arizona
"Reading Forest-Climate Interactions Through the Isotopes of Tree Rings"
November 6th
Gabriel Bromley, Ph.D Ecology & Environmental Sciences, student
Advisor: Paul Stoy
"Investigating Recent Climate Trends in the Northern North American Great Plains"
November 13th
Bryce Currey, Ph.D Ecology & Environmental Sciences, student
Advisor: Jack Brookshire
"Understanding Effects of External Forcing and Internal Feedbacks on Individual Tree Dynamics and the Implications for the Forest Carbon Sink"
November 20th
Mallory Morgan, Ph.D Ecology & Environmental Sciences, student
Advisor: Paul Stoy
"Mechanisms for Terpenogenesis in Drought-Stressed Piñon Pine"
November 27th
William Kleindl, MSU LRES
"Integration of Ecological & Economic Principles"
December 4th
Guta Abeshu, Ph.D Ecology & Environmental Sciences, student
Advisor: HongYi Li
"Drought Propagation through Coupled Water-Human System: A Darwinian Perspective"