Calendar of Campus Events
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November 2009
Influences of the Microbiome on Pathogen Transmission: Lessons learned from tsetse flies
Date: Monday, November 9, 4 p.m.
Location: 1425 Biomedical and Physical Sciences
Speaker: Serap Aksoy, Yale University
Series: Fall 2009 Entomology Seminar
Measuring the effects of wildlife management policies on household welfare in Zambia
Date: Tuesday, November 10, Noon - 1 p.m.
Location: 75 Agriculture Hall
Speaker: David Tschirley (AFRE) and Robert Richardson (CARRS), Michigan State University
Series: AFRE Brown Bag
Below-ground responses to climate
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 4:10 p.m.
Location: Room 225 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Andrew Burton, Michigan Tech
Host: Department of Forestry
Series: Hanover Forest Science Seminar
Development, Democracy and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 3 p.m.
Location: 201 International Center
Speaker: Paulette Stenzel, International Business Law; Ed Murphy, History; and Lindon Robison,
Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Host: Department of Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Series: LACS Seminar Series
Predicting Diversity in Animal Communication: Insights from Mechanistic Studies in Frogs and Fishes
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 3:30 p.m.
Location: 247 Plant Biology Building
Speaker: Molly Cummings, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin
Host: Department of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior and Kellogg Biological Station
Contact: J.P. Lawrence (lawre161@msu.edu)
Series: EEBB Fall Seminar
Paradise in Peril: Exploring Madagascar's Biodiversity Crisis (Study Abroad Informational Meeting)
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Room 338 Natural Resources Building
Contact: Meredith Gore (gorem@msu.edu)
Author Nick Jans on Alaskan wildlife and landscape
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: Room 158 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Nick Jans, Author and Photographer
Host: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Series: FW GSO Series
Note: One of Alaska’s most prolific and well-known writers, Jans has published nine books and hundreds of magazine articles. He is a contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and a member of USA Today’s board of editorial contributors.
Climate change policies and technological innovation
Date: Thursday, November 12, 1 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Reception follows.
Location: MSU Union, Parlor C
Speaker: Dr. Edward Parson, University of Michigan
Host: Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and Environmental Science and Policy Program
Contact: Please RSVP here.
Also, there will be time on Thursday to meet with Dr. Parson, for students from 10:15 to 11:00 and for faculty from 11:00 to 11:45, both in 274 Giltner. For more information, contact mayaef@msu.edu.
Series: Bioeconomy and Global Climate Change Distinguished Lecture
Role of Independent Third Party Testing Organizations in Application of Water Treatment Technologies in Society
Date: Thursday, November 12, 4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: 3400 Engineering Building
Speaker: C. Bruce Bartley, NSF Manager, ETV Drinking Water, NSF International
Host: MSU Civil and Environmental Engineering
Series: Fall 2009 ENE Seminar
Sensory Ecology of Poison Frogs and Kelp Forest Fishes
Date: Friday, November 13, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Location: Stack 237, Kellogg Biological Station on Gull Lake
Speaker: Molly Cummings, University of Texas-Austin
Host: W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Contact: Getty Lab
Series: KBS Fall Seminar
Informal discussion of the recent reports on climate change from the American Sociological Association/NSF and the American Psychological Association
Date: Friday, November 13, Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: 6H Berkey Hall
Speaker: Reports are available here and here.
Series: Environmental Sociology Brown Bag
Note: All are welcome.
Bugs and Bodies: The role of invertebrates in crime scene investigations
Date: Friday, November 13, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Room 1 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Rich Merritt, MSU Dept. of Entomology
Host: Fisheries and Wildlife
Series: Fall 2009 GSO Seminar
Winter Moth Invasion of the Northeast United States
Date: Monday, November 16, 4 p.m.
Location: Room 244 Natural Science Building
Speaker: Joe Elkinton, University of Massachusetts
Series: Fall 2009 Entomology Seminar
The Ecology of Infectious Diseases: A case study of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis
Date: Monday, November 16, 4:10 p.m.
Location: 101 Biochemistry Building
Speaker: Dr. Felicia Kessing
Host: Department of Plant Biology
Series: 2009 Monday Seminar Series
ESPP Third Tuesday: The Role of Bacteria in Soil Carbon Cycling
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Location: 273 Giltner
Speaker: Zarraz Lee, doctoral student in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and ESPP
Contact: Maya Fischhoff- mayaef@msu.edu
Note: Third Tuesdays are informal interdisciplinary breakfast presentations by ESPP students. All are welcome.
The Ethics of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 10 a.m.
Location: 1310 Anthony Hall
Speaker: Paul Thompson, Professor and W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agriculture, Food and Community Ethics, MSU
Host: Department of Animal Science
Climatic sensitivity in closed-canopy and open-canopy forests
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 4:10 p.m.
Location: Room 225 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Sophan Chhin, MSU
Host: Department of Forestry
Series: Hanover Forest Science Seminar
Fair-traded, Organic-certi ed Beans Produced by Smallholders in Honduras
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 3 p.m.
Location: 201 International Center
Speaker: Rick Bernsten, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Host: Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Series: LACS Seminar Series
Genetics of Adaptation and Speciation in an RNA Virus
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 3:30 p.m.
Location: 247 Plant Biology Building
Speaker: Christina L. Burch, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina
Host: Department of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior
Contact: Barry Williams (barryw@msu.edu)
Series: EEBB Fall Seminar
Policy Ecology - An Interdisciplinary Frontier
Date: Friday, November 20, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Manly Miles Building
Speaker: Jack Liu, MSU Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife
Host: Fisheries and Wildlife
Series: Fall 2009 GSO Seminar
Beetles Gone Wild: The secret sex lives of Japanese beetles
Date: Monday, November 23, 4 p.m.
Location: Room 244 Natural Science Building
Speaker: Paul Switzer, E. Illinois University
Series: Fall 2009 Entomology Seminar
Environmental Policy Meet and Greet: Chris Wood
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Location: 273 Giltner Hall
Speaker: Chris Wood, Chief Operating Officer, Trout Unlimited
Host: Fisheries and Wildlife, ESPP, CARRS
Note: Please RSVP here
New Molecular Insights into Termite Caste Differentiation and Lignocellulose Digestion
Date: Monday, November 30, 4 p.m.
Location: Room 244 Natural Science Building
Speaker: Michael Scharf, University of Florida
Series: Fall 2009 Entomology Seminar
December 2009
Dark Earths and their Implications for Development in the Amazon
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 3 p.m.
Location: Room 201 International Center
Speaker: Antoinette WinklerPrins, Geography, MSU
Host: Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Series: LACS Fall 2009 Seminar Series
Animal Ecology and Behavior in Human-Altered African Ecosystems
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 3:30 p.m.
Location: 247 Plant Biology Building
Speaker: Justin Brashares, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Department of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior
Contact: Kay Holekamp (holekamp@msu.edu)
Series: EEBB Fall Seminar
An Evening with Ken Burns
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 8 p.m.
Location: Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center
Speaker: Ken Burns, filmmaker
Series: College of Arts and Letters Signature Lecture Series
Quantifying relationships between erosion, uplift and climate: Cosmogenic nuclide examples from the Apennines, Italy, and the Mojave Desert, California
Date: Thursday, December 3, 4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: 204 Natural Science Building
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Cyr, USGS
Host: Department of Geological Sciences
Series: Alumni/Shell Oil Company Distinguished Lecture Series
Title TBA
Date: Friday, December 4, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Location: Stack 237, Kellogg Biological Station on Gull Lake
Speaker: Stephanie Hampton, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Contact: Litchman Lab
Series: KBS Fall Seminar
Propagating Thresholds and Tradeoffs as Determinants of Water Policy
Date: Friday, December 4, Noon - 1 p.m.
Location: Room 201 International Center
Speaker: R. Jan Stevenson, Center for Water Sciences, MSU
Host: Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Women and International Development Program
Series: CASID/WID Fall Friday Forum
Discussion of Detroit Zoo's Center for Zoo Animal Welfare
Date: Friday, December 4, Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 6H Berkey Hall
Speaker: [Led by]Scott Carter, Director of Conservation and Animal Welfare at the Detroit Zoo and Ron Kagan, Executive Director of the Detroit Zoological Society
Host: Department of Animal Studies
Series: First Friday Animal Studies Brown Bag Seminar
Aquaculture: An Opportunity Unrealized
Date: Friday, December 4, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Room 1 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Ted Batterson , MSU Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife
Host: Fisheries and Wildlife
Series: Fall 2009 GSO Seminar
The Age of Epigenetics
Date: Monday, December 7, 4:10 p.m.
Location: 101 Biochemistry Building
Speaker: Dr. Leron Katsir
Host: Department of Plant Biology
Series: 2009 Monday Seminar Series - Hans Kende Memorial Lecture
Nutrient Co-Limitation in Hardwood Forests
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 3:30 p.m.
Location: 247 Plant Biology Building
Speaker: Melany Fisk, Department of Zoology, Miami University of Ohio
Host: Department of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior and Department of Forestry
Contact: Richard Kobe (kobe@msu.edu)
Series: EEBB Fall Seminar
Describing and modeling landforms and geomorphic processes: When does grid cell size really matter?
Date: Thursday, December 10, 4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: 204 Natural Science Building
Speaker: Dr. Jacob Napieralski, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Host: Department of Geological Sciences
Series: Alumni/Shell Oil Company Distinguished Lecture Series
Title TBA
Date: Friday, December 11, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Location: Stack 237, Kellogg Biological Station on Gull Lake
Speaker: Melany Fisk, Miami University
Host: W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Contact: Lennon Lab
Series: KBS Fall Seminar
Predicting and Mapping the Distribution of Riverine Biota: Approaches, Obstacles, and Relevance to Conservation
Date: Friday, December 11, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Room 1 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Scott Sowa, The Nature Conservancy
Host: Fisheries and Wildlife
Series: Fall 2009 GSO Seminar
Emergence and spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Date: Friday, December 18, Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 101 at the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health
Speaker: Elena Millard, DVM, PDI Graduate Student
Host: Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation
Series: PDI Fall 2009 Seminar Series
January 2010
Book Discussion: "The End of Food"
Date: Thursday, January 14, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Location: Room 338 Natural Resources Building
Speaker: Discussion of Paul Roberts' "The End of Food"
Host: C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems
Note: Please read the text before the event.
February 2010
The Welfare of Working Equids in Brazil and Mali
Date: Friday, February 5, Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 6H Berkey Hall
Speaker: Camie Heleski, Coordinator of the Horse Mangement Program in the Department of Animal Science
Host: Department of Animal Studies
Series: First Friday Animal Studies Brown Bag Seminar
March 2010
The Social Problem of Dogfighting
Date: Friday, March 5, Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 6H Berkey Hall
Speaker: Carl Taylor, professor and outreach specialist in the understanding of gangs, youth culture and violence
Host: Department of Animal Studies
Series: First Friday Animal Studies Brown Bag Seminar
April 2010
Spring Climate Change Symposium
Date: Monday, April 26, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Kellogg Center
Host: Environmental Science and Policy Program
Contact: Maya Fischhoff - mayaef@msu.edu
Spring Climate Change Symposium
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 9:00 a.m- 3:00 p.m.
Location: Kellogg Center
Host: Environmental Science and Policy Program
Contact: Maya Fischhoff - mayaef@msu.edu
