Current Seminars
DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY SEMIAR SERIES
Spring 2008
May 1, 2008 (Compton 226 5:00 pm)
"The Tangled Web: Designing Test Questions to
Find Out What Students Really 'Know' about The Interdependence of Lifet"
by Kristen A. Lennon, Ph.D., Research Associate, Project 2061,
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
April 24, 2008 (Compton 327, 6:30 pm)
"Regional Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut"
by Robert Strasser, Restoration Biologist with the American Chestnut
Foundation in Maryland and Northwestern Virginia, Professor at Hood
College in Frederick, MD.
April 17, 2008 (Compton 327, 6:30 pm)
"Exotic Pest Problems in North American Landscapes:
Looking Beyond the Bugs and the Slimes and the Vines" by
Dr. Scott E. Schlarbaum, Science Advisor National Park Service James
R. Cox. Professor of Forest Genetics Department of Forestry, Director
of Tree Improvement Program, Wildlife & Fisheries Institute of Agriculture,
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
http://fwf.ag.utk.edu/personnel/schlarbaum.htm
March 27, 2008 (Compton 327, 6:30 pm)
"Tomato-whitefly interactions: how offspring can
change your life plan" by Dr. David Puthoff, Department
of Biology, Frostburg State University.
Seminars in Fall 2007
DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY SEMIAR SERIES
(Compton 226, 6:00 pm)
November 15, 2007
"Cerulean Warblers: habitat management and conservation
for a declining species" by Petra Bohall Wood, Ph.D., U.S.
Geological Survey, West Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Unit, Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, West Virginia University.
November 1, 2007
"Black Bear Life History in Western Massachusetts:
Are Bears Capital or Income Breeders?" by John McDonald,
Ph.D., Wildlife Specialist US Fish & Wildlife Service, President
of the Northeast Section of The Wildlife Society.
October 25, 2007
"Forest as Gold Standard - Practical and Local
Ecosystemic Benchmarks for Long-term Human Environmental Sustainability"
by Daniel Fiscus, Ph.D., Forest Ecologist, Department of Biology,
Frostburg State University.
October 18, 2007
"Conserving Forest Diversity, Sustainability and
Health" by Sunshine L. Brosi, Forest Ecologist and Ethonbotanist,
Department of Biology, Frostburg State University
October 4, 2007
"Integration of Ecological and Socioeconomic
Indicators for Estuaries and Watersheds of the Atlantic Slope: A Summary
of Results and Lessons Learned." by Robert P. Brooks, Ph.D.,
Professor of Geography and Ecology, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania
State University, and Director, Atlantic Slope Consortium
Seminars in Spring 2007
Department Of Biology And Society For Conservation
Biology
Refreshments Will Be Served Following Each Seminar
April 26, 2007
Dr. Laxman Hegde
Professor Of Mathematics
Frostburg State University
Title TBA
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 327
April 12, 2007
Dr. Steven Casper
Botanist For The Food And Drug Administration
"Ethnobotany Of Antimalarial Plants From The Peruvian Amazon"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 327
March 29, 2007
Dr. James T. Anderson
West Virginia University
"Wildlife Habitat Use And Vegetative Communities In Mitigated And
Natural Wetlands Of The Mid-Appalachians"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 327
March 13, 2007
Dr. Al Roca
Staff Scientist At The Laboratory Of Genomic Diversity
"Molecular Genetics Of African Elephant Species"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 327
March 1, 2007
John Paul
Ph.D. Candidate At University Of Pittsburgh
"Explaining Variation In Distribution And Abundance Using Evolutionary
History: The Role Phylogenetics, Species Age, And Biogeography "
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 327
February 22, 2007
April Randle
Ph.D. Candidate At The University Of Pittsburgh
"The Evolution And Maintenance Of Reproductive Barriers Among Species
Within The Tribe Collinsieae"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center-226
February 8, 2007
Dr. John Hoogland
Professor At The University Of Maryland Appalachian Laboratory
"Behavioral Ecology And Conservation Of Prairie Dogs"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center-226
Seminars in Fall 2006
Department Of Biology And Society For Conservation
Biology
Refreshments Will Be Served Following Each Seminar
December 7, 2006
Dr. Robert Brooks
Professor of Wildlife and Wetlands &
Director of the Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
"Riparia: Toward a Synthesis in Integrating Assessments of Headwater
Wetlands and Streams"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center-
226
November 9, 2006
Dr. Carolyn Mahan
Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at The Pennsylvania
State University, Altoona College
"Behavior and ecology of sciurids in varied landscapes in Pennsylvania"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 226
October 26, 2006
Dr. Bert Frost
Deputy Associate Director
Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
Science and Resource Management in the National Park Service"
5:30pm- Compton Science Center- 226
October 12, 2006
Dr. Amanda Gatesman Ammer
Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center West Virginia University
"The Role of Cortactin in Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion"
5:30PM- Compton Science Center- 226
September 14, 2006
Dr. Dana Ghioca
Frostburg State University Biology Department
Influence of anthropogenic disturbance on larval amphibian communities
in playa wetlands”
5:30pm- Compton Science Center-226
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