Appalachian Laboratory Visiting Scholar Seminar Series - Spring 2013

Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 3:30pm (unless otherwise noted) and located in Room 109 of the Appalachian Laboratory.

January 24
     Lisa Wainger - UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
     "Restoration economics: Overcoming barriers to success"
     Host: Bob Gardner

January 31
     Judy O'Neil - UMCES Horn Point Laboratory
     "Harmful algal bloom nutrient and grazing dynamics in coastal and offshore environments"    
     Host: Steve Keller

March 7
     Richard Thomas - West Virginia University
    "A New Story From Old Trees: Possible Causes of a Recent Anomaly in Tree Growth
     in the Central Appalachian Mountains"
     Host: Dave Nelson

April 4
     Tyler Wagner - USGS, Pennsylvania Coop Fish and Wildlife
    "A conceptual framework for understanding multi-scaled cause-effect relationships
     between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems"     
     Host: Ray Morgan

April 18
     Andrew Eckert - Virginia Commonwealth University
     "Putting the landscape into forest tree genomics"
     Host: Steve Keller

April 23 @ 7pm
     David Hughes - Global Sustainability Research, Inc. and Post Carbon Institute
     "The Energy Sustainability Dilemma: Powering the Future in a Finite World"
     Host: Keith Eshleman
     (Click here for a pdf version of the press release pertaining to this lecture)

May 2
     Woody Turner - NASA
     "The Role of Remote Sensing in Global Monitoring of Biodiversity"
     Host: Matt Fitzpatrick 

For questions about the series, please contact Steve Keller.
For more information about an individual speaker, please contact the listed host.