<p> Systems Ecology/DECS Seminar Series Spring 2017 In room FOR 305 Thursdays 3:40-4:30 pm For information contact Diana L. Six at [email protected] Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host Jan 26 Thomas Senior scientist, Spatial Fuel treatments in California: Quantifying Diana Six Buchholz Informatics Group, avoided emissions from significant wildfires Pleasanton, CA Feb 2 Kim Taylor Postdoctoral researcher, Drivers, impacts, and feedbacks of global Phil Higuera Depts. Forest Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) invasions Management and Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences, UM Feb 9 Julia Professor, Dept. Earth Community and resilience assessment: SE/DECS Haggerty* Sciences, MSU Perspectives from the West’s energy students boomtowns Feb 16 Monica Odum Professor, Dept. Natural disturbances and forest resilience: SE/DECS Turner* Zoology, University of Lessons from Yellowstone students Wisconsin, Madison Feb 23 Sarah Associate professor, Dept. TBA Diana Six Halvorson Geography, UM Mar 2 Joe Giersch Researcher, USGS, Glacier Alpine stream biodiversity and the Diana Six National Park Endangered Species Act: glacial stoneflies as sentinels of climate change in Glacier National Park Mar 9 Robert Pal Assistant professor, Dept. Challenges in ecological restoration after Diana Biological Sciences, traditional reclamation in Butte, Montana Six/Cara Montana Tech Nelson Mar 16 Sarah Jane Freelance science Science journalism: A look inside the Journalism Keller* journalist, Bozeman, MT symbiotic relationship between reporters Story Lab/ and researchers SE/DECS students Mar 23 Spring Break No seminar Mar 30 Fiona Soper Postdoctoral researcher, Linking pattern and process: Nitrogen Cory Dept. Ecosystem & dynamics in a lowland tropical forest Cleveland Conservation Sciences, UM Apr 6 Charles Hall* Professor emeritus, Dept. Energy returns on investment: A unifying SE/DECS Environmental and Forest principle for biology, economics, and students Biology, SUNY, Syracuse sustainability Apr 13 Park Lamont assistant research The impact of human-caused warming on SE/DECS Williams* professor, Lamont-Doherty drought and forest fire in the western students Earth Observatory, United States Columbia University April 20 Bill Holben Professor, Dept. Cellular Microbial roles and responses in ecological Diana Six and Molecular Microbial scenarios Biology, DBS, UM April 27 Matt Church Associate professor, Dept. The ecology and biogeochemistry of marine Diana Six Cellular and Molecular nitrogen-fixing microorganisms Microbial Biology, DBS, FLBS, UM * Sponsored by the Institute on Ecosystems/NSF EPSCoR</p>