DNRE Seminar Schedule

Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

Spring Seminar Series 2024

Tuesdays 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Fernow Hall G24 or Zoom     
Meeting ID: 915 1836 7796   Passcode: 043363

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

Zoom Moderator Name and Net ID

1/23/24

Dr. Rachael Winfree

Rutgers University

Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the conservation of wild bees

Steve Grodsky

Shianne Lindsay

1/30/24

 

Dr. Chuan Liao

Cornell Global Development

Data Science of Human-Environment Systems for Sustainable Development

 Richard Stedman

Kamille Pennell

2/6/24

 

Dr. Tom Evans

DNRE

The future is now: The use of autonomous drones in the Great Lakes to improve fisheries acoustic assessments

Jim Watkins

Kayden Nasworthy

2/13/24

 

Dr. Megan Gall

Vassar College

Predators and prey in a noisy world: avian behavior, audition, and bioacoustics

Tim Boycott

Trifosa Simamora

2/20/24

 

Dr. Kurt Waldman

Cornell Global Development

Environmental cognition and smallholder climate adaptation

Steven Wolf

Jessie Hughes

2/27/24

No Seminar

     

3/5/24

Dr. Liz Kalies

 

TNC

Planning, siting, and designing renewable energy development to ensure landscape resilience and connectivity in the United States

Steve Grodsky

Trifosa Simamora

3/12/24

Dr. Martin Gilbert

Vet Med

Understanding and managing canine distemper virus as a threat to tiger conservation

Angela Fuller

Jen Grauer

3/19/24

Dr. Pavel Dimens

DNRE

The limitations of Restriction Associated DNA (RAD) in marine ecology and what we're doing about it

Matt Hare

Liam Zarri

3/26/24

 

Dr. Erik Kiviat 

Bard College

An Urban Biodiversity Study of the New Jersey Meadowlands

Melissa Fadden

Jen Grauer

4/2/24

No Seminar

   

 

 

4/9/24

 

Dr. Irina TolkovaDr. Léa Bouffaut 

Lab of Ornithology

From fiber sensing to ambisonics: adding a spatial dimension to conservation bioacoustics

Holger Klinck

Léa Bouffaut & Irina Tolkova

4/16/24

 

Robert Márquez 

DNRE

Conservation and Management of the Andean Bear in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru: Insights from Local to Regional Scales

Angela Fuller

Kelly Perkins

4/23/24

 

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah

DNRE

Climate Change Impacts and Escalated Conflicts Because of Transboundary Water Resources: The Case of Afghanistan

 

Karim-Aly Kassam

Steven Wolf

4/30/24

 

Carl St. John

DNRE

Aquatic species conservation and management through the lens of evolutionary biology

Pete McIntyre

 

5/7/24 

ENVS 4940

DNRE

Species on the Move and the Barriers they face:  Road Ecology Capstone

Gary Tabor