Seminars

Weekly Applied Ecology Seminars

Applied Ecology will host weekly, in-person seminars in Bostian 2722 every Thursday from 4-5 pm, unless otherwise noted. Seminars are being organized by Alonso Ramírez.

In-person attendance is highly encouraged. Refreshments are served prior to the lecture at 3:45 pm. If you are unable to be on NC State campus, please email Heather Frantz for a zoom link (hdfrantz@ncsu.edu).

The schedule of speakers is:

Date	Name	Instution	Title
August 22	Natalie Nelson	Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NC State	From space to sonde: Using multi-scale hydrologic observations to inform water quality management
August 29	Kristina Hopkins	USGS	Rethinking stormwater in our neighborhoods: Can distributed stormwater control maintain stream functions?
September 5	Diego Riveros-Iregui	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Hydrologic – Biogeochemical Connections Across the Terrestrial – Aquatic Interface in Tropical Andean Watersheds
September 12	Marcelo Ardón	Forestry and Environmental Resources, NC State	Disentangling the effects of salt on coastal ecosystems: from genes to landscapes
September 19	Ben Reading	Applied Ecology, NC State	Translational science in aquaculture
September 26	David Tarpy	Applied Ecology, NC State	Phenotypic plasticity of honey bee queens and the consequences of colony collective decision making
October 3	Erin McKenney	Applied Ecology, NC State	Simple gut systems tell complex stories
October 10	Kasie Raymann	Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, NC State	Ecology and evolution of honey bee microbiomes
October 17	Sally Entrekin	Virginia Tech, Entomology	Aquatic insects know no boundaries: carbon transfer and transformation across ecosystems
October 24	Nick Haddad	Michigan State University	The rapid decline of butterfly abundance and diversity in the United States Biology, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series (BEESS)- organized by Biology grad students
October 31	Roland Kays	Forestry & Environmental Resources, NC State	Local and Global Biodiversity Monitoring with the Internet of Animals
November 7	Elizabeth Anderson	Florida International University, Earth and Environment	Fish, floods, droughts, and dreams on the Amazon River Biology, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series (BEESS)- organized by Biology grad students
November 14	Mikiah Carver Emily Rund Alex Nelson	NC State University	Exploring Seasonal Resource Selection by Deer Across an Urban to Rural Gradient The Power of Awe in Sustainability Education and its Applications in an Experimental Study You are what you eat: the effect of snake feeding habits on their parasite communities
November 21	Mariely Vega, PhD Exit Seminar	Applied Ecology, NC State	The Role of Stream Geomorphology in Mediating Tropical Macroinvertebrate Responses to Climatic and Hydrological Extremes
November 28	Thanksgiving, no seminar
December 5	TBA		Biology, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series (BEESS)- organized by Biology grad students