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Spring 2008- Appalachian Laboratory Seminar Series

Seminars will be held in Room 109 of the Appalachian Laboratory.
For questions about the series, please contact Bob Hilderbrand.
For more information about an individual speaker, please contact the listed host.

Date
Speaker Information

Monday

January 28, 2008

10:00am

Climate Change Seminar

"Carbon-nitrogen cycle coupling regulates climate-carbon cycle feedback"

Host: Mark Castro

Thursday

January 31 , 2008

3:30pm

Marcelino Suzuki - UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

"CSI Oceans: Uncovering the Diversity and Activity of Aquatic Microbes with Molecular Tools"

 

Monday

February 4, 2008

10:00am

Climate Change Seminar

"Fire, climate, and the 20th-century carbon balance of the boreal forest"

Host: Mark Castro

Thursday

February 7, 2008

10:00am

Climate Change Seminar

"Life Along a Gradient: climatic and hydrologic controls on riparian ecosystem structure and function"

Host: Mark Castro

Thursday

February 21, 2008

3:30pm

Johan Schijf - UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

"Metal Sorption on Marine Macroalgae: Seaweed, Synchrotron, and Surface Chemistry"

Host: Bob Hilderbrand

Monday

February 25, 2008

10:45am

Terrestrial Biogeochemistry Seminar

"Nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems: adding phosphorus to the paradigm"

Host:  Keith Eshleman

Monday

March 3 , 2008

10:00am

Terrestrial Biogeochemistry Seminar

"Genetic mosaics of ecosystem functioning: Aspen clones and ecosystem processes across natural landscapes"

Host:  Keith Eshleman

Thursday

March 27, 2008

3:30pm

Martyn Caldwell - National Science Foundation

"Stratospheric ozone reduction and ecosystems in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina"

Host: Katia Engelhardt

Thursday

April 24, 2008

3:30pm

Lester Yuan - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

"Analytical tools for identifying the causes of biological degradation in streams"

Host: Bob Hilderbrand

Tuesday

April 29 , 2008

10:00am

Terrestrial Biogeochemistry Seminar

"Belowground responses to global change in hardwood forests: linking pattern and process"

Host:  Keith Eshleman

Thursday

May 8, 2008

3:30pm

Maile Neel - University of Maryland College Park

"Can We Conserve Diversity Without Really Trying?"

Host: Katia Engelhardt

Thursday

May 29, 2008

10:00am

Terrestrial Biogeochemistry Seminar

"Plant species and soil processes: Does the reintroduction of native prairie grasses alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in successional ecosystems?"

Host:  Keith Eshleman

 
Last Updated: July 24, 2008