School of Forest Resources and Conservation
FAS Fall, 2008 Seminar Schedule   
Fall Semester
Fridays, 3:00 p.m.
  Date

Speaker/Affiliation/Title of Seminar

August 29th

 Dr. Anthony Brennan. UF - MSE. A Biokinetic Model for Biofouling  (Mete Yilmaz host)

September 5th
Dr. Nancy Denslow. UF – Physiological Sciences. The Effects of Exposure of Largemouth Bass to
Organochlorine Pesticides (Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles in Aquatic Systems: Insights From the
Everglades  (Mete Yilmaz host)

September 12th
Dr. Steve Otwell. UF- Sea Grant/FSHN. Fisheries Role in Addressing Risks and Benefits in USA
Seafood Consumption (Don Behringer, host)

September 19th
Dr. Andrew Ogram. UF – Soil Microbiology. Title TBA.  (Mete Yilmaz host)

September 26th
Dr. Roger Bachmann. UF-FAS,   The Cascading Effects of Climatic Variability on the Limnology
of Lake Annie, Florida  (Mark Hoyer, host)

October 3rd
Dr. Michael Childress. Clemson Univ. Drought and the decline of blue crabs in South Carolina: an
individual-based modeling approach. (Don Behringer, host)

October 10th

 Dr. Andrew Kane. UF-EPI.  Stress and Environmental Mycobacteriosis: The Beginning of the Story.
(Don Behringer, host)

October 17th
Dr. Brian Silliman. UF-Zoology. Food-webs, Climate Change and New Paradigms in Marine Ecology
(Tom Frazer, host).

October 31st
Dr. James Bohnsack, NMFS. Marine Reserves, Fisheries, and Ecosystem-Based Management 
(Don Behringer, host)

November 7th
Mr. Andrew Reich. FL Dept. of Health. Public Health Impacts of Harmful Algae Blooms.
(Mete Yilmaz host)

*November 14th
Dr. Ray Hilborn. Univ. of Washington. Biocomplexity, the Portfolio Effect and Maintaining Salmon and
Fishing Communities (*presented at Harn Museum)  (Aaron Bunch/ SURF hosts)

November 21st

 Dr. Rick Tankersley. FL. Tech.  A Tale of Two Crabs: Selective Tidal Transport Behavior of the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus and the Fiddler Crab Uca pugilator  (Don Behringer, host)

December 5th
Dr. Nate Brennan. Mote Marine Lab.  Habitat and Density-mediated Influences on Snook Ecology:  Lessons Learned from Manipulative Release Experiments with Common Snook Centropomus undecimalis (Bill Lindberg, host)
December  12 End of semester - No Seminar
 
Directions and Map to Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Seminars are usually held in the conference room of the main Fisheries building,
7922 N.W. 71st Street, Gainesville (off Millhopper Road), telephone 352/392-9617.

Refreshments at 2:45 P.M.

(Download Schedule-MS Word)
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 7922 NW 71st St., Gainesville, FL 32653  
UF PO: 110600  Phone: 352/392-9617  Fax: 352/392-3672

Page updated August 19, 2008
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