Fall 2012 Entomology Seminar Schedule
| Coordinators: | Ken Raffa and Shawn Steffan |
| Time: | Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (unless otherwise noted below) |
| Location: |
150 Russell Labs (unless otherwise noted below) 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI |
| Directions/Map: | http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/contact-us-0 |
| Questions: | Contact UW Madison Entomology Department main office at 608-262-3227. |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
14-Sept. |
Dr. Jonathan Lelito, USDA APHIS |
Mass-rearing emerald ash borer and its parasitoids |
| 20-Sept. (Thurs., 4:00) |
WISCONSIN ECOLOGY keynote speaker: Dr. David Schimel, Chief Science Officer and Principal Investigator, NEON |
Observing global biodiversity in a time of change |
| 28-Sept. | Dr. Robert Stelzer, UW-Oshkosh |
Nitrogen biogeochemistry at the groundwater-surface water interface in streams in the Central Sands of WI |
| 5-Oct. | Dr. Paul Whitaker, UW-Marathon County | Social and scientific aspects of organic agriculture |
| 12-Oct. | Dr. Phil Townsend, UW-Madison | Susceptibility to mountain pine beetle in high-elevation pines made increasingly accessible by climate change |
| 19-Oct. | Dr. Brandon Barton, UW-Madison | Indirect effects of climate warming on an old-field food web |
| 26-Oct. | Dr. Claudio Gratton, UW-Madison | Sustainable bio-energy landscapes: can we balance our needs for biodiversity and production? |
| 1-Nov. (Thurs., 3:30) | Dr. Jay Rosenheim, University of California-Davis |
2012 DOANE LECTURE: Ecoinformatics: using farmer-generated data to address key problems in agricultural entomology |
| 9-Nov. | Dr. Robert Jeanne, UW-Madison | Antennal drumming: How a behavior pattern shapes development in a social wasp |
| 16-Nov. | ESA meeting | |
| 23-Nov. | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 30-Nov. | Dr. Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago | Ants, plants, and bacteria: A tale of evolutionary diversification |
| 7-Dec. | Dan Marschalek, UW-Madison | The blister beetles of Wisconsin: State survey & population genetics study |
| 14-Dec. | Dr. Mary Jamieson, UW-Madison |
Plant-insect interactions in a changing world: understanding the role of chemical ecology |
