Colloquia 2008 Calendar Year

Winter

• 1/23/08—Will Dillon, Eco-IGERT Student Computer Science, High Performance Parallel Processing with a workshop on Parallel Decomposition of Scientific Algorithms
• 1/30/08 John Selker, Prof. Biological & Ecological Eng., Mike Unsworth, Prof. COAS, and Adam Kennedy, Eco-IGERT Student Forest Sci., WS3 data
• 2/6/08—Carrie Donkor, Eco-IGERT Student Mathematics, Disease and Competition Dynamics of Multiple Species in Metapopulations
• 2/13/08—Eugene Zhang, Asst. Prof. Computer Science, Asymmetric Tensor Analysis for Flow Visualization.
• 2/27/08—Sean Moore, Eco-IGERT Student Zoology, Modeling the Spatial Dimension of Infectious Diseases in Complex Communities
• 3/5/08—No Colloquium
• 3/12/08— Alan Tepley, Eco-IGERT Student Geography, Sorting out the mixed up part of a fire regime continuum 

Spring

• 4/9/08-- Janine Rice, Eco-IGERT Student Geography, Change Detection, Pattern Analysis, and Modeling of Forest-Meadow Dynamics in the Western Oregon Cascades [Thesis dry run]
• 4/16/08--Gail Achterman, Director, Institute for Natural Resuorces, Todd Jarvis, Associate Director, Institute for Water and Watersheds, and Enrique Thomann, Professor of Mathematics,  Water Law and Streamflow 
• 4/23/08--Maribeth Todd, Eco-IGERT Student AREC,  
• 4/30/08--Student only Colloquium in Preparation for Retreat
• 5/7/08 -- Phoebe Zarnetske, Eco-IGERT Student Zoology, Shaping coastal dunes: modeling the role of sand binding plant species.
• 5/28/08-- Zac Kayler, Eco-IGERT Student Forest Science, Two short pieces in isotope ecology: The bias and uncertainty of isotopic mixing models & Leaf water oxygen-18 enrichment at steady-state.

Fall

• 10/1/08 Nicole Czarnomski, Eco-IGERT student in Water Resources, How to model climate change impacts on stream temperature and use restoration as mitigation.
• 10/8/08 Ed Waymire, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, The Critical Domain Size Problem in  Ecology from a Mathematical Perspective.
• 10/15/08 Brooke Penaluna, Eco-IGERT Student in Fisheries & Wildlife, & Dr. Jason Dunham, Research Aquatic Ecologist, USGS, Corvallis , Individual and population-level consequences of forest harvest and climate change on coastal cutthroat trout
• 11/5/08 Drs. Tom Dietterich & Weng-Keen Wong, Dept. Of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,  Probabilistic Models for Multiple Species Distribution.
• 11/12/08 Tracy Kugler,  Eco-IGERT student in the Dept. Of Geography,  Identifying features of urban form and growth for use in clustering.
• 12/3/08 Dr. Judy Stamps, Professor of Biology, Emerita, University of California, Davis, Habitat selection: linking behavioral ecology with landscape ecology.