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EI IGERT Colloquia 2005

 Colloquia 2005 Calendar Year (and Fall 2004)      

 

Fall Term 2004

  • 10/22/04  Dr. Mark Harmon, College of Forestry, lecture on Carbon Scaling.
  • 10/28/04  Dr. Julia Jones, IGERT Ecosystem Informatics Director, lecture on Forest Harvest Treatments in the Pacific Northwest--clearcuts, partial cuts, and thinning.
  • 10/29/04  Dr. Sherri Johnson, FS, FS PNW, Presentation on Processes and Fate of Nitrogen in Aquatic Systems.
  • 11/19/04 Dr. Barbara Bond, Forest Science and Dr. Elizabeth Sulzman, Crop and Soil Science, lecture on [HJ] Andrews Airshed Project.         
  • 12/3/04 Dr. Deana Pennington, Research Assistant Professor in Biology, University of New Mexico lecture on Ecoinformatics and the Research Cycle   

Winter
  • 1/14/05  Dr. Dawn Wright, Geosciences, lecture on The New Explornography in the Age of Digital Earth, Digital Government, and Cyberinfrastructures.
  • 1/21/05 Dr. Phil Rossignol, Fisheries and Wildlife, lecture on Theoretical and applied developments in the community matrix.
  • 1/28/05 Dr. Mina Ossiander, Mathematics, lecture on Random Cascades: A Stochastic Model Meets Some Data.
  • 2/4/05 Dr. Michael Bailey, Dept. of Computer Sciencelecture on Visualizing Science.
  • 2/18/05 Dr. John Bolte, Bioengineering, lecture on Multiagent-based Modeling of Landscape Change.
  • 2/25/05  Dr. Elizabeth Borer, Zoology, lecture on Why is the World Green: Trophic Structuring of Communities.
  • 3/4/05 Dr. Sally Hacker, Zoology, lecture on Alternative control and restoration trajectories for a marine grass invader in different habitat types.
  • 3/11/05 Dr. Beverly Law, Forestrylecture on The North American Carbon Program: ORCA Regional Case Study.

 Spring  (Ethics oriented)  

  • 3/29/05 So-Min Cheong, Texas A&M University, Candidate for Resource Geography/Land Use Planning position, Rural Coastal Communities in Transition.
  • 4/5/09 Todd Jarvis, Senior Researcher in Water Resources, CWEST, OSU, Fuzzy Lines and Phantasmagorias in Geoethics.
  • 4/12/05 Dawn Parker, George Mason University,  Candidate for Resource Geography/Land Use Planning position.  
  • 4/19/05 Dr. Denise Lach, Assistant Professor Sociology, OSU Co-Director CWESt, Ideology, Advocacy and Scientific Credibility.
  • 4/26/05  Dr. Peter Huntoon, Professor Emeritus Geology, University of Wyoming , Professional Code of Ethics: their basis to practice.
  • 5/3/05 GROUP DISCUSSION OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS.
  • 5/10/05 Jay W. Nicholas Science and Policy Advisor, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Can Science Save Salmon?
  • 5/17/05 Dr. Russell Butkus, Associate Director, Environmental Studies Program/ Department of Biology, University of Portland ,Scientific-ethical Analysis of Policy Decision for Salmon Recovery Planning in the Lower Columbia River Basin.
  • 5/24/05 Dr. Joseph Orosco, Assistant Professor Philosophy, OSU, Globalization.
  • 5/31/05 Dr. Allan Freeze, Author of The Environmental Pendulum, Ethics and Engineering Decision Making: some dilemmas in waste management.

 Fall

  • Sept. 28th, 2005 Yevgeniy Kovchegov, Assistant Professor, Math, OSU, On percolation, interacting particle systems and other important stochastic models.
  • Oct. 5th, 2005 Bjorn Birnir, UCSB Mathematics,Mathematics Scaling Laws for the Earth's Surface.
  • Oct. 12th, 2005 Gail Achterman and Jimmy Kagan, Institute of Natural Resources, Potential Issues and Projects in Ecosystem Informatics.
  • Oct. 19th, 2005 Andrew Plantigna, Assoc. Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Integrating economics and ecology: A case study of land-use policies to reduce habitat fragmentation. Related paper (Plantigna, Lewis) Policies to Reduce Habitat Fragmentation.
  • Oct. 26th, 2005 Eric Seabloom, Asst. Professor, Department of Zoology, Plant Communities and Spatial Structure of Disturbance. Related Readings Extinction rates under nonrandom patterns of habitat loss Seabloom et al Anthropogenic impacts upon plant species richness and net primary productivity in California Seabloom et al.
  • Nov. 2nd, 2005 Bryan Black, HMSC, Biochronologies and Climate: trees, marine fish, and marine-terrestrial linkages.
  • Nov. 9th, 2005 Xiaoli Fern, Asst. Professor, Computer Science, Unsupervised Pattern Discovery for Earth Science Data.
  • Nov. 16th, 2005 Don Phillips, US EPA, Corvallis, OR Stable isotopes in ecological studies: new developments in mixing models.