PCB 4991/5991 Biology Seminar.
Fridays
12:30-1:30, Bldg. 58A, Room106
http://www.uwf.edu/rsnyder/courses/biosem.html
jlepo@uwf.edu rsnyder@uwf.edu
Bldg. 6 Bldg.
58 Rm. 62D
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Jan 11 |
Lepo/Snyder |
UWF |
Organizational meeting for students
receiving credit |
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Jan 18 |
Dr. Joan Henson |
Montana State |
A Microbial Observatory at Nymph Creek,
an Acidic Thermal Stream in Yellowstone National Park |
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Jan 25 |
Bruce J. French |
Gannett Fleming, Inc. |
T.A.W.E.S.- An Engineered Tool to Aid
Water Quality Management in Estuaries |
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Feb 1 |
Dr. John Lanza |
Escambia County Department of Health |
Public Health Potpourri. |
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Feb 8 |
Dr. Dean J. Burkin, |
University of Illinois |
The a7b1 integrin in development and disease |
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Feb 15 |
Dr. Ted Fox |
UWF |
Leaves that crawl: Photosynthesis in a kleptoplastic mollusc |
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Feb 22 |
Dr. Wayne Bennett |
UWF |
The toughest aquatic vertebrate in
North America |
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Mar 1 |
Dr. Joe Lepo & Dr. Richard Snyder |
UWF |
Biosurfactants: Biology and
Application. Pitcher Plant Prairie restoration |
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Mar 8 |
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Mar 15 |
SPRING BREAK |
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Mar 22 |
Dr. Chuck
Hagedorn |
VA Polytechnical Inst. |
Fecal source tracking |
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Mar 29 |
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Apr 5 |
Kevin Dillon |
FSU Oceanography |
Stable Nitrogen Isotopes: tracers of
nitrogen sources and effects in the waters of Sarasota Bay. |
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Apr 12 |
Natalie K. Karouna-Renier |
CEDB-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Life is so stressful. What's a small fly to do |
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Apr 19 |
Dr. Emile M. Lores |
USEPA Gulf Ecology Division |
Annual cycle of phytoplankton,
zooplankton, and water quality paramenters along a five station transect of
Escambia Bay, FL |
*MS Thesis
Defense.
Each
student receiving credit for attending seminars is responsible for writing a
paragraph summary of each speaker's presentation, finding a scientific research
article based on the topic of the seminar and turning in a xerox of the title
page along with the summary.
Summaries and the research articles are to be accumulated and turned in
at the end of the semester. Your
grade will be determined by attendance (evidenced by turning in the summaries
and title pages) and qualtiy of the written summaries. Greater than 90% will be given an
“A”, greater than 80% will be given a “B”, greater than
70% will be given a “C”.
Anything less is an “F”.
Everyone is
invited to these seminars, encourage your friends to come along.