Agriculture Building 2013
Department #3354
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-3114
Email: esm@uwyo.edu


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September 7 |
Craig Cook, Stable Isotope Lab |
Stable Isotopes Across Disciplines |
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September 14 |
W. Kennedy Gauger, Southwest Research Institute |
Advancing One’s Career – OTJ Lessons Learned – Everything I Wished I Knew Before I Graduated |
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September 21 |
Thom Edgar, Civil & Arch Engineering |
Slippen and Sliden – Introduction to Slope Stability Analysis |
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October 5 |
Dr. Kedal Rijal, Head, Central Det. of Environ. Sci., Tribhuvan University, Nepal |
The State of the Environment in Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities |
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October 12 |
Scott Miller and Steve Holbrook ESM/Geology |
Newly Funded Water Project |
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October 19 |
Ryan Lance, Director, State Lands and Investment |
UW Researach on State Trust Lands |
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October 26 |
Jack Ward Thomas, Professor University of Montana, Former Chief, US Forest Service under President Clinton |
Forks in the Trail |
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November 2 |
Glenn Plumb, Chief Wildlife Biologist, NPS |
21st Century Bison Conservation |
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November 9
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Patricia Colberg, Civil and Arch Engineering |
Dependency on the Microbial World |
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November 16
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Zach Liesenfeld |
Sagebrush re-establishment, MS Defense |
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November 23 |
Thanksgiving |
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November 30
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Rajan Ghimire |
PhD Student Research Presentation |
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December 7 |
Douglas Smith |
PhD Student Research Presentation |
| January 13 | Dr. Kristi Hansen Department of Agricultural Economics, UW |
Water transfers and water market institutions in the Western United States |
| January 20 | Dr. Dan Manier Ecosystem Dynamics Branch, USGS Fort Collins Science Center |
The distribution of invasive plants in southwestern Wyoming: Long transects and multivariate models |
| January 27 | Dr. Jay Norton Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, UW |
Conservation agriculture in Kenya and Uganda |
| February 3 | Dr. Ye Zhang Department of Geology & Geophysics, UW |
Upscaling & complexity in subsurface modeling: Insights gained & on-going research |
| February 10 | Dr. Thijs Kelleners Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, UW |
Modeling soil-plant-atmosphere mass and energy exchange in rangeland and forest ecosystems |
| February 17 | Dr. Jack Morgan Rangeland Resources Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins |
Impacts of climate change and management implications for grasslands of the Western Great Plains |
| February 24 | Dr. Cliff Riebe Department of Geology & Geophysics, UW |
Gauging the reproductive potential of salmon spawning substrates |
| March 2 | Dr. Shannon Albeke WyGISC and Department of Geography, UW |
Spatial Information Management: Solving ecological problems with innovative approaches and tools |
| March 9 | Dr. Axel Garcia y Garcia Department of Plant Sciences, UW |
Biophysical factors affecting irrigation scheduling: Potential for improving crop water productivity |
| March 16 | Spring break | |
| March 23 | Kyle Lilly (MS Thesis Defense) Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, UW |
Tracing coalbed natural gas water using stable isotopes |
| March 30 | Beth Fitzpatrick (PhD Proposal) Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, UW |
How are distribution, functional connectivity, and habitat quality of Greater Sage-grouse influenced by oil and gas development? |
| April 6 | Easter break | |
| April 13 | Dr. Noah Fierer (PiE Student Speaker Series) University of Colorado-Boulder | Exploring terra incognita: the biogeography of soil microorganisms |
| April 20 | Dr. Steven Fassnacht Watershed Science Program, Colorado State University |
Using operational snow data at modeling scales: Field data to illustrate degrees of variability |
| April 27 | Dr. Carl Legleiter Department of Geography, UW |
Remote measurement of river channel morphology |
| 2-Sep | Larry Munn | Glaciers and Soils of the Snowy Range, Wyoming |
| 9-Sep | Alex Latchininsky | Peril in a Tropical Paradise: A pest invasion impacts biodiversity on a tiny NW Hawaiian island |
| 16-Sep | Matt Kauffman | Trophic mismatch? How migratory ungulates cope with changing phenology |
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30-Sep |
Doni Schwalm |
Factors influencing genetic structure and diversity in swift fox population |
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7-Oct |
Ajaya Warrier |
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14-Oct |
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21-Oct |
Steve Williams |
Mongolia’s conundrum: conservation versus development and the role of research in resolution |
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28-Oct |
Cam Aldridge |
Sage-grouse conservation in a changing world: What does the future hold? |
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4-Nov |
Tom Thurow |
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11-Nov |
Bob Hall |
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18-Nov |
Fred Ogden |
Reforestation in Panama: Implications for Water Resources and Downstream Services |
| 2-Dec | Cally Driessen | Properties of reclaimed soils and their response to a controlled livestock treatment |