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Ecology Student Symposium

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The first  Ecology Student Symposium will be held February 17, 2012 in the Berry Center at the University of Wyoming.  The Symposium, coordinated and hosted by the PhD students of the Program in Ecology, will feature student research currently underway in the Program in Ecology, ranging from soil microbes and climate change to short-horned lizard ecology to Arabian wolf movement in Israel.

The event is free and open to the public - all are welcome to attend!

Agenda

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12 pm - 4 pm: Student presentations, Berry Center Auditorium (rm. 138)

12:00 - "Quantifying sources of winter soil respiration in a subalpine forest," Colin Tucker

12:20 - "System transition in an Ethiopian agro-ecosystem," Jason Edwards

12:40 - "A horned lizard’s blood, spines, and some dirt called home," Reilly Dibner

1:00 - "The role of anthropogenic activity in determining Arabian wolf movement in Eilat county, Israel," Adi Barocas

1:20 - "Net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and evapotranspiration response of a high elevation Rocky Mountain (Wyoming, USA) forest to a bark beetle epidemic," John Frank

1:40 - Break

2:00 - "Is having control over the permeability of their membranes an adaptive trait for plants growing under conditions of drought?" Tim Aston

2:20 - "A combined evidence approach to the phylogeny of fur seals and sea lions (Otariidae)," Morgan Churchill

2:40 - "Uptake and preference of soil nitrate, ammonium, and amino acid pools by a native grassland plant are altered by experimental warming and elevated atmospheric CO2," Janet Chen

3:00 - "Do predators influence the condition and reproduction of their prey? Evaluating nonconsumptive effects among the wolves and elk of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem," Arthur Middleton

3:20 - "Decoupling of physical and climatic habitat as a consequence of climate change," Dan Gibson-Reinemer

3:40 - Break

4 pm - 5 pm: Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Williams, "Photosynthesis and global change: examples from
     Australia." Berry Center Auditorium (rm. 138)

5 pm - 6:30 pm: Poster session and social, Berry Center lobby

5 pm - 8 pm: PiE Darwin Day Party, Berry Center lobby
     Held in conjunction with the Ecology Symposium poster session

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The Berry Center is located just west of the Geology Building on Lewis Street between 9th and 10th Streets. Call 766-6240 or email bwanous@uwyo.edu with any questions.