Spring 2021 Ecology Seminars
The seminars listed below, presented during the Spring 2021 semester, are linked below. All are posted on the YouTube channel of the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research.
Wednesday, January 6—Laura Downey of the Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE), "Environmental and Outdoor Education in Kansas," and Rob Ramos, KU doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology, "Mycorrhizal community response to plant species and fertilizer and their feedbacks on growth." View presentation
Friday, February 19—Student presentation: Soudeh Ghasemian (Kansas Biological Survey and KU Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), KU Field Station Student Reserach Award recipient — "Climate modifies the influence of fine-scale topography and landscape position on forest productivity." View presentation
Friday, February 26—No presentation.
Friday, March 5—No presentation.
Friday, March 12—Town Peterson (KU Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Biodiversity Institute) "Deeper-time views of landscape and vegetation as novel information for ecological studies." View presentation
Friday, March 19—Laura Podzikowski (Kansas Biological Survey and KU Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): "Productivity benefits from diversity persist despite water limitation: Causes and implications." View presentation
Friday, March 26—Bob Hagen (Kansas Biological Survey and KU Environmental Studies Program) "What they do when we’re not looking: Results from wildlife camera traps at the field station (and elsewhere)." View presentation
Friday, April 2—Dan Reuman (Kansas Biological Survey and KU Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): "A new mechanism for the old phenomenon of population cycles, and a demonstration using data on white-tailed deer and deer-vehicle collisions." View presentation
Friday, April 9—No presentation.
Friday, April 16—Zak Ratajczak, Kansas State University (Division of Biology): "Effects of bison on tallgrass prairie resilience to changing fire and climate." View presentation
Friday, April 23—Two talks: Katie Eckhoff (Kansas Biological Survey and KU Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): "Persistent decadal differences in plant communities restored under contrasting climate conditions"; and Haiyang Chao (KU Dept. of Aerospace Engineering) and Sheena Parsons (Kansas Biological Survey and KU Field Station) on recent burn data at the KU Field Station: "Prescribed fire monitoring using KHawk Hexocopter UAS: Preliminary results for the spring 2021 KU Field Station burn." View presentation
Friday, April 30—Steve Gurysh (KU Dept. of Visual Art) will discuss the early stages of the development of an experimental film, Blue Sky Thunder Days, which explores the parallel and intertwining histories of the American Chestnut Blight and the introduction of the Emerald Ash Borer in North American forests. View presentation
