All seminars are held Thursday afternoons in 147 Clark Hall at 4:00 PM. Reception at 3:30 PM in foyer in front of Clark 147.

January 24
Todd Scanlon (UVa)      Dissertation Seminar
"Hydrological and Biophysical Controls on the Exchange of Water, Carbon, and Energy at the Land Surface."

January 31
T'ai Roulston (Blandy Experimental Farm, UVa)     
"Pollen chemistry and pollinator nutrition: the hidden side of plant-pollinator interactions."

February 7
Ed Russell (Engineering School, UVA)      Host: Shugart
"War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring." (This talk will be drawn from Russell's recent book of the same title. It will discuss the ideological, scientific, technological, and institutional links between chemical warfare and pest control as a case study of the interaction between war and environmental change.)

February 14
Randy Cofer (NASA LARC)      Host: Amber Soja
"Increasing Vegetation Fires, a Coupling with Climate?"

February 21
Randy Chambers (Dept. Biology, College of William and Mary)      Host: Macko
"Environmental determinants of Phragmites australis (common reed) expansion in tidal wetlands."

February 28
David Bowne (UVa)      Dissertation Seminar
"Can't get there from here? Connecting habitat patches through animal behavior. OR Turtles may be slow but they ain't stupid!"

March 7
Geoff Eglinton (University of Bristol, U.K.)      Host: Macko
Moore Lecturer: "Dust out of Africa - a molecular record in Atlantic sediments."

March 14
-------- Spring Break --------

March 20 (Wednesday)
Tim Flannery (South Australian Museum / Adelaide University, Australia)     Host: Shugart
Moore Lecturer "The ecological history of North America: the role of unique geographical, geological and climatic factors on the formation of the North American continent."

March 21
Krissy Russell (UVa)      Dissertation Seminar
"Phase-Partitioning and Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Nitrogen at the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Coast."

March 28
Dan Childers (Everglades LTER / Florida International University)      Host: Zieman
"Introducing the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program, with a focus on sawgrass productivity and nutrient dynamics."

April 4
Edward Cook (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory / Columbia University)      Host: Mann
"Dendroclimatic Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies from the Himalayas of Nepal."

April 11
--- CANCELED ---

April 18
Ron Smith (Dept of Geology & Geophysics, Yale)      Host: Fuentes
"Orographic Precipitation and Airmass Transformation."

April 25
Darin Toohey (University of Colorado)      Host: Fuentes
"Toward a Better Understanding of the Lower Stratosphere based on In Situ Measurements from Balloons and Aircraft."

May 2
-------- Awards Ceremony --------

May 9
Jon Cawley (Roanoke College)      Host: Ross Irwin
"The geological and microbial evolution of Mountain Lake, Virginia." (origin of the lake, history of natural filling and draining, microbial commuities, paleoclimatic and human influences, etc.)

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