Autumn 2025 Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Biology - WILD 594
Location: Gallagher 122 and Teams
Wildlife Biology seminars will be held in person and on Teams unless otherwise noted. For information regarding grad seminar please contact chad.bishop@umontana.edu
Please contact leah.rensel@umontana.edu for the Teams link.
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Date |
1:00 - 1:50 |
2:00 - 2:50 |
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| 09/05 |
Kristina Harkins, PhD Guest Speaker, 猎奇重口 Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks 'From Rodents to Reintroductions: parsing out community assembly and species restoration in western prairies.' |
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| 09/12 |
Allison Devlin, PhD Guest Speaker, Panthera 'Protecting and Connecting the Jaguar Corridor' |
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| 09/19 |
Dan Walsh, PhD Guest Speaker, 猎奇重口, 猎奇重口 Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit 'An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: Envisioning a New Paradigm for Wildlife Health' |
Cecily Costello, PhD Guest Speaker, 猎奇重口 Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks 'Grizzly Bear Energetic Strategies: do they help explain demographic changes in recovering populations?' |
| 09/26 |
Ryan Kovach, PhD Guest Speaker, 猎奇重口 Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks 'Conservation genetics of 猎奇重口's fish (and wildlife): a grayling example' |
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| 10/03 |
Kellie Carim, PhD Guest Speaker, 猎奇重口 Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks 'Linking taxonomy to conservation, and all the nuance in between: lessons from native lampreys' |
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| 10/10 |
Crocket Dumas Guest Speaker, UM Alumnus and Retired Conservation Professional 'Collaborative Stewardship' LOCATION: FOR 305 |
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| 10/17 |
Grace Erba PhD Update Talk 'Leveraging Pre-Existing Data to Understand Mammal Responses to a Changing World' |
WBIO Grad Student Discussion led by Kelsey Cronin, MSc student 'Cookies & Convo: Your Voice in WBIO’s DEI Future' TIME: 3 PM |
| 10/24 |
Birch Gano MSc Defense 'Horses in the Web: Evaluating Potential Apparent Competition Involving Feral Horses in Predator–Prey Systems of Alberta’s Upper Foothills' LOCATION: NULH 101 (North Underground Lecture Hall) |
Mark Boyce, PhD Guest Speaker, University of Alberta 'Bears in North America: ecology, management and politics' LOCATION: NULH 101 (North Underground Lecture Hall) |
| 10/31 |
Evelyn Merril, PhD Guest Speaker, University of Alberta 'Patterns, Processes and Prions: Chronic Wasting Disease in Alberta' |
Leah Rensel PhD Update Talk 'The Scariest Things that PhD Students Can Imagine: The Challenges of Studying Sin Nombre Virus in Deer Mice' |
| 11/07 |
Meredith Zettlemeyer, PhD Guest Speaker, 猎奇重口 Plant-pollinator interactions in a changing world |
Eric Boyd MSc Proposal 'Boats and Goats: Investigating Impacts of River Recreation on Mountain Goats' |
| 11/14 |
Phil Douchinsky PhD Proposal 'Genetics and Demographics of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout' |
Marco Salvo MSc Defense 'Using Dedicated Bird Radar Systems to Classify Avian Targets and Identify Meteorological and Temporal Drivers of Bird Risk to Aircraft' |
| 11/21 |
Landon Magee PhD Proposal 'Blackfeet Bison Reintroduction: Resource Selection and Interspecies Interactions of Reintroduced Bison.' |
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| 11/28 |
THANKSGIVING NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED |
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| 12/05 |
Hannah Walker PhD Proposal 'Genomics of Adaptive Evolution in Wild Pigs' |
Anika Snyder PhD Proposal 'Genomic and Environmental Insights into Partial Migration and its Impacts on the Population Genetics of Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus)' |