SGS-LTER Brown Bag schedule, fall 2008
This semester we are discussing SGS-LTER past and proposed research from noon to 1 PM in NESB B224.
Oct 3: Justin Derner, Central Plains Experimental Range, USDA-ARS
"Project Plan for CPER".
Oct 10: Mike Antolin, Faunal research discussion
Oct 17: Jack Morgan, Crops Research Lab, USDA-ARS, and Bill Parton, NREL
Oct 24: Grazing research discussion
Oct 31: Microbial ecology research discussion
Nov 7: Craig Judd, Biology, graduate research seminar
Nov 14: Biogeochemistry group discussion (this week or on the 21st)
Nov 21: TBA
Dec 5: Suellen Melzer, Soil and Crop Sciences, graduate research seminarPast Brown Bag Schedules
Spring 2008 Schedule
February 27. Bill Parton, co-PI with SGS LTER and senior researcher at NREL will be presenting his work on: “Historical Changes in Land Use, Population, Crop Yields and Agricultural Income for the Great Plains.”
March 12. OPEN
March 26. Indy Burke, co-PI with SGS LTER and professor in the Department of Forestry, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, CSU, “Nitrogen Matters: Long Term Investigations on the SGS.”
April 9. TBA
April 23. TBA
May 7. Adriana
Beltran-Przekurat, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder
Fall 2007 Schedule
September 12 Jack Morgan, Crops Research Lab, USDA ARS and SGS LTER, “Global Change and Implications for Species Changes in the Shortgrass Steppe”
September 26
October 10
October 24 Jana Heisler, Biology, CSU, “Climate change in the Great Plains: More extreme precipitation patterns impact ecosystems differentially across the central US”
November 14 Madeline Scheintaub, Biology, CSU, “Response of shortgrass steppe to fire”
November 28 Eliana Bontti, Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, CSU, "N2O and CO2 emissions in the shortgrass steppe: Are fungi more important than bacteria?"
December 12
Spring 2007 Schedule:
February 22: Bill Parton, NREL, CSU, “Global-Scale Similarities in Nitrogen Release Patterns During Long-Term Decomposition”
March 8: Feike Dijkstra, Crops Research Lab, ARS, "Stimulation of Soil Organic Matter by Active Plant Roots"
March 22: Danny Martin, Wildlife Research Center, Colorado Division of Wildlife, “Ecology of the Short-Horned Lizard (Phyrnosoma hernandesi) in Northeastern Colorado.”
April 5: Catherine Keske, Agricultural and Resource Economics, CSU, “The Value of Mountain Access: A Non-Market Valuation Study of Colorado Fourteeners.”
April 19: Patrick Martin, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, CSU, “Controls on Landscape Vegetation Patterns and Dynamics: Tropical Montane Forests and Exotic Invasions of Eastern Deciduous Forests.”
Fall 2006 Schedule:
September 28: Scott Newbold, SGS-LTER, CSU "Disentangling biotic and abiotic determinants of species distribution: Desert horned lizards (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) in a shrub-steppe ecosystem."
October 5: Moffatt Ngugi, Natural Resources Ecology Lab,
CSU "Evaluating grazing management impacts on biomass production in
grasslands by moderate resolution satellite data."
October 19: Stephen Mackessy, Biological Sciences,
UNC "Snakes on the Plains."
November 2: Catherine Keske, Agricultural and Resource
Economics, CSU, "What did the market tell us about land conservation? An
economic study of landowners and land trusts."
November 16: Seth Munson, SGS-LTER, CSU, "Plant
community and ecosystem change on Conservation Reserve Program lands in
northeastern Colorado"
November 30: David Augustine, Rangeland Resources Research Unit, ARS "Temporal patterns of N cycling in grazing ecosystems.
"Postponed Until Spring Semester: Patrick Martin, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, CSU "Controls on landscape vegetation patterns and dynamics: Tropical montane forests and exotic invasions of eastern deciduous forests."
Spring 2006 Schedule:
February 10: Joe von Fischer, Biology, CSU, "Soil
diffusivity and methanotroph community structure as interactive drivers for landscape
variability in methane biogeochemistry."
February 24: Daniel Milchunas, FRWS, CSU, "Roots
-- not the movie, but a long tradition of shortgrass steppe research and gray
hair concerning those things belowground."
March 10: Cancelled
March 24: Noah Fierer, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, "Exploring the diversity and
biogeography of soil microbial communities."
April 14: Laurel Hartley, Biology, CSU, "Prairie
dogs, plants, and plague: Plant communities and nutrient cycling on
prairie dog colonies of the shortgrass steppe."
Fall 2005 Schedule:
We will be meeting on Fridays from 12:10 to 1 PM in Plant Science Building, Room W009.
September 23: Justin Derner, High Plains
Grasslands Research Station, USDA-ARS, Cheyenne
"A burning question in the shortgrass steppe."
October 7: Bill Parton, NREL, and Mike
Antolin, Biology, CSU will lead a discussion on
"Use of models to integrate Plant-Animal Research".
October 21: George Janson, UVB Project,
Natural Resources Ecology Lab, CSU
"The USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program"
Topics include the history of the program and why it was created, the
instruments used and the data collected, the variety of researchers using the
database, and our future plans.
November 4: Peter Newman, Natural Resources
Recreation and Tourism, CSU
"Exploring the social landscape of the Pawnee National Grassland and the
LTER Network."
November 18: Kelly Hardwicke, Biology, CSU
"Tritrophic interactions in shortgrass steppe: Prairie dogs increase
floral resources and pollinator visitation, and influence trophic web
structure."
December 2: Alan Knapp, Biology, CSU
"Ecological rules for grasslands."
Re-scheduled until Spring '06 Semester: Laurel
Hartley, Biology, CSU
"Prairie dogs, plants, and plague: Plant communities and nutrient cycling
on prairie dog colonies of the shortgrass steppe."
Spring 2005 Schedule:
The Spring 2005 Brown Bag seminars are continuing mostly on Mondays. Talks are in room W009, Plant Sciences Builiding unless otherwise specified. We meet from noon to 1 PM and speakers begin at 12:10 except May 16.
Monday, March 21: Bill Lauenroth, Plant
ecology and grazing research within the SGS-LTER project
Monday, April 4: John Moore, SGS-LTER environmental education
projects
FRIDAY, April 15: Indy Burke, Biogeochemistry research within
the SGS-LTER project
Monday, April 18: Jack Morgan, Land-atmosphere research within
the SGS-LTER project
Monday, April 25: Mike Antolin, Faunal research within the
SGS-LTER project
Monday, May 2: Gene Kelly, Project Management
Monday, May 16: Nicole Kaplan, Information Management NATURAL
RESOURCES BUILDING ROOM 201, FROM 11 AM til NOON.
Fall 2004 Schedule:
September 22: Rich Conant, NREL, CSU, "Taking the Pulse of Colorado's Front Range: Grasslands."
October 6: TBA
October 20: Joe von Fischer, Biology and NREL, CSU, "Linking Microbial Community Properties to Ecosystem Function: Methane Consumption on the Shortgrass Steppe."
November 3: Chris Brooks, Biology, CSU, "A Scale-Based Analysis of Connectivity: Extending the Graph-Theoretic Approach."
November 17: TBA
December 1: Jerry Schuman, ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station, Cheyenne, "Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics after 20 Years of Grazing a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie."
Next semester: Alan Knapp, Biology, "Ecological Rules for Grasslands -- Do LTER Lessons from Konza apply to SGS?"
Spring 2004 Schedule:
February 4: Terry Booth, Rangeland Scientist with the ARS in Cheyenne, "Tools and Procedures for Obtaining Very-Large Scale Aerial Imagery for Resource Assessment"
February 18: Adriana Beltran-Prezkurat, Atmospheric Sciences, CSU, will be speaking about her doctoral research. "Springtime simulations over southeastern South America using a coupled plant-soil-atmosphere model." She will be using the same simulations on the shortgrass steppe after completing her graduate work with Roger Pielke.
March 3: Safi Darden, Population Biology, University of Copenhagen, "Talking with foxes: investigating communication in North American canid and its implications for conversation"
March 24: Jean Reeder, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins, "Long-Term Grazing Increases Soil Inorganic Carbon In A Shortgrass Steppe"
April 7:
April 21: Amy Yackel Adams, Wildlife Biology, CSU, "Post-fledging Survival of Lark Buntings"
May 5: Allan Andales, Soil Scientist, USDA-ARS-Great Plains Systems Research, Fort Collins, "GPFARM Forage and Livestock Models: Current Features and On-Going Development"
Fall 2003 Schedule:
October 1: Alan Busacca, Professor, Pedology,
"Changes in Loess and Dune Deposition in Response to Quarternary Climatic Fluctuations, Columbia Plateau, Pacific Northwest" (PowerPoint Presentation)
November 12 (C21 Plant Sci. Bldg): Gene Kelly, Professor, Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences, CSU, "Round Table Discussion of LTER Projects"
November 19:
Susan Skagen, Research Biologist,
December 3:
Bill Lauenroth, Professor,
December 17: John Moore, professor at UNC and a co-principal investigator on the SGS-LTER project, will lead a discussion about re-thinking how we do some of our environmental education.
Spring 2003 Schedule:
February 19: Cynthia Brown (Assistant
Professor, Bioagricultural Science and
March 5: Roger Peilke (Professor, Atmospheric
Sciences), "The
March 19: Indy Burke (Professor,
April 2: Dana Blumenthal (USDA-ARS Rangeland Resources Research Unit, Crops Research Lab), "Searching for Durable Weed Control: Tallgrass Prairie Restoration, Soil Carbon Addition, and Future Studies".
April 16: Lisa Savage (Graduate Research Assistant, Biology), "Population genetics of black-tailed prairie dogs on the SGS-LTER".
**April 25: Special FRIDAY meeting!** Erin
Lehmer Powell (Graduate Assistant, Biology), "Torpor patterns, diet,
and lipid composition of free-ranging black-tailed and
Fall 2002 Schedule:
September 18: Mark Ball, USFS at PNG, will
lead a discussion of
available data sets that he's been collecting over the past years. He
will be moving to the southern part of the state this fall so this will
be our last chance to talk with him.
October 2: Justin Derner, ARS: Grazing research at the
CPER: the next
phase?
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October 16: Jack Morgan, ARS: Water Related Responses to
CO2 Enrichment in
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November 6: Mike Antolin, Biology, CSU: Evolutionary
Ecology of Disease
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November 20: Peter Adler, GDPE, CSU: Comparison of
livestock grazing
effects on the sagebrush steppe,
December 4: Gene Kelly, Soil and Crop Sciences, CSU
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