Previous Lectures

2009 Lectures

  • October 8 - Gary Knight, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, "The Florida Panhandle: A National Ecological Treasure".
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  • September 10 -Jack Rudloe, Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, "Shrimp".
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  • August 13 -Helen Light, Wetlands Scientist, “Declining Flows and Levels in the Apalachicola River and Effects on Floodplain Habitats.
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  • July 9 - Dr. David Kimbro, FSU Coastal & Marine Laboratory, "The Effects of Atlantic Coast Predators on Pacific Coast Oyster Reefs.
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  • June 11 - Dr. Walter Tschinkel, FSU Department of Biological Science "Fire Ant Biology and Ecology".
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  • May 14 - Dr. Steve Geiger, Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute "Status of Bay Scallops (Argopecten irradians) in Florida west coast waters.
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  • April 9 - Ken Heck, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama. Consumers Rule: Predator Primacy in Shallow Benthic Ecosystems.
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  • March 12 - Dr. Anne Rudloe, Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, Panacea, FL.
    Sea Turtles - A Race for Survival.
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  • February 12 - Dr. Don Strong, University of California, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Ecological and Evolutionary Misadventures of Invasive Spartina.
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  • January 22 - Dr. John Bruno, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Florida's coral reefs: threats, decline, management, and signs of hope.
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  • January 9 - Robert Paine, University of Washington, Food webs: from Baymouth Bar to keystone species, interaction strengths and beyond.
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2008 Lectures

  • February 14 - Bruce Menge, Zoology Department, Oregon State University - Coastal ecosystems: windows into ecological consequences of global warming?
  • March 21 - Brian Helmuth, University of South Carolina, Department of Biological Sciences - Ecological Forecasting of Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems: Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change
  • April 10 - Stephanie Simek, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission- The Florida Black Bear; Achieving Successful Co-Existence
  • May 8 - Kevin M Porter, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research- A Historic Dugout from the Apalachicola River
  • June 12 - Dr. R. Dean Grubbs, FSU Coastal & Marine Laboratory - Sharks and rays of Florida: An introduction of their diversity, identification, biology and ecology.
  • 10 July - Tim Larow  FSU Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, “Hurricanes: past, present, and future”
  • 14 August - Kevin Craig, FSUCML, “Dead zones in the ocean”
  • 11 September - Chris Stallings, FSUCML, “Predators, prey, and people: Indirect effects of fishing on marine communities”
  • October 8 - Bruce Means, Coastal Plains Institute, “U.S. Biodiversity Hotspot”