Seminars
Winter 2026 Seminar Series
Fridays, 9:30–10:30 AM; Reception 10:30–11:00 AM
Coastal Biology Building 110
- January 9
- Don Croll, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Collaborating for Conservation and Research: The 100-Year Story of El Pardito - January 16
- Taal Levi, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Species Interactions among Carnivores - January 23
- Nate Dominy, Professor, Dartmouth University
Mummified baboons and the road to Yam - January 30
- Teresa Ish, Oceans Initiative Lead and Senior Program Officer, Environment Program, Walton Family Foundation
Beyond the Lab: Finding Unexpected Careers with a Scientist’s Toolkit - February 6
- Dan Crocker, Professor, Sonoma State University
- February 13
- Sarah Kienle, Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
- February 20
- Megan DeMarche, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Adaptation, plasticity, and the persistence of tundra plants under climate change - February 27
- Julie Allen, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
- March 6
- TBA
- March 13
- Ioana Anghel, Postdoctoral Scholar
Fall 2025 Seminar Series
- October 3
- Tim Tinker, Research Ecologist
The great experiment, and the continuing Estes legacy: studying socio-ecological effects of removal (fur trade) and ongoing recovery of sea otters to coastal ecosystems - October 10
- Roxanne Beltran, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Unraveling individual and environmental drivers of life history trait variation in long-lived vertebrates - October 17
- CAMINO Symposium
- October 24
- Lalitha Balachandran, Ali Bhatti, Lina Arcila Hernández, Postdoctoral Scholars
Field-based teaching & learning through the lens of educational impact and pedagogical practice - October 31
- Justin Baldwin, Postdoctoral Scholar
Nest Predation, Incubation and Development in Neotropical Birds
- November 7
- Eric Wood, Associate Professor of Avian & Urban Ecology, California State University, Los Angeles
The effects of over a century of urbanization on the avifauna of Southern California - November 14
- Rebecca Hufft, Associate Director of Climate Resilience, Denver Botanic Gardens
Nature-based solutions for a sustainable future - November 21
- Scott Stephens, Professor of Fire Science and Forest Policy, UC Berkeley
Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Reality: Challenges and Opportunities - December 5
- Meaghan Clark, Postdoctoral Scholar
Inferring the evolutionary trajectories of wild populations using genomic and long-term demographic data