2025 Spring Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Biology - WILD 594
Location: Gallagher 122 and
Wildlife Biology seminars will be held in person and on unless otherwise noted. For information regarding grad seminar please contact hugh.robinson@umontana.edu
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Presenter 1:00 - 1:50 |
Presenter 2:00 - 2:50 |
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01/17 |
Hugh Robinson/Connor Meyer Welcome/Grad Student Chat |
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01/24 |
Ehsan Moqanki, PhD, Guest Speaker “From Near-Extinction to Recover: Wolverine Density Across Scandinavia” |
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01/31 |
Anna Kurtin, Thesis Defense “Investigating Survey Methods and Habitat Associations of Black-Billed Cuckoos in the Northern Great Plains” Zoom Meeting for this presentation: |
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02/07 |
Connor Meyer, PhD Update Talk "Predators of All Sizes: estimating the effects of wolves and parasites on the Ya Ha Tinda elk population" |
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02/14 |
Christian Dupree, Thesis Defense "BINOCULARS TO BYTES: DEVELOPMENT AND FIELD VALIDATION OF AN AI-DRIVEN SYSTEM FOR AVIAN MONITORING" |
Graduate Student Discussion on Hiring/Crew Leading/Safety in the Field |
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02/21 |
Heather Abernathy, PhD, Guest Speaker |
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02/28 |
Colleen Piper, PhD Talk “Dam it all!- Progress so far exploring environmental factors that influence beaver dam persistence and failure in prairie streams
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Andi Stewart, PhD Talk "Adaptive Management in Action: Navigating the Challenges of Elk Monitoring in the Field" |
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03/07 |
Michelle Kissling, PhD, Guest Speaker “Conservation in Zambia, A Fulbright Experience” (No Zoom Link) |
Remi Murdoch, Proposal Defense Back to the Future: A Temporal Comparison of Genetic Diversity of Skagit River Chinook Salmon |
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03/14 |
Stewart Breck, PhD, Invited Guest Speaker |
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03/21 |
Spring Break – No Seminar – |
Spring Break – No Seminar – |
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03/28 |
Wesley Sarmento, Proposal Defense “Blackfeet Bison Restoration: trophic cascades, extreme heat, and predation risk” Zoom Meeting for this presentation:
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Sunny Domschot, PhD Update Talk "CORT as a physiological biomarker" |
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04/04 |
Alex Metcalf, PhD, Human Dimensions Lab |
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04/08 (Off Seminar) |
Jonathan Farr, PhD Proposal "Competition and Wildlife Recovery: Bison in Banff as a case study" Location: FOR 305 Time: 9:00am Zoom meeting: |
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04/11 |
Amaia Autor, Proposal Defense “Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation on the Central American Oncilla in Costa Rica’s Montane Cloud Forests” |
Lauren Hatch, Proposal Defense “Understanding Interactions between Declining Grassland Songbirds and Invasive Plants in Central 猎奇重口” |
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04/15 (Off Seminar) |
Brianna Lipp, Proposal Defense Exploring Identity and Conflict in the Human Dimensions of Wolves in the American West Location: CLAPP 452 Time: 9:00am |
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04/18 |
Holli Holmes, Thesis Defense “Harlequin Ducks: How to find them and where are they” |
Trevor Weeks, Thesis Defense “Effects of Timber Harvest on Elk Summer Nutrition and Resource Selection” |
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04/25 (Off Seminar) |
Kat Garrett, Proposal Defense Quantifying the impact of animal behavior on abundance estimators Location: FOR 305 Time: 10:00am |
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04/25 |
Elizabeth Painter-Flores, Dissertation Defense “White-tailed deer in a six-predator community in North Idaho” |
Kelsey Cronin, Proposal Defense “If you don't talk to your kids about loons, who will?” |
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04/28 (Off Seminar) |
Natalie Molea, PhD Proposal Defense "Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics of African hornbills" Location: FOR 305 Time: 10:00am |
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04/30 (Off Seminar) |
Brenna Cassidy, Dissertation Defense “Social, Ecological, and Anthropogenic Effects on Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Survival” Location: TBD |
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05/02 |
Stephen Lewis, Dissertation Defense “Space Use and Movement of Bald and Golden Eagles Across Behavioral Classes in Alaska” |
Cody Lane, Thesis Defense |