Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science - M.S. Program Seminars
Upcoming seminar
The Fall 2022 Research Seminar Series has concluded. Check back soon for the Spring 2023 Natural Resources Management Seminar Series lineup.
Fall 2022 Weekly Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | Noelani Puniwai, PhD | Oceanic insights: A weaving of Indigenous ways of knowing the kai | UH Mānoa, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies |
| Sep 19 | Celia T. Bardwell-Jones, PhD | What would a Decolonial Conservation Ethics look like? | UH Hilo |
| Sep 26 | Panelists: Moana Ulu Ching, Colleen Cole, & Shalan Crysdale Moderator: Lisa Canale |
Finding funding: Grant writing & reporting strategies for graduate students, researchers, & NGOs | Conservation International Three Mountain Alliance The Nature Conservancy UH Hilo, Office of Research |
| Oct 3 | Rebecca Chong, PhD, & Megan Porter, PhD | Hawaiian lava tube biology and evolution along the space-time continuum | UH Mānoa, School of Life Sciences |
| Oct 10 | Scott A. Bonar, PhD & Author | Verbal Judo! A Method to Improve Your Ability to Talk to Those Hostile to Conservation | Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Arizona, American Fisheries Society |
| Oct 17 | Franny Kinslow Brewer | Utilizing social psychology to enhance conservation behavior | Big Island Invasive Species Committee |
| Oct 24 | Jay W. Davis | Roads to Ruin or Treading Water: How Contaminants in Stormwater Runoff Impact Aquatic Critters | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (retired) |
| Oct 31 | Jesse A. Eiben, PhD | Applied insect conservation management research in HI and PA: Insect biodiversity monitoring from Maunakea to the Appalachians | Department of Biology, Geology, & Environmental Sciences, PennWest California |
| Nov 7 | Matthew L. Knope, PhD | The research projects of four recent TCBES graduates: from the ecology of Hawaiian plants, fungi, algae, and invertebrates to global assessments of extinction risk in vertebrates | UH Hilo |
| Nov 14 | Trisha Atwood, PhD | Managing and protecting carbon stored in marine sediments: A challenge for marine conservation | Professor of Watershed Sciences and the Ecology Center |
| Nov 21 | Lillian J. Tuttle Raz, PhD | Think Global, Act Local: Stewardship of Coral Reefs Facing Multiple Coastal Stressors | Hawai'i Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, UH Hilo |
| Nov 28 | Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Ostertag | Hybrid Ecosystems and Forest Restoration: Lessons from Hawaiʻi | Professor, Biology and TCBES, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo |
| Dec 5 | Stella Capoccia, PhD | Waterfowl migration, protection, and mitigation efforts at the Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana (In person) | Department of Biological Sciences, Montana Technological University |
Past Seminars
Details of past seminars can be found in our Archived Seminars Section