School of Natural Resources and Environment

Recordings of Past SNRE Seminars

Fall 2024

Date

Presenter/Presentation Title

August 26

Recording

SNRE New Student Orientation (no seminar)

September 2

Holiday (no seminar)

September 9

Seminar Expectations and Introductions

Dr. Alison Adams

September 16

Recording

Novel Approaches May Improve Wet Prairie Restoration Outcomes

Dr. Ashlynn Smith

September 23

Recording

Putting resilience to work: developing and implementing a quantitative systems model for airport resilience

Dr. Robert Horton

September 30

No seminar

October 7

Recording

Environmental Risk and Chemical Weapons Disposal: The Case of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Demilitarization Program

Dr. Alison Adams

October 14

No seminar

October 21

Recording

Microclimate and its Role in Biogeography from Local to Global Scales

Dr. David Klinges

October 28

Recording

Integrating Data Science for Disease Prediction, Classification, and Expanding Access in Internet-Limited Settings

Virnaliz Cruz Hernandez

November 4

Recording

Comparing Use of Species Occurrence Data and Online Databases by Academic and Government Professionals in the United States

Dr. Elizabeth Martín-Mora

November 11

Holiday (no seminar)

November 18

Recording

Investigating the Multifarious Impacts of Animal Invasions

Kodiak Hengstebeck

November 25

Holiday (no seminar)

December 2

Influence of Global Change on Species' Behavior, Movement, and Ranges

Dr. Alex Baecher

Spring 2024

Date	Presenter/Presentation Title
January 8	SNRE New Student Orientation (no seminar)
January 15	Holiday (no seminar)
January 22	Seminar Expectations and Introductions Dr. Alison Adams
January 29	Repopulating the Former Breeding Range: Spatio-Temporal Patterns and Drivers of an Avian Top Predator Matyas Prommer
February 5	Community Engagement in Coral Reef Restoration Natalia Uribe-Castañeda
February 12	Harnessing "People Power" to Advance Biodiversity Research Dr. Corey Callaghan
February 19	Co-existence of the Snow Leopard and Pastoralist Communities in the Changtang, China Xiaoxing Bian
February 26	Microbial Diversity of Central African Amphibians and Its Relationships to Pathogens Dr. Marcel Talla Kouete
March 4	Machine Learning and Satellite Remote Sensing for Monitoring Invasive Cactus in Laikipia County, Kenya Dr. Chang Zhao
March 11	Spring Break (no seminar)
March 18	Sustaining Urban Agriculture: The Role of Ecosystem Services and Public Involvement Hui Zhao
March 25	The Forbidden Fire and the Role of Rural Communities Facing Increasingly Flammable Landscapes in the Peruvian Andes Vanessa Luna-Celino
April 1	Quantitative Frameworks for Oyster Reef Monitoring and Restoration in the Big Bend of Florida Matt Richardson
April 8	From Plasmids to Populations: Applying Ecological Principles to Human and Animal Health Dr. Julie T. Shapiro
April 15	CANCELLED
April 22	Transitions toward Sustainability: Transforming Undergraduate Students' Key Sustainability Competence Angela Melidosian

Fall 2023

Date	Presenter/Presentation Title
August 28, 2023	SNRE New Student Orientation (no seminar)
September 4, 2023	Holiday (no seminar)
September 11, 2023	Seminar Expectations and Introductions Dr. Alison Adams
September 18, 2023	Evaluating Climate Resilience of Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica) Agroecosystems Dr. Emily Pappo
September 25, 2023	Catalyzing Mutualisms and Multi-Sector Innovation to Sustain Our Rapidly Changing Coasts Dr. Christine Angelini
October 2, 2023	Adaptive and Resilient Communities to Evolving Coastal Environments Dr. Katherine Deliz
October 9, 2023	Investigating Potential Bioindicators of Health & Environmental Stress in the Cnidarian Holobiont Experiencing Multiple Stressors Dr. DeVant'e Dawson
October 16, 2023	Satellite and UAS Imagery Automated Analysis for Marine Mammals' Surveys and Migration Studies Dr. Esteban Rodofili
October 23, 2023	Temporal Structure and Nutrient Controls of Riverine Metabolism Yuseung Shin
October 30, 2023	Savannas in a Changing World: Effects of Environmental Change on Trees in African Savannas Dr. Maggie Jones
November 6, 2023	No seminar (cancelled)
November 13, 2023	Developing Decision Support Tools for Florida Stock Enhanced Freshwater Recreational Fisheries Dr. Diana Perry
November 20, 2023	Two Major Savanna Ecosystem Drivers: Shrub Encroachment & Large Herbivores as Drivers of Bird Communities in African Savannas Muzi Sibiya
November 27, 2023	Case Studies Exploring Social Science Approaches to Charismatic Species Conservation Diane J. Episcopio-Sturgeon
December 4, 2023	Restoration Effects, Community Assembly Dynamics, and Flammability of the Rare and Imperiled Plant Communities on Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park Dr. Owen Schneider

Spring 2023

Date	Presenter/Presentation Title
January 9, 2023	No seminar - First day of classes
January 16, 2023	No seminar - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 23, 2023	Dr. Alison Adams Seminar Expectations - No recording
January 30, 2023	Dr. Alison Adams Icebreaker Activity - No recording
February 6, 2023	Laurel Kaminsky Tackling the Ecosystem of Data: Research Support and Tools for Success in the UF Libraries
February 13, 2023	Tyler Carney Power to the Pollinators: Using Utility Bill Fees in a Stated Preference Study of Florida Residents to Protect Pollinators
February 20, 2023	Dr. Joel Correia Amazonian Archipelagos: Rethinking Relationships Between Indigenous Territories and Conservation
February 27, 2023	Megan Donovan Advancing Climate Risk Mitigation of Crop Production in the Southern U.S.
March 6, 2023	Aaron Pilnick Intensive Aquaculture of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum With Restoration Considerations
March 13, 2023	No seminar - Spring Break
March 20, 2023	Dr. Miguel Acevedo Stumbling with the Medici Effect: Adventures in Interdisciplinary Ecology
March 27, 2023	No seminar
April 3, 2023	No seminar - but we ask that students attend the SNRE Student Research Symposium on April 4
April 10, 2023	Sinomar Ferreira Da Fonseca Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Brazilian Amazon
April 17, 2023	Forrest Lefler Diversity of Cyanobacteria in Tropical and Subtropical Fresh Waters
April 24, 2023	Ashpreet Kaur Campus Zero Waste Program: Toward a Better Understanding of Zero Waste Program Success

Fall 2022

Date	Presenter/Presentation Title
August 29, 2022	SNRE Orientation (only for new Fall 2022 IE admits)
September 5, 2022	No Seminar - Labor Day Holiday
September 12, 2022	Dr. Alison Adams Seminar Expectations
September 19, 2022	Dr. Megan Ennes Framing Science Communication for the Public
September 26, 2022	Dr. Sam Smidt Impacts of Residential Fertilizer Ordinances on Florida Lacustrine Water Quality
October 3, 2022	Dr. Anna Braswell Coastal Wetlands in a Macroscale Framework: How Can We Better Understand the Drivers of Persistence?
October 10, 2022	Sam Zlotnik Feeding Behavior and Mouthpart Development in Juvenile Leaf-footed Bugs
October 17, 2022	Jesse Borden Complex Impacts of Antrhopogenic Habitat Change-From Behaviors to Niches…and Beyond
October 24, 2022	Shane Feyers System Mechanics of Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism: Producers, Consumers, and Facilitative Actors
October 31, 2022	Carolyn Enloe Population Genomic Structure and Geographic Variation in Florida's Coastal Seaside Sparrows
November 7, 2022	Amanda Brinton Trees, Trash, and Hurricanes: The Case Study of Puerto Rico and Disaster Management After Hurricanes Irma and Maria
November 14, 2022	No speaker NA
November 21, 2022	Marliz Arteaga Multilevel Environmental Governance in the Amazon: The Case of Madera Hydroelectric Dam Complex Bolivia and Brazil
November 28, 2022	Scott Borsum The Development of Oyster Resource Production and Governance: A Harbinger For Seafood Production Systems
December 5, 2022	Jamila Roth Effects of Environmental Change on Seagrass Resilience and Seagrass-Herbivore Interactions

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title
January 10, 2022	SNRE Orientation	Only for new spring, 2022 IE admits
January 17, 2022	No Seminar	MLK Jr Holiday
January 24, 2022	Dr. Alison Adams	Seminar Expectations
January 31, 2022	Carolina De Oliveira Jordao	Saving the Rainforest? Challenges of Bein and Acting as NGOs in the Amazon
February 7, 2022	Dr. Taylor Stein	Not All Hikers are the Same: Assessing Visitation on a Long-Distance Trail
February 14, 2022	Dr. Jason Smith	Consequences of Novel Encounters with Forest Fungi
February 21, 2022	Dr. Raelene Crandall	Tales of Plants that Thrive Where Fire and Water Collide
February 28, 2022	Renata Diaz	Of rodents and randomness: macroecological approaches to community structure
March 7, 2022	No Seminar	Spring Break
March 14, 2022	Elizabeth Webb	Land- Climate Feedbacks in the Arctic-Boreal Zone
March 21, 2022	Pamela Montero Alvarez	Conservation strategies in the contemporary amazon: community-based tourism, networks, and actions among conservation organizations
March 28, 2022	Robert Botta	Enhancing the usage of regional economic analyses within resource management: Case studies of Florida aquatic resources
April 11, 2022	Pablo Moreno Garcia	Variation in plant-pollinator and host-parasite networks along spatial and temporal gradients
April 18, 2022	Sergio Padilla Paz	Human Dimensions of Morelet's Crocodile in Campeche, Mexico

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title
August 23, 2021	SNRE Administration & Staff	SNRE Orientation (only for new summer and fall 2021 IE admits)
September 13, 2021	Dr. John White	Louisiana’s Deltaic Coastline In Peril: The Frontlines in Society’s Battle Against a Rising Sea
September 20, 2021	Dr. Stephen Perz	Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon
September 27, 2021	Dr. Dean Dobberfuhl	Lake Apopka, FL: Case Study of a Succeeding Lake Restoration
October 4, 2021	Melody Royster	The Top 10 Things You Need to Know about the UF Libraries
October 11, 2021	Dr. Mark Brenner	Importance of the Historical Perspective in Environmental Studies
October 18, 2021	Dr. Michael Chimney	The Role of Treatment Wetlands in Everglades Restoration: History and Performance of the Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas
October 25, 2021	Benjamin Stelling	Seasonal Change in Phytoplankton Communities in the Surface and Near-Bottom Water off Cape Canaveral, FL
November 1, 2021	Ben Lowe	Religious Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
November 15, 2021	Stefano Barchiesi	From Ecosystem Restoration to Nature-based Solution: the Case of an Endangered Wetland of International Importance in Costa Rica
November 29, 2021	Emily Khazan	Thermal Physiology and Community Ecology of Butterflies of the Colombian Andes
December 6, 2021	Gretchen Stokes	Assessing global inland fisheries with integrated socio-ecological approaches

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Title
January 25, 2021	Dr. Elizabeth White Rose	Movement Ecology of Urban and Rural Florida's Burrowing Owls
February 1, 2021	Dr. Jim Jawitz	Spatial ecology in fractal hydrologic landscapes
February 15, 2021	Dr. Alison Adams	Exploring Ideas in Environmental Sociology, Justice, and Activism
February 22, 2021	Dr. Nia Morales	Using social science to encourage inclusive conservation
March 1, 2021	Natalie Claunch	The World is Not Enough: Physiological Legacies of Reptile Invasions
March 8, 2021	Dr. Mysha Clarke	The human dimensions of invasive plant management
March 22, 2021	Angelica V. Garcia	Factors affecting spatial distribution, cultural perceptions, and sustainability of palm management in Madre de Dios, Peru
March 29, 2021	Ed Basham	The diversity and complexity of biodiversity patterns across vertical height in tropical forests
April 5, 2021	Dr. Sam Smidt	Managing the Consumption of Essential Natural Resources
April 12, 2021	May Lehmensiek	Occupation Displacement of Commercial Fishers - Case Studies from Florida and Brazil
April 19, 2021	Julie Walker	Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Wetlands and Implications for their Future Management

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Title
September 14, 2020	Alicia McGrew, Ph.D.	Community Structure of the Aquatic Food Web in the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea
September 21, 2020	Ben Toh	Modeling Malaria: Methods and Application
September 28, 2020	Lily Kirk, Ph.D.	Metabolism in Subtropical Lowland Rivers
October 5, 2020	Hannah Brown, Ph.D.	Presenting the Story of Your Research
October 12, 2020	Caroline Poli, Ph.D.	The Roles of Habitat & Individual-Based Traits for Understanding Survival & Connectivity Across Landscapes
October 19, 2020	Sergio Marconi	Disentangling the role of Ecological Drivers on Forest Dimensions Across Scales
October 26, 2020	Jess Hightower	Birds, Logging, and Oil Palm Plantations: The Response of Bird Communities to Human Land Use in Borneo
November 2, 2020	Alia DeLong	Farmer Decision-Making: Adaptive Research for a New Generation of Farmers
November 9, 2020	Cris Nunez Godoy	Which Program Will Halt Deforestation? Landowners' Preferences for Forest Conservation Programs in Gran Chaco, Argentina
November 16, 2020	Zoliswa Nhleko	Understanding and responding to South Africa’s white rhino crisis
November 30, 2020	Nichole Bishop	Nutritional Ecology of the Critically Endangered Central American River Turtle, Dermatemys Mawii
December 7, 2020	Fatemah Jamal	Echinoids and Their Symbiotic Pea Crabs North Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Title
January 13, 2020	Bette Loiselle, Ph.D.	UF's Tropical Conservation and Development Program: bridging theory and practice to address challenges to socio-environmental systems
February 3, 2020	Luke McEachron, Ph.D.	Reef fish spatial distributions throughout the Florida Keys in the context of matrix effects, trophic dynamics, and complementary modeling techniques
February 17, 2020	Ellen Bledsoe, Ph.D.	The Role of Patch- and Landscape-level Processes in Shaping Desert Rodent Communities
February 24, 2020	Maria Juliana Bedoya-Durán	Privately Protected Areas & Shade-Grown Coffee in the Andes of Colombia: Perspectives on their Conservation Value from Ground Birds & Mammals
March 9, 2020	Holden Harris, Ph.D.	Viability and Effectiveness of a Commercial Fishery to Mitigate Invasive Lionfish in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
March 23, 2020	Kwanmok Kim	How does habitat complexity affect species composition in oyster reefs?
March 30, 2020	Arjun Srivathsa	Saving the Underdogs: A Multi-Scale Approach to Inform Strategies for Conserving the Endangered Asiatic Wild Dog
April 6, 2020	Percy Peralta	What Incentivizes Eco-Friendly Coffee Practices in the Peruvian Tropical Andes?: Socioeconomic and Environmental Sustainability of Smallholder Coffee Production in the Satipo Province, Peru
April 13, 2020	Allison Durland Donahow	Effects of Domestication on Life History Trait Tradeoffs in the Trinidadian Guppy (Poecilia reticulata) with Implications for Invasiveness in Florida

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Topics
September 23, 2019	Dr. Mark Clark	Joe Rains Beach Living Shoreline: Findings of Research on Restoration Methods Tested During Implementation and A Catalyst for Scale-Up within the Cedar Key Community
September 30, 2019	Felipe Pinheiro	Silvopastoral management of the Brazilian drylands: Soil carbon sequestration and farmer-managed restoration of native vegetation
October 7, 2019	Tabitha Petri	What are the effects of domestication on invasion risk?
October 14, 2019	Ange Asanzi	A socio-economic analysis of the world largest planned hydropower project: The Grand Inga dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo
October 21, 2019	Dr. Jamie Loizzo	Science Communication in Natural Resources
November 4, 2019	Hannah Brown	Collaborating for Oyster Sustainability: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Stakeholder Communication and Preference for Future Management Outcomes on the Gulf Coast
November 25, 2019	Andrea Baudoin	"Volver a hablar con la gente la agua": Meanders of indigenous autonomy in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
December 2, 2019	Anmari Alvarez Aleman	Population Genetics and the Conservation of West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Cuba

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