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Wednesdays 10 – 11 AM
Main Conference Room

Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Avenue
Building C
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Phone: (970) 226-9412

Seminars are held in the main conference room at FORT on Wednesdays starting at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time, unless otherwise noted. The format is a one-hour lecture, with time for questions.

Schedule

February 15: Two Ways to Build a Research Program within USGS: What's Past Is Not Necessarily Prologue
Speaker: Drs. Mike Scott and Gordon Rodda (USGS FORT)
February 21*: Rangeland Dynamics through Space and Time
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Wylie (USGS EROS Data Center)
February 29: Raven RQ-11A sUAS Use for Sandhill Crane Population Estimates
Speaker: Ms. Leanne Hanson (USGS FORT)
March 7: Models to inform Wildlife Management Across Large Landscapes
Speaker: Dr. Brad Fedy (CSU/FORT)
March 14: Spring Break: No Seminar
March 21: Contemporary and Projected Trends in Climate in the Missouri River Basin, 1901-2050
Speaker: Dr. John Stamm (USGS South Dakota Water Science Center)
March 29*: Long-Term Perspectives on Climate Change Impacts in the Rocky Mountain Region
Speaker: Dr. Stephen T. Gray (Director, USGS Alaska Climate Science Center)
April 4: Hexavalent Chromium in Groundwater - toxicity, Occurrence and a Case Study in the Sacramento Valley, CA
Speaker: Dr. Chris Mills (USGS Crustal Physics and Geochemistry Science)
April 11: Long-Term Butterfly Monitoring in RMNP
Speaker: Mr. Richard O. Bray (Volunteer, RMNP)
April 18: Climate Change Effects on Streamflow and Riparian Vegetation in Western North America
Speaker: Drs. Lindsay Reynolds (CSU/FORT), Laura Perry (CSU/FORT), and Pat Shafroth (USGS FORT)
April 25: Using a Web-Based tool to Enhance Access, Use, and Impact of Visitor Survey Data: National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Survey Case Study
Speaker: Ms. Natalie Sexton (USGS FORT)
May 2: Predation Alters Food Webs Across Ecological Boundaries
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Wesner (CSU)
May 9: Revisiting Patterns of Genetic Variation in Sage-Grouse Using Genomic Methods
Speaker: Dr. Sara Oyler-McCance (USGS FORT)
May 16: Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling in the Colorado River
Speaker: Ms. Amber Ulseth (University of Wyoming)

* Seminar is on a Tuesday or Thursday