Fall 2025 Seminar Speaker Series

These events will be held on Fridays from 2:00-3:00 pm in Gerald Thomas Hall, Room 190.
ZOOM: https://nmsu.zoom.us/j/81034182444 Passcode: FWCE 

Events held on Tuesdays are marked with an asterisk.

*August 26
Gavin Jones (Avian faculty candidate, 10:00a GTH 297)
"Avian ecology and conservation in the pyrocene"
August 29
FWCE Orientation

*September 3
Aaron Young (Avian faculty candidate, 10:00a GTH 297)
"Conserving New Mexico’s birds: applied management in working landscapes"

*September 10
Evan Tanner (Avian faculty candidate, 10:00a Knox 201)
"Microclimates to mosaics: linking landscape patterns and ecological processes to guide avian conservation across New Mexico"

September 19
Jesse Alston (University of Arizona)
"Wildlife-livestock coexistence in East African savannas"

September 26
Casey Wagnon (NMSU)
"Ecological responses of Chihuahuan Desert mammals to changing environments and restoration efforts"

October 17
Nancy Karraker (New Mexico Consortium)
Seminar Title TBD

October 24
Jeff Foster (Northern Arizona University)
"Scatological adventures in animal diets"

November 7
Audrey Harris (Idaho Game and Fish – Eagle Fish Genetics Lab)
"A day in the life of a geneticist: leveraging genetic data to answer fisheries and conservation questions"

November 14
Benjamin Van Doren (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
"Bird migration in a changing world"

November 21
Jessica Hua (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Seminar title TBD

December 5
Michaela Buenemann (NMSU)
Seminar title TBD


Fall 2025 Seminar Flyers