Fall 2026 Seminar Speaker Series
These events will be held Fridays 2:00-3:00 pm
Gerald Thomas Hall, Room 336
August 28
Jena Nierman (New Mexico Department of Wildlife)
"Guano see something cool? Non-game mammal research by New Mexico Department of Wildlife and a career path as a mammalogist"
September 4
No Seminar
September 11
Thomas Riecke (University of Montana)
"Causal demographic models"
September 18
Nate Upham (Arizona State University)
"No mammal is an island: what evolutionary history tells us about species, interactions, and emerging diseases"
September 25
Evan Grant (USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center)
"Disease decision analysis to inform conservation decisions for imperiled amphibians"
October 2
Georgia Titcomb (Colorado State University)
"Integrating ecology, molecular methods, and One Health to study parasites across human and animal communities in Madagascar"
October 9
Madison Miller (New Mexico Consortium)
"An assessment of disease risk, population genetics, and spatial ecology of Appalachian cottontails (Sylvilagus obscurus) and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) in West Virginia, USA"
October 16
Dan Shaw (Bosque School)
"CEBRIN Field & Community Science Program – Teaching Civic Engagement through Bosque Research & Investigating Nature"
October 23
Javan Bauder (University of Arizona, USGS CRU)
"Modeling species-landscape relationships across scales to inform conservation"
October 30
Nicholas Burgmeier (Purdue University)
"Help the hellbender: Hellbender conservation in Indiana"
November 13
Jesse Miles (Beveridge and Diamond PC)
"Discussion of current wildlife legal issues"
November 20
Erica Christensen (New Mexico State University)
"Patterns of long-term change in plant and animal communities in the arid southwest U.S."
November 27
No seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4
Dan Neubaum (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
"Avoiding bat dogma: Why ecoregional difference of broad-ranging species matter"
