Fall Semester 2026
Thursdays 3:30-4:30

Live talks will be held in 304 Lewis Hall unless otherwise noted.    Please check the individual seminars below for information on which seminars will be live and/or virtual. In-person seminars will not be offered virtually, and are not recorded.  (Alternative ADA accessible location can be arranged with advanced notice.)

Undergraduate students may get credit for attending/viewing seminars and writing critiques in course BIOE 494, a 1-credit, fall-only course. Please see your advisor if interested.  

Date Seminar Details More Info

September 17

Department Introductions

 304 Lewis Hall
October 8

Sarah Carroll, Ph.D.

Program Director, Smithsonian Great Plains Science Team

 

 304 Lewis Hall
October 15

Ryan Long, Ph.D.

Professor of Wildlife Sciences, College of Natural Resources--University of Idaho

Thermal constraints on performance of large mammals: Does temperature really matter?

 304 Lewis Hall
October 22

Christine Verhille, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Montana State University

Acclimation of an Academic Ecophysiologist to Reduced Administrative and Teaching Demands: Results from a Sabbatical Experiment

304 Lewis Hall
October 29

Casey Ryan, M.S.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Natural Resources

The Water Keepers: Conservation, Stewardship, and Implementation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Water Rights Settlement

304 Lewis

Hall
November 19

Scott Creel, Ph.D.

Professor of Conservation Biology, Department of Ecology, Montana State University

Group size and cooperative hunting by African wild dogs: a study of rapid anthropogenic change

 304 Lewis Hall
November 26

Thanksgiving Break

  
December 3

Rob Lusardi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Program Director of Center for Watershed Sciences

Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California--Davis

 304 Lewis Hall