School of Forest Resources & Conservation


Spring Semester 2008 SFRC Seminar Series Schedule

Room 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall

4:00 pm

Date

Speaker

Speaker Title

Title of Lecture

Association

Jan. 10 Wendell Cropper Asst. Professor Parameter uncertainty in a palm population model: Genetic Algorithm analysis SFRC University Florida
Jan. 17 Dr. Donald Rockwood Professor Uses for Short Rotation Woody Crops in Florida  SFRC University Florida
Jan. 24 Lou Nash
President, Measutronics Corporation
Applied Geomatics in the Marine Environment
Measutronics Corporation
Jan. 31 Dr. Timm Kroeger Natural Resources Economist Open space property value benefits of forested lands Defenders of Wildlife
Feb. 7 Jeff Doran Executive Vice President  The Farm Bill-- Implications for Forestry in Florida Florida Forestry Association
Feb. 14 Kelly Keefe Graduate Student Enrichment planting of native timber species for conservation and production in the eastern Amazon of Brazil SFRC University of Florida
Feb. 21 Steve Jack Conservation Ecologist Ecological Forestry on Private Lands: Is it Economically Feasible?"
The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, GA
Feb. 28 TBA TBA TBA
6-Mar Anna Prizzia Outreach Coordinator for the Office of Sustainability 
Sustainability at the University of Florida – Bridging the Gap
Office of Sustainability
13-Mar Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break
20-Mar Venkata Ramana Putti, PhD Team Leader, Carbon Finance Assist Renewable energy and Carbon markets in context of Developing Countries
The World Bank 
27-Mar Annie Oxarart Graduate Student
Exploring Written Communication Techniques for Complex Natural Resource Issues
SFRC University of Florida
3-Apr Jon Berg Graduate Student
Designing Effective Professional Development Opportunities for Students and Young Professionals
SFRC University of Florida
10-Apr Dr. Ed Gilman Professor of Environmental Horticulture Pruning for tree resistance to hurricane force winds
UF- Arboriculture
17-Apr Miriam Wyman Graduate Student
Integrating social and land-use/land-cover data to assess the success of community-based conservation. A study of the Community Baboon Sanctuary, Belize
SFRC University of Florida
24-Apr
Subhrajit K. Saha
Graduate Student
Carbon Sequestration under Tropical Homegardens and Related Land-use Systems in Kerala, India"
SFRC University of Florida




 
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