Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Seminar

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN FORESTRY, WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

WFS 512, FOR 512, and FWF 612

FALL SEMESTER 2008

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Instructor: Dr. Matthew Gray (mgray11@utk.edu)

Graduate Assistant: Sharon Jean-Philippe (jeanphil@utk.edu)

Phone: 974-2740 (MG), 974-0857 (SJP)

Office: 247 Ellington PSB (MG), 136 Plant Biotechnology Building (SJP)

Meeting Time and Place: Wed, 12:20 − 1:10 p.m., 160 PBB

Course Goal: To provide an opportunity for forestry, wildlife and fisheries graduate students to practice delivering professional presentations and to increase opportunities for graduate students and faculty to interact.

Expected Outcomes: Students will develop skills in constructing and delivering PowerPoint presentations, and answering questions related to their graduate research and natural resource principles, concepts and issues.

Course Credits: 1 credit

Academic Assessment:

Weights of Academic Assessments:

● Presentation 64%

● Attendance 36% (3.27% per seminar, 27 Aug – 19 Nov)

Course grade will be determined using the following scale:

Grade	Final Weighted Percent	Grade	Final Weighted Percent
A	90–100%	B	80–86%
B+	87–89%	C+	77–79%

Full Syllabus

Presentation Grading Sheet

Examples of Contemporary Natural Resource Topics

Presentation Schedule:

Date	Name (MS/PhD; 1^st/2^nd Seminar)	Title
10 September	Dr. David Harper	“Renewable Composite Interfaces: Strategies for Making Opposites Attract”
17 September	Dr. John Coulston	"The Forest Inventory and Analysis Program: Current Research and Future Opportunities"
24 September	Dr. Shigetoshi Eda	“New Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Diseases”
1 October	No Seminar
8 October	1. Jennifer Joice (MS, 2^nd) 2. Melissa Foster (MS, 2^nd)	“Regulatory Barriers to Sustainability” “Flora and fauna of Rocky Fork with implications for inventorying southern Appalachian nongame species”
15 October	1. Nikki Maxwell (MS, 2^nd)	“Global Amphibian Declines: What have we done?”
22 October	1. Amelia French (MS, 2^nd)	"Land Use Change in the U.S.: Responses to a Growing Biofuel Market"
29 October	1. Beth Summers (MS, 1^st) 2. Jonathan McGrath (MS, 2^nd)	“Quantifying Ecological Function in Bottomland Hardwood Forests in West Tennessee” “Assessing anthropogenic and natural disturbances: Vegetation response to clearcut and tornado disturbances in an East Tennessee oak-hickory forest”
5 November	1. Angeline Scotten (BS, 2^nd) 2. Misty Huddleston (PhD, 1^st)	“Wild Turkeys in California; Reintroduced or introduced?” “Ecosystem response to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae) induced (Tsuga Canadensis) Mortality”
12 November	Guest Speaker (TBA)	Cancelled.
19 November	1. Drew Wirwa (MS, 2^nd) 2. Jetana Kittisenee (MS, 1^st)	“Food habits of least sandpipers in the Tennessee River Valley” “The Study of Plant Cell Wall Using Atomic Force Microscopy”
26 November	1. Kelly Caruso (MS, 2^nd)	“The Changing Face of Ecosystem Management: Focus on adaptive, community-based conservation”