Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Seminar

Graduate Seminar in Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries

WFS 512, FOR 512, FWF 612

Fall Semester 2014

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Instructors: Dr. Matthew Gray (mgray11@utk.edu) and Dr. Charlie Kwit (ckwit@utk.edu)

Seminar Assistants: Dr. Rachel Hill, Jordan Nanney, Aaron Griffith, and Tan Watcharaanantapong

Phone: 974-2740 (MG), 974-9793 (CK)

Office: 247 Ellington PSB (MG), G15C McCord (CK)

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

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 in 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 85%

● Attendance 15% (1.07% per seminar, 16 Jan – 7 May)

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 Sept	Dr. Don Wilson (Smithsonian)	Who, what, when, where and why? Six million bats dead from white-nose syndrome
17 Sept	Dr. Ted Simons (NCSU)
24 Sept	Tan Watcharaanantapong Ashley Case	Evaluating factors influencing carbon sinks from land use, land-use change, and forestry in the U.S. Soundscape ecology: new methods in measuring forest and wildlife health through sound
1 Oct	Faculty Seminar
8 Oct	Jordan Nanney Stephen Peairs	Influence of a quality deer management program on hunter knowledge, perceptions, and satisfaction Natural upland hardwood regeneration response following a complete harvest with chemical pre-commercial thinning treatment
15 Oct	Karl Grasser Jackson Audley	The current status of the North American OSB industry Challenges of managing non-native forest pests: can we keep up?
22 Oct	Thomas Jennings Heidi Wyroskick	Human perceptions on aspects of park trees in Oak Ridge, TN Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in AnIllean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) and investigating transmission from feral cat feces in Puerto Rico
29 Oct	Currently No Seminar
5 Nov	Nana Tan Max Cox	Metanalysis of price responsiveness of timber supply US Fish and Wildlife Service Ban GMOs on all National Wildlife Refuge
12 Nov	Aaron Griffith	Effects of Supplemental Feeding on Wild Turkey Home Ranges and the Relationship Between Nesting Chronology and Hunter Pressure on Gobbling Activity
19 Nov	Currently No Seminar
26 Nov	Jake Humm Andrew Isenhower	Spatially explicit capture-recapture estimates of abundance and population density of the Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) Using Occupancy Patterns to Determine Climate Change and Forest Management Effects on Songbirds in the Cherokee National Forest