Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Seminar

Graduate Seminar in Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries

WFS 512, FOR 512, FWF 612

Fall Semester 2015

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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

Seminar Assistants: Dr. Rachel Hill, Jenny Asper, Davis Carter, Heidi Wyrosdick, Binod Capagain, and Eric Bisangwa

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

Office: 247 Ellington PSB (MG), G51C 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, 26 Aug – 25 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
9 Sept	Dr. Jen Jones (Tremont)	The Power of Experiential Learning
16 Sept	Dr. Eddy Nurtjahya (University of Bankga Belitung)	Impact of tin mining on the biota of Bangka Island, Indonesia
23 Sept	Dr. Louise Rollins-Smith (Vanderbilit Univ.)	Ecoimmunology with a frog fungus focus
30 Sept	Justin Lehman Dan Walker	Geolocators: Songbird Migration and Migratory Connectivity Assessing Lake Sturgeon Habitat in the Tennessee River
7 Oct	Kyler Rodgers	Understanding Stakeholder Attitudes and Involvement in Habitat Conservation Plans and the Endangered Species Act
14 Oct	Todd Amacker Aaron Griffith	Diet of and Prey Availability for Reintroduced Juvenile Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the Upper Tennessee River Basin Wildlife Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing
21 Oct	Andy Vander Yacht Joshua Granger	Vegetation and Fuel Dynamics During the Restoration of Oak Savannas and Woodlands in the Mid-South USA Intercropping Oak and Pine to Promote Oak Regeneration
28 Oct	Heidi Wyrosdick Hayley Gotwald	Parasites of the Antillean Manatee Impacts of agricultural land use change on fish and aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Nolichucky River watershed
4 Nov	Max Platzer Chauntelle Williams	Supply Chain Analysis of Biomass Logistics VARIATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUPRATEMPORAL CANAL IN THE SNUBNOSE DARTER (ETHEOSTOMA SIMOTERUM
11 Nov	Michael Biggerstaff Allison Graham	Potential effects of genetic relatedness on social grouping, movements, and survival of white-tailed deer after translocation Toxins in the water: a threat to aquatic life?
18 Nov	No Seminar Currently Scheduled
25 Nov	Binod Capagain Eric Bisangwa	An Evaluation of Floodplain Land Use Dynamics and Ecosystem Services in West Tennessee The Effects of Halving Post-Harvest Losses on the Future of Food Security and Natural Resource Use