Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Seminar

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN FORESTRY, WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

WFS 512, FOR 512, and FWF 612

SPRING SEMESTER 2008

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Instructors: Dr. Matthew J. Gray (mgray11@utk.edu) and Dr. Don G. Hodges (dhodges2@utk.edu)

Phone: 974-2740 (MG), 974-2706 (DH)

Office: 247 Ellington Plant Sciences Building (MG), 243 Ellington PSB (DH)

Meeting Time and Place: Wed 12:20 − 1:10 p.m., 125 PSB

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% (2.4% per seminar)

Course grade^1,2 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%

¹Grade scale for FWF 612; pass or fail is assigned in FOR 512 and WFS 512.

²FOR 512 and WFS 512 students must earn >80% to receive a passing grade.

Full Syllabus

Presentation Grading Sheet

Presentation Schedule

Examples of Contemporary Natural Resource Topics

Date	Name (MS/PhD; 1^st/2^nd Seminar)	Title
23 January	Dr. Graham Hickling	Rising Deer Numbers in the Eastern US: Implications for Zoonotic Diseases
30 January	1. Drew Wirwa (MS, 1^st) 2. Brandon Kaetzel (MS, 2^nd)	Waterbird and Food Resource Response to Drawdown of Kentucky Reservoir Predicting Landowner Enrollment in Government Assistance Programs
6 February	1. Melissa Foster (MS, 1^st) 2. Matthew McCollister (MS, 2^nd)	Biomass and fate of grain in harvested and unharvested agricultural fields for waterfowl in Tennessee Hunting with Dogs: tradition or travesty?
13 February	1. Mike Hooker (MS, 1^st) 2. Jonathan McGrath (MS, 1^st)	Abundance of the Louisiana Black Bear in the Tensas River Basin, Louisiana Vegetation Response to Tornado Disturbance and Subsequent Salvage Logging in an East Tennessee Oak-Hickory Forest
20 February	1. Michelle Rosen (MS, 1^st) 2. Julie Mawhorter (PhD, 2^nd)	Evaluating wildlife/tick systems in Tennessee for maintenance of the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi A Review of Tennessee's Regulatory Framework for Habitat Conservation Planning on the Cumberland Plateau
27 February	1. Seth Barrioz (MS, 1^st)	Changes in Community Characteristics Associated with Oak Savanna Restoration
5 March	1. Emily Rogers (PhD, 2^nd) 2. Pracha Koonnathamdee (PhD, 2^nd)	Global Gene Expression in Larval Zebrafish Exposed to Microcystis aeruginosa: More Than Just Microcystin Economic Analyses of Sustainable Forest Management: An Alternative Perspective
12 March	1. Wen Tu (PhD, 1^st) 2. Seung Gyu Kim (PhD, 1^st)	Farm Decision-making: Simulation and Decision Tree Approach Market Equilibrium and Spatial Variability in the Value of Housing Attributes
19 March	No Seminar	Spring Break
26 March	1. Zhimei Guo (PhD, 1^st) 2. Will Pridemore (PhD, 2^nd)	Logging Cost Analysis for Biofuels in the Southeastern States Atlanta's water woes and the blame game
2 April	1. Marcus Lashley (MS, 1^st) 2. Michael McCord (MS, 2^nd)	Available Deer Forage following Seven Silvicultural Treatments in Mature Mixed Hardwood Forests Effectiveness of point restrictions in Quality Deer Management
9 April	1. Josh Rogers (MS, 2^nd) 2. Joe Yarkovich (MS, 2^nd)	Wastewater-borne Hormones and Their Threat To Fish Chronic Wasting Disease and the Captive Cervid Industry
16 April	1. Ryan Williamson (MS, 2^nd) 2. Tiffany Beachy (MS, 2^nd)	Management of the wildlife rabies epidemic on the eastern seaboard A habitat model predicting cerulean warbler (Dendroica cerulea) distribution in Central America during migration
23 April	1. Nikki Maxwell (MS, 1^st) 2. Jennifer Joice (MS, 1^st)	Composition of salamander species utilizing the Pigeon River watershed Beaver Creek Watershed: A Case Study of Adaptive Governance
30 April	1. Amelia French (MS, 1^st) 2. Ray Hughes (MS, 1^st) 3. Jeremy Nicholson (MS, 2^nd) 4. Stephen Grayson (MS, 1^st)	The Effects of Timber as a Biofuel on the Occupancy and Habitat Suitability of the Indiana Bat and the Gray Bat in Tennessee Electronic Data Identification and Location as a Supplement to Hunting and Fishing Licenses in the Field Noninvasive Genetics Techniques and its Applications in Wildlife Conservation Characterization of Light in Forest Stands Following Silvicultural Treatments