Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology University of Delaware Spring 2012 Seminar Series Wednesday 11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Room 009 Townsend Hall *Refreshments at 11:00 a.m.* ______________________________________________________________________________

2/8/2012 Laura Fox – Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania. “Patterns and Processes of Plant Invasion: 35 years of Hawkweed invasion into the understorey of mountain beech forest in New Zealand”

2/22/2012 Alan O'Connell – Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland. “Raccoon Ecology and Predator Management at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina”

2/29/2012 Dave King – Research Wildlife Biologist, Center for Research on Ecosystem Change, Amherst, Massachusetts. “The Post-fledging Behavior of Neotropical Migrant Birds” 3/7/2012 Susannah Lerman – Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. “Urban forests for urban wildlife: Reconnecting people with nature”

3/14/2012 Patrick Tobin – Research Entomologist, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, West Virginia. “Insect Seasonality and Reproductive Synchrony in a World of Changing Climates”

3/21/2012 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S MARCH 2012 MEETING To Be Announced

3/28/2012 Spring Break

4/4/2012 Rebecca Kern ¬– Ph.D. Candidate. “Population regulation of sympatric tidal marsh sparrows with divergent life histories” Whitney Wiest ¬– Ph.D. Candidate. “The future of tidal marsh birds in the northeast: Conservation planning in response to predicted sea level rise”

4/11/2012 Tracy Leskey ¬– Research Entomologist, Agricultural Research Station, Kearneysville, West Virginia. “Developing Behaviorally-based Monitoring and Management Tools for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug”

4/18/2012 Zach Ladin ¬– Ph.D. Candidate. “Exploring ecological impacts of urbanization and fragmentation on breeding neotropical migratory songbirds”

4/25/2012 To Be Announced

5/2/2012 Emily Cohen ¬– Post-Doctoral Fellow. “Application of a Spatially Explicit Individual-based Model to Conservation of Migrating Songbirds”

5/9/2012 Solny Adalsteinsson ¬– Ph.D. Candidate. “Evaluating the importance of coastal impoundments and the predicted effects of sea level rise on migrating and wintering waterfowl in Delaware” Scott Berg ¬– M.S. Candidate. “Overwintering and dispersal behavior of the mile-a-minute weevil”