Departmental Seminars
Semester 1, 2012
Time: midday Day: Friday Venue: Benham Seminar Room, Department of Zoology
2 March Title: Could the Rarotongan Lamprocystis radiation have arisen by sympatric speciation?
Speaker: David Winter, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
9 March Title: Host-finding by native and invasive scarab pests: biological insights suggest new management options
Speaker Prof Daniel Potter, University of Kentucky, USA
16 March Title: Counting song birds: new approaches using sound recording
Speaker: Dr Murray Efford, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
23 March Title: Land use change effects on river ecosystems
Speaker: Dr Jason Julian, Department of Geography & Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
30 March Title: Are old males still good males and can females tell the difference?
Speaker: Dr Sheri Johnson, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
6 April No seminar – Good Friday
13 April No seminar – mid-semester break
20 April Title: Two sites good, one site bad: moa biology, environment and extinction in North Canterbury
Speaker: Prof Richard Holdaway, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury
27 April Title: Noisy clockwork of salmon population cycles, infections, and slowing down
Speaker: Dr Martin Krokosek, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
4 May Title: Extinctions in the past-do you think you can infer anything without the fossil record?
Speaker: Dr Lee Hsiang Liow, Department of Biology, University of Oslo
11 May Title: Life-history patterns in a cyclic small rodent population
Speaker: : Dr Torbjørn Ergon, Department of Biology, University of Oslo
18 May Title: How the rat re-invasion of Ulva Island affected the wildlife, the community and our research
Speaker: Assoc Prof Ian Jamieson, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
25 May Title: The common bully, not just a childhood foe: phenotypic variation in most widespread but poorly understood fish
Speaker: Jeff Vanderpham, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
1 June Title: Cryptic diversity in a widely distributed amphipod: testing for reproductive isolation, effects on size homogamy and differential parasitism
Speaker: Dr Clement Langure, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
Contacts: Ronda Peacock (7976) or Shinichi Nakagawa (shinichi.nakagawa@otago.ac.nz)