Mae Sexauer Gustin

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Seminars are held at 4pm in Fleischmann Ag 301.  All seminars are open to faculty and students as well as the public unless otherwise noted.

Meets: 4:00 to 4:50 pm M afternoon FA 301

Instructor: Mae Gustin 784-4203 msg@unr.nevada.edu  TA: Jelena Stamenkovic jelena@unr.nevada.edu

Student requirements:

1)Attend all seminars 50%,  2) For one speaker get relevant paper to read and distribute to the group a week before the seminar and formulate some questions that you will ask of the speaker relevant to the paper (10%),  and 3) Written critique of each seminar-equally weighted for grading (short brief comment sheet) (40%).

Each seminar missed will reduce your grade by 5%.

 

 

DATE

SPEAKER

INSTITUTION

TOPIC

Aug 28

ONLY STUDENTS TAKING THE CLASS

Introduction to Seminar class

Sept 11

Mark Walker

Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno

Leptospirosis

Sept 18

Alan Gertler

Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute

Nitrogen deposition to the Tahoe Basin

Sept 25

Dale Johnson

Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences,University of Nevada, Reno

Fire effects on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen budgets

Oct 2

Randall Todd

Nevada State Health Division, Reno

Asian bird flu

Oct 9

Pat Arnott

Department of Physics, University of Nevada

Air quality in Mexico City

Oct 16

NO SEMINAR

 

Oct 23

Ralph Seiler

U.S. Geological Survey, Carson City, Nevada

Water quality at a childhood leukemia cluster, Fallon, Nevada

Oct 30

Eric Marchand

Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno

Role of microbes in biogeochemical cycling of acid mine drainage

Nov 6

James Seiber

Western Regional Research Center, U.S.D.A.

New dimensions in food safety research

Nov 13

NO SEMINAR

Nov 20

NO SEMINAR

Nov 27

Charles Driscoll

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)

Mercury cycling in Adirondack forest

Dec 4

Eric Prestbo

Frontier GeoSciences (Seattle, WA)

United States Clean Air Mercury Rule Emission and Air Monitoring; But what about Asian Long-Range Transport to the Western US?

Dec 11

Lisa Stillings

U.S. Geological Survey, Reno

Selenium cycling in Las Vegas Wash

Dec 18

ONLY STUDENTS TAKING

Seminar critique discussion

Final exam time 4:30-6:30