Seminars are held at 4 pm in Fleischmann Agricultural Building 109 (FA 109). 

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 109

Instructor: Mark Walker, FA 132 784-1938 mwalker@cabnr.unr.edu 

Student requirements:

1)Attend all seminars (50%),  

2) For one speaker, each student in the seminar should find a paper related to the topic to be presented and give it to me to be posted on the course web site a week before the seminar (15%),

3) Each student should prepare at least two questions for the speaker, based upon the readings.  Hand in the questions and your summary of their answers at the beginning of the following seminar (20%).  These will be posted on a web page.  

4) Each student will prepare and give an introduction for at least one speaker (15%).

Seminar Schedule:   

SCHEDULE:

9/17:  Kurt Pregitzer: "Chronic Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Increases Carbon Storage in Northern Temperate Forests"

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9/27:  Cliff Davidson : "Resuspension of Urban Soil: Airborne Lead from Past Decades"

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10/1:  Bridget Scanlon:  "Impacts of Changing Land Use on Subsurface Water Resources in Semiarid Regions"

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10/8:  Tyrone Hayes:  "From Silent Spring to Silent Night:  What do Frogs Tell Us About Human Health?"

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10/15:  Joe Wiemels:  Fallon Leukemia Cancer Cluster Symposia:  Around the Community

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10/22:  Giles Marion:  "Extreme Environments and the Prospects for Life on Europa and Mars"

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10/29:  Mihalis Panagiotidis:  "On the Journey from Oxidative Stress to DNA Methylation to Carcinogenesis:  Would S-Adenosylmethionine Please Stand Up?"

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11/1:  Deborah Niemeier:  "Carbon Offsets: Wild West Meets Corporate Feel Good, or What it Really Means to Plant 12,665 Trees a Year"

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11/5:  Larry Tannenbaum:  "Bring On the Contaminants...The Animals Just Love the Stuff"

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11/19:  Bruce Wilcox  http://www.hawaii.edu/eecb/FacultyPgs/brucewilcox.html       http://www.ecohealth.net/  

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