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WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series:

White Mountain Research Station is pleased to present a series of lectures open to the general public. The lectures cover a diverse array of topics and are usually presented by scientists and other researchers affiliated with the station. Unless otherwise noted, lectures are held at 7 pm at the Owens Valley Laboratories, White Mountain Research Station, 3000 E. Line St., Bishop CA 93514, tel. 760-873-4344. The station is located on E. Line St./Poleta Road), 4 miles east of Bishop, and is the only facility east of the airport and cemetary. see google map site

(See also the Spring Public Seminar Series presented by the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory)

date	speaker	institution	title of talk


Winter 2008 series
January 17, 2008	Thea Wang	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA	The evolutionary consequence of behavioral roles in the social yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris.
January 24, 2008	Stephen Park	Department of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside	Deep Structure Beneath Yosemite National Park
January 31, 2008	Ron Smith	Cerro Coso College	Living in the Rain Shadow; Weather Patterns in the Owens Valley
February 7, 2008	David Lee	Sweeney/Granite Mountain Desert Research Center	Rock Art: Recording the Stories Behind the Paintings
February 14, 2008	NO TALK SCHEDULED
February 21, 2008	Rob Klinger	Ecologist, Western Ecological Research Center, USGS	When is Restoration an Appropriate Concept?
February 28, 2008	John Wehausen	Wildlife Population Ecologist, WMRS	Climate Change and Desert Bighorn Sheep
March 6, 2008	Christine Hancock	School of Public Health, UC Berkeley	Becoming at Home: A Developmental Model of Rural Physician Recruitment and Retention
March 13, 2008	Brigitte Berman	Retired Geologist / WMRS Friend	Plant Fossils in Ancient Lake Deposits; A Middle Miocene Fossil Flora from Central Nevada
March 20, 2008	Steve Ostoja	Western Ecological Resarch Center USGS	Patterns and interactions among granivores, cheatgrass invasion, and restoration in the Great Basin
March 27, 2008	Susan Hough	United States Geological Survey	The 1872 Owens Valley Earthquake: California's Largest Historical Event?
April 3, 2008	Ron Oriti	Former Planetarium Director, Santa Rosa Community College	Dragonflies, Global Warming, and Life in the Universe
April 10, 2008	Kirk Halford	Archeologist - Bureau of Land Management, Bishop Field Office	The Economy of Ancient Glass; Prehistoric Use of Obsidian
April 17, 2008	Steve McLaughlin	Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona	Tundra to tropics: Floristic plant geography of North America
April 24, 2008	Mike Maxwell	Dept. Biology, National University	Fatal attraction or just attraction? Examining hypotheses on the occurrence of sexual cannibalism in praying mantids

Winter 2007 series
January 11, 2007	Nic Kanaan	School of Medicine, UC San Diego	Physiological predictors of Acute Mountain Sickness see poster
January 18, 2007	Pete Epanchin	Department of Entomology, UC Davis	Thinking outside the lake: Do fishes and finches fight for food?
January 25, 2007	David Lee	Sweeney/Granite Mountain Desert Research Center	A Comparative Study of Rock Art in Australia and Western North America: PART 2
February 1, 2007	Ron Smith	Cerro Coso College	The Pluto problem: What is a planet?
February 8, 2007	Greg Russell	Department of Biology, UC Riverside	High altitude metabolism in mice and men: Keeping the fire burning
February 15, 2007	Sarah Kimball	Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC, Irvine	Mechanisms defining ecological range limits in a natural plant hybrid zone
Feb. 22, March 1, Mar 8, 2007	No talks scheduled	n/a	n/a
March 15, 2007	Jeff Holmquist	UC White Mountain Research Station	Trampling damage and recovery in Tuolumne Meadows: What do we really leave when we "leave only footprints?"
March 22, 2007	John Wehausen	UC White Mountain Research Station	Sierra Nevada Bighorn: How unique are they?...and why.
March 29, 2007	Gerald Dubowitz MD	Department of Anesthesia, UC San Francisco	High Altitude Research: A World Tour
April 5, 2007	No talk scheduled	n/a	n/s
April 12, 2007	Adelia Barber	Dept. of Ecology and Evol. Biology, UC Santa Cruz	Long term population changes in Bristlecone Pine
April 19, 2007	Steve Parmenter	Biologist, California Department of Fish and Game	Genetics and hindsight of the Mojave Tui Chub.
April 26, 2007	James Patton	Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley	The legacy of Joseph Grinnell: The future of California's vertebrate fauna based on surveys of the past


Winter 2006 series
Thursday December 15, 2005	Bill Albright	Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno	Got it Covered: A Tour of the Landfills of America
Thursday January 19, 2006	Frank Powell	University of California, San Diego	Birds Fly High, Why Can't I?
Thursday January 26	Curtis Milliron	California Department of Fish and Game	Native Frogs and Toads of the Sierra Nevada, and Recreational Fisheries Management; Can both survive?
Thursday February 2	Douglas Bock	CARMA	First light with CARMA
Thursday February 16	Pete Sherman	Deep Springs College	Effects of Fauna on floristic diversity and ecosystem dynamics – Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica.
Thursday March 2	Wally Woolfenden	Mountain Heritage Associates, USDA Forest Service	A History of Desert Vegetation from Owens Lake, California
Thursday March 9	David Lee	Sweeny-Granite Mountains Desert Research Center	Rock Art of Australia; similarities and dissimilarities with rock art of Western North America see flyer with photos
Thursday March 16	Jeff Holmquist	WMRS	The invisible diversity of meadows: Sub-alpine insects and factors that influence their populations.
Thursday March 23	Angela Jayko	USGS	Owens Valley...Why's it so deep?
Thursday March 30	Mariana Altrichter	Deep Springs College	Human-wildlife conflicts: Peccaries, jaguars and rural indigenous peoples of Corcovado National Park and the Chaco Region of Northern Argentina
Thursday April 6	Phil Pister	California Department of Fish and Game	Ethical concerns in biological conservation; Examples from the mountains and deserts of the Eastern Sierra.
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Winter 2005 Series
Thursday January 20	Linah Ababneh	University of Arizona	Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains
Friday January 28	WMRS staff and Researchers	WMRS	Bishop Premier of the new Documentary Film: In the Shadow of White Mountain will be shown at 7 pm at the Inyo Council for the Arts, 137 S. Main St., in Bishop Free admission , donations will be accepted. See press release
Thursday February 3	Connie Millar	USFS	The natural history of Sierran rock glaciers: When is rock pile not just a rock?
Thursday February 10	John Wehausen	WMRS	The Rest of the Poop on Bighorn Sheep: fecal DNA Studies
Thursday February 17	Sally Manning	Inyo County Water Department	Perspectives on Changes in Owens Valley hydro-ecology during the past 150 years.
Thursday February 24	Elizabeth Wenk	UC Berkeley	How Germination Might Contribute to Species Distribution Across Soil Types on Coyote Ridge
Thursday March 3	Dave Lee	U.C. Granite Mts. Reserve	Prehistoric Rock Art of the Great Basin
Thursday March 10	WMRS staff and Researchers	WMRS	The second showing (in Bishop) of the new WMRS Documentary Film: In the Shadow of White Mountain will be shown at 7 pm at the station. For more info about the first showing in late January, see press release
Fall 2004 Series:
Tuesday October 12	Martin Feeley	National University of Ireland, Galway	Geologic Perspectives of the Irish Landscape
Thursday October 21 Note:8 pm	Matt Kondolf	UC Berkeley	Meander bends, cultural preferences, and channel classification: learning from river restoration projects
Thursday October 28	Ron Smith	Cerro Coso College	The Search for Life on Mars
Thursday November 4	Don Sada	Desert Research Institute, UNR	Mans's intimate (maybe not so tender) relations with isolated wetlands in arid lands.
Summer 2004 Series
Thursday 7/22/04	Dan Bean	USDA	Biological control of Tamarisk using Diorhabda leaf beetles.
Wednesday August 18	WMRS Undergraduate Researchers	WMRS	Summer Research Symposium. Each of our nine REU students (Research Experience for Undergraduates) will present a 15 minute talk on their research. See program for details.
Winter 2004 Series:
Thursday 2/26/04	Carol Blanchette	UC Santa Barbara	The PISCO project: A new approach to addressing large-scale, long-term marine ecological questions
Thursday 3/11/04	Jeff Holmquist	WMRS	A bug's eye view of Sierran meadows: Interactions among people, plants, and invertebrates
Thursday 3/25/04	Phil Lubin	UC Santa Barbara	Measuring the Universe from White Mountain
Fall 2003 Series:
10/21/2003	Allen Glazner	Univ. North Carolina	“Were Lone Pine and Big Pine once Neighbors? Evidence for 65 km or More of Fault Offset Across Owens Valley.”
11/6/2003	Andrew Ellmore	Stanford Univ.	"Owens Valley from Space: Analysis of Vegetation Response to Changes in Water Using Satellite Images"
11/20/2003	Tony Beasley	Owens Valley Radio Observatory	The Big Bang and the Future of the Universe
12/4/03	Angela Jayko	US Geological Survey	Recent Ice Ages and the Great Lakes in our Backyard
12/11/03	Eric Berlow	WMRS	Sagebrush Encroachment of Montane Meadows on the Kern Plateau
12/16/2003	Dave Rodrigues	Tri-Valley Stargazers	A Magical Tour of the New Universe