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2011 QERM Autumn Quarter Seminar

TIME: Wednesdays, 3:30 - 4:50 p.m.
LOCATION: Savery Hall 169

Format: Each guest will preside at two consecutive sessions. Prior to the first session, a journal article resulting from (or pertaining to) the guest's research will be circulated for review. At the first session the guest will present their research topic, followed by discussion. At the second meeting the students will have an opportunity to ask questions on topics such as the guest's career path, role of the QERM training, professional and personal balance, research, general advice on how to succeed as a graduate student, experiences since graduating from the QERM program, etc.

September 28	Overview - Professors Loveday Conquest & Jim Anderson
October 5	Maureen Kennedy, Ph.D. Research Scientist, School of Forest Resources US Forest Service PWFS Lab, Seattle Publication to be discussed: "Using a stochastic model and cross-scale analysis to evaluate controls on historical low-severity fire regime s"
October 12	Discussion with QERM alumnus: Maureen Kennedy, Ph.D.
October 19	Tamre Cardoso, Ph.D. TerraStat Consulting, Seattle Publication to be discussed: "Reducing seabird strikes with trawl cables in the pollock catcher-processor fleet in the eastern Bering Sea"
October 26	Discussion with QERM alumnus: Tamre Cardoso, Ph.D.
November 2	Rich Zabel, Ph.D. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NMFS/NWFSC Fish Ecology Division Supervisory Mathematical Statistician Publication to be discussed: "The interplay between climate variability and density dependence in the population viability of Chinook salmon."
November 9	Discussion with QERM alumnus: Rich Zabel, Ph.D.
November 16	Eli Gurarie, Ph.D. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NMFS/AKFSC National Marine Mammal Laboratory Publication to be discussed: To be announced
November 23	No session due to Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30	Discussion with QERM alumnus: Eli Gurarie, Ph.D.
December 7	Wrap-up session: Professors Jim Anderson and Loveday Conquest