CENRS - CRICK Brown Bag talks series
Brown Bag talks are Fridays at 9:30 am.  Locations are to be determined and will be announced by email and posted here.

• March 15: Lisa Regula, Chair, Kent Environmental Council
  310 Kent Student Center

• March 22: Jessica Ferrato, Hydrologist, Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Sierra Club

• April 5: Elaine Marsh, Conservation Director, Friends of the Crooked River

• April 12: Chris Davis, Plant Ecologist, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

• April 19: Joel Bingham, Restoration Ecologist, EnviroScience 

• April 26: Pat Lorch and Chris Blackwood, Discussion of Kent State natural areas, CENRS Geospatial Database, and GPS resources available

CENRS Action-Event

• April 20: European buckthorn removal from campus forest, preparation for vernal pond and butterfly garden installation
  Campus parking lot R6, behind Cunningham Hall
  Contact Dr. de Szalay for more info, ferenc@kent.edu
  

Department of Biological Sciences

• February 8  Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Kent State University, Geography
  Spatial and physical characteristics of Rejolladas (dry sink holes) in Northern Yucatan, Mexico: Implications for ancient Maya agriculture and settlement patterns
• February 22  Sarah Brower, Kent State University, Biological Sciences
  Relating denitrifier community structure to ecosystem function: Studies in wetlands and laboratory microcosms
  Tracey Topacio, Kent State University, Biological Sciences
  Circadian disruption, diet, and exercise
• March 1  Paul Morris, Bowling Green University
  Manipulating crop responses to adverse environmental stresses by modulating polyamine transport
• March 8  Jared Deforest, Ohio University
  Chemical climate change: the expanding role of phosphorus in eastern deciduous forests
• March15  Anne Jefferson, Kent State University, Geology
  Evaluating the success of urban stream restoration in ecosystem services and watershed context
• April 12  Chris Eckert, Queens University
  Why geographic range limits?
• April 19  Stuart McDaniel, University of Florida
  Sex and the single gametophyte: longterm evolutionary and genomic consequences of separate sexes in moss
• April 26  Heather Mercer, Kent State University, Biological Sciences
  The distribution of polymorphism in genomes of patients with pyoderma gangrenosum: biomarker discovery
  Leah Martin, Kent State University, Biological Sciences
  The spatio-temporal comparison of phosphorus and nitrogen deficiency indicators in Lake Erie
• May 3  Patricia Johnston, Kent State University, Biological Sciences