Spring 2026 - Seminar Series

Wednesdays - 217 TPC - 1:00-2:00 PM

February

• Feb. 4 - Rob Paratley, University of Kentucky - The Wild World of Ethnobotany
• Feb.11 - Patrick Plaugher, University of Kentucky - Proposal: Black Cherry Decline Management: Testing Fertilizer and Fungicide
• Feb. 18 
  • Will Gibson, University of Kentucky - Proposal: Environmental Factors Associated with Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) Detection and Occupancy
  • Kara Meyer, University of Kentucky - Proposal: Assessing Patterns of Microhabitat Selection of Eastern Whippoor-wills (Antrostomus vociferus) Breeding in Managed Forests of Pennsylvania
• Feb. 25
  • Lauren McConahy, University of Kentucky - Proposal: The Effects of West Nile Virus on Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) Occupancy in Pennsylvania 
  • Eleanor Lane, University of Kentucky - Proposal: Assessing the Reproductive Consequence of Snake Fungal Disease

March

• Mar. 4 - Austin Fields, University of Kentucky - Proposal: Allelopathic Potential of Leaf Leachates in Native and Non-native Temperate Vine Species 
• Mar. 18 - Dr. Austin Thomas, University of Kentucky - What is Forest Genetics and Tree Improvement?
• Mar. 25 - 
  • Heather Davis, University of Kentucky - Proposal: Measuring Human Attitudes Towards Reintroduced Elk in Kentucky 
  • Haley Taylor, University of Kentucky - Proposal: White-tailed Deer Movement in Western Kentucky: Implications for Management and Chronic Wasting Disease

April

• Apr. 1 - Dr. Nicholas McLetchie, University of Kentucky - Variation Within and Between the Sexes of an Early Divergent Plant
• Apr. 8 - Dr. Valerie Peters, Eastern Kentucky University - Understanding and Protecting Bee Communities of the New World Tropics
• Apr. 15 - Dr. Mahsa Hajisafarali, University of Kentucky - Stable Isotope Insights into Mussel Diet and Health: Implications for Conservation
• Apr. 22 - Dr. Alex Royo, Pennsylvania Game Commission From Concept to Collaboration: Co-Founding the DREAM of Climate-Adaptive Forestry