Events

9th Annual FW GSO Research Symposium
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 8:00am - 8:30pm

The ninth annual symposium will be held on February 21st, 2014, at the Kellogg Center. Registration begins at 8:00 am, and student presentations will commence at 8:30 am. The program will continue throughout the day with an afternoon poster session before the last presentation session. The event will culminate with a keynote address from Dr. Walter Jetz. An evening social (food and beverages provided) will conclude the symposium. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the symposium is FREE to all registered participants. Please register for the event!
Wolf Hunting in Michigan - Pat Lederle, Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Animal Studies Friday Seminar
F&W GSO Seminar: “Telling your story: Figuring out what’s in it for you and how to get it”
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 3:40pm - 4:40pm

Communicating science sounds both righteous and overwhelming. Hard to fit in to a busy academic and research life, a properly shaped public image often seems like a great idea to do... tomorrow. Until a pressing opportunity or need rears its head. Sue Nichols, assistant director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has 20 years of experience communicating science, mostly without big, scary words, to targeted audiences.
Cloud Computing Demo and Discussion
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

C. Titus Brown and Dirk Colby will be presenting and leading the discussion. Dr. Brown will show some examples of cloud computing workflows and how he uses them for genomics analyses. Discussion of further topics of interest could include:
• What are cloud computing resources?
• How are cloud resources typically used?
• Cost and pricing
• Performance and availability
• Commercial resources (Amazon EC2, Azure, Rackspace)
• Non-commercial resources (iPlant/Atmosphere, XSEDE, the MSU HPCC)
• Experiences and best practices of MSU researchers currently using cloud computing
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 8:00am - Friday, August 9, 2013 - 5:00pm

Sustainable Pathways: Learning From the Past and Shaping the Future
Fish Habitat and Climate Change: A Coarse Scale National Assessment with Finer Scale Assessment of Midwestern Streams and Lakes
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 2:30pm

The effects of climate change on fish habitat will be scale-and system-dependent. Our work demonstrates how climate change affects fish habitat nationwide, and stream flow, water temperature, and coldwater lakes in the Upper Midwest. Projected changes in fish habitat varied across ecoregions nationally. The future regional climate will likely alter hydrologic and thermal regimes suitable to the fish species in that region. We were able to integrate these regional differences by using a consistent assessment framework to show habitat changes across regions for the conterminous U.S.
CSIS Student Presentation -- Marissa Hammond
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm
The Invisible Animal: Anthrozoology and Macrosociology
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
CSIS Student Presentation -- Junyan Luo
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm
Fulbright Information Session for Graduate Students
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 5:00pm

The competition for 2014-15 IIE Fulbrights opens on May 1 with a mid-October deadline. We are also anticipating a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad competition to be announced in May or June with a short deadline (probably 30 days). This information session will be relevant to grad students planning an international component to their theses or dissertations. The IIE Fulbright may be used for master’s thesis research, pre-dissertation research or for dissertation research.