Spring 2014
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January 29: Kelton McMahon (UC Santa Cruz). Developing a mechanistic understanding of coastal ecosystem functioning and resilience with compound-specific stable isotope analysis
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February 5: Mary Firestone (UC Berkeley). The microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of soil drying and re-wetting
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February 12: Thomas Harter (UC Davis). Flow dynamics in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: the groundwater - surface water interface
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February 19: Lun Jiang (UC Merced). Implementing thermodynamically efficient solar energy systems
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February 26: No seminar this week
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March 5: David Sandino (California Department of Water Resources). Making Sense of California’s Water Woes: Drought, Delta and Groundwater Depletion
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March 12: Erika Marin-Spiotta (UW Madison). Deep soil carbon storage by landscape disturbance and abrupt climate change
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March 19: Adina Paytan (UC Santa Cruz). Ocean acidification impacts of coral reefs
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March 26: Spring Break, no seminar
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April 2: Paul Brooks (U. Arizona). What happens to precipitation? Revisiting Penman’s (1961) fundamental question in hydrology within the context of western water resources
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April 9: Johan Leveau (UC Davis). Microbial associations with plant foliage
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April 16: Steve Gaines (UC Santa Barbara). The potential role of the oceans in meeting the looming global demand for food
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April 23: Cynthia Looy (UC Berkeley). Floral responses to global environmental change
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April 30: Kaitlin Maguire (UC Merced). Mammalian ecological niche stability through time
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May 7: Karthik Ram (UC Berkeley). Fostering the next generation of open science in ecology & evolution
