2024 Fall Seminar Series — Chandra Wright and Susan Johnson
2024-10-16 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1223
SPEAKER: Chandra Wright and Susan Johnson, Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, Alabama
TITLE: Weathering Disaster: The Sustainability and Resilience of Gulf State Park
ABSTRACT: Gulf State Park is one of Alabama’s most popular state parks, drawing more than 2 million annual visitors, and encompassing 6,150 acres of coastal ecosystems. This talk will cover diverse topics including the Gulf State Park Enhancement Project funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which resulted in the restoration of the dunes, expansion of the trail system, rebuilding of the Lodge, and building a new Interpretive Center and Learning Campus. The speakers will discuss how the park is serving as an international benchmark for environmental and economic sustainability and introduce the audience to current and future programs at the Learning Campus.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Chandra Wright is the Director of Environmental & Educational Outreach for Gulf State Park. In this role, she serves as an advisor internally for the environmental and educational initiatives at the Lodge, Learning Campus and Interpretive Center. She also shares the unique stories of sustainable design and operations within Gulf State Park with a variety of audiences. Susan Johnson is the Meeting Manager for the Learning Campus. Susan serves as the first point of contact in assisting clients with the venue’s bookings and reservations, working to define clients’ needs for meeting spaces, programs, and lodging to create a natural immersive Learning Campus and Gulf State Park experience.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2024 Fall Seminar Series — Heidi Renninger
2024-10-23 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1223
SPEAKER: Heidi Renninger, College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University
TITLE: Selecting Populus short rotation woody crops for future climates and ecosystem service provision
ABSTRACT: Populus species, specifically eastern cottonwood and its hybrids, are grown for a variety of products but most recently as feedstocks for bioenergy (including sustainable aviation fuels) and bioproducts. Dr. Renninger will discuss her research on the physiological functioning of selected Populus genotypes specifically as it relates to choosing genotypes with greater water stress and heat tolerance as well as measuring the ecosystem services provided by Populus plantations.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Renninger grew up in Pennsylvania and did her undergraduate studies at Millersville University majoring in Biology. She then went to Oregon State University for her masters in the Wood Science and Engineering Department with a dual degree in Wood Science and Forest Science. She studied the hydraulic conductivity of Douglas-fir and western hemlock and factors that relate to conductivity. She then pursued a PhD at Boston University in the Geography Department. Her dissertation research used palm trees as a model organism to test the hydraulic limitation hypothesis, which is the idea that maximum tree height for a given species is limited by the increasing path length for water transport as trees get taller. She then did a post-doc at Rutgers University working in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and studying forest responses to disturbance. Dr. Renninger started at Mississippi State University in 2014, where she does a variety of tree physiological research.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2024 Fall Seminar Series — Avni Malhotra
2024-10-30 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1223
SPEAKER: Avni Malhotra, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
TITLE: Getting to the Root of Climate Change in Wetlands
ABSTRACT: Wetlands play a central role in the global carbon cycle through soil carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions. Wetland response to environmental change is expected to influence the global climate-carbon cycle feedback, but the magnitude and direction of this influence are unclear. One uncertainty lies at the plant-soil interface. The role of plants in mediating wetland carbon cycling is well understood aboveground, but belowground plant dynamics remain a black box. In this talk, I will focus on two broad research questions: how do wetland roots respond to environmental change and what are the implications of this change for soil carbon and ecosystem carbon fluxes? I will provide examples from field and lab research from a variety of wetland settings (peatlands, and experimental and coastal wetlands) and conclude with a forward-looking section on our predictive understanding of wetlands in a changing world.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Avni Malhotra is an earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory focused on above- and below-ground carbon cycle responses of ecosystems to global change, with the overarching goal of improving predictive understanding of ecosystems. Avni specializes in carbon-rich ecosystems such as peatlands and wetlands, which are a globally significant but vulnerable sink of carbon, and key players in global greenhouse gas budgets. She employs a multi-scale approach where fine-scale process investigations in the lab and field are placed in a broader context using global data syntheses and model-data integration.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2024 Fall Seminar Series — Esteban Galeano
2024-11-06 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1223
SPEAKER: Esteban Galeano, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University
TITLE: Future breeding of Populus deltoides clones: use of existing information of genetic parameters and diversity in the southern USA
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2024 Fall Seminar Series — Gary Machlis
2024-11-13 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1101
SPEAKER: Gary Machlis, College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences, Clemson University
TITLE: Sustainability and social justice
ABSTRACT: Sustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. With examples that range from the coffee lands of El Salvador to the coal country of American Appalachia, from the streets of Detroit to refugee camps in Greece and the upscale metro centers of the affluent, sustainability is examined with a critical eye and an emphasis on ensuring that the forgotten are heard.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Gary E. Machlis is University Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and its Board on Environmental Change and Society. He has written widely on issues of conservation, science policy, and sustainability.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2024 Fall Seminar Series — Donald Rockwood
2024-11-20 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1223
SPEAKER: Dr. Donald L. Rockwood, Florida FGT LLC, Gainesville, and School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida
TITLE: Eucalyptus for the Southeast
ABSTRACT: Dr. Rockwood’s seminar will review the potential of Eucalyptus grandis and E. amplifolia for the southeastern United States, with emphasis on genetic improvement, short rotation woody cropping systems, and prospective products. He will also assess potential collaborative research opportunities.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Donald L. Rockwood, President of Florida FGT and professor emeritus at the University of Florida School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, has over 40 years of experience with the development and use of Eucalyptus amplifolia, E. grandis, and four other species in Florida and elsewhere. He is actively involved with the genetic improvement of several Short Rotation Woody Crop (SRWC) species, including the commercial release of five E. grandis cultivars, and with the development and utilization of SRWC systems using these species. He was assistant professor, associate professor, and professor, from 1972 until retiring at the end of February 2009, teaching forest mensuration and related subjects to two generations of forestry majors, advising undergraduates in forestry and natural resources, mentoring over 50 graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in forest tree improvement, SRWCs, and dendroremediation, and conducting research in the same fields. These activities were supported by over $3 million of extramural funding and have resulted in over 320 publications.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2024 Fall Seminar Series — Mark Smith
2024-12-04 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 1223
SPEAKER: Mark Smith, Professor and Extension Specialist, Alabama Cooperative Extension System
TITLE: Role of Extension in the Land Grant University Mission
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available after the seminar. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, download the 2024 Fall Seminar Calendar or request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to attend via Zoom or access a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Dengsheng Lu
2025-01-22 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Dengsheng Lu, Fujian Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences
TITLE: Remote sensing-based forest biomass estimation in tropical and subtropical regions
ABSTRACT: Dr. Dengsheng Lu will briefly discuss the problems in forest biomass estimation with optical sensor data such as Landsat. He will then focus on the biomass estimation research with Lidar data from different platforms such as handheld, airborne, and spaceborne platforms.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Dengsheng Lu is currently a professor at School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana State University in 2001 and has held academic positions at Indiana University at Bloomington (2001–2006; 2008–2012), Auburn University (2007–2008), and Michigan State University (2012–2018). His research interests center on remote sensing technologies and applications in tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems. He has published 160+ articles with H-index of 69 and Google Scholar Citations of 30100+. He was the ELSEVIER “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” for the years 2019–2023. In the World’s Top 2% Scientists, he was also within the “career-long citation impact” list in 2020–2024 and “citation impact during the single calendar year” list in 2019–2023. He is an editorial board member in the journals such as International Journal of Digital Earth, Geo-Spatial Information Science, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, and Remote Sensing.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Zutao Yang at zzy0066@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Leslie Cordie
2025-02-05 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Leslie Cordie, Auburn University, College of Education
TITLE: Transformative Adult Education
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host John Kush at kushjoh@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Vic Adamowicz
2025-02-12 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 1101
SPEAKER: Dr. Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
TITLE: Measuring the impact of a wildlife disease on hunting behavior through recreational lottery applications: The case of Chronic Wasting Disease in Alberta, Canada
ABSTRACT: If an environmental quality change affects a resource allocated using a lottery-rationing system, activity levels (e.g. trips) may remain constant while applications vary. This presentation will describe our analysis using multiple reduced-form models to examine the impact of a wildlife disease on application behavior in a lottery rationed resource. We use hunting license application data for antlered mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in Alberta, Canada from 2001 to 2022 and examine the impact of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD is a 100% fatal prion disease and has the potential to diminish cervid populations (i.e. deer, moose, elk, and caribou) and affect various segments of society including recreational hunters. Our findings show that increasing CWD prevalence reduces demand for hunting applications but the pattern of impact suggests a complex behavioral response to the disease. The presentation will also include a description of complementary analyses that are components of an interdisciplinary approach to addressing CWD in Alberta. Dr. Adamowicz will also discuss contemporary academic research issues in forestry, natural resources and the environment in Canada.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Vic Adamowicz is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta where he has made significant contributions to the fields of environmental economics and natural resource management. He obtained his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Alberta (1981, 1983) and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1988. Throughout his career, Dr. Adamowicz’s research has focused on the valuation of environmental goods and services, as well as the economic analysis of natural resource policies and choice behavior with applications to food demand, recreation, and environmental quality. His work has helped shape the understanding of how economic principles can be applied to sustainability and resource conservation. With numerous published studies and a long-standing commitment to academic excellence, Dr. Adamowicz has earned recognition as a leading figure in his field. His distinguished career includes not only impactful research, but also mentorship of graduate students and collaborative efforts with government agencies and industry partners to address pressing environmental challenges. Dr. Adamowicz is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy II – Social Sciences (awarded in 2007). He became a Fellow of the Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics in 2025.
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Yaoqi Zhang at zhangy3@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Arun Agrawal
2025-02-18 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Arun Agrawal, The University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs
TITLE: Transformative change and global sustainability
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Li An at anli@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Orou Gaoue
2025-02-26 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Orou Gaoue, University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
TITLE: Quantitative ecology and conservation
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Christopher Lepczyk at cal0044@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Leslie Gahagan
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Leslie Gahagan, City of Foley, Alabama
TITLE: Innovative programming and environmental management at the Graham Creek Nature Preserve in Foley, Alabama
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Chris Anderson at andercj@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Victoria Donovan
2025-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Victoria Donovan, University of Florida, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatic Sciences
TITLE: Changing wildfire risk in the eastern United States
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Heather Alexander at hda0010@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Morgan Wehtje
2025-04-02 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Morgan Wehtje, National Park Service, Capitol Reef National Park
TITLE: Don’t fence me in: A One Health approach to grazing management at the wildlife livestock interface
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Aniruddha Belsare at avb0033@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Kevin Shaw
2025-04-09 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. Kevin Shaw, University of Alabama, Department of Biological Sciences
TITLE: Disentangling species availability from observer memory in occupancy estimation
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Jonathon Valente at jjv0016@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — David Harper
2025-04-16 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Dr. David Harper, University of Tennessee, Center for Renewable Carbon
TITLE: Synthesis and characterization of lignin carbon fiber and composites
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Soledad Peresin at soledad.peresin@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Greg Pate
2025-04-23 11:00 - 12:00 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Room 2217
SPEAKER: Greg Pate, Auburn University, College of Agriculture / AAES
TITLE: Forests, fields, and farms: Overview of Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station lands
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host John Kush at kushjoh@auburn.edu or Robert Gitzen at rag0012@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Richard Hall
2025-09-04 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Richard Hall, Buckhead Resources, CFWE Adjunct Professor
TITLE: Overview of Key Environmental Markets
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Stephanie Fuller
2025-09-11 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Stephanie Fuller, The Forest Workforce Training Institute
TITLE: Alabama Forest Impact on the Economy
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Jo Daniel at mzd0060@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — James (Mason) Graham
2025-09-18 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: James (Mason) Graham, KaMin LLC
TITLE: From the Ground Up: A Mining and Silviculture Review
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Tim Shearman at tms0122@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Keli Berkman
2025-09-25 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Keli Berkman, Auburn Outdoors
TITLE: Everything I Know, I learned at Girl Scouts
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Anna Calhoun at agm0138@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Blake Hudson
2025-10-02 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Dr. Blake Hudson, Samford University Cumberland School of Law
TITLE: TBA
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Jim Noles at jln0034@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Tucker Stonecypher
2025-10-16 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Tucker Stonecypher, The Westervelt Company, Ecological Services
TITLE: Isolated Wetland Restoration, Herpetology, Fire Ecology
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Tim Shearman at tms0122@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Sougata Bardhan
2025-10-23 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Dr. Sougata Bardhan, Tennessee State University
TITLE: Agroforestry for Economic and Ecological Sustainability
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Ajay Sharma at azs0365@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — William Harris
2025-10-30 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: William Harris, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
TITLE: FDR’s Environmental Stewardship: At Hyde Park and Beyond
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Jim Noles at jln0034@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Morgan Varner
2025-11-06 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Dr. Morgan Varner, Tall Timbers Research Station
TITLE: Surviving the Flame: How Plant Traits Enable Survival in Fire-prone Ecosystems
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Tim Shearman at tms0122@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Amanda Vincente-Santos
2025-11-20 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Dr. Amanda Vincente-Santos, University of Oklahoma
TITLE: Bat Disease Ecology
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Molly Simonis at mcs0252@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2025 CFWE Seminar Series — Ryan Sharp
2025-12-04 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Dr. Ryan Sharp, University of Tennessee
TITLE: Reliably Unreliable: If a Visitor Walks in the Woods and No One is There to Count Them, Do They Exist?
ABSTRACT: TBA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Michael Brunson at mmb0196@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.

2026 CFWE Seminar Series Featuring Aaron Shafer
2026-01-21 15:30 - 16:30 | College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment Building, Room 2217, 3301 SFWS BUILDING, Auburn University, AL, 36849-0001, United States
SPEAKER: Dr. Aaron Shafer, Trent University
TITLE: A [genomic] history of deer
ABSTRACT: Genomic data has allowed for reconstructing speciation and demographic history of populations North American deer (Odocoileus) while now wide-spread, were once extirpated from the majority of their range. Using whole-genome sequencing data I present their dynamic history that shows no ancestral gene flow between recognized species, despite contemporary hybridization. I will also show the apparent impact of human intervention and over-harvest on genomic diversity and genetic health. Lastly, I will show how genomic tools can be used to identify the genes, and estimate the heritability, of key phenotypic traits that are of interest to management and conservation.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: TBA
EVENT DETAILS: Faculty, students, and the public are invited to attend this program. Advanced registration is not required. Refreshments will be available. Parking is available on the third and fourth floors in the South Quad Parking Deck across from the CFWE Building on Duncan Drive. To receive announcements about future seminars, request to join our email list at cfwecom@auburn.edu.
Contact the seminar host Stephen Ditchkoff at ditchss@auburn.edu if you would like to request a recorded version of the seminar.
