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Monday, March 3, 2008

The Trask River Watershed Study: Fish
Speaker: Jason Dunham, OSU and USFS
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
"Life on the Edge (of Convective Zones): Convective Margins Theory and Variability"
Benjamin Lintner, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00 am - 11:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Optimal spatial sampling: Probability-based or model based?
Don L. Stevens, Jr., Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Environmental Justice in China: Problems and Prospects
Lecture by Bryan Tilt, OSU Anthropology Dept., Humanities Center Research Fellow
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Turkey Then and Now
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Is Nature All There is?
A debate on whether the material universe is all there is or whether the natural world bears witness of a God who created and governs all things.
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Groundwater and Vegetation Interactions in Arid Environments
Presenter: Ricardo Mata-Gonzalez
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall  |  Free
History Department Lecture - Edward B. Davis
"Science and Religion, Chicago Style: Religious Pamphlets by Leading Scientists in the Scopes Era"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Managing Natural and Applied Durability in Construction
WS&E 507/607 - Graduate Seminar Series - Presentation by Jack Norton, Queensland Dept. of Primary Industries & Fisheries
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Global Warming and Science
A talk by Dr. Nicholas Drapela
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Gilbert Hall  |  Free

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Restoring Youth, Restoring Fisheries. Dr. Linda Moon Stumpff.
Anthropology Dept. Tan Sack Lunch Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Jonathan Weissman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco
"Biology Without Bias: Functional Insight from Resolution Genetic Interactin Maps"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Jonathan Weissman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco
"TBA"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Water First: Living Drop by Drop
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
How to Build a Compost Pile Demo
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  OSU Student Sustainability Center  |  Free
Social information trumps vegetation structure in breeding site selection by a migrant songbird
Speaker: Dr. Matt Betts, Department of Forest Science, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
IFSA meeting and seminar
Jason Selwitz: Green Empowerment "Community Development and Watershed Protection in San Jose de Bocay, Nicaragua”
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
MUPC Social Justice Series
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Presentation on Children's Literacy and English Learners
Delta Phi Omega's Unity Through Literacy Week
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Gilkey Hall  |  Free
OSU Talent Show
This is your chance to SHINE!!!
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Fighting Infections with Vitamin D"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"The Composition of Ice Nuclei in Mixed Phase Clouds"
Dan Cziczo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Starker Lecture - Role of Planted Forests in the Pacific NW: Meeting Societal Demands in a Dynamic Environment
Environmental Services from Plantations - Biomass, Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration - Part 1
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
"Molecular exploration of the Baltic Sea sediment microbiota"
Dr. Janet Jansson, Professor of Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall  |  Free
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
EarthScope and the Yellowstone Hotspot
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Green Jobs & Social Equity
Video & Discussion
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  OSU Student Sustainability Center  |  Free
Twenty-First Annual Yunker Physics Lecture
Mysteries of the Dark Universe
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Weniger Hall
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Glenn Plemmons, First Vice President Of Investments, Wealth Management Group Of Wachovia Securities
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Local Commons Advocates: John Bliss, Nicole Duplaix, Tom Kaye
Who Owns the Sky? ~ The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Dragonfly & Damselfly Workshop
Introduction to Dragonflies/Damselflies
9:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Cordley Hall
Austin Family Business Student to Student Conference
Connect, Interact, Learn
9:30 am - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Family Business Student to Student Conference
For Students from Family-Owned Businesses
9:30 am - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Dragonflies & Damselflies from around the World
Dr. Dennis Paulson - University of Puget Sound
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Cordley Hall  |  Free

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Skuja Braden SUPERCROCK
Artists' Slide Presentation and Lecture
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Monday, March 10, 2008

Do airborne contaminants affect fish and other biota in "pristine" National Parks throughout the West?
Speaker: Carl Schreck, Fisheries & Wildlife, OSU
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
Reception for Artist Shaun Peterson
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Native American Longhouse  |  Free

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

"Westward Energy Propagation in the Ocean: Rossby Waves or Eddies?"
Dudley Chelton, COAS, OSU Distinguished Professor
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
SPANISH CONVERSATION NIGHT
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Centro Cultural César Chávez  |  Free

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

When is it time to step in? Worried families face Alzheimer's dilemmas
Sara Qualls delivers the annual Petersen Visiting Scholar in Gerontology and Family Studies Lecture
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Hu Tao Seminar
Virtual Environmental Goods and Service: How Does Trade Affect the Environment in China?
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Ballard Extension Hall  |  Free
Precious Water
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Seminar: CSS 199
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: Science and Management of an Emerging Infectious Disease
Speaker: Dr. Dede Olson, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
MUPC Social Justice Series
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, March 13, 2008

"Evolved Physiological Responses of Phytoplankton to their Integrated Growth Environment"
Mike Behrenfeld, Botony & Plant Pathology, OSU
12:00 pm - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Burt Hall
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in the Intact Cell"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
Structure and properties of the San Andreas Fault at seismogenic depths: Recent results from the SAFOD experiment
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Can Fertilization Induce Drought? Long-term Physiological Responses to Fertilization Recorded in Tree Rings
Presenter: Renee Brooks
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Will Health Care Ever Be Affordable Again?
A talk by Don McCanne, former president, Physicians for a National Health Plan
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free
David Korten, "The Great Turning: From Earth Empire to Earth Community"
Who Owns the Sky? ~ The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
Public Health Club Symposium
Physicians for a National Health Plan
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Milam Auditorium

Friday, March 14, 2008

"Evolved Physiological Responses of Phytoplankton to their Integrated Growth Environment"
Mike Behrenfeld, Botony & Plant Pathology, OSU
(continued) 12:00 am  - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
21st Annual Update for Dietitians
An Extended Education Service provided by the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences at Oregon State University
9:00 am - 3:30 pm  |  Capital Manor  |  Regular $75, intern, student or retiree $35, late $80
The Act of Interviewing: Qualitative and Mixed-Method Approaches
At the Core methods seminar sponsored by the College of Health and Human Sciences Methodology Core
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Women's Building  |  Free
The Voices Project
Multiracial Identities - part 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
"Denmark Strait/Hudson Strait Paleoceanographic Connections during the Holocene."
Anne Jennings, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall

Monday, March 17, 2008

Three Essays on Firm Heterogeneity and Regional Development
Hisamitsu Saito Ph.D. Defense
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Ballard Extension Hall  |  Free
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"One-carbon Metabolism and Genetic Stability"
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Touch as the Glue of Food Perception
A Seminar presented by the Dept. of Food Science & Technology
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Wiegand Hall

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Alyssa Shanks: Thesis Presentation
Carbon sequestration on National Forest and Other Public Lands
8:30 am - 10:30 pm  |  Peavy Hall  |  Free

Monday, March 24, 2008

"Hydrothermal Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry"
Chris German, Chief Scientist for Deep Submergence, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Burt Hall

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Food Safety for Seniors.
Extension Study Group Program
9:30 am - 11:00 am  |  Benton County-OSU Extension  |  Free

Monday, March 31, 2008

"Polonium-210: Murder Weapon and Public Health Threat"
Speaker: Charles W. Miller, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center