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Monday, November 2, 2009

Managing ceratomyxosis in Klamath River salmonids
Speaker: Sascha Hallett, Microbiology, OSU
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Stream Team Seminars
Managing ceratomyxosis in Klamath river salmonids - Sascha Hallett, OSU Microbiology
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
"Tidal Straining: The Major Driver of Estuarine Circulation in Well-Mixed Coastal Areas"
Hans Burchard, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemunde, Rostock, Germany
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Finding measures of Improvement in Myositis
Peter A. Lachenbruch, Dept of Public Health, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Hydrothermal Discovery Reunion
A reunion of OSU's discoverers of deep sea hydrothermal vents
11:00 am - 12:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Modeling Vegetation Responses to Future Climate
Dept. of Geosciences (Geography Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
"Waterwise Gardening in Oregon: An update on extension service programs."
Amy Jo Detweiler, Extension Horticulturist, OSU Central Oregon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Building Your Business Plan Series
Competition
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Nuclear Energy: Hope or Hype?
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Owen Hall  |  Free
"Changing woodland succession in Oregon"
Brad Withrow-Robinson, Extension Assistant Professor, OSu
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
CGRB Seminar Series: Emily Troemel
"Host/pathogen interactions in C. elegans"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
When Does 'Me First' Become Unethical and Corrupt? Water and Power in Monterrey, Mexico and along the Colorado R. Basin
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Owen Hall
Optimizing of reservoir operations for multi-objective dams: Challenges in incorporating environmental flow recommendations.
Speaker: Desiree Tullos, Biological and Ecological Engineering, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Optimizing of reservoir operations for multi-objective dams: Challenges in incorporating environmental flow recommendations.
Desiree Tullos, Biological and Ecological Engineering, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Fellow Anthony Miller, President, Stepping Stones Solution
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Horning Lecture - Michael Henry Heim
"A Life in Translation"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
SEMINAR: CURRENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY
Sponsored by Dept. of Food Science & Technology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wiegand Hall  |  Free
Climate Change and the Collapse of Classic Maya Society
Dept. of Geosciences (Geology Fall Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Symposium on the State of Black Oregon: A Call to Action
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  free

Monday, November 9, 2009

Veterans Awareness Week
all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Community-based stream restorations in the Marys River watershed.
Speaker: Xanthippe Augerot, Pangaca Environmental LLC
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall
Stream Team Seminars
Community-based stream restoration in the Marys River watershed - Xanthippe Augerot, Marys River Watershed Council
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Design Issues in Natural Resources Statistical Consulting
Manuela M. P. Huso, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, College of Forestery, Oregon State university
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Football Revolutions: The Big-Time College Sport Since the 1960s
Lecture and celebration of his new book, by Michael Oriard, Department of English and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, OSU.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
"Understanding and Improving Platinum Anti-Cancer Drugs" by Dr. Stephen Lippard of MIT
Presented by the Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics for our annual Tsoo King Lecture Series
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Science Pub Corvallis
The Ecology of Fear: The Role of Big Predators in Environmental Harmony
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Off Campus  |  Free

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Veterans Awareness Week
(continued) all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"~4 Billion Years of Martian Faulting"
Lada Dimitrova, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, OSU:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
"Internal Waves Generated by Turbulent Shear Flows"
Sutanu Sarkar, UC San Diego
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Are Crop Diversity and Cultural Identity Linked Among the Baoule of Central Cote d'Ivoire?
Dept. of Geosciences (Geography Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
"Connecting kids to Oregon's horticultural harvest: The agriculture in the Classroom Program."
Tami Kerr, Executive Director, Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation, Corvallis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
The Idea Challenge
Hosted by the Austin Entrepreneurship Program
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Veterans Awareness Week
(continued) all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"Natural resources at OSU - interdisciplinary programs within the department"
Badege Bishaw, Director SNR Graduate Program, OSU and Paul Doescher, Director, Natural Resources Program, OSU
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
The Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project: Assessing historic change in nearshore ecosystem function of Puget Sound, WA
Charles "SI" Simenstad, , Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of WA, Seattle
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Water, Culture, Power: Dam Legacies, Damned Futures?
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Owen Hall
Dr. George Robert Pettit, Regents Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Arizona State University
"Medicines from the sea: From marine organism constituents to human cancer clinical trials”
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm  |  Off Campus  |  Free

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Veterans Awareness Week
(continued) all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"Developing Perspective on Methane Dynamics in Waters of the Lower Columbia River and its Estuary"
Fred Prahl, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, OSU:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Entrepreneur in Residence
Dreams on Paper
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center
Chaiten Volcano, Southern Chile: Eruption Chronology and Geomorphic, Ecological and Social Impacts
Dept. of Geosciences (Geology Fall Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Department of Food Science and Technology
"Omega-3 Fatty Acids are in Prenatal Supplements and Infant Foods—How Did We Get Here?"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Friday, November 13, 2009

Veterans Awareness Week
(continued) all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Veterans Day Ceremony
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Healthy, Happy & Single
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free

Monday, November 16, 2009

Stream Team Seminars
Does nutrient supply or hydrology affect bacterial communities in desert stream sediments? - Lydia Zeglin, OSU, Crop and Soil Science
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Does nutrient supply or hydrology affect bacterial communities in desert stream sediments?
Speaker: Lydia Zeglin, Crop and Soil Science, OSU
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
"Global Encounters: What Is It Like to Live and Learn in the Unfamiliar?"
Sunil Khanna, Professor of Anthropology and 2009 International Service Award Recipient
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free and open to the public
Rural People and Places --- Familiar Subject, New View
Emery Castle, Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University. Discussant: Ethan Seltzer, Director, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Problems for the clairvoyant demon
Geoffrey Grimmett, University of Cambridge
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
What's it Like? - Being an Agricultural Extension Agent
Presenter - Larry Lutcher
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
‘Fallen Among Reformers?’: Feminism, Activism, and Miles Franklin’s Unpublished Writing During the Chicago years, 1906-1915
Center for the Humanities Lecture by Janet Lee
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Euthanasia: A Good Death?
A Socratic Club Debate
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Join the Jet-Set: How to kick off an international career!
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Snell Hall  |  Free
"Preliminary Results from the Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, IODP Expeditions 320/321"
William Busch, University of New Orleans
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Metrology of Cellulose Nanocrystals
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Dynamical Downscaling of Climate for Global Change Application
Dept. of Geosciences (Geography Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
"Biological control in horticultural crops: Facts and fancy."
Jana Lee, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS HCRL, Corvallis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Building Your Business Plan Series
Profit and Loss Statements and Cash Flows
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"Animal movement at multiple scales: toward a behavioral global ecology"
Matt Betts, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
CGRB Seminar Series: Craig Pikaard
"Roles of RNA polymerases IV and V in siRNA-mediated gene silencing"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Power, Water and Corruption: Past, Present and Future
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Owen Hall
Reconstructing the use of freshwater and marine habitats by Chinook salmon: implications for conservation and management.
Speaker: Jessica Miller, Fisheries & Wildlife, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Newport, OR
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Pocketbook
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Austin Entrepreneurship Program
Fellow Event Dr. Jason Clay, Senior Vice President for Market Transformations at the World Wildlife Fund
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
The Forests of Taiwan: New opportunities for biomass utilization
by Dr. Yu-jen Lin, Taiwan Forest Research Institute and World Forest Institute International Fellow
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Southern Willamette Basin
Dept. of Geosciences (Geology Fall Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Fellow Event, Laura Sokolowski--VP For Operations At Blue Cross Shield Of Oregon
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Fellow Laure Sokolowski,Vice President of Membership, Regence
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, November 20, 2009

Sexual Health Advisory Board
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Plageman Student Health Center  |  Free
Visiting Writers Series
Poetry Reading by Fady Joudah
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Valley Library
Visiting Writers Series
Jess Walter, novelist
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free

Monday, November 23, 2009

Stream Team Seminars
Impacts of environmental change on streams of the Northeastern U.S. - Dana Warren, NOAA
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Incorporating Correlation for Multivariate Failure Time Data When Cluster Size Is Large
Dr. Lan Xue, Statistics Dept, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Afghanistan Engineering
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
"Can permaculture feed the world?"
Betsey Miller, Graduate Research Assistant, OSU Entomology, Department of Horticulture
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Heat Budget in the Hyporheic Zone on the Willamette River -- Implications for Aquatic Habitat
Dept. of Geosciences (Geography Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Building Your Business Plan Series
Sources and Uses of Capital
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center

Monday, November 30, 2009

Stream Team Seminars
The Origin of Species at 150: Is it past its Sell-By date? - Michael Ruse, Florrida State University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Withycombe Hall  |  Free
The Origin of Species at 150: Is it past its Sell-By Date?
Speaker: Michael Ruse, Florida State University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Withycombe Hall  |  Free
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