Honors Seminar Program

Center of Excellence for Field Biology & Department of Biology, Austin Peay State University
Spring 2013
Honors Seminar Program

Seminars are presented at 11:15 AM on Mondays, Room E106A, Sundquist Science Center

January 21, 2013 - University closed.

January 28, 2013 - C. M. Gienger, PhD, Austin Peay State University. "Metabolism and digestive physiology of crocodiles."

February 4, 2013 - Jefferson G. Lebkuecher, PhD, Austin Peay State University. "Algal diversity and use as indicators of environmental health: a case study of the Red River watershed in middle Tennessee."

February 11, 2013- Chris Howey, PhD candidate, Ohio University. "The effects of prescribed fire on black racer habitat use, movement rates, and energetic expenditures."

February 18, 2013 - Veronica B. Mullen, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Temporal and spatial trends of bat populations at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area, Montgomery County, Tennessee."  Brittny M. Jones, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Short term response of soil arthropods to controlled burning at Haynes Bottom Wildlife Management Area, Montgomery County, Tennessee."

February 25, 2013 - Philip Juras, Environmental Landscape Artist, Athens, GA. "Is a picture worth a thousand fires?"

March 4, 2013 - Mollie Cashner, Research Associate, Center of Excellence for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University. "Riffles and tides: gene flow in aquatic environments."

March 11, 2013 - Spring Break - no classes.

March 18, 2013 - Andrew N. Barrass, PhD, Austin Peay State University. "Save a bat, save an ecosystem: the Austin Peay bat project."

March 25, 2013 - James Irving Mead, PhD, East Tennessee State University. "The gray fossil site: a late miocene sub-tropical forest in the Appalachians of Tennessee."

April 1, 2013 - Folashade B. Agusto, PhD, Austin Peay State University. "Mosquito management in the face of natural selection."

April 8, 2013 - Sarah Lundin-Schiller, PhD, Austin Peay State University. "Resolving life in three dimensions: the art and science of confocal microscopy."

April 15, 2013 - Katelin A. Fields, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Effectiveness of the modeling method pedagogy in Montgomery County, Tennessee secondary biology classrooms." Megan Walker, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi outer surface protein CRASP-2 within a canine host."

April 22, 2013 - Michael Fulbright, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Differential habitat use of cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus."  Dawn York, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Invasive species of the TDOT Corridor K - Ocoee River Gorge project Highway 64 in Polk County, Tennessee."

April 29, 2013 - Eva Grebe, Austin Peay State University. "Metabolism and energetic costs of reproduction in eastern box turtles." Beth Slade, Masters Candidate, Austin Peay State University. "Long-term bioassessment of mined vs. unmined streams in the Cumberland Mountains of east Tennessee based on thirty years of collected data."