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NATURAL SCIENCE SEMINARS--FALL 2006, SPRING
2007 |
Fall 2007.
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Aug. 27, 2007 |
4:30 |
1st Meeting - Schedule Confirmation - Note: this is Triad
Day. Regular 4:00 pm classes meet at 4:30 pm. |
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Sept. 03, 2007 |
4:00 |
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4:30 |
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Sept. 10, 2007 |
4:00 |
Ryan Morra - Factors Contributing to Invasibility: Enemy Release and Leaf Properties. Mentors: Dr. Manuel T. Lerdau, University of Virginia and Dr. Mark Brenner |
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4:30 |
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Sept. 17, 2007 |
4:00 |
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4:30 |
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Sept. 24, 2007 |
4:00 |
Alison Borrman - A quantitative analysis of applied kinesiology nutrient proximity techniques. Mentor: Dr. Robert Eckstein. |
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4:30 |
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Oct. 01, 2007 |
4:00 |
Shannon Waldron - Water Soluble
Antioxidant Development During the Ripening Stages of
Tomatoes (Lycopersicon
lycopersicum). Mentor:
Dr. Victoria Collins |
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4:30 |
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Oct. 8, 2007 |
4:00 |
Faculty
Presentation. Dr. John Brock - Phthalates
and Human Health |
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4:30 |
Mark
Weller - White
tailed deer (Odocoileus
virginianus)
in the Swannanoa Valley. Mentor: Dr. Lou Weber |
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Oct. 15, 2007 |
4:00 |
Joe Kennedy - Relationship of
Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta
caretta)
nesting approach to time, moon, and tidal sequence on South Island, SC.
Mentor: Dr. Lou Weber [Postponed from Sept. 24 due to accident/illness] |
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Oct 22, 2007 |
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Fall Break |
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Oct. 29, 2007 |
4:00 |
Carol Sevin - Lentinan content in
Shiitake (Lentinula edodes).
Mentor:
Dr. Vicktoria P. Collins |
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4:30 |
Emily Paulsen - Plague (Yersinia pestis) in Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Colonies of Prowers County, Colorado. Mentor: Dr. Lou Weber |
| Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007 |
4:00 |
Special Presentation sponsored
by the Environmental Leadership Center. Dr. David Easterling,
Chief of Scientific Services, National Climatic DataCenter,
Asheville. Topic: The Evidence
for Climate Change: Observations and
Modeling. (Attend and
submit a summary by e-mail to dcollins@warren-wilson.edu for credit) |
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Nov. 5, 2007 |
4:00 |
Will Franklin - Sleep deprivation and
its effects on Motor Skills. Mentor: Bob Eckstein |
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4:30 |
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Nov. 12, 2007 |
4:00 |
Jenna Schreiber - The allelopathic effect of Butternuts (Juglan cinerea) non-native invasive species. Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner |
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4:30 |
Leslie Selgestad - Fatty acid
analysis of venison from wild deer and farm-raised deer.
Mentors: Dr.
Mark Brenner and Dr. Victoria Collins |
| Friday, Nov. 16, 2007 | Drafts of Theses due to Mentors |
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Nov. 19, 2007 |
4:00 |
Bill Pence - Lead Analysis of Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta) Scales. Mentors: Dr. Dean Kahl and Dr. Lou Weber |
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4:30 |
Amy Witt - Impacts of Traffic
Noise on Perameles nasuta, Isoodon macrousus, and Hypsiprymnodon moschatus at the Cooper Creek
catchment, Queensland, Australia. Mentor:
Dr. Robert Eckstein |
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Thanksgiving Break Nov. 21-Nov.25. |
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Nov. 26, 2007 |
4:00 |
Christine Hulburt - Ant visitation to
extrafloral nectaries of Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) and the effect on fecundity and foliar damage . Mentor: Dr. Amy Boyd |
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Matt Turino - Levels of Coliform
Bacteria in Cafeteria Waste Compost at Warren Wilson College . Mentor:
Dr. Jeff
Holmes |
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Dec. 03, 2007 |
4:00 |
James Tyson - The Habituation of Mimosa pudica. Mentor: Dr. Jeff Holmes |
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4:30 |
Morgan Williams - An Ethnographic Survey
of The Ceremonial Plant and Animal Use of The Elang’ata-Dapash
Maasai, Longido District, Northern Tanzania.
Mentor:
Dr. Michael Torres. |
| Dec. 4, 2007 (Tuesday) |
7:00 pm |
Signma Xi Lecture - Dr. Perry
Sprawls, Faculty of the Medical School of Emory University - Medical Imaging.
Open to the public. Students may attend and earn an attendance
credit by submitting a summary to the convenor. |
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Friday, Week 14: Dec.07, 2007 |
4:30 |
Final
Theses due to Spidel 205. Two copies
plus "Permission to Photocopy". We are also asking students completing their these to fill-out an Evaluation Form for the whole NSS experience. |
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Dec. 10, 2007 |
4:00 |
Hilary Collins - Bird Diversity in San
Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Mentor: Dr. Robert
Eckstein |
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4:30 |
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Dec. 17, 2007 |
4:00 |
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| Week 1 Jan. 21, 2008 |
4:30 |
Martin Luther King Day - Meet at 4:00 pm for
schedule confirmation -Waiting list for presentation: Jodi Ferrell |
| Jan. 24, 2008 |
7:00 pm |
Sigma Xi at UNC-Asheville.
Dr. Thomas Meigs. Molecular Dissection of
a Signal Transduction Pathway in Cancer Cells |
| Week 2 Jan. 28, 2008 |
4:00 |
Titles and mentors' names due. E-mail is OK. Chris Fusting - guest presentation - Predicting Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) habitat using GIS and CART modeling. Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner. |
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| Week 3 Feb. 04, 2008 |
4:00 |
Moriah
Floyd - Soil-management
history as a factor in Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis) preference for string
bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris).
Mentor:
Karen R. M. Joslin. |
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Virginia Wolking - Plant Species Cover in
Northwest Minnesota Conservation Reserve Program Land.
Mentor: Dr. Lou Weber. |
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| Week 4 Feb. 11, 2008 |
4:00 |
Open - no seminar |
| Week 5 Feb. 18, 2008 |
4:00 |
Tommy Otey - Effects of Off-Highway
Vehicle (OHV) Traffic on Stream Microinvertebrate Populations in the
Tellico River Watershed. Mentor: Dr. Paul Bartels. |
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Anita
Goodrich - The Growth and Survival
of American Butternut (Juglans
cinerea)
Across a Natural Shade Gradient. Mentor:
Dr. David Ellum. |
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| Special
Event Feb. 19, 2008 |
7:00
pm |
Sigma
Xi at WWC: Dr. Doug
Miller, Chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at UNCA - Research on modeling
for local weather forecasting. Lecture is held in Jensen 308, Warren
Wilson College. |
| Week 6 Feb. 25, 2008 |
4:00 |
Liz
Martin - Comparing propagation
methods for conserving an endangered woodland herb: Lysimachia fraseri, Fraser’s loosestrife. Mentor:
Dr. David Ellum. |
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Kenmei Kato - Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and Damselflies (Zygoptera) at Warren Wilson College. Mentor: Dr. Lou Weber. | |
| Week 7 Mar. 03, 2008 |
4:00 |
Julia Mead - Characterization of
Volatile Compounds in Clover Honey (Trifolium spp.) by Solid-Phase
Microextraction and Gas Chromotography Mass-Spectrometry.
Mentor: Dr. John Brock. |
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| Week 8 Mar. 10, 2008 |
4:00 |
Jill
Loury - The Effect of Trout
Farm Effluent on Periphyton Growth.
Mentor: Dr. Mark Brenner |
| 4:30 |
Holly
Spier - Social
Comparison and Affect Stimulation as a Motivation to Gossip.
Mentor: Dr. Vicki Garlock. |
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| Sqring Break Mar. 17, 2008 |
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| Week 9 Mar. 24, 2008 |
4:00 |
Jesse Phillips - Determination of a
phosphorus budget for the WWC swineherd. Mentor: Dr.
Victoria Collins. |
| 4:30 |
Delaney Burke - Kleptoparasitic attack
methods by laughing gulls (Larus
atricilla)
at a seabird colony on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine.
Mentor:
Dr. Lou Weber. |
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| March 27, 2008 |
7:15 pm |
Sigma Xi at Mars Hill
College. Bill Steiner - Naturalist adn Audubon Historian - The Life
and Art of John James Audubon. I have
directions. Try to pursuade faculty to go! |
| Week 10 Mar. 31, 2008 |
4:00 |
Conor McGeehan - Effect of distance from
logging roads on consumption rate and preference of Celastrus orbiculatus and Ilex opaca seed by small-mammals
in the southern Appalachians. Mentor: Dr. David Ellum. |
| 4:30 |
Seanna Bellinger - The Effect of Vocal and
Instrumental Music on Students' Cognitive Performance.
Mentor: Dr. Vicki Garlock. |
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| Week 11 Apr. 07, 2008 |
4:00 |
Eliza Sydney - Ionic profile of the
groundwater and surface water at Warren Wilson College.
Mentors: Mr. Robert Hastings and Dr. Victoria Collins. |
| 4:30 |
Eli Dwight - Comparison of Forest
Vegetation by Aspect on Suicide Ridge. Mentor: Dr.
Dave
Ellum. |
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| 5:00 |
Beth MacLeod - Method Development of
Salicylic Acid Extraction from Tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) Leaves.
Mentors: Dr. Michael Torres and Dr. Joe Young. |
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| Week 12 Apr. 14, 2008 |
4:00 |
Laura Righter - Antioxident
Activity in various varites of Lycopersicon esclutentum.
Mentor: Dr.
Victoria Collins. |
| 4:30 |
Forrest Heacock - Heavy Metals in the
Swannanoa River: Potential Pollution from a Remediated Junkyard.
Mentor: Dr. John Brock. |
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Jodi Ferrell - How Binge Drinking
Affects Risky Behaviors at Warren Wilson College.
Mentor: Dr. John Brock |
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| Friday
April 18, 2008 |
Senior
Theses drafts due to mentors. |
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| Week 13 Apr. 21, 2008 |
4:00 |
Chelsea
Peterson - Morphometric
Analysis of Retinoic Acid Treated Zebrafish
(Danio rerio).
Mentor:
Dr. Jeff Holmes. |
| 4:30 |
Sarah Gaskin - Pool Leakage and Mass
Wasting Relationship on the Warren Wilson College Campus.
Mentors: Robert Hastings and Dr. Mark Brenner. |
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| Special Event Apr 21, 2008 |
Evening 7:00 |
Sigma
Xi at UNC-Asheville. Several students from the area colleges will
be inducted and present their research results. |
| Week 14 Apr. 28, 2008 |
4:00 |
Ian
Martin - Structural
Cues Hypothesis and the Home Range of the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus).
Mentor:
Dr. Lou Weber. |
| 4:30 |
Lester Gulledge - Changes in Asheville’s
Land cover, and Resulting Effects on Air Quality.
Mentor: Dr. Dean Kahl. |
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| 5:00 |
Julian Kern - Inhibitory effects of
allelopathic compounds on seed germination of invasive non-native
plant species. Mentor: Dr. David Ellum |
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| Friday,
May 02, 2008 |
4:30 |
Senior
Theses final copies (2 copies plus Permission
to Photocopy) due at D.
Collins' Office (Spidel 205) - 4:30 pm. |
| Week 15 May 05, 2008 |
4:00 |
Eric Thiedich - Cyanide Concentration
in Eastern Tent Caterpillers (Malacosoma
americanum).
Mentor: Dr. Dean Kahl |
| 4:30 |
Ari
Berk - Method for Using High
Pressure Liquid Chromatography to Profile Amino Acids in Nutrient Broth.
Mentors: Dr. Jeff
Holmes and Dr. Victoria Collins |
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| Week 16 May 12, 2008 |
4:00 |
Jorge Lopez - Allium secondary
metabolites and their medicinal properties. Mentor:
Dr.
Michael Torres. |
| 4:30 |
Camille Prevost - Effect of two terpenes on the
hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae. Mentor:
Dr. Dean Kahl. |