1st - 15th Annual Symposium Archive

15th annual: Friday, February 4, 2022

• Chairs: Mickie Tang and David Mitchell
• Keynote address: "Seeing the forest for the trees: How Northeastern temperate trees are responding to a changing climate"
  • Dr. Angelica Patterson, Black Rock Forest
• Presentations: 9 oral presentations, 5 posters
• Click here to view abstracts for oral presentations and posters
• Click here to view oral presentation videos

14th annual: Friday, February 5, 2021

• Chairs: Lauren Redosh and David Mitchell
• Keynote address: "Wealth, race and wildlife: The impacts of structural inequality on urban wildlife”
  • Dr. Christopher Schell, University of Washington - Tacoma
• Presentations: 12 oral presentations, 5 posters
• Click here to view abstracts for oral presentations and posters
• Click here to view and download oral presentation videos

13th annual: Friday, February 7, 2020

• Chairs: Aviva Fiske and Sophie Preckler-Quisquater
• Keynote address: "Kaiāulu: Gathering tides”
  • Dr. Mehana Vaughan, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
• Presentations: 15 oral presentations, 10 posters
• Click here to view abstracts for oral presentations and posters
• Click here to view and download oral presentation videos

12th annual: Saturday, February 9, 2019

• Chairs: Aviva Fiske and Emily Brodie
• Keynote address: "Looking deeper: role of sub-soils in organic matter dynamics
  • Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, University of California - Merced
• Presentations: 10 oral presentations, 9 posters - View abstracts

11th annual: Saturday, February 10, 2018​

• Chairs: Rebecca Walker and Helen Killeen
• Keynote address: “Using Canopy Research as a Hook to Inspire Forest Conservation”
  •  Dr. Meg Lowman, California Academy of Sciences 
• Presentations: 12 oral presentations, 12 posters – View abstracts
• Attendees: 151
• Program

10th annual: Saturday, February 11, 2017

• Chairs: Emilie Graves, Amy Collins, and Helen Killeen
• Keynote address: “Supporting undergraduate student success through computer-based instruction and assessment”
  • Dr. Joel Abraham, California State University, Fullerton
• Presentations: 11 oral presentations, 7 posters – View abstracts
• Attendees: 163
• Program

9th annual: Saturday, February 20, 2016

• Chairs: Allison Simler, Rebecca Walker, Rob Blenk, and Emilie Graves
• Keynote address: “What are the consequences of losing biological diversity?”
  • Dr. Erika Zavaleta, UC Santa Cruz
• Presentations: 13 oral presentations, 5 posters

8th annual: Saturday, February 14, 2015

• Chairs: James Farlin, Jason Sadowski, and Allison Simler
• Keynote address: “Beyond Assessing Biological Knowledge – Card Sorting, Superheroes, and Moving Towards Measuring Biological Expertise among Undergraduates”
  • Dr. Kimberly Tanner, San Francisco State University
• Presentations: 9 oral presentations, 8 posters – View abstracts

7th annual: Saturday, February 15, 2014

• Chairs: Katie Eskra, James Farlin, and Grace Ha
• Keynote address: “Are salt marshes and salt marsh die-off consumer driven alternative states?”
  • Dr. Mark Bertness, Brown University
• Presentations: 11 oral presentations, 3 posters 

6th annual: Saturday, February 16, 2013

• Chairs: Sacha Heath and Jens Stevens
• Keynote adress: “Food webs in river networks: towards predictive mapping”
  • Dr. Mary Power, University of California, Berkeley
• Presentations: 16 oral presentations, 6 posters – View abstracts
• Program

5th annual: Saturday, February 18, 2012

• Chairs: Alison Marklein and Lauren Camp
• Keynote address: “Past climate change from the tropics to the poles: what’s the scoop with natural variability versus modern anthropogenic warming”
  • Dr. Rob Dunbar, Stanford University
• Presentations: 13 oral presentations, 2 posters – View abstracts
• Program

4th annual: Saturday, February 19, 2011

• Chair: Lydia Beaudrot
• Keynote address: “Biodiversity research and conservation – turning the ship around”
  • Dr. Hal Mooney, Stanford University
• Presentations: 17 oral presentations, 6 posters – View abstracts
• Program

3rd annual: Saturday, February 20, 2010

• Chairs: Rich Cobb and Kristy Deiner
• Keynote address: “Fish stocking impacts to Sierra Nevada ecosystems: promise and peril of policy-relevant science”
  • Roland Knapp
• Presentations: 14 oral presentations, 6 posters – View abstracts
• Program

2nd annual: Saturday, February 7, 2009

• Chair: Kristen Dybala
• Keynote address: “Wings over borders – migration of shorebirds around the Pacific Basin”
  • Dr. Nils Warnock
• Presentations: 18 oral presentations, 5 posters – View abstracts
• Program

1st annual: Saturday, May 17, 2008

• Chair: Kristen Dybala
• Keynote address: “Save an ant, save a planet: the race to discover Madagascar’s biodiversity”
  • Dr. Brian Fisher, Chair of the Department of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences
• Presentations: 11 oral presentations, 3 posters – View abstracts