Biology 190 – Senior Seminar

Instructor Baldo Marinovic

Email:  marinovic@biology.ucsc.edu

Office:  246A COH, LML

Phone 9-2741

M 12:30-1:40 EMS B206

 

Course requirements:

 

Bio 190 is an attendance mandatory, pass/no pass course.  In order to receive a passing grade, you must attend a minimum of 8 seminars (only one absence allowed).  Attendance will be taken during the seminar. 

 

Schedule of Talks

 

 

Speaker

Title

Week 1

 

 

 

Mar

31

Baldo Marinovic

What do you do with a degree in biology?

Week 2

 

 

 

Apr

7

Hoyt Peckham, EEB/UCSC

Turtle Conservation in Baja Sur Mexico

Week 3

 

 

 

Apr

14

Dave Fields, MBARI

Insights into ocean variability and marine population response from Santa Barbara Basin Sediments

Week 4

 

 

 

Apr

21

Bernie Tershy ICEG

 Ecology & Conservation of Island Ecosystems.

Week 5

 

 

 

Apr

28

Rick Condit, STRI

An Overview of Tropical Forest Ecology in Central America

Week 6

 

 

 

May

5

Bob Kuhn, UCSC

The Human Genome Project

Week 7

 

 

 

May

12

Dave Casper, IMS UCSC

TBA

Week 8

 

 

 

May

19

TBA

 

Week 9

 

 

 

May

26

Holiday

No seminar

Week 10

 

 

 

Jun

2

TBA