Seminars

Seminars

We host a monthly seminar series usually on a Wednesday during each month of the Fall and Spring semesters, from 4:00pm – 5:00pm. Guest speakers are asked to provide a scientific seminar at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Food and refreshments will be provided for seminars.

Upcoming Seminars in 2012

  • Jan 18th – Thomas O’Shea, PhD “Historical Overview of Florida Manatee Research and Conservation: A background to contemporary issues, responsibilities, and directions” at 4pm in Lecture Hall B
  • Jan 23rd – Rick Linnehan, DVM “From the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program to NASA: My experiences as a veterinarian” at 4pm in the Dean’s Circle of Excellence Lecture Hall (Lecture Hall A)
  • Feb 15th – Joe Geraci, DVM “Marine Mammal Conservation Medicine: 40 years of studies and stories” at 4pm in the Dean’s Circle of Excellence Lecture Hall (Lecture Hall A)

                                              Click here to view the recording of this seminar

  • Feb 16th – Dawda Saine “West African Manatees in the Republic of The Gambia” at 4pm in Lecture Hall B

                                              Click here to view the recording of this seminar

  • Mar 28th – Holly Edwards, PhD “Assessing Manatee Distribution and Abundance from Aerial Surveys” at 5pm in Lecture Hall A
  • Apr 13th - Jim Reid “Life History Insights through Radio Tracking” at 2pm in Lecture Hall B
  • Apr 13th – Mike Walsh“Manatee Medicine” at 3pm in Lecture Hall B
  • Apr 20th – Lucy Keith “African Manatees” at 2pm in Lecture Hall B

Lecture Hall A (Dean’s Circle of Excellence Lecture Hall) and B are located at the front of the Veterinary Academic Building (Vet Med Academic Wing on the campus map)

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Additional Seminars of Interest

Public lecture series at The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience

Seminar Schedule at the Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Evening Tide Talks, a public lecture series at The Florida Aquarium

Mote Special Lecture Series, a public lecture series at Mote Marine Laboratory

 

Previous Seminars

Fall 2011 Seminar Series

  • Sept 28th – Chip Deutsch, PhD “Manatee Movements Across Multiple Scales of Space and Time: Insights gained through satellite-linked telemetry”
  • Oct 26th – Gordon Bauer, PhD “Sensory Perception in the Florida Manatee”
  • Nov 2nd – Meghan Bills, MS “Description of the Chemical Senses of the Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Relation to Reproduction”
  • Dec 6th – Lara Hortsmann-Dehn, PhD “Artic Tales of Seals and Whales”

Spring 2011 Seminar Series

  • Jan 26th – Lucy Keith “West African Manatee Research“
  • Feb 9th - Craig Pelton, DVM “An overview of oiled sea turtle rehabilitation in Louisiana“
  • Mar 2nd – Lydia Staggs, DVM “2010: The year of the sea turtle“
  • Apr 13th – Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD “One Health in an Academic Environment: Responding to wildlife health issues at the human-animal-environment interface“

 

Fall 2010 Seminar Series

  • Sept 22nd - Mike Walsh, DVM ”Sedation Development for Intervention of Severely Entangled Right Whales: How clinical applications contribute to wildlife conservation“
  • Oct 20th - Sharon Deem, DVM, PhD, DACZM ”Challenges and Opportunities for Global Conservation Medicine“.
  • Nov 3rd - Mark Flint, BVSc, MApplSc, MPhil, PhD ”Conservation of Australia’s Shores: Sea Turtle Research“.
  • Dec 2nd- Terry Norton, DVM ”The Georgia Sea Turtle Center: Rehabilitation, research, education, and conservation“

 

Spring 2010 Seminar Series

  • Jan 27th – Carmen Colitz, DVM, PhD, DACVO ”Common Ophthalmic Problems in Marine Mammals“
  • Feb 17th – Micah Brodsky, VMD ”How not to get a job in the wildlife field: Right experience, wrong choices“
  • April 7th – Don Samuelson, PhD “Visual Systems of Marine Mammals”

 

Fall 2009 Seminar Series

  • Sept 9th – Heather Hamlin, PhD “Nitrate in Aquaculture“
  • Sept 16th – Buddy Powell, PhD ”Manatee Research and Conservation in Cuba“
  • Nov 4th – Brian Stacy, DVM, DAVCP, PhD ”Trouble in the Land of the Bandit Queen: Investigation of gharial mortality in India“
  • Dec 2nd – Milton Levin, MS, PhD “Aquatic Immunotoxicology: What have we learned?“

 

Spring 2009 Seminar Series

  • Jan 14th - Scott Citino, DVM (White Oak Conservation Center/ Gilman International Conservation), Mark Davis, DVM and Paul Reillo, PhD (both from Rare Species Conservatory Foundation) “Repatriation and recovery of Kenya’s Mountain Bongo Antelope“
  • March 18th - Laurie Gage, DVM “Medical insights from a USDA veterinarian: Pinnipeds, Cats and other Exotic Species“
  • March 18th - Janet Whaley, DVM “Marine Mammal Rescue 911 – An overview of the NOAA Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program“
  • April 1st - Don Behringer, PhD ”The epidemiology and ecological relevancy of a novel disease in the Caribbean spiny lobster“
  • April 29th - Chris Torno, DVM, MS “Cetacean Stranding Response in the  Philippines“

 

Fall 2008 Seminar Series

  • Oct 7th - Ramiro Isaza, DVM, MS   “Elephants: A new aquatic species?“
  • Nov 4th - Ray Davis, BS “A lifetime of innovation in the aquarium industry“
  • Dec 2nd - Andy Kane, PhD “Environmental Mycobacteria: Fish tell part of the story“