I am again offering a journal club in Conservation Biology this Fall. Our first organizational meeting will be Friday Sept 5 at 11am (Holdsworth 312A). From there, we can establish the regular meeting time and the topic of focus for this semester. If you would like to attend but can’t make the organizational meeting, please let me know of your interest, topics you’d like to see covered, and a list of times that will work for you.

Students are not required to register in order to participate, but I encourage any who can to do so. It’s listed as a 1-credit pass-fail seminar course in SPIRE: WFCON 697AA (82297) Conservation Biology. PLEASE IGNORE THE OTHER COURSE LISTING (WFCON 697L). The course was accidentally double-listed this semetser.

You can find more information about the course and the journal club on this blog.

As before, this will be an informal discussion group in which students, postdocs and interested faculty will take turns choosing recent papers from prominent journals that address conservation biology. I am particularly interested in rigorous examination of the recommendations for management provided in papers in such journals as Ecological Applications, Conservation Biology and Biological Conservation. I’d like for some of the papers to address aspects of conservation and natural resource management in suburban, agricultural and other human-dominated environments, but I’m open to other topics in as well. Last semester, discussion focused on climate change.

Please forward this to any interested folks. All are welcome.