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CSI Brown Bag Seminar

Fall 2020 Schedule

The CSI Seminar series will be conducted online, via Zoom, until further notice.

Contact Seth Newsome for more info or to be added to our seminar e-mail list.

All seminars begin at noon on the date listed below.

 

August 24th: Dr. Kaycee Morra (UC Riverside), "Find the Label! Intramolecular isotopic fingerprints of amino acids”

August 31st: Dr. Zachary Sharp (UNM, E&PS), "Standardization. An arcane, but necessary reality”

Septemper 14th: Ana Valenzuela Toro (UC Santa Cruz), "Investigating the foraging and habitat preferences of fossil pinnipeds”

September 21st: Dr. Jon Nye (UC Riverside), "Ecological crisis in the Salton Sea”

September 28th: Dr. Claire Ebert (University of Pittsburgh), "Linking diet and resilience to climate change in the Maya lowlands: Isotopic Evidence from two Late Preclassic sites from Belize”

October 5th: Bobby Nakamoto (UC Riverside), "Influence of Chinook salmon habitat on nutrition: Insights from CSIA of amino and fatty acids”

October 12th: Nadia Neff (UNM, Anthro), "Human-rodent commensalism in Mesoamerica”

October 19th: Zoë Rossman (UNM, Bio), "Niche partitioning and individual specialization in a community of urban carnivores”

October 26th: Dr. Christy Mancuso (UNM, Bio), "Fingernails reveal dietary changes along urban to rural landscapes in Brazil”

November 2nd: Erin Ray (UNM, Anthro), "Changes in weaning age from hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists: A stable isotope study in southern Belize”

November 9th: Sebastian Los (UNM, E&PS), "Isotopes set sail: Connecting ocean, clouds, and climate through the EUREC4A field campaign”

November 16th: Christina Blevins and Geraldine Busquets-Vass (UNM, Bio), "Blue whale age and sex specific feeding strategies: An integrative approach using bulk and compound specific isotope analysis in baleen”

November 23rd: Dr. Oliver Shipley (UNM, Bio), "Isotopic clocks to predict migration timing of migratory animals”

November 30th: Dr. Daniel Ibarra (UC Berkeley), "Paleoaltimetry and terrestrial paleoclimate reconstructions using triple oxygen isotopes”

 

 

 

Training Programs and Courses

  • Graduate Student Assistantships: 2 graduate assistantships per semester (one in Earth & Planetary Sciences and another in Biology) are offered to train graduate students in the daily operation of instrumentation, instrument maintenance, QA/QC protocols and data reduction.
  • Courses: targeted to motivated undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in learning more about the application of stable isotope analysis in the planetary, life and medical sciences. The laboratory experience will include full access and training on how to operate and maintain isotope ratio mass spectrometers.
    • Stable Isotope Geochemistry (EPS 405): The aim of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of stable isotope geochemistry, and it’s application in the geosciences. In particular, lectures will focus on applications to paleoclimate reconstruction, metamorphic and igneous petrology, atmospheric science and meteoritics.
    • Elemental Ecology (BIO 402/502): This aim of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the application of stable isotope measurements in ecology and environmental science. Lectures will address the theory underlying the application of stable isotopes at natural abundance levels as tracers and integrators of important ecological and environmental processes.
    • ​Stable Isotope Seminar (ANTH 502, BIOL 402/502, EPS 400): The CSI brown bag seminar is offered as a one credit course in the Anthropology, Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences departments.