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CSI Brown Bag Seminar

Fall 2022 Schedule

The Fall 2022 CSI Seminar will be held in PAIS 1010 and online, via Zoom, and will be moderated by Dr Viorel Atudorei (atudorei@unm.edu) and/or Dr. Seth Newsome (newsome@unm.edu)

All seminars begin at noon on the date listed below. Room 1010 is located in PAIS 1st floor, next to (south of) the main entrance.

 

Fall 2022 CSI Seminar Schedule

August 29 Zachary Sharp (UNM, E&PS):  Fundamentals of Stable Isotope geochemistry and Mass Spectrometry

September 12 Tom Turner: (UNM, Department of Biology) Long-term Ecological Research Enabled by Collections, Stable Isotopes, and Environmental Informatics

September 19 Curt Mowry: (UNM, Department of Chemistry) What Can Mass Spectrometry Tell Me? Building Blocks, Capabilities and Examples

September 26 no seminar (cancelled)

October 3rd Seth Newsome: Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climate change

October 10 Geraldine Busquets Vass (UNM, Department of Biology): Carbon and Nitrogen isotopes in Humpback Whales: What do they tell us?

October 17 Christy Mancuso (UNM, Department of Biology): Examining the role of gut microbiota in supplying amino acids to Peromyscous maniculatus fed synthetic and semi-natural diets

October 24 Gloria Hernandez Bolio (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico): Stable isotope analyses reveal variation in ancient tropical agriculturalist diets according to geography

October 31 Catherine Peshek (UNM, E&PS):  TBA

November 7 Jonathan Duran (UNM, Department of Biology): TBA

November 14 Keith Prufer and Paige Lynch (UNM, Department of Anthropology): Multiproxy evidence for Early and Middle Holocene human mobility in the neotropics

November 21 Nico Lubcker (UNM, Department of Biology): Of Mice and Snakes: Animal physiology using stable isotopes

November 28 Joshua Cortez (UNM, Department of Biology): TBA

December 5th Weston McCool (University of Utah, Anthropology): Leveraging radiocarbon databases to evaluate the relationships between climate change, population pressure, and human conflict

 

 

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.