Santa Barbara City College
Department of Biological Sciences

Seminar Series Spring 2012

 Friday, Feb. 10th
11:00 – 12:00
EBS 309

Peter Aguilar, MS
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, UCSB Sport Clubs
Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, SBCC
Keeping Your Joints Healthy Through Exercise: The anatomy and biomechanics of articulations commonly injured in exercise

 Friday, Feb. 24th
11:00 – 12:00
EBS 309

Craig Faunce, PhD
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Seeking truth among lawyers, politicians, statisticians and businessmen:
a fish counting story

Friday, March 9th
11:00 – 12:00
EBS 309

Professor James Estes, PhD
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz
Sea Otter Ecology

 Friday, March 16th
11:00 – 12:00
EBS 309

Amber E. Budden, PhD
Director, Community Engagement and Outreach, Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
Behavioral Ecology of Birds

Josephine Rodriguez, PhD
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA
Understanding the Exceptional Diversity of Parasitic Wasps: Studies from Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the Tropics

 Friday, April 13th
11:00 – 12:00
EBS 309

Paige Miller, PhD
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UCSB
Evolution of Sex Chromosomes

 Friday, April 20th
11:00 – 12:00
EBS 309

Pauline Yu, PhD
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, UCSB
Antarctica and climate change: sea urchin development as a bellweather?

All seminars are open to the public. 
Please direct questions regarding the seminar series to Dr. Jennifer Maupin (805) 965- 0581 ext. 2396,
maupin@sbcc.edu, or Dr. Michelle Paddack (805) 965- 0581 ext. 2328, mjpaddack@sbcc.edu.