FLBS is an ideal option for focused
workshops, owing to its setting on the shoreline of Flathead Lake
and the modern FLBS facilities for small groups working over several-day
periods. Each year a variety of workshops and short courses are
held at FLBS, sponsored by agencies and NGOs. These are designed
to inform citizens, teachers and professionals about tools and approaches
for solving contemporary ecological problems.
The core of this activity is a set of specific
workshops offered each year by Station faculty. For example, FLBS
for the last 5 years has offered a course in Ground and Surface
Water Interactions that has been partially underwritten by grants
from the Environmental Protection Agency. The course is designed
to demonstrate linkages between ground water and landscape processes,
such as riparian and wetland form and function, floodplain ecology
and biodiversity of aquatic-terrestrial transition zones. This
course is very popular because it teaches that surface- and groundwater
resources must be managed as a continuum, whereas current statutes
tend to separate them. Our recent NSF grant includes funds to
offer a short course to explain what is meant by biocomplexity
in the environment and the approaches used to conceptualize and
identify nonlinear processes and interactions in ecological systems.
The FLBS workshops focus on demonstrations and tactical approaches
to the solution of strategic environmental problems.
All FLBS workshops are self-supporting, requiring
no direct State support. For more information on the following
workshops, contact
us. Workshops dates will be posted below as they are scheduled.
Surface and Groundwater
Interactions September 8-10, 2004
Details
This seminar demonstrates approaches and tools
for the study of groundwater ecology and the influence of
ground and surface water exchange on landscape processes,
such as wetland form and function. Lead Instructor: Professor
Stanford
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Biocomplexity in the Environment
This seminar reviews the theory and approaches
to determination of non-linear interactions and emergent properties
of ecosystems, using the Nyack Flood Plain Reesearch Natual
Area as a focal ecosystem. Lead Instructors: Professors Stanford
and Swaney
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Assessment of Ecological Function
This seminar studies the use reference-based
assessments, such as hydrogeomorphic functional assessment
(HGM) and index of biological integrity (IBI) in natural resource
management. Lead Instructor: Professor Hauer
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River Restoration
This course examines approaches and tools
for restoring normative ecological conditions in rivers damaged
by flow regulation and diversion or other watershed-scale
problems. Lead Instructors: Professor Hauer and Dr. Lorang
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Ecological Risk Assessment
This seminar reviews the approaches and computational
tools for forecasting ecosystem change caused by human activities
in the environment. Lead Instructor: Professor Hauer
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The Flathead Lake Biological Station has announced its annual summer
seminar series. The presentations are a part of the summer academic
session at the Biological Station and are open to the public. Please
join us!
The talks are given on Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM in Elrod Lecture
Hall at the Biological Station, located at Yellow Bay on the East
Shore of Flathead Lake. There is no charge for any of the seminars.
College credit is available for attending all of the seminars. For
more information, contact the Biological Station at (406) 982-3301
or flbs@flbs.umt.edu.
These interesting presentations, while somewhat technical in scope,
are geared to a general audience and public participation is encouraged.
We encourage Flathead and Mission Valley residents and visitors
to visit the Station at Yellow Bay.
The seminars each last about one hour, followed by an hour of interactive
discussion between the audience and the speakers.
June 15 |
Climate driven changes in boreal-arctic vegetation productivity: Evidence of instability in the northern terrestrial carbon reservoir
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– Dr. John Kimball, Flathead Lake Biological Station |
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June 22 |
Waves, beaches and shoreline habitats of Flathead Lake
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– Dr. Mark Lorang, Flathead Lake Biological Station |
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June 29 |
Mines, bears and urbanization of mountain landscapes: Science and culture in the Crown of the Continent Ecoregion
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– Dr. Jack Stanford, Flathead Lake Biological Station |
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July 6 |
Recent advances in stream ecology: FLBS science in the international theater
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– Dr. F. Richard Hauer, Flathead Lake Biological Station |
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July 13 |
Changing water quality in Flathead Lake: Nutrient loading and the shifting food web over 25 years
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– Bonnie Ellis, Flathead Lake Biological Station |
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July 20 |
Beaver and landscapes: The effects of an ecosystem engineer on diversity
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– Dr. Justin Wright, Duke University |
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July 27 |
Measuring, managing and restoring freshwater ecosystem services
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– Dr. Emily Bernhardt, Duke University |
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August 3 |
Implications of climate change for the northern Rocky Mountains
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– Dr. Steve Running, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), Dept. of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, The University of Montana
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