Webinar Series

Recordings of Past Webinars

• 2025

  January 15^th, 2025 – Robin Warne – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Gut microbiome mediation of animal life histories.” Recording available to TWS members, please email NEWG.

  February 26^th, 2025 –  Marjorie Matocq – University of Nevada – Reno. Marjorie Matocq – University of Nevada – Reno. “Ecological and genetic mechanisms that underlie species boundaries in the genus Neotoma.” Recording available to TWS members, please email NEWG

  March 12^th, 2025 –   Lisa Shipley – Washington State University. “Plants to populations: Predicting diet quality and nutrient intake of deer from forage metrics.”

  November 12th, 2025 – Charlotte Eriksson – Oregon State University. “Improving DNA-based herbivore diet analysis”

• 2024

  December 11^th, 2024 – Mark Edwards – California Polytechnic State University.  “Curated collections of nutrient composition data for the animal nutrition community”

  November 13^th, 2024 – Phil Manlick and Claire Goodfellow – USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University.  “Unraveling the spatiotemporal dynamics of Sitka black-tailed deer diet throughout Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest using DNA metabarcoding” 

  March 13^th, 2024 – Tamara Johnstone-Yellin – Bridgewater College. “Integrating nutritional ecology into the life sciences curriculum at a small liberal arts college”

  February 14^th, 2024 – Michael Cherry – Texas A&M Kingsville. “Leveraging captive experiments, field studies, and broad scale surveys to understand the effects of drought and heat on white-tailed deer”

  January 10^th, 2024 – Karen Marsh – Australian National University. “Changes in the nutritional landscape after forest disturbance – implications for koalas”

• 2023

  December 13^th, 2023 – Daniel P. Thompson – Alaska Department of Fish and Game – Kenai Moose Research Center. “Integrating nutrition, physiology, and behavior into moose research and management”

  November 15^th, 2023 – Juliana Balluffi-Fry – University of Alberta. “Using frameworks to study wildlife nutrition: lessons from ecological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry”

  March 8^th, 2023 – Seth Newsome – University of New Mexico. “Ecological processes and wildlife in a changing world revealed by stable isotopes”

  February 8^th, 2023 – Heather Johnson – USGS Alaska Science Center. “Linking the Summer Foodscape to the Behavior and Demography of Caribou in the Arctic”

  January 11^th, 2023 – John Cook – National Council for Air and Stream Improvement. “30 years of fine-scale nutritional ecology research: implications for management and planning at broad scales“

• 2022

  December 14^th, 2022 – Kirk Klasing – University of California, Davis. “Nutritional ecology and conservation of an endangered bird – the kakapo of New Zealand”

  November 16^th, 2022 – Dr. Anthony Pagano – USGS Alaska Science Center. “Linking the energy expenditure, diet and behavior of polar bears during a period of rapid sea ice decline enabling and detoxification by gut microbes”

  March 9^th, 2022 – Sue Ishaq – University of Maine. “Moose rumen microbes and you”

  February 9^th, 2022 – Candace Williams – San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. “Gut microbiota and their role in rhinoceros infertility”

  January 12^th, 2022 – Denise Dearing University of Utah “Metabolic enabling and detoxification by gut microbes”

• 2021

  December 8^th, 2021 – Kevin Kohl – University of Pittsburgh. “Who’s in charge here?: Microbial contributions to animal physiology, ecology, and evolution” (Presentation not recorded)

  November 10^th, 2021 – Jennifer Forbey – Boise State University. “Manipulating metabolites & microbes to manage wild herbivores”

  March 3^rd, 2021 — Katie Christie, Alaska Department of Fish and Game. “Winter diet and food selection by collared pikas in changing alpine ecosystems of Alaska”.

  February 3^rd, 2021 — Morag Dick – Western University. “Sugar metabolism in hummingbirds and bats”.

  January 6^th, 2021 — Jessica Rothman – Hunter College of the City University of New York.  “Nutrient balancing in African monkeys and apes”.

• 2020

  December 2^nd, 2020 — David Press, Dane Horowski – National Park Service; Kristin Denryter, Brandon Munk – California Department of Fish and Game. “The Interface of Nutrition and Disease in a Coastal Ungulate – Tule Elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, California”.

  November 4^th, 2020 — Scott McWilliams, University of Rhode Island. “The nutritional and physiological ecology of migratory birds”.