Seminar Series
Upcoming Seminar
Status and Stories of Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
Taylor Rabe, Yellowstone Wolf Project
April 17, 2025
4:00pm-5:00pm in HSCI-111 and via Zoom
Join 4/17 Zoom
Meeting ID: 817 8028 2041
Abstract
Taylor Rabe is a biological science technician for the Yellowstone Wolf, Cougar, and Elk projects. She graduated in 2018 from The Ohio State University with a Zoology degree and currently acts as Conservation Nation's Education and Engagement Facilitator. She takes pride in being a woman of color working in a white, male dominated field, and strives to diversify the conservation community. Currently, her role with the Wolf Project has her working as a full-time road technician, spending thousands of hours monitoring the park's radio-collared wolves, aiding in research, helping with wolf management, and most importantly, spearheading education to people on wild wolves. Taylor has been studying gray wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for over 6 years now, and has been exploring the landscape across Yellowstone observing, and sharing wolves with visitors from all over the globe.
About the Seminar Series
The Seminar Series is a unique opportunity for students to learn about new developments in biology and what biologists do after they graduate. Hosted by the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach, the weekly meetings invite guests from universities, research laboratories, and industry to present and discuss current topics in biology. All students are encouraged to attend.
Seminar Coordinator
For information and suggestions about our Seminar Series, please contact the seminar coordinator:
Dr. Houng-Wei Tsai
Houng-Wei.Tsai@csulb.edu
Schedule
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2025 | Status and Stories of Wolves in Yellowstone National Park | Taylor Rabe, Yellowstone Wolf Project |
| April 24, 2025 | TBA | Dr. Math Cuajungco, CSU Fullerton |
| May 1, 2025 | TBA | Dr. Nancy Buckley, Cal Poly Pomona |
| May 8, 2025 | TBA | Dr. Sarah Luongo, CSU Long Beach |
Previous Seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2025 | Engineering novel microenvironments for regenerative medicine | Dr. Maricela Maldonado, CSU Long Beach |
| March 27, 2025 | The secret lives of sponges: Understanding ancient animals at their own pace | Dr. Amanda Kahn, San Jose State University |
| March 20, 2025 | Biological Nitrogen Fixation on the Aerial Roots of Maize and Sorghum for Sustainable Agriculture | Dr. Rafael Espejel Venado, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| March 13, 2025 | From Tendons to Terrain: Integrative insights across the multiscale dynamics of locomotion | Dr. Crystal Reynaga, UC Riverside |
| March 6, 2025 | You Can't Hide from the Toilet: Sequencing SoCal's Sewage | Dr. Jason Rothman, UC Riverside |
| February 27, 2025 | From Ecology to Physiology: Creating Sustainable Solutions in a Changing Ocean | Dr. Racine Rangel, UC Santa Cruz |
| February 20, 2025 | Exploring Individual Differences in Nonhuman Primates | Dr. Nalina Aiempichitkijkarn, CSU Long Beach |
| February 13, 2025 | Conservation through Cultivation: Advanced Propagation of Rare Plants | Kevin Alison, Catalina Island Conservancy |
| February 6, 2025 | Long-term restoration success in coastal wetlands: Lessons learned from Galveston Bay, TX | Dr. Anna Armitage, Texas A&M University Galveston |
The Seminar Series Archive has topics from previous semesters.
