Achievement

Trainee Erin Landguth was invited to help organize a distributed graduate seminar that will be offered through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). The seminar is titled "Developing Best Practices for Testing Landscape Effects on Gene Flow" and will be simultaneously co-taught at 8 universities in North American and Europe during the spring 2010 semester. Landguth has helped develop 4 lectures for the seminar, including "Role of simulation modeling," "Model selection and validation," "Distance-based methods," and "Quantifying the organism perspective: scale of response and matrix resistance." She will co-teach the seminar at the University of Montana. The faculty and graduate students who are developing the seminar also plan to write a textbook on landscape genetics after the seminar has been taught.