February 2, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Frank Moore
TBA
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
February 5, 2009 (Teale Seminar)
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Bud Ward (The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media)
Bridging the Science/Journalism Gap (?) in a Time of Epochal Change
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center |
February 6, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Mark Rudnicki
Forest Response to Chronic Wind
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
February 10, 2009 (Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series)
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THE LEGACY OF CHARLES DARWIN
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Avery Point Campus
Branford House, First Floor
Admission Fee:FREE
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February 12, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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David Fastovsky
Catastrophic Extinction of the Dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
February 13, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Tom Baron
Southern New England's Future Thirst, An Approach to Sustainability
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
February 19, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Maria Uriarte
TBA
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
February 20, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Yoichiro Kanno
Assessing biotic condition of streams using fish assemblages: development of landscape-fish
relationships and biomonitoring indices
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
February 25, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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John Haught
Evolution and Faith: What Is at Stake?
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium
Darwin Lecture Series. John Haught is a Distinguished Research Professor, Dept. of Theology, Georgetown University. He is a distinguished Catholic theologian whose research interests focus on issues in science and religion, cosmology and theology, and religion and ecology. He is the author of God After Darwin: A Theology Of Evolution (2000) and Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age Of Evolution (2003). |
February 27, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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A. Karim Ahmed
Climate Change & Global Warming: What do we know, What must be done? And musings
on Green Technology
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
March 5, 2009 (Teale Seminar)
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Catherine Potvin (McGill University)
Forest carbon stocks and land-use: Reconciling the international agenda with the needs of indigenous populations
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center |
March 6, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Y.Q. Wang
Remote sensing and geospatial information for inventory and monitoring of the changing
environment
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
March 19, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Mark Hauser
The Evolution of a Moral Grammar
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
Darwin Lecture Series. Marc Hauser is Professor of Psychology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Anthropology, Harvard University. Marc Hauser is an expert on the evolution of animal communication, behavioral ecology, and the evolution of mind. His work integrates animal behavior, cognitive neurosciences, anthropology, and philosophy. He is the author of a number of influential books, including The Evolution of Communication (1996) and Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (2006). |
March 20, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Theodore R. Castro-Santos
The Transparency Principle, a framework for identifying barriers to migration and
measuring fish passage effectiveness
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
March 25, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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John Beatty
Karl Popper, Darwinianism, and Totalitarianism: Evolutionary Theory and Political Ideology
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
Darwin Lecture Series. John Beatty is a Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia. John Beatty is a philosopher of science whose research focuses on the theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology. His current work focuses on the distinction between "history" and "science," the relationships between biology and "the state," from the Manhattan Project to the Human Genome Project, and the theological dimensions of the Darwinian revolution. He is the co-editor of Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives (2000) and co-author of The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (1989). |
March 26, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Bill Shipley
Modelling trait-based community assembly through entropy maximization
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
March 27, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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J. Morgan Grove
Plots, Pixels, and Parcels: Trends in Conceptual Approaches, Sampling Strategies, and
Findings from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
April 2, 2009 (Teale Seminar)
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Michael Mares (University of Oklahoma)
Sun Tzu and the Art of War: How the Battle of Museums to Survive has a Negative Impact on Nature and the Environment
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center |
April 3, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Jeanine Gouin and David Murphy
Drinking Water Quality Management Planning for Source Water Protection
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
April 9, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Casey Dunn
Scalable and portable phylogenetic strategies in the era of high throughput sequencing
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
April 10, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Vince Webb
Estimating Wind Forces within the Forest Canopy
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
April 15, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Paul Ewald
Darwinian Medicine
4:00PM in Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
Darwin Lecture Series. Paul Ewald is a Professor of Biology, University of Louisville. He began his career as a behavioral ecologist, but more recently has turned his attention to the study of evolutionary medicine, a field he helped to establish. He is a member of the interdisciplinary Program on Disease Evolution at the University of Louisville and the author of Evolution of Infectious Disease (1994) and Plague Time. The New Germ Theory of Disease (2002). |
April 17, 2009 (NRE Seminar)
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Shorna Broussard
Woodland Owner Networks: Evaluating the Impacts of Landowner Peer Programs in
Forestry
2:00PM in WBY 100 |
April 23, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Osvaldo Sala
Spatial and temporal controls of carbon cycling in arid and semiarid ecosystems
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
April 30, 2009 (EEB Seminar)
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Jolanta Miadlikowska
Exploring lichen symbiosis and its contribution to the diversification of Ascomycota
4:00PM in BPB 130 |
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