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Papes Seminar 3/29

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EEB Assitant Professor Mona Papes will give a seminar in the Geography department on Thursday, March 29. Click here to view the poster.

Why Geography Matters to Ecologists: Geographical Patterns of Biodiversity
Thursday, March 29th in the Burchfiel Geography Building Room 301. Reception with cookies and coffee to start at 3:30, talk from 4:00-5:00.

In this talk, I will provide an overview of my research interests, focused on using ecological niche modeling and spatial data to study species’ distributions. To
illustrate my research interests, I will discuss studies (in progress or completed) aiming to detect plant species richness, plant traits, and estimate the
potential distribution of invasive species. In the last part of my talk, I will introduce the Spatial Analysis Lab, an interdisciplinary recharge center established last year in NIMBioS through a partnership between Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geography, NIMBioS, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Tewksbury Seminar 2/16

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Josh Tewksbury, of Future Earth, is the EEB seminar speaker this Friday (Feb. 16), at 3:30 PM in 307 SERF.  This seminar is affiliated with the Haines Morris Endowment-funded seminar series, “Why Natural History Matters in the 21st Century.”

The talk is entitled “Natural History’s place in Science and Society” (poster).

 

Energy and Environment Forums, Spring 2018

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The list of seminar speakers for the Spring 2018 Baker Center Energy and Environment Forums has been released!  Download the pdf here.

  • Thursday, February 1—Laura Ogden, Energy and Environment Forum, 1–2:30 p.m., Toyota Auditorium. Ogden will present “Trace Impressions of Being: Loss, Change, and Wonder in the Fuegian Archipelago ” Dr. Ogden is an associate professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College.
  • Thursday, February 15—Desiree Tullos, Energy and Environment Forum, 1–2:30 p.m., Toyota Auditorium. Tullos is a professor of Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University whose work and passion is in the sustainable management of rivers. Presentation title will be announced at a later time.
  • Thursday, March 1—Robin Craig, Energy and Environment Forum, 1–2:30 p.m., Toyota Auditorium. Craig, is the James I. Farr Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is also currently serving as the Acting Director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment, is on the Executive Board of the University of Utah’s new Water Center, and is affiliated faculty with the Global Changes and Sustainability Center. She will present “Narrating the Anthropocene, or, Learning to Live with the Trickster.”
  • Thursday, April 5—Andrew Plantinga, Energy and Environment Forum, 1-2:30 p.m., Toyota Auditorium. He is a professor in the Bren School of Enironmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the economics of land use, climate change, and forests, with emphasis on empirical modeling of land markets and the analysis of environmental policies that affect private land-use decisions. Plantinga will present “Missing the People for the Trees: Elucidating the Role of Human Behavior in the Ecology of Lyme Disease.”
  • Thursday, April 26—Sadie Ryan, Energy and Environment Forum, 1–2:30 p.m., Toyota Auditorium. Ryan is an associate professor of Medical Geography at the University of Florida. Her focus areas GeoSpatial Analysis & Techniques and Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH). Presentation title will be announced at a later time.

No EEB Seminar Sep. 2

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There will be no EEB Seminar this Friday (Sep. 2). The scheduled speaker (David Frank, from our own EEB & Philosophy departments) will present instead on Friday, Sep. 23. It may take a few days for the central campus events calendar to reflect the change.

Fall 2016 Seminar Series

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The first speaker in EEB’s Fall 2016 Seminar Series will be Sara Branco from the Université de Paris-Sud, on Friday, August 26 at 3:30 p.m. in 307 SERF.  The full schedule has been posted on the EEB website.  The site will be updated with titles and abstracts as they are received.

It may take a week before seminars start appearing in the “Upcoming Events” feed on the EEB homepage, but that will happen, too.

Simberloff Special Lecture March 2

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“Zebra Mussels, Zika, Kudzu, and More:  Winning the War Against the Aliens Among Us”

McClung Museum Auditorium, 1327 Circle Park Drive, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @7 pm (Reception and Snacks @ 6 pm)

As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (www.nisaw.org), pioneering invasion biologist Daniel Simberloff will discuss current regional invasive species issues.  Simberloff, the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, will highlight notable local invaders and the ecological impacts they pose, cover current efforts to stem their spread, and describe ways for the public to join this fight.

For more information, read the press release.

Phyloseminar on “Making comparative methods as easy as ABC”

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Faculty member Brian O’Meara is giving a phyloseminar on March 30 at 2 pm eastern on “Making comparative methods as easy as ABC” based on work by him and postdoc Barb Banbury. A phyloseminar is a seminar delivered online virtually — people around the world can log in to watch and ask questions. For more information, see http://phyloseminar.org/.

Update: The seminar is over. You can see a recording at http://phyloseminar.org/recorded.html and the slides at http://brianomeara.info/.