Ecology seminars, 2009
All seminars organized for 2009 by the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, plus other ecology-related seminars.
| when | who / what | where |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Feb 09 at 04:00PM |
Beth Shapiro
(Penn State)
Sequencing the dead: using DNA from fossil remains to reconstruct demographic history |
112 Borland |
| Mon Feb 16 at 04:00PM |
Warren Abrahamson
(Bucknell University)
Three decades of study on goldenrod galls: a medley of questions and approaches |
112 Borland |
| Mon Mar 02 at 04:00PM |
Andrew Read
(Penn State)
Vaccination: the evolutionary consequences of humankind’s biggest attempts to deliberately perturb organismal ecology |
112 Borland |
| Mon Mar 16 at 12:10PM |
Norm Ellstrand
(University of California-Riverside)
Lessons from crop (trans)genes out of place – environmental & other implications |
108 Wartik |
| Mon Mar 16 at 07:00PM |
CANCELED
Judge John Jones
Our Constitution's Intelligent Design |
100 Life Sciences Bldg (Berg Auditorium) |
| Mon Mar 23 at 04:00PM |
David Winkler
(Cornell University)
Life history variation in Tachycineta swallows over time and space |
112 Borland |
| Mon Mar 30 at 04:00PM |
CANCELED
Fred Gould
(North Carolina State University)
Can release of genetically engineered pests help sustain biodiversity? |
112 Borland |
| Mon Apr 06 at 04:00PM |
Susan Kalisz
(University of Pittsburgh)
Finding Darwinian Heroes: Among family variance in inbreeding depressions |
112 Borland |
| Mon Apr 13 at 04:00PM |
Al Savitzky
(NSF)
Purloined Poisons: Sequestered chemical defense in a Japanese snake |
112 Borland |
| Mon Apr 20 at 04:00PM |
Stephen Hubbell
(University of California- Los Angeles)
Niches, neutrality, and the dynamics of a neotropical tree community: perspectives from a 29-year study |
112 Borland |
| Tue Apr 21 at 04:00PM |
Bill Hansson
(Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology)
The contrivances by which orchids and other flowers are pollinated |
101 Althouse |
| Tue Apr 28 at 04:00PM |
Craig Benkman
(University of Wyoming)
Specialization and coevolution in the adaptive radiation of crossbills |
101 Althouse |
| Mon Sep 14 at 01:00PM |
Adam Miller
(Penn State University)
Coexistence in disturbance-prone communities: how a resistance-resilience trade-off generates coexistence via the storage effect |
301D LSB |
| Mon Sep 21 at 01:00PM |
Richard Smith
(Penn State)
Can lessons from agriculture inform invasive plant ecology? |
118 ASI |
| Mon Sep 28 at 01:00PM |
Sarah Goslee
(Penn State University/USDA ARS)
Plant diversity, ecosystem function, and grassland agriculture |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 12 at 01:00PM |
Baptiste Faure
(Penn State University)
Speciation in the deep sea: divergence and gene flow between two hybridizing species of hydrothermal vent mussels |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 19 at 01:00PM |
Courtney Murdock
(Penn State University)
Studies on the ecology of avian malaria in an alpine ecosystem |
118 ASI |
| Mon Oct 26 at 01:00PM |
Margot Kaye
(Penn State University)
Ponderosa pine woodlands in the Great Plains: seeing the forest through the grass |
118 ASI |
| Mon Nov 02 at 01:00PM |
Daniel Munari
Challenges for the monitoring of larger mammals in the Amazon Forest |
301D Life Sciences Building |
| Mon Nov 09 at 01:00PM |
Jennifer Dean
(Penn State University)
Soil factors influence sugar maple herbivory and defense signaling |
118 ASI |