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Spring 2007: Ecology and Climate Change
Climate change is the theme of the Spring 2007 Penn State Ecology seminar series, which involves speakers from universities, government agencies and research institutes/centers.
| when | who | where |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 21 | Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth | 2pm, Schlow Centre Regional Library |
| Jan 22 | Richard Alley (Penn State) Climate change: why is it coming, what it might mean | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| Jan 29 | Lewis Ziska (USDA) Climate change and weed ecology | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| Feb 5 | John Magnuson (University of Wisconsin) Freshwater ecosystems and climate change: impacts on lake ice, fishes and hydrology | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| Feb 12 | Allison Thomson (Joint Global Change Research Institute) Climate change and agriculture: impacts, adaptation and mitigation | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| Feb 26 | Patrick Megonigal (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center) Priming the microbial pump: enhanced soil organic matter decomposition at elevated CO2 | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| March 19 | Eric Davidson (Woods Hole Research Center) The temperature sensitivity of decomposition of soil organic matter: moving beyond Q10 | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| April 2 | Mark Bush (Florida Institute of Technology) Ecological and evolutionary implications of past and future Amazonian climate change | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| April 9 | Paul Moorcroft (Harvard University) How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere? | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| April 16 | Julio Betancourt (United States Geological Survey) Patterns, sources and ecological impacts of decadal-to-multidecadal climate variability | 3:35-4:35pm, 101 ASI |
| April 26 | Terry Root (Stanford University) Global change in plants and animals: a fingerprint for warming and evidence of cause | 4-5pm, 101 ASI |
| April 27 | Stephen Schneider (Stanford University) Can we define, let alone fix, "dangerous" climate change? | 1:25-2:25pm |
This series is co-sponsored by the Penn State Institutes of the Environment, the Environmental and Natural Resources Institute, the Earth and Environment Systems Institute, the Center for Advanced Carbon-Cycle Research and Education, the Earth System Science Center, and The Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.