Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: Ants, microbiomes, and how I became a rainforest explorer
Professor Corrie Moreau, head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has explored rainforests around the world in search of the most diverse and ecologically...
YIBS Postdoc Armita Manafzadeh wins young investigator award for paleontology research
Armita Manafzadeh, a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, and the Yale Peabody ...
Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water?
In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land.
But for some species that evolution also...
YIBS postdocs illuminate new insights into river metabolism across the Western United States
A new Science study co-authored by YIBS researchers sheds light on the significant role that rivers in the western United States play in absorbing carbon dioxide from the...
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: "To know our trees" with W. John Kress
Dear YIBS community,
Please join us in attending the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: "To know our trees" with W. John Kress
Date: Wednesday, November 5th from 5:00 - 6:...
Dark ages: Genomic analysis shows how cavefish lost their eyes
Small, colorless, and blind, amblyopsid cavefishes inhabit subterranean waters throughout the eastern United States. In a new study, Yale researchers reveal insights into...
As the world churns — a history of ecosystem engineering in the oceans
The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of ...
