Friday, December 6th, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Briana Pobiner, Research Scientist and Museum Educator, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution: “The ecology of ancient human scavenging”
Friday, November 8th, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Tatiana Maeda, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, EEB
“Leveraging bioacoustics to understand how improved forest management benefits tropical diversity”
Friday, November 1st, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Eric Gulson-Castillo, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, EEB
“Magnetoreception across scales: from comparative neuroanatomy to macroecology”
Friday, October 25th, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Craig Brinkerhoff, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, YSE
“Taking the pulse of global rivers”
Friday, October 11th, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Emilio Bruna, Professor of Tropical Ecology, University of Florida & YIBS Bass Scholar
“Climate change, deforestation, and the demographic future of tropical understory plants”
Friday, October 4th, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Sara Kuebbing, Director of Research, Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program and Research Scientist, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment
“Managing ecosystems for climate mitigation”
Friday, September 13th, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: ESC 110
Lucy Amissah, Principal Research Scientist, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: “Drought tolerance and tree species distribution in tropical forests of Ghana”
Friday, April 26, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Timothy Lyons, Distinguished Professor of Biogeochemistry, University of California, Riverside & YIBS Bass Scholar
Topic: Lakes in crisis: The global challenge of shrinking lakes in arid and semi-arid regions - causes, consequences, and lessons learned from the Salton Sea
Friday, April 12, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Thomas Near, Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Bingham Oceanographic Curator of Ichthyology, Yale Peabody Museum; Head of Saybrook College
Topic: Challenges and solutions in converting phylogenies to taxonomies in ray-finned fishes
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
David Herrera Ramirez, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, YSE
Topic: How carbon storage strategies influence disturbance survival and recovery of mature trees in the tropics
Friday, March 1, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Henry Arenas Castro, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, EEB
Topic: Mate choice after mating and pollination
Friday, February 23, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Kat Schroeder, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, EPS
Topic: Ontogenetic niche shift as a driver of community structure and diversity of non-avian dinosaurs
Friday, February 16, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Vanessa Tonet, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, YSE
Topic: A matter of leaf and death: what kills plants during drought
Friday, February 9, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Kai Chen, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health), YSPH;
Deputy Faculty Director, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
Topic: Climate Epidemiology: How to assess the health impacts of climate changes
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Pauline Raimondeau, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, EEB
Topic: Evolutionary genomics of self-incompatibility in the olive family
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Stanley Ambrose, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois & YIBS Bass Scholar
Topic: The view from underground: Geobiology, African ecology, and climate change
Friday, December 1, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Nadia Zikiou, YIBS Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, CPSC
Topic: Dynamic landscapes: exploring changes in land use, land cover, and fire severity in northern Algeria using spectral indices and machine learning
Friday, November 10, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Quentin Bateux, YIBS Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, SEAS
Topic: Automating large scale trait extraction from plant imagery with computer vision: applications to herbarium specimens
Friday, November 3, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Maya LaGrange Rao, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, EPS
Topic: Assessing temperature-driven changes in coastal bioturbation at Willapa Bay, Washington
Friday, October 13, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Heather LeClerc, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, SEAS
Topic: Enabling the integrated biorefinery through continuous flow lignocellulose upgrading
Friday, October 6, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hannah Greenwald Healy, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, SEAS
Topic: Impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on drinking water microbial abundance and community composition
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Anita Weissflog, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, YSE
Topic: Insects, fungi, and tropical tree diversity
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Nicholas Fisher, Distinguished Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
Topic: Long-lived radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, and consequences for Pacific ecosystems and seafood consumers
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Thomas Bianchi, Jon and Beverly Thompson Endowed Chair in Geological Sciences, University of Florida & YIBS Bass Scholar
Topic: Carbon processing in aquatic critical zones: biogeochemical challenges in the 21st century
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Carlos Navas, Professor of Physiology, University of Sao Paulo & YIBS Bass Scholar
Topic: Montane frogs and experimental fogs: How I came to study thermal boldness in fruit flies
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00 pm
Mohammed Armani, YIBS Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: TRAVELS: Trajectories of vegetation change across West African savanna landscapes\
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Sappho Gilbert, PhD Candidate, Yale School of Public Health & Science Communication Fellow, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Topic: Socio-environmental dimensions of the nutrition transition in Nunavut, Canada
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Professor of Biology, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Burke Museum, University of Washington & YIBS Bass Scholar,
Topic: Ecological radiations of mammals before and after the K/Pg mass extinction
Friday, March 31, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Paul Turner, Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Director of Quantitative Biology Institute, Yale University
Topic: Examining evolution of microbial biodiversity in the Yale Quantitative Biology Institute
Friday, March 3, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Kostas Tsigaridis, Research Scientist, Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
Topic: The role of volcanoes in the Earth system and beyond
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Jenn Coughlan, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: The genetic basis of life history adaptation in Mimulus
Friday, February 17, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Erin Saupe, Associate Professor of Paleobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford & YIBS Bass Scholar,
Topic: The emergence of latitudinal diversity gradients
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Michelle Spicer, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: Assembly in the air: drivers of plant diversity in temperate and tropical forest canopies
Friday, February 3, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Lucas Weaver, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Topic: Landscape change and climatic warming as potential drivers of early mammalian macroevolution
Friday, December 2, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Yen-Hua Huang, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: The role of herbivore behavior in trophic interactions with parasites
Friday, November 18, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Sina Rometsch, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Evolutionary dynamics of reproductive isolation in adaptive radiations
Friday, November 4, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Nohemi Huanca-Nuñez, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: Regeneration of human-disturbed landscapes; seed rain and seedling recruitment along succession
Friday, October 28, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Cesar Martinez-Alvarez, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: Local Institutions, Extractive industries, and the Stewardship of the Forest Commons: Evidence from Mexico
Friday, October 14, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Nicholas O’Mara, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: A biomarker approach to reconstructing paleofires in African savannas
Friday, October 7, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Jeremy Cohen, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Responses of North American birds to climate change across temporal scales
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Rees Kassen, Professor of Biology and Scientific Director of the COVID-19 in the Urban Built Environment (CUBE) Initiative, University of Ottawa & YIBS Bass Scholar,
Topic: From so simple a beginning: adaptation and diversification in microbial populations
Friday, September 23, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Armita Manafzadeh, Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
Topic: Joint mobility as a bridge between form and function
Friday, September 16, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Simon Queenborough, Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment, & Musser Director, , Tropical Resources Institute
Topic: Life-history strategies in tropical forest trees: trade-offs in reproduction and defense
Friday, September 9, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Cheryl Knott, Professor of Anthropology & Biology, Boston University & YIBS Bass Scholar,
Topic: Orangutans: Adaptive resilience to environmental and anthropogenic change
Friday, April 29, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Alison Richard, Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor Emerita of the Human Environment, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Topic: Elephant bird enigmas
Friday, April 15, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Meredith Holgerson, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Topic: Limnology underdogs: The ecological importance of pond ecosystems
Friday, April 8, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Scott Yanco, Postdoctoral Associate, Max Planck - Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Dynamic environments, migration, and the pace of life: exploring the causes and consequences of animal movement
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Caroline Strömberg, Estella B. Leopold Professor in Biology, Department of Biology, University of Washington & YIBS Bass Scholar,
Topic: Revealing the complex Cenozoic evolution of grassland ecosystems
Friday, March 18, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Jennifer Marlon, Research Scientist and Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment
Topic: The Evolution of Climate Change in the American Mind
Friday, March 11, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
José Paruelo, Professor and Senior Research Scientist, University of Buenos Aires/CONICET/INIA & YIBS Bass Scholar,
Topic: Assessing functional diversity of ecosystems and socio-ecosystems
Friday, March 4, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Vanessa Ezenwa, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Social behavior and parasite infection: the bad, the good, and the utilitarian
Friday, February 18, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Luke Sanford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance, Yale School of the Environment
Topic: Impact evaluation using remote sensing and landscape counterfactuals
Friday, February 11, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Virginia Pitzer, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
Topic: Environmental drivers of infectious disease dynamics: How do we distinguish causation from correlation?
Friday, February 4, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London
Topic: Rising Methane - Observational Insights into Methane Growth, and Practical Ways to meet the challenge
Friday, December 3, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Craig Brodersen (Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology) and Kyra Prats (Ph.D. Candidate), Yale School of the Environment
Topic: Xylem network failure and the death of a leaf
Friday, November 19, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Karen Chen, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of the Environment
Topic: From pixels to people: 3-D urban form and human well-being
Friday, November 12, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Narasimha Rao, Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment
Topic: Household contributions to and impacts from air pollution in India
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Catherine Hernandez, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate (EEB), Yale University
Topic: The relevance of context for understanding environmental and host-associated bacteria-phage interactions
Friday, October 29, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Erynn Johnson, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Topic: Understanding what shapes mollusk shell strength
Friday, October 15, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Liza Comita (Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology, YSE; Co-Director, YCNCC) and David Bercovici (Frederick William Beinecke Professor, EPS; Co-Director, YCNCC), Yale University
Topic: A conversation about the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture
Friday, October 8, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Allison Karp, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Herbivore-fire interactions across spatial and temporal scales
Friday, October 1, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Maya Stokes, YIBS Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Dynamic rivers drive landscape change and fish diversification in the Appalachian Mountains
Friday, September 24, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Yuan Yao, Assistant Professor, Yale School of the Environment
Topic: Life Cycle Decision Support Tools for Sustainable Biomass Utilization
Friday, September 17, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Sit and W.A.I.T. (Waterborne, abiotic, and indirectly transmitted) Infections: from football, to addiction, to modern disease ecology
Friday, September 10, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Carla Staver (Associate Director, YIBS; Associate Professor, Dept. of EEB) and Eric Sargis (Director, YIBS; Professor, Dept. of ANTH; Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History),
Topic: A conversation about the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Friday, May 7, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
James Saiers, Clifton R. Musser Professor at the School of the Environment and Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: Fossil-Fuel Development and Drinking-Water Quality
Friday, April 30, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Serena Tucci, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
Topic: The genetic legacy of archaic hominin admixture
Friday, April 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Thomas Boag, Stanford University
Topic: The application of modern organismal physiology in understanding the role of climate change during extinctions in the geologic past
Friday, April 9, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jason Vleminckx, Florida International University
Topic: Resolving whole-plant economics from leaf, stem and root traits of Amazonian tree species
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Natasha Picciani, Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Convergent evolution of eyes with divergent gene expression
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
Topic: Rapid methane emissions reduction is critical to slowing the rate of warming: the science behind measuring oil and gas supply chain emissions
Friday, March 12, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
James Lichtenstein, Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Environment
Topic: Bridging a yawning divide: how individual-level traits affect population-level outcomes
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Xin Sun, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: New processes and microbes in the marine nitrogen cycle
Friday, February 26, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Lewis Alcott, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences , Yale University
Topic: The role of phosphorus cycling in Earth oxygenation
Friday, February 19, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jordan Peccia, Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University
Topic: Surveillance of COVID-19 and associated health concerns using Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
Friday, February 12, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sarah Friedman, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: The evolution of morphological diversity in fishes
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Judith Rosentreter, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of the Environment
Topic: Coastal Ocean Methane Dynamics
Friday, December 11, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Kealoha Freidenburg, Research Scientist & Lecturer, School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: Life in the suburban wild
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Joey Bernhardt, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Linking individual performance to population persistence in a changing world, Yale University
Topic: Linking individual performance to population persistence in a changing world
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Elizabeth Sibert, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Yale University
Topic: The Missing Miocene Mass Extinction
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Catherine Davis, Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Yale University
Topic: Big stories in tiny shells: Tales from the oxygen minimum zone
Friday, October 30, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Yong Zhou, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Causes and consequences of woody encroachment in savannas
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
David Watts, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Topic: Permanent Fission of a Chimpanzee Community at Ngogo, Kibale National Park
Friday, October 16, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Taylor Maavara, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: Nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters: Are IPCC estimates too high?
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Living in community: Microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics
Friday, October 2, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Advait Jukar, Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Topic: The past, present, and future of megafaunal extinction research in India
Friday, September 25, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Aaron Dollar (Professor) & Jon Koss (PhD Candidate), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Computer Science, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University
Topic: Machine Learning and Robotics for Environmental and Ecological Applications
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Thomas Near, Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Genomics of adaptive radiation in Antarctic fishes
Friday, September 11, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Nate Edelman, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, School of the Environment, Yale University
Topic: The Evolutionary Impact of Hybridization
Friday, March 6, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jessica Kenigson, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: The Nordic Seas: Connections with the Global Climate System
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 28, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Freya Rowland, Donnelly Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Topic: From ponds to the Laurentian Great Lakes: Testing assumptions about how ecosystems function
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Lidya Tarhan, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: Bioturbation: Past, Future and Biogeochemical Feedbacks
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 14, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Nathan Upham, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Ecological causes of uneven mammalian diversity
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Madhusudhan (Madhu) Venkadesan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Topic: Form and function of feet and fins
Location: ESC 110
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Daniel Thompson, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Topic: Endemic butterflies of S. Nevada and bird-dispersed bristlecone pines: Disparate time-scales of butterfly and host plant resilience to tree encroachment and to catastrophic fire
Location: ESC 110
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Alison Sweeney, Associate Professor of Physics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Seeing the forest for the clam: extreme vertical compression and photosynthetic efficiency in Tridacnid giant clams
Location: ESC 110
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Anthony Baniaga, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology , Yale University
Topic: Fall 2019 - Friday Seminar Series
Location: ESC 110
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Dylan Wainwright, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: The structure and function of fish scales
Location: ESC 110
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Alan Rooney, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: Glaciations and kicks to the carbon cycle: The rocky road to animal life
Location: ESC 110
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Luke Parry, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: The Cambrian Explosion and the origin of spiralian body plans: new insights from the early Cambrian (~520Ma) of China
Location: ESC 110
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Morgan Furze, Donnelly Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Topic: Understanding whole-plant nonstructural carbohydrate storage in a changing world
Location: ESC 110
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jessica Thompson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Topic: Early anthrome development in Malawi, central Africa
Location: ESC 110
Friday, October 25, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Michael Hochberg, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier
Topic: Evolution and Environment Shape Cancer Across Species
Location: ESC 110
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Dr. Susan J. Mazer, Bass Scholar and Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: “S.O.S. – The Power of Seeds, Observations, and Specimens: Predicting the impact of climate change on plants”
Location: O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall, Yale Science Building, 260 Whitney Avenue
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Martha Muñoz, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Of Darwin and D’arcy: The (bio)mechanics of morphological evolution
Location: ESC 110
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
John Damuth, Research Biologist, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Nonadaptive Selection: the evolutionary source of ecological laws
Location: ESC 110
Friday, September 27, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Susan Mazer, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Santa Barbara & President, California Botanical Society,
Topic: Climate affects the rate at which species successively flower: capturing and interpreting an emergent property of regional floras
Location: ESC 110
Friday, September 20, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
William Lauenroth, Professor in the Practice, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Topic: The inverse texture effect: A neglected idea in dryland ecohydrology
Location: ESC 110
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Andy Rominger,
Topic: Spring 2019 - Friday Seminar Series
Location: ESC 110
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sylvie Estrela, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Predicting microbial community assembly in simple environments
Location: ECS 110
Friday, April 5, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Richard Harrington, Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Spring 2019 - Friday Seminar Series
Location: ECS 110
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Walter Jetz,
Topic: YIBS/MPYC
Location: ESC 110
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Justin Calabrese, Quantitative Ecologist, Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Topic: A modern analytical foundation for movement ecology
Location: ECS 110
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm
Topic: RadCamp2019@Yale: Analyzing Genomic Data with ipyrad
Location: ESC 110
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Mary Beth Decker, Research Scientist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Bering Sea Jellyfish Blooms: Jellyfish Population Fluctuations and Ecosystem Impacts
Location: ECS 110
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Noah Planavsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: The evolution of the size and structure of Earth’s biosphere
Location: ECS 110
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Simon Stump, Postdoctoral Associate, Comita Lab, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topic: Rethinking the impact of pathogens on tropical tree diversity
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Karolina Heyduk, Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Evolutionary enablers – and roadblocks – for the origins of CAM photosynthesis
Location: ECS 110
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Michael Landis, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: Biogeographic clues to phylogenetic puzzles in plant evolution
Location: ECS 110
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
P. David Polly, Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, & Robert R. Shrock Professor„ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University
Topic: Cycles and space: interactions between evolutionary processes, trait sorting, and environmental change
Location: ESC 110
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Michael Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, & Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Topic: Integrated evolution in a model clade of woody plants (new systematics, or what?)
Location: ECS 110
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 12:00pm
Os Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Topic: Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle
Location: ECS 110
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bill Michener, Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Topic: Data Observation Network for Earth
Location: ESC 110
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Steven Chown, President of Antarctic Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Professor at Monash University
Topic: Antarctic Biodiversity in a Changing World
Location: ESC 110
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Luke Parry, Yale University
Topic: Fall Seminar
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Topic: Measuring species invasions
Location: ESC 110
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pete Raymond, Yale University
Topic: YIBS Lunch Seminar: Global inland water greenhouse gas evasion
Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Hugh Possingham and Jennifer McGowan (The Nature Conservancy), REGISTER soon as there are a limited number of seats available for this workshop,
Topic: Workshop: Introduction to Structured Decision-Making and Spatial Planning
Location: ESC 110
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
David Skelly and Michael Donoghue, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topic: A conversation with David Skelly and Michael Donoghue
Location: ESC 110
Thursday, September 6, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Benjamin Van Doren, PhD student and Marshall Scholar, University of Oxford,
Topic: Forecasting bird migration across the United States
Location: ESC110
Friday, May 5, 2017 - 12:00pm
Topic: Join us this Friday for YIBS Movie Lunch: a screening of Shuklaphanta, the other wild Nepal
Location: ESC 110
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Amanda Subalusky, Postdoctoral Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies,
Topic: Hippos and wildebeest in the Mara River: impacts of large animal migrations on a river ecosystem
Location: ESC 110
Friday, April 21, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Alvaro Sánchez, Assistant Professor , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Topic: Towards a community ecology of the microbiome: coexistence, invasions and community function
Location: ESC 110
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 12:30pm to Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 11:30am
Topic: Editing Nature Summit 2017 - www.editingnature.org
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sarah Federman, Elizabeth Spriggs, and Katherine Mertes ,
Topic: Graduate Student Speed Talks
Location: ESC 110
Friday, March 3, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Roy Plotnick, Visiting Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University,
Topic: The Fossil Record of the Sixth Extinction
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jim Saiers, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Hydrology,
Topic: Changes in Freshwater Quality during Natural Gas Development of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale by Hydraulic Fracturing
Location: ESC 110
Friday, February 17, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Noah Planavsky, Department of Geology & Geophysics,
Topic: Organic and carbonate carbon burial through Earth’s history
Location: ESC 110
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Prof. Peter B. deMenocal, Department of of Geology, Dean of Sciences, Columbia University and Director, Center for Climate and Life, Columbia University,
Topic: The Biggest Megadrought: The mid-Holocene (re)emergence of the Sahara Desert and its climatic and cultural impacts
Location: Kline Geology Laboratory 123
Friday, February 3, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Justina Ray, Executive Director and Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society-Canada
Topic: Carnivore conservation: the case of research informing policy for wolverines
Location: ESC 110
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 12:00am to 1:00pm
Robert Wallace, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Wildlife Conservation Society
Topic: Conservation and Outreach in the Most Biologically Diverse Protected Area in the World: Madidi
Location: ESC 110
Friday, December 2, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Oliver Griffith, YIBS Donnelley Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Topic: Friday Noon Seminar: Innovations of pregnancy; the molecular and ecological consequences of pregnancy in reptiles and mammals
Location: ESC 110
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 4:00pm
Peter B. Demenocal - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2017, Director, Columbia’s Center for Climate and Life, Columbia University
Topic: The Biggest Megadrought: The mid-Holocene (re)emergence of the Sahara Desert and its climatic and cultural impacts
Location: ESC 110
Monday, November 14, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Alessandra Giannini , Research Scientist , International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
Topic: Drought in Africa’s Sahel: Past, present, and future
Location: KGL 123
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Jason Lam, YIBS Donnelley Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Topic: Friday Noon Seminar: Towards a Sustainable Future: Converting Industrial Wastes to Renewable Feedstocks via Green Chemistry
Location: ESC 110
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Edward R. Cook, Ewing Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Topic: Discovering Megadroughts Across the Northern Hemisphere from Long Tree-Ring Records: Climate Histories and Human Impacts During the Common Era
Location: KGL 123
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Topic: Friday Noon Seminar: The evolution of floral function: a physiological perspective
Location: ESC 110
Friday, October 28, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Topic: Friday Noon Seminar: Bridging the scale gap in climate science: global climate modeling, local land use, and fine-resolution remote sensing
Location: ESC 110
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Topic: The Future is Not The Past: Temperature and Drought in a Warmer World
Location: ESC 110
Friday, October 7, 2016 - 6:15pm
Test Friday Seminar,
Topic: Test Friday Seminar
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
William K. M. Lau , Senior Research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
Topic: Robust changes in the large-scale circulation and increasing global dryness under global warming
Location: KGL 123
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Randy Olson, scientist-turned-filmmaker
Topic: Communicating Science to Diverse Audiences
Location: Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven CT
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Mary-Louise Timmermans, Assistant Professor, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: “Summer heat overwinters in the Arctic Ocean”
Location: ESC110
Friday, April 22, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Magdalena Hurtado, Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Yale University & Professor„ School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University
Topic: “Niche construction, immuno-neuro public health and co-evolution: how Sapiens’ human colony circumvents extinction”
Location: ESC110
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Claire Kremen, Professor, UC Berkeley & Co-director„ Center for Diversified Farming Systems & the Berkeley Food Institute, University of California
Topic: “From the bees’ eyes: working lands conservation and diversified agriculture”
Location: ESC110
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
David Post, Professor , Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University & Chair, University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, Yale University
Topic: YIBS Vision Seminar: Eco-Evo at the Crossroads
Location: ESC110
Friday, April 1, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge
Topic: “Convection from sea ice”
Location: ESC110
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Peter Cowman, Postdoctoral Associate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Topic: “Biodiversity and biogeography of tropical marine fishes”
Location: ESC110
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Mark Anderson, Director of Conservation Science, Eastern North America Division, The Nature Conservancy
Topic: “Modeling geophysical attributes to estimate resilience and sustain diversity under climate change”
Location: KROON G01
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology, Harvard Forest, Harvard University & Adjunct Research Professor, Biology & Environmental Conservation University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Topic: “Ecology and the challenge of Modernism”
Location: ESC110
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Lauren Smith, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Topic: “Invasive plant — predator interactions undermine invader impact on native plant community”
Location: ESC110