Past Seminars & Lectures
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
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