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Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar: Spring Semester 2007
Fridays 1:15-2:30 pm in room A247 LSRC unless otherwise noted.
For University Credit as: UPE 303S or BIO 311S, Prof. Bernhardt.

Friday
12 Jan

Kevin Arrigo
Associate Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University

Variability in air-sea CO2 flux in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: An ecosystem model analysis
(co-sponsor: Duke University Center on Global Change)

Friday
19 Jan
Kyle Van Houtan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nicholas School, Duke University
Bird extinctions at an Amazonian deforestation experiment: sociality and long-distance dispersal
Friday
26 Jan
Melany Fisk
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University

Belowground insights into nutrient limitation in a northern hardwood forest

Friday
2 Feb
Rafe Sagarin
Associate Director for Ocean and Coastal Policy, Nicholas Institute, Duke University

From the tidepool to the stars and back: natural history and environmental change

Friday
9 Feb

Marcelo Ardón
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biology Department, Duke University
Organic matter processing and phosphorus cycling in tropical headwater streams and temperate riverine wetlands
Friday
16 Feb
James Nichols
Senior Scientist, Animal Population Monitoring and Dynamics Group, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Inference methods for the statics and dynamics of species occurrence
Friday
23 Feb

Anne Pringle
Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Last chance to know? Using the literature and a genome to build the biogeography of an introduced microbe
Friday
2 Mar
Rick Ostfeld
Senior Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
The function of biodiversity in zoonotic disease risk: The cases of Lyme disease and West Nile Virus

Friday
9 Mar

Manuel Leal
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
A lizard squeezer's approach to study visual ecology
Friday
16 Mar
SPRING BREAK
No seminar
Friday
23 Mar
Mary Eubanks
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
Resurrecting ancient genes for sustainable maize agriculture
Friday
30 Mar
Steve Running
Professor/Director, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry & Conservation, University of Montana
Is carbon cycle science ready for the policy big leagues?
(co-sponsor: Duke University Center on Global Change)
Friday
6 Apr
Chris Craft
Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Challenges of restoring wetlands in natural, agricultural and urban landscapes
(co-sponsor: Duke University Wetland Center)
Friday
13 Apr
Miguel Schwartz
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Stands in the place where you live
Thursday
19 Apr

4:00pm, Love Auditorium, B101 LSRC
followed by a reception in the Hall of Science
Pam Matson
Dean of the School of Earth Sciences and Professor of Environmental Studies, Stanford University
Agricultural intensification in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico: will it spare land for nature?
(2007 Oosting Lecture)
Friday
20 Apr
Jessica Hardesty
Graduate Student, Program in Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Seasonality and trophic partitioning in equatorial cloud forest birds
Friday
27 Apr
Sarah Hobbie
Associate Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
The influence of tree species on biogeochemistry: Interactions among litter chemistry, earthworms and microbes
(co-sponsor: Duke University Center on Global Change)
Friday
4 May
Bill Schlesinger
James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and Dean of the Nicholas School, Duke University
Future of biogeochemistry: A time to resolve residuals

Past UPE seminars: Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004

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