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Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar: Spring Semester 2009

Fridays 1:15-2:30 pm in room 2237 French Family Science Center unless otherwise noted. For university credit as: UPE 303S or BIO 311S.

Friday
16 Jan
Nancy Knowlton
Sant Chair in Marine Science, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Coral reefs - canary in the environmental coal mine

Friday
23 Jan

Alexia Kelley
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biology Department, Duke University

Biogeochemistry and vegetation in Arctic patterned ground ecosystems

Friday
30 Jan
Line Rochefort
Chaire de recherche industrielle en aménagement des tourbières, Département de Phytologie, Université Laval
Sphagnum peatland restoration: how to overcome abiotic filters impeding revegetation

Friday
6 Feb

Andre Boustany
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project GLOBAL, Nicholas School, Duke University

The science, management and conservation of Atlantic bluefin tuna

Friday
13 Feb
Lauren Buckley
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mechanistic species range models for changing environments

Friday
20 Feb

Bill Laurance
Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Manaus, Brazil

Islands of survival: will tropical nature reserves be arks for imperiled species?

Friday
27 Feb
Kevin Lafferty
Research Ecologist, USGS Channel Islands Field Station
Parasites: from ecosystems to human culture

Friday
6 Mar

Bill Chameides
Dean of the Nicholas School, Duke University

A link between air pollution, photosynthesis, and productivity?

Friday
13 Mar
Spring Break

Friday
20 Mar

Michelle Hersh
Graduate Student, University Program in Ecology, Duke University

Final seminar: The role of fungal seedling pathogens in temperate forest dynamics

Friday
27 Mar
Rob Schick
Graduate Student, University Program in Ecology, Duke University
Final seminar: Animal movement in pelagic ecosystems: from communities to individuals

Friday
3 Apr

Julie DeMeester
Graduate Student, Nicholas School, Duke University

Final seminar: Feedback loops of nitrogen cycling and the invasive species Microstegium vimineum in riparian wetlands

Friday
10 Apr
A-158 LSRC
Sean Berthrong
Graduate Student, University Program in Ecology, Duke University
Final seminar: Forests out of context: effects of afforestation on soils and microbes at multiple scales

Friday
17 Apr
1:15-3:00 pm, Love Auditorium, B101 LSRC

Thomas E. Lovejoy
President, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

Climate change: prospects for nature
(2009 Oosting Lecture)

Friday
24 Apr
Jack Liu
Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Director, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University
Pandas, people, and policies: complex interactions and insights for multi-scale coupled human and natural systems

Past UPE seminars: Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2007 | Spring 2007 | Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004

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