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Chris Field is the 40th H.J. Oosting Lecturer. Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change from molecular to global scales.

Paradise Lost? How Lemurs Respond to Ecological Change in Madagascar Michelle Sauther Associate Professor Anthropology Department, University of Colorado-Boulder For almost two millennia, human activity has dramatically impacted the environment of Madagascar, and lemurs now rank among the most endangered primates due, in part, to habitat loss and/or fragmentation.

This week, being H.J. Oosting Duke-Ecology Week, four PhD students have been selected to present short research talks in our Friday UPE Seminar. The format will be ESA research-presentation style with 12-minute talk followed by 3 minutes of questions. The Oosting Student Fellows for 2011 are Wyatt Hartman, Brendan Hodkinson, Brian Lutz, and Megan Mobley. For more on Henry J. Oosting, see: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uaoosting/inv/ http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/OOST1903.htm