EEB Seminar Series – Spring 2021
- Due to nationwide precautions instituted for protections against coronavirus, all seminars will be held online via this Zoom link.
- Seminars are held on Monday at 4 pm Central Time (U.S. and Canada) unless noted otherwise*.
- Links to seminar recordings will be posted as soon as available. Click on the PLAY icon to access.
- For questions, email Dr. Nick Jacobsen
| Date | Speaker, Seminar Title or Topic | |
| jan 18 |  |
Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday |
| jan 25 | |
EEB General Meeting |
| feb 1 |  |
Erle Ellis (Wikipedia entry) Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Title: Shaping Ecology in the Anthropocene  |
| feb 8 |  |
Claudio Gratton Entomology, University of Wisconsin Title: A ‘Grassland 2.0’: Moving Towards Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes Requires Upending the Current Paradigm |
| feb 15 |  |
Chris Butler Visiting Professor, University of Central Oklahoma, Biology Title: The Rail Story: Research on the Ecology of Secretive Marshbirds **RESCHEDULED, SEE APRIL 19** |
| feb 22 |  |
Oana Carja Carnegie Mellon University Title: On Spatial Geometries That Suppress or Amplify Rates of Evolution |
| mar 1 |  |
Nyeema Harris University of Michigan Title: Dynamism in Carnivore Behaviors on a Crowded Planet |
| Mar 8 |  |
Sara Hermann Penn State University Title: Manipulating Perceived Predation Risk to Make Bad Bugs Behave Better |
| mar 15 | |
Spring Break, no seminar |
| mar 22 |  |
Elizabeth Borda Texas A&M University at San Antonio Title: Identity Crisis in the Mayan Underworld: A Re-evaluation of Typhlatya Cave Shrimp |
| mar 29 |  |
Kelly Wallace Emory University Title: A Systems Change Framework for Evaluating Academic Equity and Inclusion in an Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program Note: There will be a faculty-only debriefing led by Kelly from 5-5:30, and a student and postdoc-only debriefing 5:30-6. Please plan to join during the debriefing to get the most out of the information presented during the seminar. |
| apr 5 |  |
Jeanne Fair Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Wildlife Microbiomes: The Next Frontier for Global Health |
| apr 12 * 3pm |
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Orly Razgour University of Exeter (UK) Title: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses of Bats to Global Environmental Change |
| apr 19 | |
Chris Butler (**rescheduled from Feb. 15) Visiting Professor, University of Central Oklahoma, Biology Title: The Rail Story: Research on the Ecology of Secretive Marshbirds |
