Event Types
Location
EEB and the Institute for Global Change Biology Thursday Seminar: The long-term climate change mitigation potential of working lands
Whendee L. Silver, Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry and Rudy Grah Endowed Chair in Forestry and Sustainability, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley
Land management has been proposed as a means to help lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)...
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The ecosystem consequences of wildfire activity over space and time: a field station perspective
Kendra McLauchlan, Kansas State University, Professor, Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences
Recent changes in ecosystem properties highlight major uncertainties about how disturbances will interact with ongoing climate change....
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Dr. Donna Strickland, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018 (University of Waterloo)
With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light...
EEB Thursday Seminar: Unraveling the tangled web: the evolutionary impact of hybridization
Molly Schumer, Assistant Professor of Biology, Stanford University
How distinct species persist in the face of gene flow is a long-standing and central question in evolutionary biology, reinvigorated by the...
EEB Seminar Series: Leveraging the power of place to explore, educate and predict how the natural world works now and in the future
Aimée T. Classen, Professor Director, Aiken Forest Sciences Laboratory Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, Gund Fellow Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont Burlington
Field stations provide platforms for transformative long-term and placed-based research as well as extraordinary opportunities for education...
Crane watching field trip
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We're organizing a birdwatching event for the department and you're invited. Sandhill cranes gather this time of year before their...
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Using mechanistic experiments, macroecology, and the Michigan Biological Station to understand biodiversity in a changing world
Nate Sanders, Professor of Ecology, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development Rubenstein School Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont
In this talk, I'll summarize our work aimed at understanding the factors that shape biodiversity, from m2 quadrats to the globe. In...
EEB Thursday Seminar: Carnivores - competition and connectivity
Scott Creel, Professor, Conservation Biology & Ecology Program, Montana State University
Current extinction rates are comparable to five prior mass extinctions in the earth’s history, and are strongly affected by human...
EEB Seminar Series: Insights into the ecology and evolution of amphibian susceptibility to chytridiomycosis in a changing world AND a vision for the U of M Biological Station
Corinne Richards-Zawacki, Associate Professor and PLE Director, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is one of several emerging pathogens identified as key threats to...
U-M Biological Station Prospective Student Information Session
Prospective students: Come learn about how to earn credits, gain research experience, and have the spring/summer of your life at UMBS....
EEB Thursday Seminar: The evolution of X-linked hybrid male sterility in Drosophila
Colin Meiklejohn, Assistant Professor School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
During speciation, sex chromosomes accumulate interspecific genetic incompatibilities faster than the rest of the genome. As a consequence,...
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Title TBD
Lisa Walsh, U-M EEB Graduate Student
Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar
EEB Thursday Seminar: Do we need biodiversity for ecosystem services?
Rachael Winfree - Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
The importance of biodiversity to ecosystem functions such as biomass production and carbon storage is a key question in basic ecology,...
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Title TBD
Erika Tucker, EEB/UMMZ Collection Manager, Division of Insects, and Assistant Research Scientist
Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar
EEB dissertation defense: Title TBD
Wes Bickford, EEB graduate student
Wes Bickford defends his doctoral dissertation.
EEB holiday party
Further details forthcoming Art by John Megahan for the 2018 party.
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today
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Tuesday Lunch Seminars resume in the new year, Tuesday, January 14, 2020. Have a great winter break!
