The Yale
Institute for Biospheric Studies presents
The YIBS / ESC Friday Noon
Seminar Series
Fridays, 12 Noon to 1:15
PM
Class of 1954
Environmental
Science Center (ESC)
21 Sachem Street, Room 110
~ Lunch provided ~
Winter/Spring 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Speaker: Richard Prum, Chair and William
Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies;
Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of
Natural History
Topic:
Self Assembly and Evolution of Color Producing
Nanostructures in Bird Feathers
Friday, January 23, 2009
Speaker: Gary Brudvig, Eugene Higgins Professor,
Chemistry & Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Chair,
Chemistry
Topic: Solar Energy for Fuel Formation:
Natural and Bioinspired Artificial Processes
Friday, January 30, 2009
Speaker: Jennifer Marlon, Research Assistant,
University of Oregon Department of Geography
Topic: Global Fire History Since the Last
Glacial Maximum
Friday, February 6, 2009
Speaker: David Beerling, Edward P. Bass
Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Geology &
Geophysics;
Professor, University of Sheffield
Topic:
Co-evolution of Stomata and Land Plants: From Molecules
to the Earth System
Friday, February 13, 2009
Speaker: Christopher Gilbert, Gaylord
Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow, Department
of Anthropology
Topic: Evolutionary
History and Biogeography of A New Genus of African
Monkey (Rungwecebus)
Friday, February 20, 2009
Speaker: Alexey Fedorov, Professor, Geology
& Geophysics
Topic: El Nino and Global Climate Change: From
the Pliocene to the Future
Friday, February 27, 2009
Speaker: Marta Wells, Lecturer, Department
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Research
Scientist, University of Connecticut
Topic:
Canciones de Amor: Vibratory signals in cryptic species
of green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae:
Chrysoperla)
Friday, March 6, 2009
Speaker: Michael Benton, Edward P. Bass
Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Geology &
Geophysics;
Professor, University of Bristol
Topic: Investigating Evolutionary Radiations
Friday, March 27, 2009
Speaker: Mary Beth Decker, Research
Scientist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topic: Jellyfish Blooms in Changing
Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystems
Friday, April 3, 2009
Speaker: John Grim, Senior Research Scientist,
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Senior
Lecturer, Divinity School
Topic: The
Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology
Friday, April 17, 2009
Speaker: Paul Turner, Professor, Department
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic:
Biodiversity and Biogeography of Viruses
Friday, April 24, 2009
Speaker: Michael Dodd, Gaylord Donnelley
Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow, Department of Ecology
& Evolutionary Biology
Topic:
Photochemical Generation of Reactive Halogen Species
under UVA Light and their Interactions with Dissolved
Organic Matter in Saline Waters
Friday, May 1, 2009
Speaker: Jih-Pai (Alex) Lin, Yale Institute
for Biospheric Studies Postdoctoral Environmental
Fellow, Department of Geology & Geophysics
Topic: From a Fossil Assemblage to a
Paleoecological Community: Time, Organisms and
Environment Based on the Kali Biota and Coeval Cambrian
Deposits of Exceptional Preservation
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