Past Seminars

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture Series

April 18, 2012

The Art of Nature and the Nature of Art

Participants:  Introduction by Eleanor Sterling, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History; Speaker Introductions by Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff

Speakers:  Amy Meyers, Director of the Yale Center for British Art and Robert Peck, Sr. Fellow and Curator of Art and Artifacts at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Art and Science in Philadelphia; Alexis Rockman, Artist - Picturing the Unimaginable; Mark Dion, Artist - Collaborating with the Museum of Natural History; James Prosek, Artist - Taxonomy through Art; Caroline Niemczyk, Independent Philanthropy Professional - Conservation and Art; Kristof Zyskowski, Vertebrate Zoolology Collections Manager, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History -The Art of the Field Guide.

Presented on April 18, 2012 as part of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

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October 4, 2011

Speaker: Nancy Slack, Ecologist and Historian of Science at Sage Colleges

Title: G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology, "Father of Ecology, or Father of Ecologists?

Seminar was followed by reminiscences of Hutchinson by Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and Professor Leo W. Buss, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and insights by Yale Professor David Skelly on papers chosen for the Hutchinson compendium The Art of Ecology. 

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April 13, 2011

Speaker:  Pavan Sukhdev, Special Advisor and head of the United Nations Environmental Program's Green Economy Initiative

Topic:  So What's the World Worth?

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November 10, 2010

Speakers:  by Peter and Rosemary Grant, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Scholars in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Emeritus Professors at Princeton University

Topic:  Darwin Finches in the Year of Biodiversity

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April 22, 2010

Speaker:  Donald Worster, Strachan Donnelley Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Distinguished Professor of History, University of Kansas

Topic:  The Green Light of a New World:  Americans and the Limits of Nature

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October 22, 2009

Speaker:  Professor Shahid Naeem, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
Topic:  Sustainable Development in an Age of Mass Extinction and Climate Change

Presented on October 22, 2009 as part of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

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Speaker:  Dr. Cristián Samper
Director, Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institution
Topic:  Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World

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October 16, 2008
Speaker:  Dr. David Beerling, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar
Title:  Environmental Scholar Fossil Forests and Earth's Climate Crisis
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Speaker:  Dr. Michael Novacek, American Museum of Natural History
"Biodiversity Past, Present and Future: From Madagascar to Island Earth"
And, presentation of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History's Verrill Medal to
Alison Richard
Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University
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April 3-4, 2009
YIBS Center for Eco-Epidemiology presented an International Forum

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FORUM ON SOLAR VARIABILITY
AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Sponsored by
The YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change
Held on March 28 and March 29, 2008
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OCEAN AND CLIMATE FORUM
Sponsored by
The YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change
Held on April 11 and April 12, 2008
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The Greening of Yale and Beyond
A symposium held on October 18, 2007
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Program - Set 1
Program - Set 2