YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminars

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

~ A light lunch is provided ~

PLEASE NOTE:  The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies is pleased to co-sponsor four special seminars with the Yale Climate & Energy Institute on the following Fridays - September 25th, October 2nd, October 9th, and October 16th.  These four seminars will be held at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Kroon Hall Burke Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 195 Prospect Street.  All are invited to attend.

KROON HALL, 195 Prospect Street

FALL 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009
Speaker: Nicholas Longrich, Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Associate, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics
Topic:  Diversity of Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous of Western North America:  Implications for the Patterns and Processes of the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction

Friday, September 18, 2009
Speaker: Linda Thomas, Artist/Muralist
Ms. Thomas' works are on display in on the first floor walkway of the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT
Topic:  Art on the Wild Side

Friday, September 25, 2009
Speaker: Rajendra Pachauri, Director, Yale Climate & Energy Institute (YCEI);

Director General of the Energy Resources Institute

NOTE LOCATION:  Kroon Hall Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Topic: Climate Change and Copenhagen: Scientific and Ethical Imperatives

Friday, October 2, 2009
Speaker: John Wettlaufer, Batemann Professor of Geology & Geophysics, Yale

NOTE LOCATION:  Kroon Hall Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Topic: Whither Arctic Sea Ice?

Friday, October 9, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Steven Koonin

Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy

NOTE LOCATION:  Kroon Hall Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Topic:  Energy (and other) Sustainability Challenges

Friday, October 16, 2009
Speaker:  Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Harvard University

NOTE LOCATION and Time:  12:15 PM - Kroon Hall Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Topic: Getting Serious About Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World

Friday, October 23, 2009
Speaker:  Scott A. Strobel

Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Chemistry
Yale University
Topic:  Rainforest Microbes and Their Applications

Friday, October 30, 2009
Speaker:Karen Seto
Associate Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topic: Cities and Climate Change: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation

Friday, November 6, 2009
Speaker:  Paul Sabin

Assistant Professor, History Department, Yale University
Topic:  The Climate Crisis and Energy Transition:  Lessons from History

Friday, November 13, 2009
Speaker: Durland Fish

Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Medicine
Topic: Lyme Disease and Other Infections from the Environment

Friday, November 20, 2009
Speaker: Matthew Walsh, Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Associate
Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic: Impacts of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Predators on Evolutionary Change in Trinidadian Killifish

Friday, December 4, 2009
Speaker: Melinda Smith

Assistant Professor

Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic: Convergence and Contingencies in Grassland Responses to Fire and Grazing:
An Inter-hemispheric Comparison

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