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

YIBS/ESC Seminars are held in the Class of 1954 Environmental
Science Center (ESC) unless otherwise noted*
ESC is located at 21 Sachem Street, and the seminars are scheduled to be held in ESC Room 110

*Seminar series to include one special YIBS Director's Vision Seminar on How to Advance the Field of Science*

~ A light lunch is provided at each seminar ~

SPRING 2013 Scheduleedule

January 18, 2013 Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker:  David Storch, PhD., Director of Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University
Topic: Do We Understand Diversity?  On the Origin of Universal Macroecological Patterns

January 25, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
*Rescheduled for February 15th

Speaker:  Matthew Niemiller, Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic: Descending into Darkness: Insights into the Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Cave Life

February 1, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker: Richard Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Curator Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topic: The Evolution of Beauty

February 15, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker:  Matthew Niemiller, Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic: Descending into Darkness: Insights into the Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Cave Life

February 22, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker:  Arthur Middleton, Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Title:  Large Mammals in Landscapes of Fear

March 1, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street

Speaker: Jonathan Bloch, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paelontology, Florida Museum of Natural History; Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Yale Department of Anthropology

Title: New High-Resolution Continental Sections and Fossils from Southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming Document Faunal Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

April 5, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker:  Brian Wood, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Anthropology

Topic:  Cooperation Among Hadza Hunter-Gatherers: Mutualism and Manipulation

April 12, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker:  Professor Marlene Zuk, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota

Topic:  Rapid Evolution in Silence: Adaptive Signal Loss in the Pacific Field Cricket

April 19, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street

Speaker:  Hugh Possingham, Professor at the University of Queensland and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and the NERP Environmental Decision Map

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Topic: Decision Science for Nature Conservation

April 26, 2013 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street

Speaker:  Ronald Smith, Damon Wells Professor of Geology & Geophysics and Mechanical Engineering and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

*Special YIBS Director's Vision Seminar

Title:  Can Climate Models Predict Regional Climate?