
September 2
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Dr. Kevin Price. Department of Geography, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing “Using Time-Series Remotely Sensed Data for Characterizing Land Cover and Land Use Practices in the Central Great Plains ”
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September 9 |
Dr. A. Townsend Peterson , Dept. EEB and Biodiversity Research Center , University of Kansas “Past and Future Evolution of Migration Systems (Birds and Butterflies)”
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September 16 |
Dr. William Schlesinge , Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University “The Global Carbon Cycle and the Duke Forest Free-Air CO2 Enrichment Experiment” Host: Sharon Billings
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September 23 |
Dr. Bryan Foster , Department EEB, University of Kansas “Constraints on Community Assembly, Diversity and Plant Productivity in Temperate Grassland”
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September 30 |
Dr. Michael Engel , Department EEB, Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center , University of Kansas “400 Million Years on Six Legs”
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October 7 |
Dr. Nick Haddad , Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University “ Impacts of Corridors on Populations and Communities ” Host: Bryan Foster
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October 14 |
FALL BREAK
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October 21 |
Dr. Gary Miller , Department EEB, University of Kansas “Post-copulatory Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Sperm Gigantism in Drosophila ” Host: Jennifer Gleason
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October 28 |
Dr. Patricia G. Parker , Department of Biology University of Missouri-St. Louis “Infectious Diseases in Galapagos Endemic Birds” Host: Deborah Smith
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November 4 |
Dr. Suneeti Jog , Department EEB and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas “Vascular Plant Flora of a Suburban Wetland in Northeast Ohio- a Floristic Survey and Trend Analysis”
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November 11 |
Michener Lecture: Dr. Michael Wade , Department of Biology, Indiana University “The Evolutionary Origin and Elaboration of Sociality in the Aculeate Hymenoptera: Maternal Effects, Sib-social Effects, and Heterochrony” Host: Entomology Program
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November 18 |
Dr. Maria Gonzalez , Department of Zoology, Miami University “Zooplankton Community Patterns in Reservoirs Along a Gradient of Watershed Land Use” Host: Deborah Smith
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November 25 |
THANKSGIVING
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December 2 |
Dr. Steven Tonsor , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh “Shifting Resources Alter Trait Integration and Redefine the Constraints on Adaptive Evolution. Host: John Kelly
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December 9 |
Dr. Diana Pilson , Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska “Population Dynamics in Wild Sunflowers: Transgenes, Seed Production, and Population Size” Host: Helen Alexander |
