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|28 August|| Chris Simon || Tobias & Kat || None - Discuss Syllabus and Website
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|22 January || Stuart McDaniel || Tobias & Kat || None - Discuss Syllabus and Website
 
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|04 September || Intro to Reading Scientific Articles || Tobias & Kat ||  {{pdf|http://scq.ubc.ca/papers/TimberPaper.pdf}} Jones, I.R. and E. Allen. 2002. Detection of large woody debris accumulations in old-growth forests using sonic wave collection. ''Transactions of the Important Tree Scientists'' 120(2): 201-209.
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|11 September ||Laura Galloway || Kat || {{pdf|http://faculty.virginia.edu/galloway/Galloway%202005%20New%20Phytologist%20.pdf}} Galloway, L. F. 2005. Maternal effects provide phenotypic adaptation to local environmental conditions. New Phytologist 166: 93-100.
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|05 February <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' ||Bud Ward|| ||
[[http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=3308 Current Research Info]] ''-- extras''
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|18 September || Dov Sax || Scott Loescher || {{pdf|http://ucsb.piscoweb.org/~sax/Publications/SAX2000.pdf}} Sax, D.F. and J.H. Brown. 2000. The Paradox of Invasion. Global Ecology & Biogeography 9: 363-371.
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|12 February || David Fastovsky || ||  
 
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|25 September <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' || Janet Browne || Oluwasegun Lijofi || [http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-049X(200112)145%3A4%3C496%3ADICASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G Browne, J. 2001. Darwin in Caricature: A Study in the Popularisation and Dissemination of Evolution. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145: 496-509.] ''Click Link to Go to JSTOR and Download PDF''
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|19 February || Maria Uriarte || ||  
 
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|02 October <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)'''|| Daniel C. Dennett || Anastasia Gussen || [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/28dennett.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Dennett, D. "Show Me The Science". ''The New York Times'' 28 Aug 2005: 1-4]
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|25 February <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series**)'''|| John Haught || ||  
 
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|09 October || Erika Edwards || Edwin Bolanos || {{pdf|http://www.brown.edu/Research/Edwards_Lab/reprints/edwards_still_2008_EL.pdf}} Edwards, EJ & CJ Still. 2008. Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses. Ecology Letters 11: 266-276.
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|05 March || Catherine Potvin <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' || ||  
 
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|16 October <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)'''|| J.B. Ruhl || Jess McShane || {{pdf|http://www.law.fsu.edu/faculty/profiles/ruhl/2005-FragileLandSystem20NREFall.pdf}} Ruhl, J. B. 2005. Ecosystem Services and the Common Law of "The Fragile Land System". Natural Resources and the Environment 20: 3-10. <br> Also read [http://www.naturenet.net/law/nuisance.html this link] for background on the "common law of nuisance"
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|12 March || **Spring Break** || **No Class** ||
 
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|23 October || Gene Likens  || Lauryn Kosturko || {{pdf|http://www.lternet.edu/news/images/spring05/Kaushaletal.pdf}} Kaushal, S.S. et al. 2005. Increased salinization of fresh water in the northeastern United States. PNAS 102: 13517-13520.
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|19 March <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' || Mark Hauser || ||  
 
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|30 October || John Wiens  || Beth Findley || {{pdf|http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/wienslab/wienspdfs/2006/Wiens_et_al_AmNat_2006.pdf}}  Wiens, J. J., C. H. Graham, D. S. Moen, S. A. Smith, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical diversity. American Naturalist 168:579-596.
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|26 March || Bill Shipley || ||  
 
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|06 November <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' <br> '''(Wednesday Seminar**)''' || Sandra Herbert  || Leslie Marker || {{pdf|http://www.springerlink.com/content/t077708157426t20/fulltext.pdf}} Herbert, S. 2005. The Darwinian Revolution Revisited. Journal of the History of Biology 38: 51-66.
 
|06 November <br> '''(Darwin Lecture Series*)''' <br> '''(Wednesday Seminar**)''' || Sandra Herbert  || Leslie Marker || {{pdf|http://www.springerlink.com/content/t077708157426t20/fulltext.pdf}} Herbert, S. 2005. The Darwinian Revolution Revisited. Journal of the History of Biology 38: 51-66.

Revision as of 22:48, 9 January 2009

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EEB 3894 Overview

Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Spring, 2009
1 credit
Thursday 2:30-5pm
Bamford conference room (Torrey Life Sciences 171b)

Instructors: Tobias Landberg & Katherine Shaw

We will meet all the distinguished scientists on this semester's list of speakers. Student will be responsible for participating in each meeting. We will read at least one research article written by a different visiting scholar every week. After a half hour of discussion, we will meet the person behind the science and then hear them give an hour-long research seminar. This course is for undergraduate students interested in broadening their understanding of modern ecology and evolutionary biology by engaging in active discussion.

Grades will be calculated out of 140 points (10 points/week)

Attendance= 4 points/week Show up to discussion and attend seminar every week.

Participation= 4 points/week Ask questions, volunteer comments and engage in constructive discussion with peers and speaker.

1 page response paper= 2 points/week Typed, double-spaced response to the research article.

Leading one discussion= 10 points Pick research article for the discussion, summarize and focus discussion with peers.

Spring 2009 Seminars

(Thursday @ 4:00PM in BPB 130 unless otherwise noted)

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/gardenfun/frogiconjoel.gif January 22, 2009 Stuart McDaniel (Washington University) Mating system, hybrid incompatibility, and diversification in mosses


January 29, 2009 Rick Blob (Clemson University) Functional diversity: insights from studies of weird animals doing strange things


February 2, 2009 Frank Moore (The University of Southern Mississippi) TBA
MONDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in BPB 130


February 5, 2009 Bud Ward (The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media) Bridging the Science/Journalism Gap in a Time of Epochal Change
4:00PM in Dodd Center: Teale Lecture Series


February 12, 2009 David Fastovsky (University of Rhode Island) Catastrophic Extinction of the Dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary


February 19, 2009 Maria Uriarte (Columbia University) TBA


February 25, 2009 John Haught (Georgetown University) Evolution and Faith: What Is at Stake?
WEDNESDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in Dodd Center: Darwin Lecture Series


March 5, 2009 Catherine Potvin (McGIll University) Forest carbon stocks and land-use: Reconciling the international agenda with the needs of indigenous populations
4:00PM in Dodd Center: Teale Lecture Series


March 19, 2009 Mark Hauser (Harvard University) The Evolution of a Moral Grammar
4:00PM in Dodd Center: Darwin Lecture Series


March 25, 2009 John Beatty (University of British Columbia) Karl Popper, Darwinianism, and Totalitarianism: Evolutionary Theory and Political Ideology
WEDNESDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in Dodd Center: Darwin Lecture Series


March 26, 2009 Bill Shipley (Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec) Modelling trait-based community assembly through entropy maximization


April 2, 2009 Michael Mares (University of Oklahoma) Sun Tzu and the Art of War: How the Battle of Museums to Survive has a Negative Impact on Nature and the Environment
4:00PM in Dodd Center: Teale Lecture Series


April 9, 2009 Casey Dunn (Brown University) Scalable and portable phylogenetic strategies in the era of high throughput sequencing


April 15, 2009 Paul Ewald (University of Louisville) Darwinian Medicine
WEDNESDAY SEMINAR @ 4:00PM in Dodd Center: Darwin Lecture Series


April 23, 2009 Osvaldo Sala (Brown University) Spatial and temporal controls of carbon cycling in arid and semiarid ecosystems


April 30, 2009 Jolanta Miadlikowska (Duke University) Exploring lichen symbiosis and its contribution to the diversification of Ascomycota

EEB 3894 Semester Schedule

Date Seminar Speaker Presenter Discussion Paper
22 January Stuart McDaniel Tobias & Kat None - Discuss Syllabus and Website
29 January Rick Blob
05 February
(Teale Lecture Series*)
Bud Ward
12 February David Fastovsky
19 February Maria Uriarte
25 February
(Darwin Lecture Series**)
John Haught
05 March Catherine Potvin
(Teale Lecture Series*)
12 March **Spring Break** **No Class**
19 March
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
Mark Hauser
26 March Bill Shipley
06 November
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
(Wednesday Seminar**)
Sandra Herbert Leslie Marker Pdficon small.gif Herbert, S. 2005. The Darwinian Revolution Revisited. Journal of the History of Biology 38: 51-66.
13 November Iolanda Ventura Rosalia Santana Ventura 2005 The last page
20 November Julie Lockwood Brittany Crowley Pdficon small.gif Baiser, B., Lockwood, J., La Puma, D., Aronson, M.F.J. 2008. A perfect storm: two ecosystem engineers interact to degrade deciduous forests of New Jersey. Biol. Invasions 10: 785-795.
27 November **Thanksgiving Recess** **No Class**
04 December
(Darwin Lecture Series*)
(Wednesday Seminar**)
Ian Tattersall Linda Quach Tattersall, I. & Schwartz, J. 2008. The morphological distinctiveness of Homo sapiens and its recognition in the fossil record: Clarifying the problem. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 17: 49-54.



* Seminars in the Darwin Lecture Series and Teale Lecture Series are held in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center (near the Homer Babbidge Library).
** The department seminar will be held on Wednesday of this week. We will discuss a paper on Thursday, and students are encouraged to attend the seminar on Wednesday.