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− | |10 April <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' || Jane Lubchenco || Uday ||| | + | |10 April <br> '''(Teale Lecture Series*)''' || Jane Lubchenco || Uday ||| [http://mytilus.science.oregonstate.edu/BAMpubs/Menge%20et%20al.%202011%20Ecol%20Monogr.pdf Climate change and conservation] |
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− | |17 April || Norm Wickett || Harley || | + | |17 April || Norm Wickett || Harley || [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/images/9/99/Wickett.pdf Ancestral polyploidy in plants] |
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− | |24 April || Bruce Patterson || Mary || | + | |24 April || Bruce Patterson || Mary || [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/images/c/c2/Patterson.pdf Climate and a lion's mane] |
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Latest revision as of 18:57, 29 April 2014
EEB 3894 Overview
Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Spring, 2014
2 credits
Thursday 2:30-5pm
Room: TLS 181
Instructor: Bill Ryerson
Spring 2014 Syllabus: PDF
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. Read this guideto writing response papers and preparing for discussion.
Grades will be calculated out of 140 points (10 points/week)
Attendance= 4 points/week Attend discussion and 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 1 discussion= 10 points Pick research article for the discussion, summarize and focus discussion with peers.
- Email Bill (william.ryerson@uconn.edu) with article choice @ least 1 week before you lead seminar discussion.
Guide for Paper Discussion: guide.
Guide for Critically reading scientific articles: Reading.
Spring 2014 Seminars
(Thursday @ 4:00PM in BPB 130 unless otherwise noted)
January 30, 2014
Jonathan Wilson (Haverford College) Ecological and evolutionary insights from the study of fossil plants
February 6, 2014
Catherine Pringle (University of Georgia) Climate-driven acidification in Neotropical Streams: Evidence from a long-term research project in Costa Rica.
February 13, 2014 - Teale Lecture*
Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale University) Climate Change in the American Mind
March 13, 2014
Elizabeth Brainerd (Brown University) TBD
March 27, 2014 - Teale Lecture*
Steven D. Gaines (UC - Santa Barbara) What role will the oceans play in meeting the global demand for food?
April 3, 2014
Mark Moffett (Smithsonian Institute) TBD
April 10, 2014 - Teale Lecture*
Jane Lubchenco (NOAA) Climate, Weather, Oceans and Biodiversity: Science in Policy and Politics
April 17, 2014
Norman Wickett (Chicago Botanical Gardens) TBD
April 24, 2014
Bruce Patterson (The Field Museum - Chicago) TBD
May 1, 2014
Tracy Heath (Cal - Berkeley) TBD
EEB 3894 Semester Schedule
Trouble accessing the discussion article when off campus? First sign into the UConn VPN and then try the link.
Date | Seminar Speaker | Presenter | Discussion Article |
23 January | Bill | None - Discuss Syllabus, Website, Class Goals, How to read and interpret scientific literature | |
30 January | Jonathan Wilson | Bill | 400 million years of plant hydraulics |
6 February | Cathy Pringle | Erin | Using stable isotopes to understand niche shifts |
13 February (Teale Lecture Series*) |
Anthony Leiserowitz | Pratibha | American evangelicals and global warming |
20 February | Jessica Savage | Dan | Daylight and transpiration |
27 February | Emily Grman | Sagy Dos | Plant allocate differently to fungi |
6 March | Robert Coulautti | Stephen | Flower plasticity |
13 March | Beth Brainerd | Sammy | Bending in fish spines |
20 March | SPRING BREAK! | ||
27 March (Teale Lecture Series*) |
Steven Gaines | Arrian | Marine Reserve Networks |
3 April | Mark Moffett | What is a society? | |
10 April (Teale Lecture Series*) |
Jane Lubchenco | Uday | Climate change and conservation |
17 April | Norm Wickett | Harley | Ancestral polyploidy in plants |
24 April | Bruce Patterson | Mary | Climate and a lion's mane |
1 May | Tracy Heath | Sagy | Taxonomic sampling affects phylogenetics |
* Seminars in the Teale Lecture Series are held in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center (near the Homer Babbidge Library).