Wednesday, May 28, 2008
All-Camp Lecture by Dr. Puanani Anderson-Fung, University of Hawaii: “Cultural and Natural Resources Management Decision-Making Based on Hawaiian Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom (TEKW)”
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
All Camp Lecture by Dr. Barbra Meek, University of Michigan: “Beyond the past: Indigeneity, Language, and Revitalization”
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
All Camp Lecture by Dr. Troy Keller, Columbus State University, GA: “Trouble in Eden: Are Biofuels a ‘Green’ Alternative to Petroleum?”
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
All Camp Lecture by Dr. Paul Shepson, Purdue University, IN: “Climate Change and Ecosystem Impacts”
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
All Camp Bennett Lecture in Botany By Dr. Lee Frelich, University of Minnesota: “Fire, Wind and Climate Change in Boreal Forests of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Wilderness”
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Research Talk by Dr. Lee Frelich, University of Minnesota:“European Earthworm Invasion in Northern Hardwood Forests”
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
All Camp Pettingill Lecture in Natural History By Dr. Marlene Zuk, University of California at Riverside: “Why Doctors Need Darwin: A Look at How Parasites Have Made Us Who We Are”
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Research Talk by Dr. Marlene Zuk, University of California at Riverside: “Rapid Evolution in Silence: the Costs and Consequences of Signal Variation in Field Crickets”
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
All Camp Hann Lecture in Ornithology
Dr. Ted Anderson, Emeritus Professor, McKendree College, Lebanon, IL: “David Lack and the Significance of Clutch Size in the House Sparrow”
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Research Talk by Dr. Jordan Price, St. Mary’s College of Maryland: “Reconstructing the Evolution of Bird Song in the New World Blackbirds”
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Research Talk by Dr. Steve Pruett-Jones, University of Chicago: “Plumage Coloration in Australian Fairy-Wrens: from Genetics to Behavior”
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Research Talk by Dr. Nancy Tuchman, Loyola University, IL: “Mechanisms of Obtaining Dominance by Invasive Plants in a Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Ecosystem”
Lectures are held at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) Lecture Hall or the Alumni Room upstairs. All Camp Lectures are aimed at undergraduates, other UMBS residents, and the general public. Research Talks focus on detailed questions, methods, and results. All presentations are free and open everyone. For more information, please call the UMBS office in Pellston at (231) 539-8408 or in Ann Arbor at (734) 763-4461. You may also e-mail the Biological Station at umbs@umich.edu, or visit the website at www.lsa.umich.edu. Seminar organizers are Allison Snow (snow.1@osu.edu) and Karie Slavik (slavik@umich.edu).
