Harvard Forest Autumn 2005 Seminar Series Schedule

Seminars are Fridays at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted and are free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required. They are held in the Seminar Room at Shaler Hall (Directions to Harvard Forest). For more information, contact Audrey Barker Plotkin ( x268, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu).

September 16
John Briggs – Arizona State University and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Ecosystems in transitions: tallgrass prairie and Sonoran desert

September 23
Conghe Song - University of North Carolina and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Impacts of landuse history on regional carbon budget: a remote sensing approach

September 30
Lynn Adler - University of Massachusetts
Ecology and evolutionary consequences of attraction and defense in plant-animal interactions

October 7
No Seminar

October 14
Liza Knapp - University of Massachusetts
TBA

October 21
Dana Royer - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University
A new approach for reconstructing paleoclimatic and paleoecological variables from the sizes and shapes of fossil leaves

October 28
TBA

November 4
Charles Lord and Eric Strauss - Urban Ecology Institute
TBA

November 18
John Weishampel - University of Central Florida and Harvard Bullard Fellow
TBA

December 2
Brian Donahue – Brandeis University and Harvard Bullard Fellow
TBA

December 9
TBA

December 16
TBA