Harvard Forest Autumn 2008 Seminar Series

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 ( 978-724-3302 x268, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu).

September 19
Shannon Pelini - University of Notre Dame
Predicting the impact of climate change on animal distributions: A test of the range-shift capacity in two butterfly species

September 26
Nophea Sasaki - University of Hyogo and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Assessment of tropical carbon balance - data analysis, projection and policy implications for REDD

October 3
Matts Lindbladh - Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Harvard Bullard Fellow
The rise and fall of spruce in New England and oak in Sweden

October 10
Richard Forman - Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Rethinking urban regions: natural systems and their uses in planning our ring-around-the-city

October 31
Joshua Ness - Skidmore College
A keystone mutualist shapes the distribution and dispersal of North American myrmecochores

November 7
Matt Fitzpatrick - University of Rhode Island and Harvard Forest
Biological invasions, global climate change and species distribution models: an investigation of species-climate relationships across space and time

November 14
C.H.W. Foster - New England Natural Resources Center
New England Land Conservation

November 21
Jonathan Thompson - Harvard Forest
The Oregon Biscuit Fire: A large ecological and political disturbance

December 5
Fermin Rada - Universidad de Los Andes and Harvard Bullard Fellow
Plant responses to different environmental stresses in the high tropical Andes

December 12
Samuel Scheiner - Program Director, National Science Foundation Population & Evolutionary Processes
Do ecologists have GUTS?