Past Seminars

Lecture by Nancy Slack, Ecologist and Historian of Science at Sage Colleges

Topic:  G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology, "Father of Ecology, or Father of Ecologists?" 
Seminar was followed by reminiscences of Hutchinson by Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and Professor Leo W. Buss, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and insights by Yale Professor David Skelly on papers chosen for the Hutchinson compendium The Art of Ecology. To view video, please click here.
Presented on October 4, 2011 as part of the Edward Pl. Bass Distinguished Visitng Lecturer Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Lecture by Pavan Sukhdev, Special Advisor and head of the United Nations Environmental Program's Green Economy Initiative

Topic:  So What's the World Worth?

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Presented on April 13, 2011 as part of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Lecture by Peter and Rosemary Grant, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Scholars in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Emeritus Professors at Princeton University

Topic:  Darwin Finches in the Year of Biodiversity

Presented on November 10, 2010 as part of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Lecture by Donald Worster, Strachan Donnelley Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Distinguished Professor of History, University of Kansas

Topic:  The Green Light of a New World:  Americans and the Limits of Nature

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Presented on April 22, 2010 as part of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Bass Distinguished Scholar Lecture by Professor Shahid Naeem, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
Topic:  Sustainable Development in an Age of Mass Extinction and Climate Change

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Presented on October 22, 2009 as part of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Lecture Dr. Cristián Samper
Director, Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institution
Topic:  Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World
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Presented on May 6th as part of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture Series, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

April 3-4, 2009
YIBS Center for Eco-Epidemiology
is presented an International Forum

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EDWARD P. BASS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Dr. David Beerling
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar
Title:
 Environmental Scholar Fossil Forests and Earth's Climate Crisis

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Dr. Michael Novacek
American Museum of Natural History
"Biodiversity Past, Present and Future: From Madagascar to Island Earth"
And, presentation of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History's Verrill Medal to
Alison Richard
Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University
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FORUM ON SOLAR VARIABILITY
AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Sponsored by
The YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change
Held on March 28 and March 29, 2008
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OCEAN AND CLIMATE FORUM
Sponsored by
The YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change
Held on April 11 and April 12, 2008
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The Greening of Yale and Beyond
A symposium held on October 18, 2007
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Program - Set 1
Program - Set 2