YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminars

The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies presents

The YIBS / ESC Friday Noon
Seminar Series, including the Yale Climate & Energy Institute's Friday Noon Seminars

Fridays, 12 Noon to 1:15 PM

YIBS/ESC Seminars are held in the Class of 1954 Environmental
Science Center (ESC) unless otherwise noted*
ESC is located at 21 Sachem Street, and the seminars are scheduled to be held in ESC Room 110

YCEI Seminars are held in either Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect Street, or in Sage-Bowers Auditorium, 205 Prospect Street.  Please check schedule below for venue location.

~ A light lunch is provided at each seminar ~

Spring 2012 Schedule

January 20, 2012 Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker: Walter Jetz, Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic:  Inferring Species Extinction Risk from Spatial, Environmental and Phylogenetic Information  

February 3, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
*Please note: This seminar is being held in Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect St.
Speaker: Dame Alison RIchard, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor of the Human Environment, Yale Department of Anthropology; ; Former Provost of Yale University; Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge
Topic:  Science in the Service of Conservation:  A Case Study from Southwest Madagascar. 

February 17, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker:  Dr. Arne Mooers, Professor of Biodiversity, Simon Fraser University, and Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar in the Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic: (How) Might Phylogenetics Inform Conservation Biology?

February 24, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street

Speaker:  Maria McNamara, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics

Title:  Ancient Insects in Technicolor:  The Preservation and Evolution of Insect Structural Colors

March 2, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker: Professor David Skelly, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Topic:  Experimental Macroecology

March 23, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street

Speaker:  Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University; Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics Flint Lecturer

Topic:  Flint Lecture #1 - TBA

March 30, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street

Speaker:  Scott Wing, Research Scientist and Curator, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, and Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar in the Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics in the Spring 2012
Topic: Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago - Is Earth History Important to the Human Future?

April 6, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker: Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic:  TBA

April 27, 2012 - YIBS Seminar - ESC 110, 21 Sachem Street
Speaker: Dan Rosauer, Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Topic: The Global Mammal Radiation - Phylogeny, Geography and Conservation