Distinguished Ecologists Seminar Videos

Beginning in Spring 2012, Distinguished Ecologist videos are available on Vimeo.

Prior to Spring 2012, videos require Windows Media Player. Mac users can download the windows media player components for quicktime at this link.

2012 – 2013

Rosemary and Peter Grant, Visiting Distinguished Ecologists

• Evolution of Darwin's finches
• Long-Term Study of Darwin's Finch Populations

Ray Callaway, Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Novel Biochemistry and Exotic Invasion
• Positive Interactions and Interdependence in Plant Communities

Taylor Ricketts, Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Seeing the Forest for the Bees
• Putting Natural Capital on the Map

Suzie Boyden, Honor Alumni

• Does tree pattern matter? Effects of forest heterogeneity on resources, competition, and forest succession

Tom Stohlgren, Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Species Invasions and Climate Change: Triage in Conservation

2011 – 2012

Jim Clark, Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Interactions control forest response to climate change
• Temperature control of spring phenology in forests

John Pastor, Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Delays and asynchronies in ecosystems: nutrient cycles and population cycles in wild rice
• Delays and asynchronies in ecosystems: stable limit cycles and chronic wasting disease

Emily Bernhardt, Rising Star Ecologist

• How many mountains can we mine? The environmental costs of surface coal mining for Appalachian rivers
• The biogeochemical consequences of restoring wetland hydrology to agricultural landscapes

Tom Hobbs, Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Models for insight in ecology

Cherie Westbrook, Honor Alumna

• Ecohydrology: a modern bridge between the physical and biological sciences

2010 – 2011

Neil Adger, Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Adapting without prices, without apologies

• Measuring social contracts, resilience and vulnerability to environmental change

Richard Bardgett, Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Linkage between plants, soil microbes and ecosystem nutrient cycles (Wed)

• Biotic interactions as drivers of soil carbon dynamics (Thurs)

Stephanie Carlson, Rising Star Ecologist

• Ecological and evolutionary dynamics in Pacific salmon: The importance of bears and water level as sources of natural selection (Wed)

• Humans as agents of trait change: Consequences of harvesting and hatcheries on fish populations (Thurs)

Diana Wall – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Biodiversity: what did we know and what do we know now?

Peter Adler – Honor Alumnus

• Forecasting community impacts of climate change: When do species interactions matter?

2009 – 2010

Gretchen Daily - Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services into Decision-Making
• A Countryside Biogeography: The Future of Biodiversity in a Human-Dominated World

Ray Hilborn - Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• The status of world fisheries: is it gloom and doom or are fisheries managed sustainably?
• Bushmeat harvesting as a threat to biodiversity in the Serengeti Ecosystem

Brad Cardinale - Rising Star Ecologist

• Biodiversity and the Functioning of Ecosystems
• Does productivity drive diversity or vice versa?

Bill Romme – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Always on the steep part of a learning curve: the ecological adventure of a lifetime

Rebecca McCulley - Honor Alumna

• Is There a Fungus Among Us? The Role of Fungal Endophyte Symbioses in Grassland Ecosystem Ecology

2008 – 2009

Eric Lambin – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Land use transitions: causes, pathways, and impacts
• Environmental changes and vector-born diseases

Terrie Williams – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Holes in the planet landscape: The importance of research "oases" for large mammal survival
• Do carnivores count calories? How environmental perturbation is leading to an energy crisis in large populations

John Sabo – Rising Star Ecologist

• Ground water as an ecological currency in desert gallery forest food webs
• Hydrologic variability and the length of stream food chains

Barry Noon – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Conservation Planning for Spotted Owls: Linking Data to Models

Jason Kaye – Honor Alumnus

• Ecological Legacies in Soils and Scientists

2007 – 2008

H. Kern Reeve – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Reproductive skew and the quest for unifying models of social behavior
• A general approach to conflict resolution within groups of animals, plants, cells, and genes

Doug Schemske – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Ecological genetics of geographic adaptation in plant populations I
• Ecological genetics of geographic adaptation in plant populations II

Sonia Altizer – Rising Star Ecologist

• Timing, toxins, and transmission: infection and immunity in a migratory butterfly
• Infectious diseases and extinction risk in wild mammals