2017 – 2018

Johan Six – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Sustainable Agriculture: from Science to Practice

Steve Running – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Is humanity overrunning the biosphere?

John Wiens – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Taking GDPE into the Ecological Future

Bea Van Horne – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Taking GDPE into the Ecological Future

Alan Covich – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Finding new ideas by exploring inter-disciplinary riverscapes

Melissa McHale – Honor Alumn Ecologist

• SFrontiers in Urban Ecology: Why democratizing science will forge new, creative pathways towards sustainability

Kathleen Galvin – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Social-ecological research in the savannas of East Africa

2016 – 2017

Ruth Shaw – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Ecology and Evolution of a Long-lived Plant Following Severe Fragmentation of Its Habitat

Brian McGill – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Species and Biodiversity Responses to the Anthropocene

Ivette Perfecto – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Food sovereignty: an alternative paradigm for poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation in Latin America

Brandon Bestelmeyer – Honor Alumn Ecologist

• Social-ecological transitions and resilience in rangelands (or–transitions in how I think about transitions)

LeRoy Poff – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• The quest to extract generality from ecological complexity to inform stream and river conservation – my journey from CSU grad student to faculty and the role of GDPE

2015 – 2016

Mark Boyce – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Canada’s Energy Policy: The Urgent Need for Science

Deron Burkepile – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• Fishes as top-down and bottom-up drivers of coral reef communitiy dynamics

Osvaldo Sala – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• No video due to university snow day issues

Jesse Nippert – Honor Alumnus

• Fight Night: Pain on the Palins (C.4. Grasses vs. “Woody” Shrubs)

Bill Parton – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• The Development of Ecosystem Models: CSU’s Historical Contribution and Continued Efforts to Address Contemporary Ecological Issues

2014 – 2015

Rick Karban – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Plant Communication That Affects Herbivory
• Habitat-Dependent Species Interactions and Population Control of Herbivores

Peter Vitousek – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Coupled Human and Natural Systems on Pacific Islands before European Contact
• Nitrogen and Crop Production in China: Towards (more) Sustainable Intensification

Julian Olden – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• Will species keep pace with climate change?
• Traits-based approaches and the quest for generality over contingency in freshwater ecology

Jill Baron – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• The Long View of Global Change in the Rockies: Ecosystem Ecology in Support of the Public Good

John Sanderson – Honor Alumnus

• 21st Century Conservation in Colorado: A TNC Perspective

2013 – 2014

Jim Estes – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Sea otters and kelp forests: an ecological history of the North Pacific Ocean
• A role for large predators in the fabric of nature

Scott Collins – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist

• Precipitation variability, alternative stable states and vegetation dynamics in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

Winsor Lowe – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• The causes and consequences of variation in dispersal distance
• What 60 proposals and 25,000 rocks taught me about looking closely

Kurt Fausch – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Crossing boundaries to explore the hidden mysteries of linked stream-riparian ecosystems

Serita Frey – Honor Alumna

• Linking Soil Microbial Communities and Ecosystem Function–A Coming of Age Story

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

Tom Stohlgren – Resident Distinguished Ecologist

• Species Invasions and Climate Change: Triage in Conservation

Suzie Boyden – Honor Alumna

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

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 – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• 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 – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• 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 – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• 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 – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

• 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 – Visiting Distinguished Ecologist (Rising Star)

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