Recorded Lectures

Seminar recordings are available below, and can also be found on the Ecology Center YouTube Channel.

Date	Speaker	Lectures
2015	David Denlinger Ohio State University	Insect Diapause: Shutting Down for the Winter Surviving in the Antarctica: And Insect Perspective
2021	Peter Marra Georgetown University, Director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative Washington D.C.	Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer Studying birds in the context of the annual cycle: Seasonal interactions and carry-over effects.
2021	Ivette Perfecto University of Michigan, Professor of Environment & Sustainability Ann Arbor, Michigan	Integrating Conservation and Agruiculture to Feel the World Sustainably and with a Social Justice Lens Using natural history to informt he study of complex ecological systems: a case study of the coffee agroecosystem
2021	Diana Six University of Montana, Professor of Forest Entomology/Pathology Missula, Montana	Fungi matter: the ecological stoichiometry of bark beetle-fungus symbioses What makes a survivor? Growth, chemistry, genetics, and climate sensitivity of whitebark pine affected by climate-driven mountain pine beetle outbreaks
2021	Chelsea Wood University of Washington, Assistant Professor of Aquatic & Fishery Science Seattle, Washington	Ghosts of oceans past: What can data on historical parasite burdens tell us about the future of marine disease? Habitat area integrates over spatial and temporal variability in snail abundance to predict human urogenital schistosomiasis burden
2021	James Beasley University of Georgia, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology & Management Athens, Georgia	History, management and future of invasive wild pigs in the U.S. Radioactive Wildlife: Impacts of the Chernobyl and Fukushima on Wildlife
2020	Tadashi Fukami Stanford University, Associate Professor of Biology Stanford, California	Origins and Frontiers Nectar microbes as a natural microcosm
2020	Jessica Hua Binghamton University, Assistant Professor of Biological Studies Binghamton, New York	Disease Ecology in the Face of Global Change Scientists as Environmental Educators
2020	Jonathan Hall West Virgina University, Assistant Professor of Geography Morganton, West Virginia	Conservation geography in the Anthropocene California Condor movement ecology in human-dominated landscapes
2020	Abi Vanak Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Fellow Bengaluru, India	Help! My best friend is an invasive: Dogs in the wrong places Mad dogs and sick monkeys: Understanding pathogen dynamics in complex systems
2019	Kezia Manlove Assistant Professor, Ecology Center & QCNR Utah State Univesity	Harnessing incomplete information in real-time to understand -and manage- emerging infectious disease events in humans and wildlife: Some synthesis and an eye towards COVID-19
2019	Clare Aslan Associate Director, School of Earth & Sustainability Northern Arizona University	Friends Forever? Environmental Change and Pollination Pollinator Visitation to Native Hawaiin Plants
2019	John Fieberg Associate Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Biology University of Minnesota	What I've learned, so far, as a quantitative ecologist Methods for modeling among-animal variability in habitat selection studies
2019	Nyeema Harris Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan	Carnivore community ecology in light of anthropogenic pressures.
2019	Danica Lombardozzi Project Scientist II, Global Dynamics Laboratory National Center for Atmospheric Research	What can plants tell us about air pollution? Linking leaves to global climate: Understanding terrestrial ecosystems in changing environments
2019	Robin Kimmerer Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director Center for Native Peoples and the Environment	p- values and cultural values: creating symbiosis between indigenous and western scientific knowledges to advance ecological justice
2019	Rob Jackson Professor, Earth System Science Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy Stanford University	Greenhouse gas emissions and natural solutions Ecology underground: belowground processes and global change
2019	Bob Holt University of Florida Chair in Ecological Studies	Niche Conservatism, evolution, and applied ecology
2019	Kaveh Madani Imperial College London Visiting Professor of Natural Sciences	Water, Complexity, and Public Policy in Iran Can we solve one problem without creating new ones?
2018	Jesse Morris University of Utah Research Assistant Professor	Long-term perspectives on environmental change: What does paleoecology offer? Black cats in dark rooms: Reconstructing past forest disturbances to confront an uncertain future
2018	Tim Essington University of Washington Professor and Associate Director	The big deal about little fish Why are conference presentations so bad, and what to do about them
2018	Nalini Nadkarni University of Utah, Professor	Tapestry thinking: Weaving ecology, public engagement to bridge science and society Effects of disturbance on ecosystem functions of rainforest canopy biota
2018	Andrew Jorgenson Boston College, Professor & Chair	Sociological research methods for studying socio-environmental relationships Climate change, inequality and human well-being: perspectives from macrosociology
2018	Elizaeth Borer University of Minnesota, Professor	Kangaroos, Kudu, and Caribou: mammalian herbivores, nutrients, and future grasslands on Earth Effects of environmental nutrient enrichment on pathogens: from individual to biogeographic scales
2018	Meghan Duffy University of Michigan Associate Professor	The value of basic scientific research: how water fleas might teach us how to fight fungal infections in people What can plankton tell us about links between ecosystems & disease?
2018	Johanna Varner Colorado Mesa University, Assistant Professor	Engaging Citizens in Place-Based Climate Change Research Pikas Under Fire: American Pika Ecology and Behavior in a Time of Global Change
2018	Elizabeth Leger University of Nevada Professor	Tales from the crypt: What can we learn from natural history collections? (DVD available in the EC) Practical applications of contemporary evolution (DVD available in the EC)
2018	Francesca Cotrufo Colorado State University, Professor & Associate Head	Soil organic matter dynamics in a changing world: can wicked challenges be transformed into opportunities? From plant inputs to soil organic matter formation and stabilization: an integrated measuring-modeling approach
2018	Craig Allen USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Research Ecologist	Reflections on landscape change research & the arc of one ecological career Transformative ecosystem responses to interacting extreme events
2018	Richard Reading University of Botswanna Fullbright Scholar/Conservation Scientist	From "Paper Park" to Model Protected Area: Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia African Vulture Crisis
2017	Rob Pringle Princeton University Assistant Professor	Niche collapse and trophic downgrading on islands with 'novel' top predators
2017	Gregory Retallack University of Oregon Professor	Astropedology and the origin of life Global cooling by grasslands in the geological past and near future
2017	Asmerit Asefaw Berhe UC Merced Associate Professor	What's soil erosion got to do with carbon sequestration? Post-fire soil carbon dynamics: Particulate and dissolved pyrogenic carbon in fire-affected soils
2017	Jennifer Funk Chapman University Associate Professor	There goes the neighborhood: the odyssey of invasive plants Trait-based approaches to ecological restoration in invaded plant communities
2017	Doug McCauley University of California	Ecological Dynamics in a Smaller World Extinction and the Future of Our Oceans
2017	Diana Wall Colorado State University	New frontiers in biodiversity: soil life moves to the world stage
2017	Nathan Stephenson USGS	A Non-Traditional Career in Science Tree growth rate increases continuously with tree size and the origins of a scientific controversy
2017	Daniel Schindler University of Washington	How watershed features control ecosystem processes in river basins The importance of prediction for developing effective policy for global change
2016	Nicole Barger University of Colorado	Advances in biological soil crust restoration in North American drylands Transforming STEM education in Higher Education
2016	Bruce Hungate Northern Arizona University, Department of Biological Sciences Regents' Professor	Microbial ecology of soil carbon Climate change, what's new?
2016	Sharon Strauss University of California, Department of Evolution and Ecology Professor	Are more closely related species more ecologically similar? The Evolution of the Ecological Niche
2016	Thomas Dietz Michigan State University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science	Beyond Well-Being and the Environment Understanding the Drivers of Global Environmental Change
2016	Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi University of Texas	CO2 exchange in semiarid soils with biological soil crusts Cross Biome Contrasts in Soil Biogeochemistry
2016	Lisa Schulte-Moore Iowa State University	Prairie STRIPS: From Research to Action Growing a Resilient Agriculture in Iowa and Beyond
2015	Nathan Morehouse University of Pittsburgh	Evolutionary Insights from the Reproductive Biology of Butterflies Vision, Predation, and Complex Courtship Signaling in Jumping Spiders
2015	Cathy Whitlock Montana State University	The Role of Climate and People in Shaping Past Fire Activity Yellowstone Stability and Change
2015	Trevor Branch University of Washington	How do fisheries affect marine food webs The Status of Global Marine Fisheries: Opposing Arguments
2015	Sarah Bush University of Utah	Evolution of Cryptic Coloration in Ectoparasites Stalking Wild Lice in the Tropics
2015	Tom Hobbs Colorado State University	Bayesian Analysis in Ecology: Six reasons to learn it explained simply
2015	Hope Jahren University of Hawaii	What can the carbon isotope composition of planet tissue tell us Global Change and Your Dinner Plate
2014	James Grace USGS	Can we Save Coastal Prairie from Coversion to Exotic Forest The Great Productivity - Diversity Debate
2014	Jonathan Moore Simon Fraser University	The Life Blood of Western Canada Oil or Salmon Free Flowing Rivers and their Diversity, Stability, and Conservation
2014	Mary Ruckelshaus Stanford Woods Institute	The Science and Practice of Valuing Nautre's Benefits
2014	Jeremy Fox University of Calgary	Causes and Consequences of Spatially Synchronized Population Dynamics Blogs: A Newish Niche in the Scientific Communication Ecosystem
2021	Beth Rose Middleton Manning UC Davis	Toward De-Colonial Political Ecology Environmental Policy from Native American Studies
2021	Margaret Walls Resources for the Future	Conservation and Environmental Justice Fire, Smoke, and Jobs: Economic Impacts of Wildfire in the American West
2021	Merav Ben-David University of Wyoming	Who Pushed the Button? When the planet warms up, will social relationships cool down? A furry tail
2021	Chris Roos Southern Methodist Unviversity	Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface Native American fire management, climate and resilience in Southwest US forests
2022	Moises Exposito Alonso Carnegie Institute for Science/Stanford University	The Genomics of climate adaptation and extinction
2022	Tyler DesRoches Arizona State University	When Ecology Needs Economics and Economics Needs Ecology: Interdisciplinary Exchange During the Anthropocene Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
2022	Talia Karasov University of Utah	To Grow or to Defend: How Plants Optimize their Fitness in the Face of Pathogenic Attack
2022	Kirsten Vinyeta Utah State University	The Time is Now: Integrating Ecology and Sociology Understanding Northern California's Tinderbox Through Settler Colonial Theory
2022	Adrian Harpold University of Nevada, Reno	The role vegetation plays in a changing mountain water cycle Forest management for water supplies: Examples, challenges, and opportunities
2022	Karen Holl UC Santa Cruz	Spatially-patterned planting methods to scale up tropical forest restoration: Lessons learned from an 18-yr study Improving Outcomes of Large-Scale Tree Growing Initiatives
2022	Katharine Suding UC Boulder	Building scientific civic engagement through place-based research: the Boulder Apple Tree Project Digging deeper in the tangled bank: the dynamic nature of diversity in an era of global change
2023	Katharine Jacobs University of Arizona	Accelerating Climate Solutions at the National Level Moving Beyond Climate Adaptation vs. Mitigation
2023	Gillian Bowser Colorado State University	Pollinators and citizen science: broadening perspectives and participation in the applied sciences Management Actions and Participant-based datasets: Using citizen science to address pollinator decline in National Parks
2023	Malin Pinsky Rutgers University	Unifying climate change biology across realms and biological scales When can evolution save species from global change?
2023	Dayo Osinubi FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology	Getting From Here to There and Back: an overview of the study of avian migration patterns and strategies A Tale of Three Kings: studying the intra-African migration of the Woodland Kingfisher
2023	Zhao Ma Purdue University	An Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Conservation in the Context of Social-ecological Change Support, Don’t Coerce: The Role of Conditionality in Payments for Ecosystem Services
2023	Priyanga Amarasekare UCLA	Research, teaching, mentoring in the 21st century Predicting the effects of climate warming: from chemistry to evolution
2023	Joshua Schimel UC Santa Barbara	Writing Science The Democracy of Dirt: Relating Micro-Scale Dynamics to Macro-Scale Ecosystem Function
2023	Chris Armatas Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute	Social-ecological challenges and the role of the conservation social sciences: Applying a pragmatist lens Public engagement in support of natural resource planning and management: Exploring applications of a structured method
2024	Bill Anderegg University of Utah	Unraveling the risks to US forests under climate change Moderated discussion with Dr. Bill Anderegg, hosted by Ecology Center Director, Dr. Peter Adler
2024	Marie-Josee Fortin University of Toronto	Ecological Networks in Dynamic and Evolving Landscapes Moderated Discussion with Dr. Marie-Josee Fortin, hosted by Erica Stuber
2024	N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University	The Challenge of Freshwater Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World A Tale of Two Mountains: Testing the Climate Variability Hypothesis in Tropical vs. Temperate Streams
2024	Lisanne Petracca Texas A&M - Kingsville	New Perspectives on Ocelot and Mountain Lion Ecology in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands Moderated discussion hosted by Dr. Julie Young