EEB Seminar Presented by Dr. Julia Saltz, Assistant Professor of BioSciences, Rice University Dr. Saltz's work aims to understand the development and evolution of intra-population individual differences in behavior, with a particular focus on social behaviors. Why do individuals of the same species develop dramatic differences in behavior? How is this diversity maintained in the face […]

ABS Seminar Presented by David Fulton, U.S. Geological Survey, Assitant Unit Leader & Adjunct Professor, Minnesota Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Abstract: Do values and wildlife value orientations change, and if so how? What are the implications for environmental sustainability? The preponderance of scholarly work indicates that within an individual, […]

WFSC Graduate Lunchtime Seminar Presented by Rachel Fern, Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

ABS Seminar co-hosted with EEB Presented by William S. Currie, Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Abstract: Sustainability as a framework for considering human and ecological interactions has evolved over more than three decades.  In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences named Sustainability Science as a new branch of science, fundamentally interdisciplinary and defined […]

ABS Seminar, Co-hosted with Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presented by Dr. Amanda Subalusky, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University Animal migrations can play an important role in moving resources across ecosystem boundaries, and these resource subsidies can strongly influence food web structure and ecosystem function. In the Mara River, East Africa, large animal migrations provide substantial portions of […]