EarthTalk Seminar Series, Fall 2009
Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future*

- a lecture series sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, the Department of Geosciences and the Department of Entomology. All talks are open to the public and are scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building (unless otherwise noted)

Aug 31, 2009		Rudy Slingerland, Department of Geosciences, Penn State Landscape Evolution at Geologic Time Scales Watch archived presentation
Sept 14, 2009		William A. DiMichele, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution Variable Effects of Global Warming on Vegetation of the Pennsylvanian 'Coal-Age' Tropics Watch archived presentation
Tues, Sept 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm in 22 Deike Bldg		Kirk R. Johnson, Vice President, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Time Travel with a Shovel: How to Use Fossils and Geology to Reconstruct Ancient Ecosystems Watch archived presentation
Sept 28, 2009		Nina G. Jablonski, Head of Department of Anthropology, Penn State The Evolution of Monkeys and Apes in Relation to the Changing Landscapes and Environments of the Late Tertiary and Quaternary Watch arhcived presentation
Oct 5, 2009		Cancelled Bonnie F. Jacobs, Chair, Environmental Science Program, Southern Methodist University Cenozoic Evolution of African Landscapes
Oct 5, 2009		Peter Wilf, Department of Geosciences, Penn State *Ancient Biodiversity at the End of the World: Paleogene Patagonia Rediscovered* Watch archived presentation
Oct 12, 2009		Peter Wilf, Department of Geosciences, Penn State Do Leaf-Eating Insects Respond to Environmental Change? Insights from Fossils Watch archived presentation
Nov 2, 2009		Barbara J. Bentz, USDA Forest Service, Logan Utah Will the Real Mountain Pine Beetle Please Stand UP? Plasticity in Climate-Influenced Phenological Strategies Watch archived presentation
Nov 9, 2009		Sandra L. Olsen, Section of Anthropology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Human Subsistence Adaptation to the Eurasian Steppe and the Inception of Horse Domestication Watch live
Nov 16,		Eric Post, Department of Biology, Penn State The Vanishing Arctic
Nov 30, 2009		Russell Graham, Director, Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum, Penn State Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction Watch live
Dec 7, 2009		Christopher J. Williams, Department of Environmental Science, Franklin & Marshall College Variation in Polar Forest Ecosystems from the Early to Late Cenozoic Watch live

EarthTalk Seminar Series, Fall 2009 Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future*

*"Ancient to the Future" is the motto of the noted jazz-Africa-roots-avant garde quintet, the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

EarthTalk Seminar Series, Fall 2009
Landscape Change, Climate Change, and Organisms: Ancient to the Future*