Mondays at 4:00 pm in 112 Walker Building
- a lecture series sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, the Environment and Natural Resources Institute, the EMS Energy Institute, and the College of Agricultural Sciences - All talks are open to the public and are scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building
Date | Speaker | Presentation |
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Aug 31 | Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences, Penn State University |
"Landscape Evolution at Geologic Time Scales" |
Sept 14 | William A. DiMichele Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution |
"Variable Effects of Global Warming on Vegetation of the Pennsylvanian 'Coal-Age' Tropics" |
Tuesday, Sept 22 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" |
Sept 28 | 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" |
Oct 5 | Bonnie F. Jacobs Chair, Environmental Science Program, Southern Methodist University |
Cancelled "Cenozoic Evolution of African Landscapes" |
Oct 5 | Peter Wilf Department of Geosciences, Penn State |
"Ancient Biodiversity at the End of the World: Paleogene Patagonia Rediscovered" |
Oct 12 | Peter Wilf Department of Geosciences, Penn State |
"Do Leaf-Eating Insects Respond to Environmental Change? Insights from Fossils" |
Nov 2 | Barbara J. Bentz USDA Forest Service, Logan Utah |
"Will the Real Mountain Pine Beetle Please Stand UP? Plasticity in Climate-Influenced Phenological Strategies" |
Nov 9 | Sandra L. Olsen Section of Anthropology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
"Human Subsistence Adaptation to the Eurasian Steppe and the Inception of Horse Domestication" |
Nov 16 | Eric Post Department of Biology, Penn State |
"The Vanishing Arctic" |
Nov 30 | Russell Graham Director, Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum, Penn State |
"Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction" |
Dec 7 at 5:00 pm | Christopher J. Williams Department of Environmental Science, Franklin & Marshall College |
"Variation in Polar Forest Ecosystems from the Early to Late Cenozoic" |
*"Ancient to the Future" is the motto of the noted jazz-Africa-roots-avant garde quintet, the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Co-sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute and Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment