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The KBS Eminent Ecologists Series brings well-known ecologists and evolutionary biologists to KBS each summer to interact with KBS faculty, students, and staff for week-long visits. The program began in Spring/Summer 1983 and since then we have hosted over 80 speakers as part of this program (EE Speakers 1983-2010).
Each speaker will give two evening seminars, open to the public. These are part of a graduate seminar, 'Current Topics in Ecology & Evolution' [ZOL/PLB/CSS 891], and students (graduate and undergraduate) are encouraged to enroll in the 2 credit course if they plan to attend these seminars regularly.
Students enrolled in the course participate in small discussions, individual meetings and field trips with the speakers where they can discuss their research interests and plans. While this is designed as a graduate seminar for students in residence at KBS, students from campus and other institutions are encouraged to enroll and can take the course for 1 or 2 credits depending on their interest and involvement in course activities.
The 2011 Eminent Ecologists include scientists who work on a variety of emerging and historically important topics in ecology and evolutionary biology (see below). For more information about the course, how to enroll or to schedule a meeting with any of this year's speakers, please contact the Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mridul Thomas (thomasmr at msu dot edu), or the instructor, Dr. Kay Gross (kgross at kbs dot msu dot edu).
Seminars are held in the auditorium in the Academic Building of KBS and begin at 7:30 p.m. on the dates listed below.
The speakers for 2011 are:
Dr. John Fryxell, University of Guelph, June 5-11
- June 6: Spatial predator-prey dynamics.
- June 8: Movement at multiple scales.
Dr. Mathew Leibold, University of Texas at Austin, July 3-8
- July 5: Metacommunity ecology: Why do it? Where are we and where to next?
- July 7: The resilience and stability of pond ecosystems.
Dr. Mark McPeek, Dartmouth College, July 10-15
- July 11: Past climate change and diversification: How did we get the biota we have today?
- July 13: Patterns of clade-level diversification across animals and plants.
Former speakers:
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