27 Jan.,
Mike Kaspari(EEB/Zoology):"To survey, with love?" (EEB Program Update)
3 Feb., Ken Hobson(EEB/Zoology): “Oliver's Woods: the resource and how to use it for teaching and research”
10 Feb., Larry Weider(EEB/UOBS/Zoology): “Long-term changes in metapopulation genetic structure: A quarter-century retrospective study on low-arctic rock pool Daphnia”
17 Feb., Steve Hallgren(OSU): “NEON Overview: National to Local Level”
24 Feb., Randy Lewis(Zoology/SNOMNH): “Sex or the lack thereof: a quantitative look at the weed hypothesis”
3 Mar., Ola Fincke(EEB/Zoology): “Focus on the family: Sexual harassment across the landscape”
10 Mar., Peter Baverstock(BoMi): “Identification of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans genes involved in syntrophic growth with Syntrophomonas wolfei”
17 Mar. SPRING BREAK NO MEETING
24 Mar., Bert Hölldobler(Arizona State U.): TBA
31 Mar., Xuhui Zhou(BoMi): TBA
7 Apr., Heather Drilling(BoMi): “Microbial biogeography of oil reserves”
14 Apr., Claire Curry(EEB/Zoology): “Genetic and behavioral dynamics in a complex avian hybrid zone”
21 Apr., Amy Callahan(BoMi): "Diversity of alkylsuccinate synthase genes in hydrocarbon-impacted environments"
28 Apr., Natalie Clay(EEB/Zoology): “The effect of sodium on leaf-cutter ants foraging”
5 May, Becky Sherry(BoMi): "Prairie plant community dynamics with warming temperatures"
26 August, Larry Weider(EEB/UOBS/Zoology): Welcome and Introduction to EcoMunch
2 September, Enscheng Weng(BOMI): Ecological forecasting and uncertainty
9 September, Emily Remmel(Zoology/UOBS): The water crisis: Perspective on Oklahoma's water (Mark Coleman Fellowship 2008 Award Receipt Lecture)
16 September, Yiqi Luo(EEB/BOMI): Dynamic disequilibrium of ecosystem carbon cycle and future stability of land carbon sequestration
23 September, Jan Janecka(Texas A&M): Population monitoring of Snow Leopards in Central Asia using non-invasive genetics
30 September, Jesse Bell(BOMI): Climate warming impacts on the carbon and hydrological cycle
7 October, Gabriel Costa(EEB/SNOMNH/Zoology): Niche expansion and the niche variation hypothesis: Does the degree of individual variation increase in depauperate assemblages?
14 October, Stephanie Strickler(EEB/Zoology): Parent-offspring recognition in the cave swallow
21 October, Tanja Schultz-Mirbach(Ludwigs Maximillians Universitaet Muenschen (Germany)): Hearing in the dark: Changed otolith morphology in a cave-dwelling form of Poecilia mexicana
28 October, Liz Bergey(EEB/OBS/Zoology): To Thailand with Fulbright: Living, teaching and doing research overseas
4 November, Tom Ray(EEB/Zoology): Evolution of the Mind
11 November, Shenfeng Fei(EEB/BOMI): Analysis of the root biomass dynamics under abnormal temperature and precipitation conditions
18 November, Andy Green, Doñana Biological Station (Sevilla, Spain): Ornitholimnology - Top-down effects of waterbirds in aquatic ecosystems
25 November, No Meeting - Thanksgiving week
2 December, Rudy Riesch(EEB/Zoology): Life-history of Poecilia mexicana
9 December, Cody Sheik(BOMI): Microbial response to warming in a tall-grass prairie