Wednesday Feb 7th

Mike Kaspari, Dept. of Zoology, EEB Graduate Program, Univ. of Oklahoma

7:00PM, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Public Lecture:
The Amazons that run the world: army ants, fires ants, and the field biologists who love them

Thursday March 1^th

Former Vice President Al Gore

Campus lecture 3:00 PM, Paul F Sharp Concert Hall

VP Gore is a guest of the OU Speakers Bureau, the Associates, and President Boren's office. EEB faculty and students will be receiving invitations to this event.

Wednesday March 7^th

Pamela Matson, Woods Institute for Environment, Stanford University

9:00AM, Sutton Hall 111, Dr. Matson leads a discussion on EEB’s frontiers

4:30PM, GLCH Auditorium, Technical Lecture: Does intensification of agriculture save land for nature?  A case study from the Yaqui.

7:00PM, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Public Lecture: A transition to sustainability: harmonizing the needs of people and the planet in the 21^st century.

Wednesday March 14^th

Douglas Mock, Department of Zoology, EEB Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma

7:00PM, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Popular lecture
Simple families are not: a biological look at parental care, favoritism and sibling rivalry (in birds).

Wednesday March 28^th

Carlos Martinez del Rio, Department of Zoology, University of Wyoming

9:00AM, Sutton Hall 111, Dr. Martinez del Rio leads a discussion on EEB’s frontiers

4:30PM, GLCH Auditorium, Technical Lecture: Cartesian Hummingbirds

7:00PM, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Popular lecture
Birds are plants, plants are salmon, and we are corn: stable isotopes and the metaphors of science

Wednesday April 18^th

Brendan Bohannan, Department of Biology, University of Oregon

9:00AM, Sutton Hall 111, Dr. Bohannan leads a discussion on EEB’s frontiers

4:30PM, GLCH Auditorium, Technical Lecture, Microbial macroecology

7:00PM, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Popular lecture
An ecologist in Who-ville: recent explorations of the biodiversity of microorganisms

Wednesday April 25th

Göran Arnqvist, University of Uppsala, Sweden

9:00AM, Sutton Hall 111, Dr. Arnqvist leads a discussion on EEB’s frontiers

4:30PM, GLCH Auditorium, Technical Lecture, Passive evolutionary players or determinants of major life history traits: fitness effects of mtDNA variation

7:00PM, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Popular lecture
The battle of the sexes: sexual conflict in animals