Main Seminars

Simon
Levin 

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Mathemathical ecology: A century of
progress, and challenges for the next
century (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/32nPZ6Q

James
Tiedje 

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Assessing the past and future of
microbial ecology: The foundation
of the biosphere (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3eBS7N1

Bruce
Rittmann

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Understanding the Biofilm Anode
in Microbial Electrochemical Cells
(MXCs) (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2IjLp24

Paul
Falkowski

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The Origin and Emergence of Global
Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/38kXoaJ
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Richard
Luthy

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The Urban Water Revolution:
Sustainable Water Supplies for
Semi-arid Cities (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/358AvWg

Mary
Firestone

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Water in Soil: the Basis for Terrestrial
System Functioning (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3qAY2Yt

William
Schlesinger

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Carbon Sequestration in Soils to
Mitigate Global Climate Change (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/35x7UtM

Rita
Colwell

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Climate, Oceans and Human Health:
What Cholera can teach us about
COVID-19 (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3lDWdX3

Peter B.
Reich

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The strength of simplicity and
the challenge of complexity:
traits, trade-offs, and scaling in an
era of multiple global changes (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2UXO8RS

James S.
Clark

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Continent-wide change driven by
indirect climate effects on fecundity
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/39GC6VG

Peter
Vitousek

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Pacific Islands as Model Systems for
Understanding Ecosystems and
Human-Environment Interaction (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/2KsUaZ2

Jim
Elser

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Biological stoichiometry of nutrient
limitation in ecology, evolution, and
sustainability (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/37jHQDs

Peter
Kareiva

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Bruce E.
Logan

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You need to learn more about your
daily energy use and carbon emissions
to better understand the challenges of
slowing climate change (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/2MCRrgL

James
Galloway

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Nitrogen Out of the Bottle: The
Challenge of Managing the Genie (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/3tfGT7Q

James
Estes

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The historical ecology of an iconic
keystone predator (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3p6jhzo

Gretchen
Daily

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Valuing Nature in Decisions: From  
Demonstration to Transformation (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/2Ocos4r

Mary
Power

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Floods, drought, and alternate states
in algal-based river food webs (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/3tikkij

George
Somero

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Molecular Adaptation to Environmental
Stress: Complementary Roles of Macro-
molecules and “Micromolecules" (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/392u9JA

John
Terborgh

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Zoned vs. mixed plant communities:
how top-down and bottom-up forcing
structures plant communities around
the globe (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/31xQcna

Steve
Pacala

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How to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse
Gas Emissions in the United States by
Midcentury (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2QRVc3M

Terry
Chapin

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Earth Stewardship: A pragmatic
agenda for transformation (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3wWA0d3

Mathew
Leibold

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Rethinking metacommunity ecology
- linking pattern and process, is it
possible? (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3dIVyTe

Alan
Hastings

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Transients and the dynamics of
ecological systems (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3o14mHE

Drew
Harvell

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Host-Pathogen Interactions and the
Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3fbe1rs

Joan
Bennett

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Fungal volatiles: more than just a
funky smell (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2RbKMg5

Elizabeth
Borer

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Chasing contingency to discover
generality: climate, nutrients, and
herbivores in Earth’s grasslands (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3fsaia3

Steven
Lindow

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Understanding microbial life on leaves
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/34qqthK

Nancy
Knowlton

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Earth Optimism: Changing the
Conservation Conversation and the
Earth's Trajectory (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3hh2Ez8

Glen
Daigger

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Travels Through the World of Water
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2UOlKoI

Stephen
Palumbi

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The adaptive capacity of marine species
in the face of climate change:
heat tolerance, phenotypic plasticity
and genome evolution in corals (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3A0RuXT

Colin
Murrell

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The role of bacteria in the biogeo-
chemical cycling of isoprene, a much
neglected atmospheric trace gas (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3xwJoEq

Phil
Hugenholtz

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Microbial taxonomy run amok? (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3haUWI3

Mimi
Koehl

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Locomoting in a turbulent environment:
Ways to study microscale processes
in a large-scale ocean (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2UBJcFw

Willy
Verstraete

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Engineering microbial cleantech for
environmental sustainability (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3hAReY7

Jonathan
Levine

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Understanding species responses to
climate change: the role of population
and community ecology (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3EpwKe5

John
Crittenden

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Gigatechnology: Developing
Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
to Solve Gigaton Problems (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2Ya2xA0

Joan
Rose

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The World of Environmental
Virology (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3D3MQZP

Douglas
Capone

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Marine Mosaics: Emerging Patterns of
Nitrogen Fixation in the Oceans (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2WSqyL3

Curtis
Suttle

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Craig
Criddle

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Geochemical cycles out of control: how
microbial biotechnology can help (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3m2yAe1

James
Prosser

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Niche specialization in microbial
communities: lessons learned
from ammonia oxidizers (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3bxOnLQ

Jonathan
Chase

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Scale as a unifying tool for synthesis in
biodiversity studies (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3nZEyNG

Anthony
R. Ives

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Data, models, and prediction in the
environmental sciences (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3CY0ptn

Dianne
Newman

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Context matters: agathokakological
roles for redox-active "antibiotics"
from the soil to the clinic (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/31HcSo4

Matthew
Sullivan

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How studying ocean viruses may help
save the earth and cure disease (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2ZRUJUg

Donald E.
Canfield

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The Oxygen in Oxygen Minimum
Zones (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3FD0nsT

Bo Barker
Jørgense

Cryptic processes – a new concept in
marine sediment biogeochemistry (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3sJAKTF

Michael
Wagner

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Understanding nitrifying microbes,
the gatekeepers of the nitrogen cycle (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3pzrijW

Charles
Haas

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Environmental Pathogen Engineering (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3J27Hzy

Pedro Alvarez

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Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment

Video: https://bit.ly/36oyOac

Jed Alan Fuhrman

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Ecological patterns of marine bacteria, archaea, protists and viruses over large temporal and spatial scales

Video: https://bit.ly/3w2fw4C

Brian Enquist

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Margaret Torn

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Two Views of the Perturbed Carbon Cycle: Ecosystem feedbacks to warming and decarbonization pathways for the U.S.

Video: https://bit.ly/3wVB4R6

Per Halkjær Nielsen

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Novel insights into the microbial ecology of global wastewater treatment systems

Video: https://bit.ly/3R44nYB

Diana Wall

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Climate change hits below ground life in polar and hot deserts: role of soil biodiversity in ecosystem processes

Video: https://bit.ly/3RmsVvG

Jo Handelsman

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A World Without Soil: Science and stewardship of our endangered natural resource

Video: https://bit.ly/3F4L2lX

Lenore Fahrig

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Lut Raskin

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Researcher-Utility Partnerships for Improving Microbial Drinking Water Quality and Reduce the Risk of Opportunistic Infections

Video: https://bit.ly/3YT2u5e

Robert D. Holt

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Jennifer Martiny

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Investigating the ecology and evolution of wild microbial communities

Video: https://bit.ly/3ZWElex

Susan Trumbore

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Radiocarbon constraints for the terrestrial carbon cycle

Video: https://bit.ly/40JSaNP

Ivette Perfecto

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Intransitivity as a dynamic assembly engine of competitive communities: evidence from the ant community in coffee agroforestry systems in Puerto Rico

Video: https://bit.ly/TeCg6xG

Zhiyun Ouyang

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China biodiversity and conservation

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Video: https://bit.ly/44f4pEb

David Sedlak

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Opportunities for Researchers to Help Solve the Coming Water Crises

Video: https://bit.ly/446FORS

Richard D Bardgett

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Aboveground-belowground linkages, ecosystem processes, and global change

Video: https://bit.ly/46irMxf

Jonathan B. Losos

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Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution in Real Time: Research on Lizard Adaptation in the Bahamas

Video: https://bit.ly/48YGN9N

Wim van der Putten

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Aboveground-belowground interactions in a warming world: consequences for memories of the soil biodiversity

Video: https://bit.ly/46EzqCF

Robert M. Pringle

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Explaining and maintaining animal biodiversity

Video: https://bit.ly/4aHTJBw

Alexandra Z. Worden

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Joshua S. Weitz

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Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics and Therapeutic Impacts of Bacteriophage: a Not-So-Perfect Predator

Video: https://bit.ly/42oq1Of

Scott Edwards

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Kirsten Küsel

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Shaping and feeding the subsurface microbiome

Video: https://bit.ly/3vGd5r5