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The Drift Thanksgiving Day Holiday Reminder Monday Seminar Series Seminars from Other Areas Edmund A. Arbas Memorial Lecture Faculty Grant Announcements Brian Enquist Scott Saleska New Symbiosis Course in Spring 2008 New ECOL 495/596H Course In Spring 2008 Front Office Thanksgiving Holiday Reminder
The EEB front office will close at 3:00 pm today in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 24, 2007. We will reopen on Monday, November 26, 2007 at 8:00 am.
If you have a paycheck that needs to be picked up please do so today prior to 3:00 pm. Thank you and have a happy, healthy Thanksgiving holiday! Toys For Tots EEB is accepting new, unwrapped toys that can be dropped off at the Front Office of BSW 310. The national Toys for Tots program collects toys for children for the holidays. The program, run by the Marine Corps Reserve since 1947, has become a mainstay throughout communities around the country. When the Marine Corps Reserves was called on to take a large role in national security during the 1970s, officials decided to accept only new, unwrapped toys to speed up the distribution process. In 1991 the Toys for Tots Foundation was created with the sole purpose of collecting new toys for children. Monday Seminar Series Harvard University "How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere?" Tuesday “Noon” Seminar Series Center for Insect Science Seminar Edmund A. Arbas Memorial Lecture
The Biology of Ant Invasions
Heather Eisthen, Ph.D. “How many vertebrates does it take to change a bulb? Functional consequences of olfactory system evolution” Faculty Grant Announcements
Brian Enquist was recently awarded a grant for $737,521 by The National Science Foundation. This project, entitled "Combining Theories For Plant Architecture, Allometry, and Traits to Develop the Next Generation of Scaling Theory," is under the direction of Brian J. Enquist, John Sperry, Peter B. Reich, Van M. Savage. Scott Saleska Receives $2.5 Million to Study Amazon Forests and Climate Change
A University of Arizona-led international team of scientists has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant that will send students and early-career scientists to the Amazon to study tropical ecology and biogeochemistry, and conduct related experiments within the tropical forest biome at the UA's Biosphere 2.
The National Science Foundation-funded project is called the Partnership for International Research and Education Amazonia, or Amazon-PIRE. The grant includes $1.5 million for stipends and fellowships to support participating students and early-career scientists. PIRE students will take a field course in Brazil's Amazon forest, conduct related experiments at Biosphere 2 and work with Brazilian scientists and students through exchanges at Brazilian scientific institutions.
The project combines international collaboration with interdisciplinary training in earth system science, remote sensing and modeling.
"Our project has a globally important scientific goal which is to figure out how climate changes affect Amazon forests. And there's an educational goal to help transform science education so the next generation of scientists will be successful in an increasingly globalized scientific community," said principal investigator Scott Saleska, an assistant professor in the UA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology.
"The purpose of NSF's Amazon-PIRE program is to change how education works in this country by supporting new models for international collaboration and training. The educational goal is especially critical in environmental science, where cultural barriers can reinforce the disparity in knowledge between the most studied ecosystems, generally those in North America and Europe, and the ecosystems about which new knowledge and data are most needed, such as those in the tropics," Saleska said.
"Because the forests of the Amazon basin form the largest contiguous, intact tropical forest on Earth, Amazonia is a storehouse of carbon whose fate will influence the fate of climate change globally," said Saleska, also a member of Biosphere 2's science steering committee member and of the UA's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth.
Saleska's co-principal investigators on the grant are Alfredo Huete, UA professor of soil, water and environmental science, W. James Shuttleworth, UA professor of hydrology and water resources and atmospheric sciences, and Steven C. Wofsy, professor of atmospheric and environmental science at Harvard University.
Other UA researchers participating in the project include Biosphere 2 Director Travis Huxman, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Brian Enquist, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Timothy Finan, director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology; Joellen Russell, assistant professor of geosciences; and Scott Whiteford, director of UA's Center for Latin American Studies.
(Read more at http://uanews.org/node/17038/0.)
New ECOL 495/596H Course In Spring 2008
ECOL 495/596H Complex systems: networks and self-organization in biology.
What is a complex system? What does networks theory have to do with biology? Biologists have discovered that many biological systems, from embryos to ecosystems, can be considered "complex systems", in that many units interact without central control to form complicated patterns. How do such patterns arise? What can we learn from a 'holistic', system-wide approach? Check out: http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Dornhaus/courses/ecol596h.html Please email me if you have questions about the course: Anna Dornhaus dornhaus@email.arizona.edu
New Symbiosis Course in Spring 2008
Next semester I will be offering a Seminar on "Symbiosis". ENTO 596-A (SMR-2) Date and time TBA The goal of this Seminar Series will be to gain an appreciation of the importance of symbiotic interactions in extant organisms, ecological systems, and evolutionary processes. Topics from the community level to molecular aspects of these relationships will be considered.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Dr. S. Patricia Stock Assistant Professor / Adjunct Professor Department of Entomology / Plant Sciences Voice: (520) 626-3854 Lab: (520) 621-1317 e-mail: spstock@ag.arizona.edu
McGinnies Graduate Scholarship in Arid Land Studies Internship & Volunteering Opportunities – Madagascar CEDO Field Education Internship Shanley Yates Administrative Associate Office of Department Head, Dr. Michod Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona BSW 306 Ph: 520-621-7509 Fax: 520-621-9190
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