Seminar Series
Fall 2012 / Spring 2013
All seminars are held in the Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room at 12:00pm, unless otherwise notified.
| Sept. 04 | Mark Friedl | "Seeing the Forest for the Trees-Overserving and Modeling Phenology Across Multiple Scales" | |
| Sept. 11 | David L. Des Marais | "Genotype by environment interaction and the genomic basis of local adaptation in plants" |
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| Sept. 18 | Joe Williams | "Intersecting ontogenies: The evolutionary developmental origins of the pollination to fertilization process of flowering plants" | |
| Sept. 25 | Michael Toomey & Cecilia Olsson | "Monitoring and modeling of forest Phenology" | |
| Oct. 09 | Donald Pfister | "Films and photos by William H. Weston: extraordinary Harvard teacher of Biology" | |
| Oct. 16 | Egbert Leigh |
"What large forest plots can tell us about tropical forest |
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Michael Bahn | "Climate extremes and the carbon cycle in mountain grassland" | |
| Oct. 30 | Jeanne Harris | “Shedding light on an underground problem: Light regulation of nitrogen-fixing nodules” | |
| Nov. 6 | Matt Ogburn | "Life history lability underlies rapid climate niche evolution in the clade Montiaceae" | |
| Nov. 13 | John Kartesz |
"21st Century Floristics in a Digital and High-Tech World" |
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| Nov. 20 | Michael Sundue | “Morphological Character Evolution in Leptosporangiate Ferns” | |
| Nov. 27 | Peter Ashton | 'Patterns of tree species diversity in hyper-diverse tropical rain forest, and their correlations with habitat | |
| Dec. 04 | Jill Preston |
"Plant adaptations to seasonality and the winter freeze" |
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| Jan. 29 | tba | tbd | |
| Feb. 05 | Ken Birnbaum | “A Cellular View of Plant Root Regeneration” | |
| Feb. 12 | Bruce Moran | "Alchemy, Plants, and the Paper Theaters of Leonard Thurneisser" | |
| Feb. 19 | Jenny Brown | "The Glass Flowers Marvels in Art and Science" |
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| Mar. 05 | Neil Pederson | "How Tree Innards Give Insight to Internal Proccesses and External Enviornmental History" | |
| Mar. 12 | David Hollinger | "Carbon isotope measurements, ecosystem respiration, and water use" |
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| Mar. 26 | Varun Swamy | "Regeneration dynamics of Western Amazonian Forests: the impact of contemporaneous defaunation" |
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| Apr. 02 | Carlos Jaramillo | "Evolution of Tropical Ecosystems Over Geological Time" | |
| Apr. 09 | Million Tadege | "STENOFOLIA-Mediated Regulation of Leaf Blade Development in Core Eudicots" |
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| Apr. 16 | Rebbeca Irwin | "Anthropogenic Change and the Fate of Pollination Services" | |
| Apr. 23 | Rodrigo Vargas | Cancelled due to illness. This presentation will be rescheduled in the fall."On the immortality of long-lived desert plants: the role of non-structural carbon reserves" |
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| Apr. 30 | Paul Schaberg | “Acidic Deposition, Calcium Depletion, and Forest Health/Productivity: Mechanisms and Implications” |