Spring 2022 Friday Ecology Seminars

Ecology Seminars hosted by the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research are held on Fridays at 12:15 p.m. and are open to the public. During the spring 2022 semester, talks will vary in format (in-person, remote or hybrid, as indicated below) and broadcast via Zoom. Please join Zoom by 12:10 p.m. if possible. Recordings will be posted on our YouTube channel during the following week. (During the following dates, Friday events will be for graduate students in our labs only: Jan. 28, Feb. 4, March 4, April 15, May 6.)

For speakers who would like to give an in-person talk, we will set up in Takeru Higuchi Hall or Smissman Hall on West Campus, the two buildings directly north of the Park-and-Ride lot. The format options will be noted in the weekly announcements about talks.

This semester our regular host, Ben Sikes, KU associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and associate scientist at our research center, is on sabbatical. Sara Baer, director of the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, and Dan Reuman, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior scientist, will host our seminars. They will coordinate introductions at the beginning of each talk as well as the question-and-answer session at the end of the talk. Kirsten Bosnak, communications coordinator, will send weekly emails; please contact her at moonfarm@ku.edu if you have questions.

To join the mailing list for notifications and reminders of upcoming seminars, share your name and email address using our quick webform. Note: If you use Gmail and do not receive an email within a week of requesting to join, please check your Promotions tab and move any emails from us to your Primary tab.

Signing up for the mailing list is your way to access the seminars via Zoom. We will use the same link and passcode each week. Please do NOT share the link and passcode on social media or elsewhere. Please note that all seminars will be recorded; student seminars will NOT be posted on YouTube, but all other seminars will be posted on our YouTube channel.

Our seminars cover a wide range of topics that broadly relate to ecology and/or conservation issues. Often presentations are given by KU faculty, staff or students, but we also have talks by people at nearby colleges and universities, visitors to campus, or people in the region. Most of our talks are research-oriented, but this seminar series also has proven to be a good forum for sharing information about nonprofits and government agencies. We interpret "talks" broadly; some are polished presentations, while others are opportunities to discuss ideas or a tentative plan for a project.

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