April 2024 Funk Lecture

Join us on Wednesday, April 24, at 5 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Barnabas Daru. Talk Title: "The biogeography of native botanical diversity in the age of humans" Barnabas Daru is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University. Research in his lab focuses on the broad patterns of plant [...]

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February 2024 (Rescheduled) Funk Lecture

February 28, 2024 4-5 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, February 28, at 4 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Erin Saupe. Talk Title: "The emergence of latitudinal diversity gradients" This seminar will focus on quantifying the emergence of latitudinal diversity gradients in the marine realm, from benthic invertebrates to [...]

October 2023 Funk Lecture

October 25, 2023 4-5 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, October 25, at 4 pm UTC for the Funk Lecture given by Crystal McMichael. Talk Title: "Ecological legacies and forests resilience in Amazonia" Crystal McMichael is a paleoecologist, tropical ecologist, and biogeographer working in the Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics at [...]

September 2023 Funk Lecture

Join us on Thursday, September 28, at 4 pm UTC for the first Funk Lecture of the new season, given by Joaquín Hortal. "Mapping ignorance on biodiversity: towards a fair account of data-driven uncertainty in biogeograpical analyses" Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales [...]

June 2023 Funk Lecture

June 28, 2023 5-6 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, June 28 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Luís Valente. Islands: laboratories of biogeography threatened by anthropogenic extinction Luís Valente is an evolutionary biologist and island biogeographer interested in biodiversity in isolated environments. He uses fieldwork, phylogenetics, modelling and genomics [...]

May 2023 Funk Lecture

May 31, 2023 5-6 pm UTC Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Professor Jennifer McElwain. In this talk 'Tropical Arctic' Jenny will/ explain our planet’s story of  environmental upheaval, mass extinction, and resilience as revealed by  fossil plants unearthed from Triassic and Jurassic strata of East [...]

February 2023 Funk Lecture

February 22, 2023 5-6 pm UTC Funk lecture series continues unabated! Join us on Wednesday, February 22 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Prof. José Alexandre Felizola Diniz Filho. José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho is a Professor in Ecology and Evolution at Universidade Federal de Goiás, in Central Brazil, for over [...]

November 2022 Funk Lecture

November 30, 2022 5-6 pm UTC (Noon - 1 pm CDT) Join us on Wednesday, November 30th at Noon Central Daylight Time (5 pm UTC), for a talk by Dr. Juan Rocha. Juan C. Rocha is a research scientist at the Stockholm Resilience Centre where he co-leads the theme on complex systems. His research [...]

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