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 [...]
The International Biogeography Society is looking for members of the abstract review committee for the upcoming TIBS meeting in Prague, Czechia. This committee is key in helping choose talk presentations for the sessions and has a great deal of relevance in shaping the meeting overall. Each reviewer will be responsible for ranking about [...]
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 [...]
To do research on a hot topic in biodiversity science: How do species survive climate change, land use and other human pressures? Students will be enrolled in a joint award PhD program between the University of Adelaide and University of Copenhagen. Here they will be supervised and mentored by leaders in macroecology and biodiversity conservation, [...]
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 [...]
The TIBS Education Committee seeks an early career member representative! The main mission of the Education Committee is to promote the training and education of biogeographers so that they can develop sound strategies for studying and conserving the world's biota. Thus, the Committee brainstorms on strategies to expand and enhance the teaching of [...]
March 29, 2023 5-6 pm UTC We're excited to let you know about the forthcoming Funk Lecture! Join us on Wednesday, March 29 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Dr. Pablo A. Marquet. PABLO A. MARQUET is Full Professor in the Department of Ecology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de [...]
Post-doc in Ecological Niche Modeling at the University of Kansas We are seeking applications for a full-time post-doctoral researcher at the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas. This is a 2-year position, with the possibility of extension. The postdoc will conduct ecological niche modeling (ENM) analyses focused on Neogene and modern marine [...]
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 [...]
Join us on Thursday, November 26 at 5 pm UTC, for a talk by Dr. Maria Dornelas
