Science Seminars at the Academy

The Academy host a series of scientific seminars throughout the year sponsored by the Academy's chapter of Sigma Xi. These technical seminars are intended for scientists and college-level students. Guests from other research and higher education institutions and organizations are encouraged to attend.

Those interested in presenting their research at the Academy should contact Anthony Geneva at .

These seminars are typically held during the Fall, Winter and Spring. All seminars are held at 12 noon in the Academy's Darwin Room unless otherwise noted.

Winter & Spring 2008

Friday, January 4
Matt Baker Job Candidate for Senior Watershed Scientist
Linking Watershed Hydrology and Spatial Configuration to Ecosystem Responses
Friday, February 8
Diarmaid Ó Foighil, University of Michigan
Phylogeny and Conservation of Tahitian Partulid Tree Snails
Thursday, February 14
Tanya Livshulz, ANSP Botany Curator Candidate
Evolution of complex pollination mechanisms in Apocynaceae
Friday, February 15
Clyde Goulden, Asia Center @ ANSP
Impacts of climate change and nomadic pastoralism on northern Mongolian steppe/forest habitats
Tuesday, February 19
Martin Husemann, ANSP Jessup Fellow
The grasshopper genus Sphingonotus (Fieber, 1852): Cryptic species, rapid radiations and taxonomic chaos
Thursday, February 21
Austin Mast, ANSP Botany Curator Candidate
The Mode and Tempo of Evolution in the Southern Hemisphere Macadamia Nut Family (Proteaceae)
Friday, February 22
Neal Williams, Bryn Mawr College
The effects of landscape change on native pollinators and pollination function: insights from the Delaware Valley Region
Monday, February 25
Erin Tripp, ANSP Botany Curator Candidate
Systematics and pollination system evolution in the species-rich genus Ruellia (Acanthaceae)
Thursday, February 28
Pieter Pelser, ANSP Botany Curator Candidate
Why are there so many Ragworts?: the taxonomy and diversification of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae)
Friday, March 7
Daniel L Graf, Malacology @ ANSP
MUSSEL Project: Thinking Globally but Acting Locally
Friday, March 14
Ned Gilmore, Vertebrate Biology @ ANSP
Amphibians of the Lower Delaware Valley
Friday, March 28
Alina Freire-Fierro, Botany @ ANSP
Tropical Andes, diversity and conservation
Friday, April 11
Scott Rawlins, Arcadia University
Aesthetics and Attitudes in the Golden Age of Natural Science Illustration
Thursday, April 17
Jerry Mead, Watershed Scientist Candidate
"Integrating spatial GIS tools with traditional stream ecology including examples from small and large rivers"
Friday, May 9
Robert Robertson, Malacology @ANSP
"Pyramidellids (ectoparasitic gastropods): their biology and its relevance to systematics"
Friday, May 23
Nerida Bleakley, Phycology Algal Ecologist Candidate,
"Mountains, Ice and Diatoms: Fieldwork in Antarctica with the New Zealand and Australian Research Expeditions"
Friday, June 6
Thomas Denny, Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology
Title TBA - HIV Vaccine Research
Friday, June 20
Scott Mills, 2007 Gallagher Fellow @ ANSP
"Results of the 2007 Gallagher Fellowship" - Rotifer Systematics

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