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
