Research Seminars

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 Katriina Ilves at .

These seminars are typically held during the Fall, Winter, and Spring. All seminars are held at 12 noon in the Academy’s Ewell Sale Stewart Library & Archives unless otherwise noted.

Winter/Spring 2012

Friday, February 10: Tracy Quirk, Academy of Natural Sciences
“Assessing Regional Wetland Function and Local Impacts in a Time of Rising Sea Level”
Friday, February 24: Ching-Wen (Karen) Tan, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (ANSP McHenry Fellow)
“The floral visitors of Parsonsia alboflavescens (Apocynaceae) in Taiwan: will the pollinator raise a wing?l”
Friday, March 9: Walter Bien, Drexel University
TBA
Friday, March 16: Metin Sitti, Carnegie Mellon University
TBA
Friday, March 30: Scott Fay, Temple University
TBA
Friday, April 6: Todd Jackman, Villanova University
TBA
Friday, April 13: M. Rockwell Parker, Monell Chemical Senses Center
“Eau des Serpentes: pheromonal signaling in snakes”
Friday, May 4: Terrence Demos, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
TBA

Recent Seminars

Friday, November 18: Sean O'Donnell, Drexel University
"Behavior and Ecology of Neotropical Top Predators: the Army Ants"
Friday, November 11: R. Alexander Pyron, The George Washington University
"Evolution, Ecology, and the Origins of Global Snake Diversity"
Friday, November 4: Amy Freestone, Temple University
"Linking community ecology and macroecology: understanding marine diversity and invasions across latitude"
Friday, October 21: Suzete Gomes, USDA & Academy of Natural Sciences
"Taxonomy – an ally in the war against alien slugs: projects being developed at the USDA lab of Malacology."
Friday, October 7: Ted Daeschler, Academy of Natural Sciences
"Report on the 2011 Nunavut Paleontological Expedition to Devon Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada"
Friday, September 30: Tatyana Livshultz, Academy of Natural Sciences
"Pollination biology of Parsonsia alboflavescens (Apocynaceae) in Taiwan"
Friday, September 23: Don Charles, Academy of Natural Sciences
"Using diatoms to develop water quality criteria for New Jersey streams"
Friday, September 9: Nate Rice, Academy of Natural Sciences
"Field work in Vietnam"
Friday, August 12, noon, Darwin Room: Maria Silvina Ussher, Moss Foundation, Margarita Island, Venezuela
"Mosses of Venezuela"
Friday, May 6, noon, Darwin Room: Doug Wechsler, Academy of Natural Sciences
"Bird Conservation in Ecuador"
Friday, May 20, noon, Darwin Room: Harald Beck, Towson University
"Ecosystem Services of Peccaries in the Amazon Rainforest"
Friday, April 29, noon, Darwin Room: Teresa Trego, Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
"Tracking trends in pollination rates over time using herbarium specimens of Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)"
Friday, April 15, noon, Darwin Room: Zoe Panchen, University of Delaware

"Early bloomers in a changing climate: The impact of temperature changes on the flowering time of Greater Philadelphia native species"
Friday, April 8, noon, Darwin Room: John Hall, Academy of Natural Sciences
"Insights into the evolutionary history of the conjugating green algae"
Friday, April 1, noon, Darwin Room: Wesley Savage, Boston University
"How demography and directional selection shape patterns of genetic structure in natural populations of hybridizing lineages: empirical examples from salamanders and butterflies"
Friday, March 18, noon, Darwin Room: Alain Maasri, the Academy of Natural Sciences
“The price of Mongolian cashmere: an ecological perspective”
Friday, March 4, noon, Darwin Room: Virginia Pearson, Princeton University
“Probosciviruses, Hemorrhagic Disease and Host Defense: Ensuring Sustainability of Managed and Wild Elephant Populations - A presentation of new research and evidence of the Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses found in wild elephants in Kenya”
Friday, February 11, noon, Darwin Room: Jacob Russell, Drexel University
“Deciphering patterns of symbiosis between the ants and their resident bacteria”
Monday, January 31: Andrés Vélez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez
Colombian cockroaches
Friday, January 28: Andrea Quattrini, Temple University
“Connectivity of habitat forming deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico”
Friday, January 14: Mariangeles Arce Hernandez, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
“Molecular phylogeny of thorny catfishes (Siluriformes: Doradidae)”