Events
Seminar title: Ecological consequences of an inadvertent N addition experiment on a coastal marine system:
Insights from long-term monitoring.
Hosted by Meredith Holgerson, Roxanne Marino, and Christy Goodale.
Wildlife trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business involving the unlawful harvest and trade of thousands of animals and plants. One such type of trade is for songbird singing competitions, a sport of “racing” male seed-finches, seedeaters and other species that is popular in the Caribbean, Guiana Shield of South America and countries with communities from these regions, including the U.S. While this legal, cultural practice is celebrated as a source of national pride in some countries, international trafficking is threatening 15 species of songbirds as well as national security and public health across the Americas and Europe. In 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service launched the Species Conservation Catalyst Fund on Songbird Trade, a new accelerator-model financial assistance initiative to reduce the illegal, unsustainable trade of songbirds in this region. Through cross-disciplinary strategic planning, the Service developed a strategy to address supply and demand dynamics and build law enforcement capacity to combat songbird trafficking. The Service recently invested $3.7 million in six projects collaborating across the trade chain to reduce trafficking of songbirds through mapping the drivers and actors involved in trade, addressing health risks for birds and people, strengthening law enforcement capacity and launching behavior change campaigns. Through a strategic, collaborative and socio-ecological approach, the Service and its partners hope to facilitate legal, sustainable trade that enables songbirds to sing freely in the wild once more.
Seminar title: Leveraging Al for enhanced carbon cycling accounting in the Water-Food-Energy Nexus: from aquaculture ponds to hydropower reservoirs.
Hosted by Meredith Holgerson, Roxanne Marino, and Christy Goodale.
Dr. Marc Dionne (Imperial College London) will be on campus to present his talk, "Costs and consequences of peptide-based immunity"
Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Thomas D. Seeley, Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology in the Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior on his new book Piping-Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Seeley, who has devoted nearly six decades to the study of honey bees and their colonies, takes us inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, to illuminate mysteries of honey bee behavior including how they choose a home for their colony, keep the colony inhabitants warm, and defended the colony from intruders. Weaving personal stories with the latest science, Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners shows both the excitement of scientific discovery and how it continues to shape our understanding of these vitally important insects.
This talk is hosted by Mann Library. Light refreshments will be served.
Seminar title: How Hosts Adapt: Predicting Evolution to Non-pathogenic Microbes.
Hosted by Megan Greischar
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months.
Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.
Register for the virtual session.
Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
Seminar title: Effects of soil nutrient availability, acidification, and deacidification on aboveground and belowground carbon cycling in mixed temperate forests.
Hosted by Christy Goodale
Enhanced weathering as a strategy for carbon dioxide removal: What do we know and can this be effective?
Hosted by Meredith Holgerson, Roxanne Marino, and Christy Goodale.
