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Home | Research | Seminar Program | Eminent Ecologist Seminar

Eminent Ecologist Seminar

Students listen to Sarah Hobbie at an Emininent Ecologists talk in 2017The KBS Eminent Ecologist Seminar brings well-known ecologists and evolutionary biologists to KBS each summer to interact with KBS faculty, students and staff for week-long visits.

Graduate students can register for this 1 or 2-credit seminar course in summer 2025. The course is cross-listed IBIO/PLB/CSS 891; with IBIO as the primary/lead department. Please search IBIO 891 for the correct course listing to enroll. Enrolled students are expected to actively participate in all aspects of the ‘EE’ course for one or both speaker visits – this includes scheduling meetings with our speakers, reading papers sent as background for the seminars, attending the seminars, and participation in the scheduled paper discussions.  The course is graded pass/fail and attendance at the seminars and attendance/participation with the speakers during paper discussions are the primary ways for assessing participation. If you can fulfill all requirements for both visitors, register for two credits. If you can fulfill all requirements for only 1 visitor, register for 1 credit.

The 2025 speakers are Dr. Jonathan Levine and Dr. Laura Dee. See each speaker’s schedule below.

The program began in Spring/Summer 1983 and has welcomed more than eighty distinguished speakers from around the globe to KBS (Eminent Ecologists 1983-2024).

Seminars are held in the auditorium in the Academic Building of KBS and begin at 5 p.m on Monday and Wednesday of the speaker’s visit.  Seminars are streamed live and recorded.  The live stream is available to MSU participants via Zoom Online Meeting software: Seminar Stream Information.

Please contact the course instructor, Dr. Nick Haddad (haddadn3@msu.edu) with any questions about the program.

Eminent Ecologists for 2025

Jonathan Levine, PhD

J.N. Allison Professor, Princeton University
 
Population, Community, and Global Change Ecology

Website: https://levine.princeton.edu/

Dates: June 2-6, 2025

Seminars:

Monday June 2 @ 5 pm, KBS Auditorium:

Biodiversity impacts of climate change and land-based climate mitigation

Wednesday June 4 @ 5 pm, KBS Auditorium:

Higher order interactions and the maintenance of plant diversity

Contact Dr. Nick Haddad (haddadn3@msu.edu) and Sarah Roy (roysara1@msu.edu) for questions about Dr. Levine’s visit or seminars.

 

Laura Dee, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Global change ecology, Community Ecology, and Conservation Science

Website: https://www.lauraedee.com/home

Dates: July 6-11, 2025

Seminars: 
Monday, July 7 @ 5 p.m, KBS Auditorium:

The consequences of climate and biodiversity change for ecosystem and people

Wednesday, July 9 @ 5 p.m, KBS Auditorium:

Scaling ecological understandings and conservation evidence with causal inference

Contact Dr. Nick Haddad (haddadn3@msu.edu) and Sarah Roy (roysara1@msu.edu) for questions about Dr. Dee’s visit or seminars.

Past speakers

* Asterisk denotes speakers who have participated in more than one summer.

2025

Jonathan Levine, Princeton University

Laura Dee, University of Colorado-Boulder

2024

Ximena Bernal, Purdue University

Haldre Rogers, Virginia Tech

2023

Aaron Ellison, Harvard Forest *

Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire

2022

Amy Angert, University of British Columbia

Mark Bradford, Yale University

2021

Francesca Cotrufo and Keith Paustain, Colorado State University

Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont

2019

Diana Wall, Colorado State University

Kelly Zamudio, Cornell University

Elizabeth Borer and Eric Seabloom, University of Minnesota

2018

Susan Alberts, Duke University

Bob Holt, University of Florida *

Josh Schimel, University of California – Santa Barbara

2017

Judith Bronstein, University of Arizona *

Goggy Davidowitz, University of Arizona

Jacques Finlay, University of Minnesota

Sarah Hobbie, University of Minnesota

2016

Alan Hastings, University of California – Davis

Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University

2015

Peter Adler, Utah State University

Nancy Grimm, Arizona State University

Nelson Hairston Jr., Cornell University

2014

Andy Gonzalez, McGill University

Peter Groffman Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Ken Whitney, The University of New Mexico

Jennifer Rudgers, The University of New Mexico

2013

Richard Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University

Sebastian Diehl, Umeå University

Mike Ryan, University of Texas at Austin

2012

Joel Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago

Alison Power, Cornell University

Alex Flecker, Cornell University

2011

John Fryxell, University of Guelph

Mathew Leibold, UT Austin

Mark McPeek, Dartmouth College *

2010

Brian Enquist, University of Arizona

Andy Sih, UC-Davis *

Terry Chapin, University of Alaska *

2009

Jim Elser, Arizona State University

Warren Abrahamson, Bucknell University

Curt Lively and Linda Delph, Indiana University

2008

Nancy Collins Johnson, Northern Arizona

Yoh Iwasa Kyushu, University of Japan

Sharon Strauss, UC-Davis

2007

Mary Firestone, UC-Berkeley *

Judy Bronstein, University of Arizona *

Carla D’Antonio, UC-Santa Barbara

2006

Scott Forbes, University of Winnepig

Anurag Agarwal, Cornell University

2005

John Maron, University of Montana

Butch Brodie, Indiana University

Mike Pace, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

2004

Bill Schlesinger, Duke University *

Aaron Ellision, Harvard Forest *

Trevor Price, University of Chicago

2003

Steve Arnold, University of Chicago

Mike Vanni, Miami of Ohio

Peter Abrams, University of Toronto

2002

Mary Power, UC-Berkeley *

Ray Huey, University of Washington

Sara Via, Cornell University

2001

Lisa Graumlich, Montana State University

Bill Reiners, University of Wyoming

Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University

2000

Shahid Naeem, University of Washington-Columbia

Bob Howarth, Cornell University

Mark McPeek, Dartmouth College *

1999

Doug Schemske, University of Washington *

Mark Hunter, University of Georgia

Bob Ricklefs, University of Missouri-St Louis

1998

Steve Stearns, University of Basel, Switzerland

Gary Polis Vanderbilt, UC-Davis

Susan Harrison, UC-Davis

Tom Mitchell-Olds, Max Planck Institute, Germany

1997

Mary Firestone, UC-Berkeley *

Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia *

1996

Tony Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andy Sih, University of Kentucky *

1995

Mike Lynch, University of Oregon

Bob Holt, University of Kansas *

Si Levin, Princeton University *

1994

Terry Chapin, UC-Berkeley *

1993

Bobby Peckarsky, Cornell University

May Berenbaum, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Joe Travis, Florida State University

1992

Mike Rosenzweig, University of Arizona

Annie Schmidt, Brown University

Bill Schlesinger, Duke University *

1991

Russ Schmitt and Sally Holbrook, UC-Santa Barbara

Jim Brown and Astrid Kodric-Brown, University of New Mexico

Peter Vitousek and Pam Matson, Stanford University

John Endler, UC-Santa Barbara *

1990

Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia

Mark Hixon, Oregon State University

Dan Simberloff, Florida State University

1989

Nelson Hairston Jr., Cornell University

Martyn Caldwell, Utah State University

Doug Futuyma, SUNY-Stony Brook

Monty Slatkin, UC-Berkeley

1988

Norm Ellstrand, UC-Riverside

Bob Holt, University of Kansas *

Nick Waser and Mary Price, UC-Riverside

1987

Norma Fowler, University of Texas

Joe Travis, Florida State University

Steve Hubbell, University of Georgia

Mary Power, UC-Berkeley *

1986

Henry Wilbur, Duke University/University of Virginia

Janis Antonovics, Duke University

1985

Bill Neill, University of British Columbia

Rob Colwell, University of Connecticut

Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1984

John Endler, UC-Santa Barbara *

Bob Paine, University of Washington

Simon Levin, Cornell University *

1983

Doug Schemske, University of Chicago *

Ron Pulliam, SUNY-Albany/University of Georgia

Dave Tilman, University of Minnesota

The following speakers also visited KBS as part of the Eminent Ecologists program, but our records are incomplete, and we are uncertain as to the year of their visit. If you have more information about this, please email communityrelations@kbs.msu.edu.

Jerry Franklin

Jim Hamrick

Peter Kareiva

Mark Kirkpatrick

Lennert Persson

Loren Reisberg

Dan Simberloff

David Tilman

Mike Wade

Will Wilson

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