The 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 instructors, Dr. Nick Haddad (haddadn3@msu.edu), Dr. Sarah Roy (roysara1@msu.edu) with any questions about the program.
Eminent Ecologists for 2025
Jonathan Levine, PhD
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.
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