by armsworth
Asst. Prof. Jessica Budke will be sharing her vision for the UT Herbarium with the wider Knoxville community at the UT Science Forum:
Biodiversity Collections: A Record of the Past; A Resource for the Future
The talk will be 12-1pm on Friday, September 30, 2016, in the Thompson-Boling Arena Café.
by armsworth
“Zebra Mussels, Zika, Kudzu, and More: Winning the War Against the Aliens Among Us”
McClung Museum Auditorium, 1327 Circle Park Drive, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @7 pm (Reception and Snacks @ 6 pm)
As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (www.nisaw.org), pioneering invasion biologist Daniel Simberloff will discuss current regional invasive species issues. Simberloff, the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, will highlight notable local invaders and the ecological impacts they pose, cover current efforts to stem their spread, and describe ways for the public to join this fight.
For more information, read the press release.
by artsciweb
Faculty member Brian O’Meara is giving a phyloseminar on March 30 at 2 pm eastern on “Making comparative methods as easy as ABC” based on work by him and postdoc Barb Banbury. A phyloseminar is a seminar delivered online virtually — people around the world can log in to watch and ask questions. For more information, see http://phyloseminar.org/.
Update: The seminar is over. You can see a recording at http://phyloseminar.org/recorded.html and the slides at http://brianomeara.info/.