Biology

 Level Up! Measuring Science Interest XP Gain at Comic Cons

A common requirement of granting agencies is showing that the work reaches wide audiences and has an impact upon them. However, showing that reach and impact can be difficult. In this seminar Dr. Lundgren will discuss her work with Cosplay for Science, where STEM professionals share their “nerdy” interests and expertise with people in the unconventional learning space of comic conventions.

From Single Cells to Satellites: Genomics-informed virus-microbe ecology across scales

Julia Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 

This practice-based activity is open to anyone on campus, but especially those interested in thinking about ecology beyond traditional Western disciplinary lenses. We will use drawings and sound to consider the boundaries between more-than-human nature and embodied experience that Gloria Anzaldúa set out in her mediations, which proposed a feminist approach to the spaces and places at the U.S-Mexico border.

Celebrate the great outdoors with us at Nature Fest! Enjoy a day of guided nature walks, interactive booths, gardening activities, nature crafts, food, and other family activities. Connect with local ecology and discover new way to view the world around us!

Remarks and awards for Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry department seniors and their families.

Remarks and awards from 2:45-3:15 pm.

Location: McCardell-Bicentennial Hall, Great Hall

1. Elle Thompson
2. Kayley Porter

1. Ciara Murphy
2. Seth Boffa

Putting ecosystem science in Earth system models

This presentation will examine the problem of improving Earth system prediction from the perspective of adding new mechanistic understanding of ecosystem processes. The difficulties of spatial scale and process resolution, and some solutions, are addressed through examples including the representation of coupled carbon and nutrient dynamics, prediction in the extreme environment of the Arctic tundra, and resolving the interface between land and ocean in coastal wetlands.