[ngs-2012] [grossk at kbs.msu.edu: Eminent Ecologist.. this week]

[C. Titus Brown]

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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:11:55 -0400
From: Kay Gross <grossk at kbs.msu.edu>
To: "Prunier >> Rachel Prunier" <prunier at msu.edu>
CC: Mridul Thomas <thomasmr at msu.edu>,
	Don Schoolmaster <dschoolmaster at gmail.com>,
	Beth Miller <elizabeth.t.miller at gmail.com>,
	"C. Titus Brown" <ctb at msu.edu>
Subject: Eminent Ecologist.. this week

All
Not sure if this announcement went out to the Summer Visitors List.. and 
wanted you all to know about this week's Eminent Ecologist  
Seminars..contact Mridul Thomas (cc;ed on this message) if you have  
questions and/or want to set up a time to meet with him.

klg
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Hello all,

This summer's Eminent Ecologists series begins next week. Our first  
speaker will be Joel Brown, of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. 
Brown is an evolutionary ecologist who studies how 'natural selection 
acting as an optimization process determines feeding behaviors, population 
characteristics, and the properties of communities' (from his website). His 
work is remarkably broad, integrating mathematical modelling of selective 
processes with empirical studies in a number of systems, among them 
squirrels, owls, gerbils, snow leopards and plants. You can find more 
information about his research at his website, 
http://www.uic.edu/labs/squirrel/brown/ .

Here's a quick summary of the major events of the week:

 * *Monday, June 11th*: Seminar titled "Not your grandfather's ESS:
    From behaviors to niche co-evolution"
 * ***Wednesday, June 13th*: Seminar titled "Applications: Plants,
   competition and predator-prey foraging games"
 * ***Thursday, June 14th*: _Reception at Tom Getty's residence_**(maps
   will be placed in the mail room)

All seminars will take place in the *KBS auditorium *at *7:30 p.m*.

Dr. Brown will be available to meet with between Monday and Friday. If you 
would like to schedule a meeting, you can reserve a slot using the signup 
sheet posted on the library door.

More details about the Eminent Ecologists series can be found at the  
course page, http://kbs.msu.edu/events/eminent-ecologists. Please email me 
if you have any questions.

Mridul K. Thomas

Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Zoology & W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
Michigan State University

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Katherine L. Gross
Director and University Distinguished Professor
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Michigan State University
3700 East Gull Lake Drive
Hickory Corners, MI  49060

kgross at kbs.msu.edu
269-671-2341
269-671-2351 (fax)
269-671-2235 (research office)
269-671-2222 (lab)

www.kbs.msu.edu


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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu