Post Tagged with: "Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies"

Roosenburg Co-Edits ‘Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-Backed Terrapin’ By Kelly Shockley ’19 Dr. Willem Roosenburg, Professor of Biological Sciences co-edited and co-authored several chapters in a recently published book titled Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-Backed Terrapin (Johns Hopkins University Press). His co-editor was Victor S. Kennedy. In 19 […]

Dr. Shawn Kuchta, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences, was awarded the 2018 Robert F. Rakowski award for outstanding research in the Biological Sciences Department at Ohio University. Kuchta followed the award presentation with an engaging seminar for faculty and students detailing his work on species formation and adaptive divergence in […]

The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies and the Geological Sciences Colloquium Series present Dr. Kristina Douglass on “Integrating Archaeology and Conservation in Southwest Madagascar” on Friday, Sept. 14, at 10 a.m. in Irvine 199. The date of Madagascar’s initial settlement has long been the subject of academic inquiry […]

The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies presents the Kitzmiller Lecture commemorating the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover court ruling on Thursday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in the Baker Center Theater. This year’s speaker is Dr. Patricia Kelley, Professor of Geography and Geology at the University of North Carolina […]

Dr. Anthony Herrel of the Natural History Museum of Paris gives the Darwin Lecture at Ohio University on Friday, Feb. 27, at 3:30 p.m. in the Baker Center Theater. Herrel’s topic is “Celebrating Darwin: Galapagos finches, Croatian lizards, and evolution on ecological time scales.” He is The event is free […]

By Angelita Faller Forty-nine million years ago, a freshwater bird known as Limnofregata azygosternon lived in the ancient lakes of what is now Wyoming. Leaving behind only a few skeletons, it is hard to imagine how this extinct bird once looked and lived. Thanks to the research of Ryan Felice, […]

The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies announced four  graduate fellowships for 2014-15. Vincent Farallo was awarded an OCEES Graduate Fellowship for Spring 2015 for his work on “Exploring below the undergrowth: the role of microhabitat in the evolutionary ecology of Plethodontid salamanders” under his adviser, Dr. Donald Miles, […]