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"University of Madison-Wisconsin SEEDS Ecology" » Madison, Wisconsin
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The UW-Madison SEEDS Ecology Group: (1) fosters interaction among ecologists at UW-Madison and beyond through communication and outreach; (2) promotes the unique diversity, breadth, and scope of UW-Madison ecological research and education; and (3) provides a gateway to information about UW-Madison ecology to people both within and outside the university. |
Plans for 2007-2008
- Link with other UW-Madison groups focused on promoting diversity. Namely, the CHANGE-IGERT: Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are working on issues of vulnerability and sustainability of the global environment via an IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) grant from the National Science Foundation. The CHANGE program involves faculty members in departments ranging across atmospheric and oceanic sciences, ecology, environmental studies, veterinary medicine, and sociology.
- Fall symposium will feature Dr. Steward Pickett, Institute for Ecosystem Studies, who is a leader in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research Program, which seeks to integrate physical sciences, social science, civil infrastructure and ecology to study the structure and function of metropolitan Baltimore as an ecological system.
2006-2007 Activities
- Fall Ecology Symposium, 28 September 2006 - campus and community wide lecture series featuring Dr. Terry Chapin, University of Alaska, Fairbanks and other UW-Madison faculty. Dr. Chapin spoke about his work examining negative consequences of climate change on economies of Inuit people. He described this as an example of environmental injustice, where the activities of people at lower latitudes was undermining the livelihoods of those working in higher latitudes.
- Special Madison Ecology Group (MEG) symposium, 22 February 2007 - Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defense, served as a guest for a panel discussion of climate change effects. We discussed ramifications of climate change for environmental justice along with Krupp's examples of effective lobbying for change by leveraging the clout of the private sector.
- Student Potlucks - students giving talks about their research, providing a casual forum to integrate students across departments
- Spring Ecology Symposium, 19 April 2007 - campus and community wide lecture series featuring Dr. Ivette Perfecto of the University of Michigan, and UW-Madison graduate students. Dr. Perfecto presented her work linking biodiversity to agroecosystem function on coffee farms of southern Mexico and Costa Rica.
Faculty Advisor
Randy Jackson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Agronomy Department
463 Moore Hall
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1575 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
