The Center for Ecology and the Environment hosted Dr. Katherine Suding as keynote speaker at our 2021 Fall Symposium, which was held October 18-19.
Dr. Suding is a distinguished professor of ecology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where her research focuses on ecosystem dynamics and management, ecological restoration, biodiversity, and conservation in a rapidly changing world.
Talks by early-career UW-Madison faculty and postdocs on a variety of ecological topics preceded Dr. Suding’s address on both days.
Schedule
Monday, October 18
Emcee: Thea Whiteman
- 3 p.m.: Intro and welcome – Sean Schoville, CEE Director
- 3:05 p.m.: Cooper Rosin – Defaunation, Seed Predation, and Timber Regeneration in an Afrotropical Forest
- 3:30 p.m.: Min Chen – Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Cycle and Climate Change Mitigation
- 4:00 p.m.: Invited keynote speaker Dr. Katharine Suding –Building Scientific Civic Engagement Through Place-Based Relevant Research: The Boulder Apple Tree Project
- 5 p.m.: Reception
Tuesday, October 19
Emcee: Rick Lindroth
- 3 p.m.: Intro and welcome – Sean Schoville, CEE Director
- 3:05 p.m.: Sedona Chinn – Investigating Content and Effects of Environmental Messages: Invasive Species on Facebook
- 3:30 p.m.: James Crall – Collective Resilience: Social Modulation of Ecological Stressors in Bees
- 4 p.m.: Invited keynote speaker Dr. Katharine Suding – Resilience, Recovery, and the Ecology of Change
- 5 p.m.: Reception