2026-2027 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution

Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 12:00 p.m. on Fridays, in King Life Sciences Building room 1024. Meeting links are distributed by department email list; FSU members, subscribe at Bio-Everyone list management; non-FSU members, BioNotes. To request an individual link without subscribing to a mailing list, contact that talks host.

Fall Series

• August 28 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN):
  New Semester Mixer
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye
  
  
• September 4 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Savanna Wooten, The Jones Center at Ichauway
  What mud can do for you: Aquatic sediments as a scientific multitool
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• September 11 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Dr. Jayur Mehta, Department of Anthropology, FSU
  Coastal environments and archaeology
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• September 18 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Todd Engstrom, Research Associate at Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy; Courtesy Faculty, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  A tale of two landscapes: the Red Hills hunting estates and the Apalachicola National Forest
  Host: Bruce Means
  
  
• September 25 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Dr. Matthew Fuxjager, Brown University
  Gestural communication in birds and its evolution
  Host: Daniel Gutierrez
  
  
• October 2 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Dr. Joseph Travis, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Which came first, the question or the organism? August Krogh, Richard Primack, and understanding how the Least Killifish can live in so many different places
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• October 16 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): DR. Michael Cortez, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• October 23 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN):
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• October 30 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Dr. Lauren Rice, Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory, Panacea, FL
  Living atop others: patterns of diet and reproduction in a newly identified sabellid at hydrocarbon methane seeps
  Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke
  
  
• November 6 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN):
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• November 7 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Laurel Field, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Assessing and managing for human and climate impacts to coral reefs in the southern Caribbean
  Host: Dr. Sarah Lester
  
  
• November 13 (12:00 pm, 1024 KIN): Harris Krasner, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on algal communities in a spring-fed river
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  

Spring Series

• March 26: Dr. Rob Brumbaugh, The Nature Conservancy
  Learning from larvae and becoming a scientifically trained advocate for change
  Host: Lillie Bradshaw