Symposium showcases student ecological research

Current research by graduate students is the focus of the UW-Madison Ecology Group‘s annual spring symposium, to be held March 6 and 7. The event is free and open to the public.

Guest ecologist Anne Giblin will open the symposium with a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in 145 Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive. She will address “Climate Change and Arctic Ecosystems: More Than a Meltdown.” Giblin is an associate scientist at the Ecosystem Center’s Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She also is an adjunct associate professor at Boston University.

The symposium resumes from 1:15-4:15 p.m. Friday, March 7, in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center Auditorium at 425 Henry Mall, with research presentations by six graduate students in biological systems engineering, entomology/zoology, environmental monitoring, forest ecology and management, limnology and wildlife ecology. Giblin will close the afternoon with a lecture at 3:15 p.m. on “Controls on Denitrification in Marine and Estuarine Systems.” A reception will follow.

The symposium is organized by the UW–Madison Ecology Group, composed of ecology faculty, staff and students from across the campus. The event is cosponsored by the University Lectures Committee and nearly a dozen university departments.

For more information, contact the symposium coordinator, Erin O’Brien, elobrien@students.wisc.edu; (608) 265-6712.