What Can Wildlife Tell Us About Our Changing World?
A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, 19 Feb 2008 at 9:00 am – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Residents of Maine watch as their birdfeeders fill with migratory songbirds in February. Flowers that once bloomed only in the southern states now grow in Nebraska. Animals are extremely sensitive to changes in the Earth's environment. This panel of Iowa State faculty will discuss the changing behavior of a variety of animals and explain how they might be reflective of larger climate changes. Panelists from the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) and the Department of Natural Resource Ecology Management (NREM) include Diane Debinski, Julie Blanchong, Brent Danielson, Fred Janzen, and Lisa Schulte. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- English
- Environmental Studies Program
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Greenlee School of Journalism
- LAS Miller Lecture Fund
- Landscape Architecture
- Natural Resource Ecology Management
- Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Writers' Bloc
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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