“Evolution in Extreme Environments” Symposium to be Available via a Free, Live Webcast from NABT Conference in Denver
Are you interested in evolution, but unable to attend this year’s National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Denver? Would you and your students like to learn more about evolution in “extreme environments”, such as high altitude, in the deep-sea, or in caves? If so, you will be excited to learn that for the first time, the annual NABT Evolution Symposium will be accessible via a free, live webcast on Friday, Nov. 13th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, MST.
Each year at the NABT conference, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) team up to present the NABT Evolution Symposium – an opportunity to hear some of the world’s top researchers discuss their cutting edge work in a specific area of evolutionary biology. This year’s focus will be on how life evolves, adapts and flourishes in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. (See speakers and talk titles below)
For the first time, the entire symposium can be viewed via a free, live webcast. Teachers and students are encouraged to tune in to all or part of the webcast for an opportunity to learn some fascinating, cutting-edge evolutionary biology. Classrooms all over the world will even be able to submit their questions online and have the speakers respond in real time!
To view the free webcast live, go to:
http://dukeuniversity.acrobat.com/nabt2009/ starting at 8:30 am MST on Friday, Nov. 13th.
For those who aren’t able to view the webcast live, all of the talks will be recorded and placed on NESCent’s website for free access after the conference. The website also will contain supplemental resources, videos and links so students and teachers can learn more about this topic.
For more information, please see: http://www.aibs.org/special-symposia/evolution_in_extreme_environments.html or contact eog@nescent.org.
Speakers, titles and times (Friday, November 13th, all talks are MST):
8:45 am - Human Evolution and Adaptation to High-altitude
Cynthia M. Beall, Anthropology Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
9:30 am - Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile Survive
Steven Haddock, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA
10:30 am - Cavefish: Evolution in the Dark
William R. Jeffery, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
11:15 am - Arctic Winter Sea Ice: A Biological Museum or Evolutionary Playground?
Jody W. Deming, School of Oceanography & UW Astrobiology Program, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
