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SpeakerTitleDate Time

Simon
Levin 

website

Mathemathical ecology: A century of
progress, and challenges for the next
century (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/32nPZ6Q

Sept. 16, 20208:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

James
Tiedje 

website

Assessing the past and future of
microbial ecology: The foundation
of the biosphere (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3eBS7N1

Sept. 23, 20208:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Bruce
Rittmann

website

Understanding the Biofilm Anode
in Microbial Electrochemical Cells
(MXCs) (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2IjLp24

Sept. 30, 20208:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Paul
Falkowski

website

The Origin and Emergence of Global
Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/38kXoaJ
More: https://bit.ly/3n2gFln

Oct. 14, 2020
8:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Richard
Luthy

website

The Urban Water Revolution:
Sustainable Water Supplies for
Semi-arid Cities (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/358AvWg

Oct. 21 (US),
Oct. 22 (GMT,
Beijing), 2020
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Mary
Firestone

website

Water in Soil: the Basis for Terrestrial
System Functioning (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3qAY2Yt

Oct. 28 (US),
Oct. 29 (GMT,
Beijing), 2020
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

William
Schlesinger

website

Carbon Sequestration in Soils to
Mitigate Global Climate Change (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/35x7UtM

Nov. 4, 20208:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Rita
Colwell

website

Climate, Oceans and Human Health:
What Cholera can teach us about
COVID-19 (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3lDWdX3

Nov. 11, 20208:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Peter B.
Reich

website

The strength of simplicity and
the challenge of complexity:
traits, trade-offs, and scaling in an
era of multiple global changes (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2UXO8RS

Nov. 18, 20208:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

James S.
Clark

website

Continent-wide change driven by
indirect climate effects on fecundity
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/39GC6VG

Nov. 25, 20208:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Peter
Vitousek

website

Pacific Islands as Model Systems for
Understanding Ecosystems and
Human-Environment Interaction (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/2KsUaZ2

Dec. 2 (US),
Dec. 3 (GMT,
Beijing), 2020
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Jim
Elser

website

Biological stoichiometry of nutrient
limitation in ecology, evolution, and
sustainability (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/37jHQDs

Dec. 9 (US),
Dec. 10 (GMT,
Beijing), 2020
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Peter
Kareiva

website

The Science of Science Communication:
Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty
(PDF)

Dec. 16 (US),
Dec. 17 (GMT,
Beijing), 2020
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Bruce E.
Logan

website

You need to learn more about your
daily energy use and carbon emissions
to better understand the challenges of
slowing climate change (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/2MCRrgL

Jan. 20, 20218:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

James
Galloway

website

Nitrogen Out of the Bottle: The
Challenge of Managing the Genie (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/3tfGT7Q

Jan. 27, 20218:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

James
Estes

website

The historical ecology of an iconic
keystone predator (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3p6jhzo

Feb. 3 (US),
Feb. 4 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Gretchen
Daily

website

Valuing Nature in Decisions: From  
Demonstration to Transformation (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/2Ocos4r

Mar. 3 (US),
Mar. 4 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Mary
Power

website

Floods, drought, and alternate states
in algal-based river food webs (PDF)

Video: http://bit.ly/3tikkij

Mar. 10 (US),
Mar. 11 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

George
Somero

website

Molecular Adaptation to Environmental
Stress: Complementary Roles of Macro-
molecules and “Micromolecules" (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/392u9JA

Mar. 17 (US),
Mar. 18 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

John
Terborgh

website

Zoned vs. mixed plant communities:
how top-down and bottom-up forcing
structures plant communities around
the globe (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/31xQcna

Mar. 24, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Steve
Pacala

website

How to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse
Gas Emissions in the United States by
Midcentury (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2QRVc3M

Mar. 31, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Terry
Chapin

website

Earth Stewardship: A pragmatic
agenda for transformation (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3wWA0d3

Apr. 7 (US),
Apr. 8 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Mathew
Leibold

website

Rethinking metacommunity ecology
- linking pattern and process, is it
possible? (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3dIVyTe

Apr. 14, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Alan
Hastings

website

Transients and the dynamics of
ecological systems (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3o14mHE

Apr. 21 (US),
Apr. 22 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
7:00 pm CDT
8:00 pm EDT
12:00 am GMT
8:00 am Beijing

Drew
Harvell

website

Host-Pathogen Interactions and the
Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3fbe1rs

Apr. 28 (US),
Apr. 29 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Joan
Bennett

website

Fungal volatiles: more than just a
funky smell (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2RbKMg5

May 5, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Elizabeth
Borer

website

Chasing contingency to discover
generality: climate, nutrients, and
herbivores in Earth’s grasslands (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3fsaia3

May 12, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Steven
Lindow

website

Understanding microbial life on leaves
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/34qqthK

May 19 (US),
May 20 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Nancy
Knowlton

website

Earth Optimism: Changing the
Conservation Conversation and the
Earth's Trajectory (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3hh2Ez8

May 26, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Glen
Daigger

website

Travels Through the World of Water
(PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2UOlKoI

Jun 2, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Stephen
Palumbi

website

The adaptive capacity of marine species
in the face of climate change:
heat tolerance, phenotypic plasticity
and genome evolution in corals (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3A0RuXT

Jun 9 (US),
Jun 10 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Colin
Murrell

website

The role of bacteria in the biogeo-
chemical cycling of isoprene, a much
neglected atmospheric trace gas (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3xwJoEq

Jun 16, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Phil
Hugenholtz

website

Microbial taxonomy run amok? (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3haUWI3

Jun 23 (US),
Jun 24 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Mimi
Koehl

website

Locomoting in a turbulent environment:
Ways to study microscale processes
in a large-scale ocean (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2UBJcFw

Jun 30 (US),
Jul 1 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Willy
Verstraete

website

Engineering microbial cleantech for
environmental sustainability (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3hAReY7

Sep. 1, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Jonathan
Levine

website

Understanding species responses to
climate change: the role of population
and community ecology (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3EpwKe5

Sep. 8, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

John
Crittenden

website

Gigatechnology: Developing
Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
to Solve Gigaton Problems (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2Ya2xA0

Sep. 15, 2021
8:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Joan
Rose

website

The World of Environmental
Virology (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3D3MQZP

Sep. 22, 2021
8:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Douglas
Capone

website

Marine Mosaics: Emerging Patterns of
Nitrogen Fixation in the Oceans (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2WSqyL3

Sep. 29, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Curtis
Suttle

website

Visioning the Virosphere (PDF)Oct. 13 (US),
Oct. 14 (GMT,
Beijing), 2021
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Craig
Criddle

website

Geochemical cycles out of control: how
microbial biotechnology can help (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3m2yAe1

Oct. 20, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

James
Prosser

website

Niche specialization in microbial
communities: lessons learned
from ammonia oxidizers (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3bxOnLQ

Oct. 27, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Jonathan
Chase

website

Scale as a unifying tool for synthesis in
biodiversity studies (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3nZEyNG

Nov 3, 20218:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Anthony
R. Ives

website

Data, models, and prediction in the
environmental sciences (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3CY0ptn

Nov 10, 20218:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Dianne
Newman

website

Context matters: agathokakological
roles for redox-active "antibiotics"
from the soil to the clinic (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/31HcSo4

Nov 17 (US)
Nov 18 (GMT,
Beijing),2021
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Matthew
Sullivan

website

How studying ocean viruses may help
save the earth and cure disease (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/2ZRUJUg

Nov 24, 2021
8:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Donald E.
Canfield

website

The Oxygen in Oxygen Minimum
Zones (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3FD0nsT

Dec 1, 2021
8:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Bo Barker
Jørgense

Cryptic processes – a new concept in
marine sediment biogeochemistry (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3sJAKTF

Dec 8, 2021
8:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Michael
Wagner

website

Understanding nitrifying microbes,
the gatekeepers of the nitrogen cycle (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3pzrijW

Dec 15, 20218:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Charles
Haas

website

Environmental Pathogen Engineering (PDF)

Video: https://bit.ly/3J27Hzy

Jan 19 (US),
Jan 20 (GMT,
China), 2022
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China

Pedro Alvarez

website

Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment

Video: https://bit.ly/36oyOac

Feb 16, 20228:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Jed Alan Fuhrman

website

Ecological patterns of marine bacteria, archaea, protists and viruses over large temporal and spatial scales

Video: https://bit.ly/3w2fw4C

Mar 23 (US),
Mar 24 (GMT, China),
2022
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China

Brian Enquist

website

The future of biodiversity and the functioning of the biosphere in the AnthropoceneApr 20 (US),
Apr 21 (GMT, China),
2022
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China
 

Margaret Torn

website

Two Views of the Perturbed Carbon Cycle: Ecosystem feedbacks to warming and decarbonization pathways for the U.S.

Video: https://bit.ly/3wVB4R6

May 18 (US),
May 19 (GMT, China),
2022
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China
 

Per Halkjær Nielsen

website

Novel insights into the microbial ecology of global wastewater treatment systems

Video: https://bit.ly/3R44nYB

Sep. 7, 20228:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Diana Wall

website

Climate change hits below ground life in polar and hot deserts: role of soil biodiversity in ecosystem processes

Video: https://bit.ly/3RmsVvG

Sep. 28, 20228:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Jo Handelsman

website

A World Without Soil: Science and stewardship of our endangered natural resource

Video: https://bit.ly/3F4L2lX

Oct. 19, 20228:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Lenore Fahrig

website

The value of small spaces for biodiversity conservationNov. 9, 20228:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Lut Raskin

website

Researcher-Utility Partnerships for Improving Microbial Drinking Water Quality and Reduce the Risk of Opportunistic Infections

Video: https://bit.ly/3YT2u5e

Dec. 14, 20228:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Robert D. Holt

website

SARS-CoV-2 Meets the Hutchinsonian NicheFeb 8, 20238:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm Beijing

Jennifer Martiny

website

Investigating the ecology and evolution of wild microbial communities

Video: https://bit.ly/3ZWElex

Mar 1, US; Mar 2, GMT, China, 20237:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am Beijing

Susan Trumbore

website

Radiocarbon constraints for the terrestrial carbon cycle

Video: https://bit.ly/40JSaNP

Mar 22, 20238:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm Beijing

Ivette Perfecto

website

Intransitivity as a dynamic assembly engine of competitive communities: evidence from the ant community in coffee agroforestry systems in Puerto Rico

Video: https://bit.ly/TeCg6xG

Apr 12, 20238:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Zhiyun Ouyang

website

China biodiversity and conservation

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Video: https://bit.ly/44f4pEb

May 2, 20239:30 am CDT
10:30 am EDT
2:30 pm GMT
10:30 pm China

David Sedlak

website

Opportunities for Researchers to Help Solve the Coming Water Crises

Video: https://bit.ly/446FORS

May 10, US; May 11, GMT, China.8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China

Richard D Bardgett

website

Aboveground-belowground linkages, ecosystem processes, and global change

Video: https://bit.ly/46irMxf

Sep 6, 20238:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Jonathan B. Losos

website

Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution in Real Time: Research on Lizard Adaptation in the Bahamas

Video: https://bit.ly/48YGN9N

Sep 27, 20238:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Wim van der Putten

website

Aboveground-belowground interactions in a warming world: consequences for memories of the soil biodiversity

Video: https://bit.ly/46EzqCF

 

Oct 18, 20238:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Robert M. Pringle

website

Explaining and maintaining animal biodiversity

Video: https://bit.ly/4aHTJBw

Nov 15, 20238:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Alexandra Z. Worden

website

Activities and interactions between uncultivated microbes in the open oceanDec 13, 20238:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Joshua S. Weitz

website

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics and Therapeutic Impacts of Bacteriophage: a Not-So-Perfect Predator

Video: https://bit.ly/42oq1Of

Jan 24, 20248:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Scott Edwards

website

Using phylogenies to connect genomic and phenotypic variation under convergent evolutionFeb 28, 20248:00 am CST
9:00 am EST
2:00 pm GMT
10:00 pm China

Kirsten Küsel

website

Shaping and feeding the subsurface microbiome

Video: https://bit.ly/3vGd5r5

Mar 20, 20248:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Jianguo (Jack) Liu

website

Metacoupling: A New Interdisciplinary Frontier for Global SustainabilityApr 17, 20248:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Fengping Wang

website

Deep Biosphere and the dark carbon cycling

Video: https://bit.ly/3XQRLKF

May 2,  US, GMT;
May 3, China
11:00 am CDT
12:00 pm EDT
4:00 pm GMT;
12:00 am China

Mark E. Hay

website

Disruption of positive interactions and the demise of coral reefs: long ecological fuses in the Anthropocene

Video: https://bit.ly/3BdQjJG

May 8, 20248:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Mary E. Lidstrom

website

Methanotroph-based Methane Removal for Slowing Global Warming

Video: https://bit.ly/3MVkKXw

Sep 4, US; Sep 5, GMT, China8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China

Jeannine Cavender-Bares

website

Community assembly at continental scale: Integrating plant spectral, functional and phylogenetic data to understand ecological and evolutionary processes in a major adaptive radiation

Video: https://bit.ly/3XVmKEn

Sep 25, 20248:00 am CDT
9:00 am EDT
1:00 pm GMT
9:00 pm China

Ted Schuur

website

Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks from the Warming Arctic

Video: https://bit.ly/3YvU8Dj

Oct 16
US;
Oct 17
GMT,
China,
2024
8:00 pm CDT
9:00 pm EDT
1:00 am GMT
9:00 am China