Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Join SERC researchers to help measure trees as part of a forest mapping project.

Full and half-day sessions available.

Contact Alison Cawood (cawooda@si.edu, 443-482-2271) for more information.

SERC's Fish and Invertebrate Ecology Lab will host a screening the 2016 documentary Beautiful Swimmers Revisited by Tom Horton, Dave Harp and Sandy Cannon-Brown in the Schmidt Conference Center.

SERC postdoc Charles Bangley will highlight his research on migratory sharks in North Carolina. SERC science seminars are targeted towards a scientific audience, so are more technical than our evening lecture series.

What's the best way to measure forest diversity? Ecologist Nate Swenson will show how scientists use genetic information known as transcriptomes to pin down functional diversity, often a more useful measure than species diversity.