Smithsonian Environmental Research 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.

Dive into the ecology of cities like Baltimore with urban ecologist Steward Pickett at the finale of SERC's 2016 evening lecture series. Dessert reception in the Mathias Lab at 7; lecture at 8. (Photo: Christopher G. Boone/BES-LTER)

Speaker: Susan Cook-Patton (The Nature Conservancy, fomer SERC postdoctoral fellow)