Day: First five Fridays
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location: LSB 4307
Field Trips: January 30 and February 6, 2009
Time:
1:00-4:00pm
Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve & UCSB Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration
Transportation will be provided.
Enrollment Code: 26443
Description:
How do plants respond to climate change? And how can we detect and measure the
effects of climate change by observing local plant species? This seminar will introduce
students to the study of “phenology”: the timing of seasonal, biological events (such as
flowering in the spring) and their sensitivity to environmental change. This seminar will
cover a few of the methods used to detect the effects of climate change on local and
regional plant species and communities, and students will be trained to conduct their own research using the plant collections of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological
Restoration. Students will also learn about on-line data sets and “citizen science” programs, participate in the emerging National Phenology Network, contributing their
own observations to a nationwide effort to track the effects of climate change on plants
throughout the U.S.
Professor Susan Mazer, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, her research examines The process contributing to the evolution of reproductive and life history traits in wild plant species. She works in both the temperate zone and in the tropics. In California, her research focuses on the ecological causes and consequences of mating system and life history evolution in a group of California wildflowers (in the genus Clarkia). Currently, she is teaching the Botanical Diversity section of the Introductory Biology Series (EEMB 3C); an upper division course in General Botany (EEMB 127); and a laboratory in General Botany (EEMB 127L). In addition, there are usually 6-10 undergraduates working in her lab per quarter who earn units as EEMB 199 or EEMB 99 students. She also teaches an undergraduate seminar in Plant Reproductive Ecology & Evolution (EEMB 194M).
Email: mazer@lifesci.ucsb.edu
