Special Event

Yale Climate Day 2023

Yale Climate Day brings the Yale community together to discuss climate and global environmental change in the Earth system. This year, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) will be hosting an in-person event including Faculty research talks on oceans and climate… More Info / Schedule

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Webinar

Selective Logging as a Compromise for Sustainable Forest Management

Tropical forests are under threat from increasing pressure by income-generating land uses. Selective logging presents a potential compromise between strict protection and full extractive use. It does not, however, have easily predictable ecological impacts due to timber…

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Talk

Fleshing out the Past

John H. Ostrom Lecture Series
with Lawrence Witmer

The latest advances in high-tech imaging and 3D computer modeling, combined with old-school anatomy, allow us to “flesh out” dinosaurs in unprecedented ways and shed new light on their biology. Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) laid the groundwork for these advances by…

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Adult Program

Trees of Connecticut

Join Peabody Museum Education Coordinator Jim Sirch and Senior Botany Collections Manager Patrick Sweeney for this adult education program at Yale's West Campus.  Trees of Connecticut: Identification and Ecology introduces Connecticut's landscape history and ecology,…

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Talk

Cinderella’s Secrets

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture
with Jessica Thompson, Assistant Curator of Anthropology

Pioneering paleoarchaeologist J. Desmond Clark once described what is now the country of Malawi as the “Cinderella of central African prehistory”. Nearly 70 years later, teams led by Yale professor Jessica Thompson are proving it. In this year’s Edward P. Bass…

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Film Screening

Pleistocene Park

Co-presented by the Yale Peabody Museum & Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Join us for a different way to start your week! We'll watch Pleistocene Park, have a short discussion, then close with a fun happy hour. This is open to the public, but in-person only.  …

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Webinar

Opening the Third Eye

Senses are crucial for navigating the world, but not all animals perceive their environments in the same way. A few living reptiles, like some lizards and the tuatara of New Zealand, possess a special sensory structure on the top of their heads that acts like a third eye,…

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Adult Program

FrogWatch Training Workshops

Frogs and toads play a crucial role in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health. Many frog and toad populations have been in decline, and it is important to understand the scope, geographic scale, and cause of these declines. FrogWatch U.S.A… February 23 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 8 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 16 from 7:00—8:30 PM In-person at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo…

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  Hybrid (Virtual & In-person registration)

Adult Program

FrogWatch Training Workshops

Frogs and toads play a crucial role in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health. Many frog and toad populations have been in decline, and it is important to understand the scope, geographic scale, and cause of these declines. FrogWatch U.S.A… February 23 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 8 from 7:00—8:30 PM Virtual (Hosted by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk… March 16 from 7:00—8:30 PM In-person at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo…

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  Hybrid (Virtual & In-person registration)

Talk

The Making of Crafting Worldviews

Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800 is a multidisciplinary exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery that examines the inseparable relationship among art, science, and European colonialism from the 16th through the 18th century—an era of voyage,…

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