[Plantsci] FW: [drift] 10/18/19 Drift

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Department Seminars
Monday Seminar: October 7, 3:00pm S107 of ENR2-
Dr. Greta Binford, Professor and Chair of Biology at  Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Abstract: Her talk is entitled "How the brown recluse got its bite: evolution of venom toxins across a novel toxin recruitment"

From her lab web page: The chemical richness and diversity of spider venoms make them interesting subjects for understanding how evolution generates novelty. Our National Science Foundation funded research uses integrative, evolutionary approaches to better understand patterns of diversity in spider venoms. Students participate in evolutionary analyses of spider venoms at all levels of the process. This includes collecting a range of spiders in the field, doing protein analyses of the venoms, and using molecular approaches to study the genes that code for the venom proteins. We also are studying the evolutionary history of the spiders themselves to create a framework we can use to analyze venom evolution. Students also analyze the effects of venoms on insect prey and observe spider foraging behavior.
About the Speaker: Dr. Binford received her Ph.D. here in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where she was advised by Wayne Maddison.  She looks forward to meeting graduate students at lunch on Monday.

If anyone wants a meeting with Dr. Binford on Monday, the schedule link is below:

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Tuesday Seminar: October 22, 2019 is in - ENR2 S225
(1) Natasha Tigreros (Postdoc in Davidowitz Lab): Consequences of habitat fragmentation on the dispersal ability of a terrestrial beetle
(2)Emily Schultz (Postdoc in Evans Lab): A demographic perspective on the ecological niche and the geographic distribution: an analysis of climate and competition as factors limiting the distribution of Pinus spp.

Department News
Announcements:

Alice Boyle- "I am off campus on sabbatical leave for a year starting July 2019. I will be spending parts of this time at field sites without internet and email access. Please forgive any longer-than-usual delays in responding to your email. Thank you!"

Awards & Congratulations:

The Month of October:
Congratulations to Larry Venable whose saguaro research is getting considerable coverage:

Check it out!

Newspaper (Arizona Daily Star, Satuday)
https://tucson.com/news/local/despite-climate-change-landscape-may-protect-local-saguaros-ua-study/article_d3b703d4-1f62-5019-aa93-efa87913b345.html<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=45b9eaa502&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

TV (KGUN9)
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/scientists-on-tumamoc-hill-found-that-the-varying-landscapes-on-the-hill-could-protect-saguaros<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=db0ad0a12a&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

Radio (KJZZ Public Radio In Phoenix)
https://kjzz.org/content/1169886/topography-can-soften-climate-impacts-saguaros<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=6f4a221a2b&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

Congratulating to Professor Deborah Goldberg who is now an Adjunct Professor in EEB!

Deborah recently retired from EEB at the University of Michigan, where she served as a very popular Head for many years, and has moved to Tucson full time.  She is a graduate of our own EEB department.

The Month of September:
Congratulations to Katrina Dlugosch who has just been announced as the winner of the 2019 College of Science Early Career Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes the dedication with which she has served students through teaching in EEB.

Congratulations to Brian Enquist and EEB Grad Greg Barron-Gafford, now Associate Prof in Geography, as their work was featured in the UANow!

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/agrivoltaics-proves-mutually-beneficial-across-food-water-energy-nexus?utm_source=uanow&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=cd6fc57eaa&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

Further Congratulations to Brian Enquist for being awarded a National Geographic Explorer Grant! This Grant will use new computer imaging technology and laser scanning combined with long-term forest monitoring data to assess the future of tropical forests under climate change.  This award will help support developing new field methods employed by two PhD EEB graduate students, Adam Chmurzynski and Matiss Salaks.

Congratulations to John Wiens, Cristian Roman-Palacios, Josh Scholl, Brendan Larsen, Liz Miller, and Matt Rhodes for a trio pf papers getting recent news coverage:

Story in Science online on Cristian's paper in Evolution Letters on diet evolution:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/world-s-first-animal-was-probably-carnivore<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=95cae292d2&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

(also on phys.org<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=a4f20ea543&e=b6fd4c8d9e> and ScienceDaily)

Story featuring Larsen et al. (2017; Quarterly Review of Biology) this week in Mashable.

https://mashable.com/article/how-many-species-live-on-earth/<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=fcbbe3b424&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

And finally a story from last week featuring Wiens et al. (2019; Journal of Biogeography) on the Wildlife Society website:

https://wildlife.org/introduced-species-adapt-rapidly-to-new-climate-niches/<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=1f741b01d7&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

ENVS Colloquium: Panel Discussion on Translational Ecology

Co-hosted by the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC)
https://www.swcasc.arizona.edu/events/16932-panel-discussion-translational-ecology<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=159e4bc2ca&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

October 21st, 3-4pm
Marley 230 Lecture Hall

Join us for a panel discussion on Translational Ecology, co-hosted by UA Environmental Science and SW CASC. Translational Ecology is an approach in which ecologists, stakeholders, and decision-makers work together to develop research that addresses the sociological, ecological, and political contexts of an environmental problem (find more information on Translational Ecology here<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=7e86d73860&e=b6fd4c8d9e>). Panelists include: Carolyn Enquist and Steve Jackson (SW CASC USGS Deputy Director and Director, respectively), Elise Gornish and Don Falk (UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment). The panel will be moderated by Monica Ramirez-Andreotta (UA Environmental Science).

R Labs in October-New!

All sessions will be 9-11 am on Tuesday in Room 200S of the Weaver Science-Engineering Library<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=a6a32b3b7f&e=b6fd4c8d9e>. To get the most out of these workshops, participants should bring a laptop with R and RStudio installed<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=b10e24e012&e=b6fd4c8d9e>.

  *   October 01: Open R lab: Bring your R questions or just come in to write some code and enjoy coffee and pastries.
  *   October 08: Data science: more fun, less pain with tidyverse.: R is a powerful language for managing, analyzing, and visualizing complex data. However, some of the commands in R are esoteric or just plain confusing. The tidyverse (https://www.tidyverse.org/<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=5cfef5eaa3&e=b6fd4c8d9e>) package for R includes several helpful functions that make it easier to manipulate, summarize, and visualize your data. In this lesson we’ll use these functions to create plots from summary statistics.
  *   October 15: Open R lab.
  *   October 22: Intermediate data wrangling with tidyverse: This two-hour workshop will take a deeper dive into the tidyverse. We’ll be using real-world data to learn key tools for managing and cleaning datasets. We’ll cover selecting and filtering your data (and tidyverse tricks to make this really powerful) grouping, summarizing, joins and piping your cleaned or summarized data directly into ggplot2 for creating beautiful figures. We’ll cover a lot of material in two hours, so come prepared with R and RStudio installed, as well as the tidyverse installed (e.g. install.packages(’tidyverse’) - this can take a while!). This workshop is for intermediate R users that are familiar with the fundamentals of the tidyverse (ggplot syntax, the pipe (%>%), etc.) and want to take their data wrangling to the next level.
  *   October 29: Open R lab.
Additional resources:

  *   A tentative schedule of upcoming workshops is also available at: https://jcoliver.github.io/learn-r/schedule<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=d4892a5caf&e=b6fd4c8d9e>
  *   Want more help? Sign up for the UA Data Science Slack workspace at: https://jcoliver.github.io/uadatascience-slack/<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=056179b474&e=b6fd4c8d9e>
  *   Stay up to date with R workshops by signing up for the University of Arizona R Users mailing list at: https://list.arizona.edu/sympa/subscribe/ruaz<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=aaf8bbe0a6&e=b6fd4c8d9e>
  *   Find even more data science resources by signing up for the Data Science Events list at: https://list.arizona.edu/sympa/info/data7-events<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=0716900c58&e=b6fd4c8d9e>

Hey everyone!
Its that time of year again! Every year the UA Fish and Wildlife Society hosts a wildlife photo contest. There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in all 6 categories, so you have a great chance to win! The submissions DO NOT have to be in Arizona, or even in the US, and you DO NOT have to be a UA student to submit photos! For more information please email uafwsphotocontest at gmail.com<mailto:uaphotocontest at gmail.com>.
The deadline for photo submittals is Nov 15th!!
We can't wait to see your photos!!

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Announcement Request for Proposals Fall 2019
The Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice (Haury Program) invites your community and university partnerships to share your ideas to create a just and sustainable society. We know that many University of Arizona and Community Partnerships are thinking about how to move the needle in building a stronger, more sustainable social fabric. We ask you to imagine what a socially just and sustainable Southwest will look like in 25 years and tell us your plans for projects that will work to make ideas reality.

Seed Grants
Seed grants are one-time or well-defined prototype or model projects for completion within 2 years, resulting in data, on-the-ground actions, and recommendations to support the longer-term efforts for systemic change.
Award Amounts
Up to $100,000 per year for up to 2 years
Schedule
Proposal due                        October 31, 2019 Award notification              December 20, 2019 Funding start date                                        January 2, 2020
Criteria
Does the project innovate in moving forward in environment and social justice?
How will the authentic partnership team work?
Will the project contribute to a just and sustainable society?

NEW! Partnership Grants
Explore new partnership opportunities or hone existing partnerships for new endeavors. Build capacity in authentic partnering.
Award Amount   $25,000 for up to 5 grants Schedule                See Seed Grant Schedule Criteria
What social justice/environmental work is this partnership intended to address?
What is your goal in funding this work? Who are the members of the partnership?

Challenge Grants
A challenge grant assembles a team to confront major challenges, often termed “wicked problems,” at the nexus of environment and social justice to move the needle to create systemic and transformational changes.
Award Amounts
Up to $200,000 per year for up to 3 years
Schedule
Letter of Intent due             October 31, 2019 Finalist notification December 20, 2019 Study fund start                                                January 2, 2019
Proposal due                        March 31, 2020
Presentation                         Week of April 10, 2020 Award notification         April 15, 2020
Event showcase                    Week of April 26, 2020
Funding start date               July 1, 2020
Criteria
How will this partnership make a significant contribution to moving the needle on a wicked problem in environment and social justice?

Social Justice and Environment
Our program funds work that improves social justice (justice regarding the distribution of financial, social, political and human capital, opportunities, and privileges within a society) while simultaneously addressing environmental sustainability (such as climate change, pollution, natural resource degradation, and loss of biodiversity).
How will the authentic partnership team approach and manage this project and ensure the sustainability of its outcomes?

To learn more and to complete an application, visit haury.arizona.edu. All applicants are encouraged to attend the two informational meetings on September 19, 2019 and October 11, 2019.

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