News and Events

Goodwin-Niering Center Biannual Conference

Every two years the Goodwin-Niering Center sponsors a highly interdisciplinary conference focused on a particular environmental issue. The most recent focused on the themes "Biological Diversity," "Acid and the Environment" and "Our Changing Coastline."  "Water Scarcity and Conflict" will be the topic for 2009.

ICS Symposium held at Connecticut College

The College recently hosted the Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium during the week of June 23, 2008.  Over 60 scientists from 15 countries participated in the five-day conference. A Proceedings volume will be published in the near future.

Siver Research Group Findings

Botany professor Siver's research team recently reported on finding the remains of tropical organisms in an ancient Eocene freshwater lake situated above the Arctic Circle. The findings provide compelling evidence of fundamental biogeographic shifts among freshwater algae during what is referred to as the Cenozoic hothouse. The research group also began a project with James Rohlf of SUNY-Stony Brook using geometric morphometrics as a tool to investigate evolutionary stasis among protists. Visit the Silica Secchi Disk Web site.

Last Modified: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:38