Pop-Up Global Symposia about Life & Ecology for You 2020 [PUGSLEY 2020]

Date & Time	PUGSLEY III: Speaker and Title	Link/Archive
January 26, 12pm NYC	Kelly Sierra Ramirez, University of Texas at El Paso: From microbes to humans, measuring diversity just isn't enough
February 23, 12pm NYC	Jasper Singsby, South African Environmental Observatory Network (SAEON): Fire and Global Change in Fynbos Link to Slides	Link

Date & Time	PUGSLEY II: Speaker and Title	Link/Archive
September 8, 2020: 12pm NYC	Jody Daniel-Simon, University of Waterloo - Precipitation timing influences wetland biological communities Madelon Case, University of Oregon - Belowground niche separation of savanna trees and grasses across soil textures	Video Archive
September 15, 2020: 12pm NYC	Liz Agee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Beyond rooting depth: how lateral root interactions influence water uptake patterns Fons van der Plas, University of Leipzig - Biodiversity and ecosystem function in real world and model systems	Video Archive
September 22, 2020: 12pm NYC	Gerard Sapes, University of Minnesota - From "Why do trees die?" to "Where do trees die?": Connecting Fundamental Biology with Remote Sensing,	Video Archive
September 29, 2020: 12pm NYC	Science Communication Peter Reich - Minute Earth Videos and Underlying Science Charlotte de Keyzer - Protecting Pollinators Andrew Reeves - A journalistic perspective?
October 6, 2020: 12pm NYC	Silvia Caldararu, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry - Plant nitrogen use under elevated CO2: integrating models with manipulative experiments & long-term datasets	Video Archive
October 13, 2020: 12pm NYC	Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College - Beyond Bulk: Climate, parent material, and vegetation drive global patterns of soil carbon partitioning and persistence	Video Archive
October 20, 2020: 12pm NYC	Ben Lee, University of Michigan - Spring phenological escape can help temperate tree seedlings compensate for negative effects of climate change	Video Archive
October 27, 2020: 12pm NYC	Monique Weemstra, University of Michigan - Stuck between a rock and a hard place: intraspecific root trait variation along an elevation gradient	Video Archive
November 10, 2020: 12pm NYC	Jingjing Liang, Purdue University - Harnessing big data in addressing fundamental ecological questions	Video Archive
November 17, 2020: 12pm NYC	Adrienne Keller, University of Minnesota - What have we learned about ecosystem processes after 10 years of fertilization with the Nutrient Network?	Video Archive

Date & Time	PUGSLEY I: Speaker and Title	Link/Archive
April 9 : 1pm NYC	Colin Averill, ETH Zurich - Forests and their Fungi Alternative Stable States of the Forest Mycobiome	Video Archive
April 15: 1pm NYC	Jon Henn, UW-Madison - Winter climate change and prescribed fire affect long- and short-term temperate grassland plant dynamics Laura Ladwig, UW-Madison - Plant cold tolerance: Variation and trait associations in temperate grasslands	Video Archive
April 23: 1pm NYC	Adam Pellegrini, Cambridge University - Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits across ecosystems Bruce Hungate, Northern Arizona University - Schubert Piano Sonatas (& the Beatles?)	Video Archive
April 29: 1pm NYC	Jennifer Powers, UMN - Hydraulic traits predict tree mortality in a tropical dry forest Rob Jackson, Stanford (and mystery guests) - Poetry Crawl	Video Archive
May 7, 2020: 1pm NYC	Colleen Iversen, ORNL -The hidden world beneath our feet: From squishy bogs to frozen tundra (and everywhere in-between) Check out Colleen's EOS paper on Building a Culture of Safety and Trust in Team Science Michala Philips, USGS - Keystone dryland communities follow novel trajectories following chronic climate and physical disturbance	Video Archive
May 13, 2020: 1pm NYC	Peter Pellitier, U Michigan - Ectomycorrhizal access to organic N enhances plant growth response to rising [CO₂] You - Elevator Speech Workshop	Video Archive
May 21, 2020: 1pm NYC	Anna Trugman, UC Santa Barbara - Trait velocities: A story of community hydraulic trait composition, forest demographic rates, and climate Victor Leshyk, N. Arizona University - ACCURATE PASSION: Fine Art in the Service of Science	Video Archive
May 27, 2020: 1pm NYC	Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, UC Merced - Digging deeper: persistence and climate sensitivity of deep soil organic matter Sasha Reed, USGS - Hurricanes and heat: Results from a Puerto Rico tropical forest warming experiment	Video Archive
June 18, 2020: 1pm NYC	Kristen DeAngelis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Drivers and mechanisms of long-term soil adaptation to warming Alastair Potts, Nelson Mandela University - Tracking subtropical thickets through space and time: the oldest plant communities in Africa? Poetry (TBD)	Video Archive
June 25, 2020: 11:30am NYC	Cristina Portales Reyes, University of Minnesota - Fire promotes the recovery of biodiversity following nutrient enrichment Winslow Hansen, Columbia University - Global hotspots of forest tolerance and sensitivity to climate variability	Video Archive
July 2, 2020: 1pm NYC	Beatriz Aguirre, Cal State Los Angeles - Experimental manipulation of atmospheric drought: Teasing out the role of microclimate in biodiversity experiments Alejandro Salazar, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt - Awakening a dormant "giant": warming induced activation of dormant microbes and consequences for soil carbon emissions	Video Archive