SUTS Speaker Laura Dugan featured on Commander Ben
Our March 2012 speaker Laura Dugan was recently interviewed by the Invasive Hunter, Commander Ben, who educates kids about invasive species!
Jacob Soule
Partners in Pollination
Jacob Soule, Graduate Student in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at the University of Texas at Austin, will explain the many strange relationships that pollination produces.
UT Austin Graduate Student Jacob Soule
Animal pollinators help over 80% of the world’s flowering plants reproduce. The relationship between plants and their animal pollinators has produced an amazing diversity of pollination mechanisms. From minute wasps that specialize in pollinating figs to orchids that mimic female bees to deceive male bees, pollination strategies are astounding in variety.
Emily Jane McTavish
Journey to a New World – The Global History of Texas Longhorn Cattle!
★ Texas’s iconic longhorn cattle are descended from herds arriving with Columbus in the 1490’s. Left to roam the unfenced southwest, they adapted to their new environment through natural selection.
★ Using genomic data, we will trace the longhorn’s remarkable history – both around the globe, and back to the time of cattle domestication 8,000 years ago!
Nikhil Advani
The Biological Impacts of Climate Change: Insights from Butterflies!
Climate change is predicted to accelerate over the course of this century. Breaking research on butterflies shows how species might respond.
Click here to download the poster from Nikhil’s SUTS Event!
Emily Royall
Biomimicry
Nature has produced forms most beautiful and, in turn, humans have managed to mimic these forms. In the emerging field of biomimetics, human engineers find inspiration within natural structures, such as the wings of a bird or the complex surface of a cell.
Click here to download the poster from Emily’s SUTS Event!
Science Under The Stars 