This post is by Eric.
On Friday, Elizabeth Wolkovich from the University of British Columbia is stopping by to talk to us about her work. You can register here.
Abstract
Climate change is having large impacts on natural and agricultural systems around the globe. Mitigating the worst consequences requires models that mechanistically predict changes. Towards that goal, the Temporal Ecology Lab works on models to better predict the most reported biological impact – shifts in phenology, the timing of recurring life history events such as leafout, and flowering. Here I review three major areas of research where Bayesian inference has been critical to my lab’s insights and advances: declining plant sensitivity to warming temperatures over time and space, mismatches between critical species interactions (for example, plants and pollinators), and shifting winegrowing regions with warming.
About the speaker
Elizabeth Wolkovich is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia where she runs the Temporal Ecology Lab. Her research focuses on understanding how climate change shapes plants and plant communities, with a focus on shifts in the timing of seasonal development. She is particularly interested in how climate change will affect different winegrape varieties, and how shifting varieties may help growers adapt to warming.
That’s Lizzie, who occasionally posts here!
One correction: The link directs to an event on 11/18 about ‘The current state and evolution of Stan’
Thanks, Marcos! The link had been fixed: https://hopin.com/events/predicting-future-forest-tree-communities-and-winegrowing-regions-with-stan
The link takes me to an event that took place in November. Anywhere else I can register?
Sorry about that, fixed the link: https://hopin.com/events/predicting-future-forest-tree-communities-and-winegrowing-regions-with-stan
There is a search text box on the page. Enter “Wolkovich” and it will take you to the right place to register.
The only search I find is under that symbol that has the date of the November seminar. And when I entered the name it returned nothing. Could you give a little more info, or give the link you are sent to (not that it matters, the usual seminar time appears to be 9:00am which is too early for my time zone).
Thanks.
Oh my that is a bad typo – phenology not phrenology. But to my mind there are a lot of papers that are likely analyzing these questions incorrectly.
Antipodean here – will this be recorded? Sounds interesting.
We will most likely post the video on the YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0K1IxV2ysZB4u8UVT6WeA/videos) unless the speaker opts out.
Tell her that there is at least one other person who hopes she allows her talk to be videoed. That is just too early for me to drag myself out of bed, and even if I did I would be in even more of a fog than usual and have no idea what she is saying. But how to model phrenology is important in a lot of fields.
+1. This topic is potentially quite useful to many
I think the initial login step is not necessary, just go to Find Events.