Events

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The Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture Series is a platform for prominent scientists and scholars to share their ideas about global challenges and opportunities with MSU students, faculty, staff and the general public.

The ninth annual symposium will be held on February 21st, 2014, at the Kellogg Center. Registration begins at 8:00 am, and student presentations will commence at 8:30 am. The program will continue throughout the day with an afternoon poster session before the last presentation session. The event will culminate with a keynote address from Dr. Walter Jetz. An evening social (food and beverages provided) will conclude the symposium. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the symposium is FREE to all registered participants. Please register for the event!

Animal Studies Friday Seminar

Communicating science sounds both righteous and overwhelming. Hard to fit in to a busy academic and research life, a properly shaped public image often seems like a great idea to do... tomorrow. Until a pressing opportunity or need rears its head. Sue Nichols, assistant director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has 20 years of experience communicating science, mostly without big, scary words, to targeted audiences.

C. Titus Brown and Dirk Colby will be presenting and leading the discussion. Dr. Brown will show some examples of cloud computing workflows and how he uses them for genomics analyses. Discussion of further topics of interest could include:
• What are cloud computing resources?
• How are cloud resources typically used?
• Cost and pricing
• Performance and availability
• Commercial resources (Amazon EC2, Azure, Rackspace)
• Non-commercial resources (iPlant/Atmosphere, XSEDE, the MSU HPCC)
• Experiences and best practices of MSU researchers currently using cloud computing

Sustainable Pathways: Learning From the Past and Shaping the Future

The effects of climate change on fish habitat will be scale-and system-dependent. Our work demonstrates how climate change affects fish habitat nationwide, and stream flow, water temperature, and coldwater lakes in the Upper Midwest. Projected changes in fish habitat varied across ecoregions nationally. The future regional climate will likely alter hydrologic and thermal regimes suitable to the fish species in that region. We were able to integrate these regional differences by using a consistent assessment framework to show habitat changes across regions for the conterminous U.S.