Honoring Dr. Robert W. Lougee.
Robert W. Lougee’s career at UConn spanned nearly 35 years and his children are continuing his legacy by giving back to the UConn Library.
Public Domain Day 2021
New Year’s Day was Public Domain Day! Copyright expired for works published in the US in 1925 with name-droppers like Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the list. That means all the works are free for anyone to use, reuse, and build upon without paying a fee.
New Collection - Aetna Insurance Company
The Aetna Insurance Company, founded in Hartford, CT in 1853, was originally a life insurance company, later expanding lines of coverage. In November 2018 the company was purchased by CVS Health and they donated its historical records including publications, reports and other paper records to Archives & Special Collections. The company’s photographic and audiovisual records are held by the Connecticut State Library, and in the future will all be available in the Connecticut Digital Archive.
Book Traces: Exploring the Past through Marginalia in Library Books
Book Traces is a national project led by the University of Virginia to discover and document handwritten inscriptions, marginalia, and other readerly markings in old library books. Learn more about what we found here at UConn.
Upcoming Events
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2/11
Teale Lecture: New Perspectives On The Effects Of Multiple Landscape Transformations
Teale Lecture: New Perspectives On The Effects Of Multiple Landscape Transformations
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Other UConn WebEx Event
Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment
Thursday, February 11 at 4:00pm EST.
David Lindenmayer, Australian National University
A Multi-decadal Landscape Experiment Leads To New Perspectives On The Effects of Multiple Landscape Transformations
Event Live Stream:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=me6ff52dd6dc27bcf7d70e6ae2c537589
Renowned Landscape Ecologist and Conservation Biologist David Lindenmayer will present and discuss his research and new insights on the environmental impacts of multiple landscape transformations.
David Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. One of the world's most cited forest ecologists, he has written nearly one thousand scientific articles, with the majority appearing in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Lindenmayer has authored 38 books on forest ecology and management, forest and woodland biodiversity, conservation in agricultural landscapes, the ecology and management of fire, conservation science and natural resource management. He currently runs seven ongoing large-scale research programs in Southeastern Australia focused on developing ways to conserve biodiversity in national parks, reserves, production forests, plantations and farmland, even as unprecedented devastating bushfire destruction has transformed the Australian landscape.
Looking closer at impacts of repeated landscape changes on biodiversity and the ecosystem, Lindenmayer has gained fascinating perspectives from his long-term studies in Southeastern Australia. Learn more about the unexpected responses of biodiversity to landscape change and how multiple landscape transformations can alter key ecological processes and potentially trigger ecosystem collapse.
Among many honors, Lindenmayer is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences, and has been awarded the Australian Natural History Medal, and the Serventy Medal for Ornithology. He received a prestigious 5-year Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in 2013 and an Order of Australia in 2014. He is also a two-time winner of the Eureka Prize and six-time winner of Whitley Award.
Introducing and moderating the program discussion online will be University of Connecticut hosts Gene Likens and Michael Willig. Gene E. Likens is Special Advisor to the President on Environmental Affairs and a Distinguished Research Professor at UConn, and the Founding Director and President Emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Distinguished Professor Michael Willig is the Executive Director of the Institute of the Environment and Director of the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering at UConn.
This WebEx event is open to the public and viewers may submit question via chat during the program.
Teale 2020-2021 Schedule and Sponsors: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
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