  {"id":900,"date":"2021-10-20T16:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/?page_id=900"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:04:28","slug":"earth-day-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/earth-day-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next Earth Day seminar will be on April 15, 2026. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilson-mantilla-lab.org\/\">Greg Wilson Mantilla<\/a> will be joining us from the University of Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3531 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Wilson Mantilla, wearing a plaid shirt, black bucket hat, and glasses, kneels beside a plaster-jacketed fossil at a red dirt excavation site. 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Bags of supplies and excavation tools are visible in the background.\" width=\"485\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2025\/07\/22150335\/Greg-wilson-mantilla-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find a table of previous Earth Day Seminars here:<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-11\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-11\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Speaker<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Institution<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Date<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Topic<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Media<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Greg Wilson Mantilla<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">University of Washington<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2026 04\/15<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Earth Reset: Mass Extinction and Biotic Recovery in Hell Creek, Montana<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eps.ucsc.edu\/faculty\/index.php?uid=plkoch\">Paul Koch<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">University of California, Santa Cruz<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2025 04\/16<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Evolutionary Changes through the Lens of Paleontology<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/renowned-expert-paul-koch-to-discuss-environmental-change-through-the-lens-of-paleontology-for-esi-earth-day-lecture\/\">Press Release<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.ucdavis.edu\/people\/sharon-strauss\">Sharon Strauss<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">University of California, Davis<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2024 04\/17<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Evolution and plasticity of the niche, with implications for species coexistence<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/evolutionary-studies-hosts-national-academy-member-sharon-strauss-for-earth-day\/\">Press Release<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geosci.uchicago.edu\/people\/graham-slater\/\">Graham Slater<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">University of Chicago<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2023 04\/19<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Predicting multivariate ecology of fossil taxa from morphological data<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/graham-slater-expert-in-mammalian-evolution-to-speak-at-earth-day-evolutionary-studies-seminar\/\">Press Release<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tobykiers.com\/\">Toby Kiers<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Vrije Universiteit<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2022 04\/20<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Underground economics: Quantifying trade in plant-fungal networks<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/295\/2022\/04\/20023503\/Kiers-Earth-Day-Spring-2021.pdf\">Press Release<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/member-directory\/members\/20035943.html\">Carlos Nobre<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">University of Sao Paulo<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2021 04\/21<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">The Amazon near a Tipping Point. 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