Webinar

Birds Go to Prom

Most birds have some growing up to do before they start to breed. Despite reaching full size within weeks or months of hatching, some species will not raise offspring for years, or even decades. Yale Ph.D. candidate Liam Taylor explores the strange things that some birds…

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Film Screening

Life on Our Planet

Be the first to screen the never-before-seen footage of the upcoming Netflix title, Life on Our Planet! Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.   ** Concessions… …

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Adult Program

Discovering Moths

Connecticut’s more than 2,400 species of moths perform important ecological roles as pollinators and much more. Join local naturalist John Himmelman, author and illustrator of over 80 books for children and adults, for this presentation featuring moths, their lifecycle,…

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Workshop

Plant It & They Will Come

Whether you have a few containers on the patio or a one-acre backyard, you can create a refuge for pollinators. Join Jim Sirch, Education Coordinator, to discover essential tips for attracting birds, bees, and butterflies to your space. Learn how to transform any outdoor…

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Workshop

Plant It & They Will Come

Whether you have a few containers on the patio or a one-acre backyard, you can create a refuge for pollinators. Join Jim Sirch, Education Coordinator, to discover essential tips for attracting birds, bees, and butterflies to your space. Learn how to transform any outdoor…

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Webinar

Mondays at Beinecke: Crafting Worldviews

A presentation about “Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800,” an exhibition on view now at the Yale University Art Gallery, organized by Jessie Park, the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Paola… Exhibition Info… Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.

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Webinar

Selective Logging as a Compromise for Sustainable Forest Management

Tropical forests are under threat from increasing pressure by income-generating land uses. Selective logging presents a potential compromise between strict protection and full extractive use. It does not, however, have easily predictable ecological impacts due to timber…

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Special Event

Yale Climate Day 2023

Yale Climate Day brings the Yale community together to discuss climate and global environmental change in the Earth system. This year, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) will be hosting an in-person event including Faculty research talks on oceans and climate… More Info / Schedule

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Talk

Fleshing out the Past

Annual John H. Ostrom Lecture
with Lawrence Witmer

The latest advances in high-tech imaging and 3D computer modeling, combined with old-school anatomy, allow us to “flesh out” dinosaurs in unprecedented ways and shed new light on their biology. Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) laid the groundwork for these advances by…

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Adult Program

Trees of Connecticut

Join Peabody Museum Education Coordinator Jim Sirch and Senior Botany Collections Manager Patrick Sweeney for this adult education program at Yale's West Campus.  Trees of Connecticut: Identification and Ecology introduces Connecticut's landscape history and ecology,…

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