Coupling Biodiversity Dynamics and Human Impacts in the Islands of Polynesia

This interdisciplinary faculty colloquium will, for the first time, bring together strong, but currently disparate, programs in three different Berkeley departments. Together, the faculty members will bring a new international focus to campus, using the natural laboratories provided by oceanic islands to examine how biodiversity has been modified by the colonization of humans and associated commensal species.

Professor: Rosemary Gillespie

For Fall 2011, the Coupling Biodiversity Colloquium is conducting a workshop titled "Reconstructing the Past to Better Understand the Present and Plan for the Future," from November 29-December 1 at the UC Berkeley Richard B. Gump South Pacific Biological Research Station on the island of Mo'orea.