Amine Kousba

Tuesday, May 12th

In-Person Meeting
Virtual Zoom Option
7:30 PM EST

Amine Kousba
Post Baccalaureate Researcher at the Rowland Institute

How do insects respond to artificial light at night?

Increasing levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) and urbanization are becoming prevalent drivers of global insect declines. A key cause of this is that insects fly towards artificial lights (a behavior known as flight-to-light), leading to exhaustion, decreased foraging and reproduction, and increased vulnerability to predation. Shedding light on the environmental determinants of the timing of insect flight-to-light behavior carries implications for the conservation of at-risk species in increasingly illuminated urban, suburban, and rural habitats alike.

Yuko Oda

Tuesday, April 14th

In-Person Meeting
Virtual Zoom Option
7:30 PM EST

Yuko Oda

Decaying into Bloom: Imagining a Post-human Nature

In this artist talk, Yuko Oda will share her multidisciplinary practice which imagines speculative ecosystems flourishing beyond the human era.  With works on paper and sculptures, Oda invents moments where plants and animals mutate or hybridize to survive. A fungus might cause a beetle to sprout a peony from its horns, or grass might grow on ladybugs to migrate to better lands. Oda will discuss the inspirations, processes, and ideas that shape this work. 

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