<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_15ab0923afdbad91" alt="Inline image 3" width="320" height="85"><br><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please support our
community in Earth and environmental sciences by attending our weekly
events. This week's speaker in our Enviro-lunch brown bag seminar series
will be:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">Dr. Marie-Claire Chelini</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">Disentangling proximate and evolutionary mechanisms </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">of sexual size dimorphism<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sexual size dimorphism
is one of the most ubiquitous forms of dimorphism found in nature and has
profound implications for the ecology of the species in which it is found. Using
an innovative integrative approach, my research focuses on understanding how
and why do extreme phenotypic differences evolve between </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">females and males, and what is the role played
by environmental factors, such as temperature, in the expression of such
dimorphism. I will discuss how we can combine methods and approaches from
multiple areas of ecology and evolution to disentangle proximate and
evolutionary drivers of sexual dimorphism, presenting results from my research
on crab spiders, as well as my current projects on the size-blotched lizard.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">When: Thursday (March 9th, from 12-1:30PM)</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Organizers for 2016-17: Rebecca Abney and Fernanda Santos</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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