The
Annual Sigma Xi Initiation and Dinner for 2006
featuring
Dr. Gordon Orians - "Industrial
Activities on Alaska's North Slope"
The
Sigma
Xi annual public lecture will be Tuesday, April 4,
2006. The guest speaker will be Dr. Gordon Orians of the
Department of Zoology at the University of Washington.
He will give a talk titled "Industrial Activities
on Alaska's North Slope". The talk will start at 4
pm in 201 Dodge Hall (
campus
map).
The Annual Sigma Xi Initiation and Dinner will be held
in the evening on Tuesday, April 4, in the Christopher
Wren Dinning Room of Meadow
Brook Hall (directions
and maps). The Banquet will
begin at 7:00 pm. You can arrive between 6:00 and 7:00
and gather in the Great Hall (tours of Meadow Brook Hall
will be available). The cost of the banquet is $20/person
($10/person for Oakland students, Free for new members
being inducted into Sigma Xi). If you plan to attend, send
a check for the proper amount, made out to Sigma Xi, to
Brad
Roth, Dept. Physics. Please date the check April 4,
2006. If you desire a vegetarian meal, or have any other
special needs, please include a note about it with your
check. I must have your check by Wednesday, March 22.
Nominations for new members of Sigma Xi will be accepted
at any time. However, we will not be able to get a new
member's certificate in time for the banquet unless the
membership application is submitted several weeks before
April 4. If you want to nominate a new member, I suggest
you do so as soon as possible. New members will be inducted
at the Dinner, and can attend for free. For questions about
membership, see http://www.oakland.edu/org/sigmaxi/sxmembership.htm.
More information will be posted when available. For questions,
contact Brad
Roth (roth@oakland.edu; 248 370-4871).
Online articles by Dr Orians*:
- Orians, Gordon and Soulé, Michael (2001).
Whither Conservation Biology Research?
Conservation
Biology 15.4: 1187
- Orians, Gordon (1996). Economic
Growth, the Environment, and Ethics. Ecological
Applications, 6.1:26-27
- Orians, Gordon (1995). Thought
for the morrow: cumulative threats to the environment.
Environment 37: 6-14+
- Les D. Beletsky; Gordon H. Orians (1991). Effects
of Breeding Experience and Familiarity on Site Fidelity
in Female Red-Winged Blackbirds. Ecology 72.3: 787-796
- Skagen S, Knight R, and Orians G (1991). Human
Disturbance Of An Avian Scavenging Guild. Ecological
Applications 1.2: 215-225.
- Beletsky, Les and Orians, Gordon (1989). Familiar
neighbors enhance breeding success in birds. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
of America 86.20: 7933-6
Online Articles about Industrial Activity
in Alaska*:
- Drew, Lisa W(2005). Wilderness
lost. New Scientist 186: 44-7
- Gibbs, W. Wayt (2001). The
Arctic oil and wildlife refuge. Scientific American 284.5 : 62-9
- McGrath, Susan (2001). The
last great wilderness.
Audubon 103.5: 52-64
Articles by Dr Orians available in print at the Kresge
Library:
- Beletsky L, Orians G, and Wingfield J (1992). Year-To-Year
Patterns of Circulating Levels of Testosterone and Corticosterone
in Relation to Breeding Density, Experience, and Reproductive
Success of The Polygynous Red-Winged Blackbird. Hormones
and Behavior 26.3: 420-432
- Orians, Gordon and Wittenberger, James (1991). Spatial
and temporal scales in habitat selection. The
American Naturalist 137 supp: p. S29-49.
Books by Dr. Orians available at the Kresge Library:
- Purves, William, Orians, Gordon , and Heller, Craig
(1995). Life, the Science of Biology.
Related Web Sites:
- Oakland
University College of Arts and Science Environmental
Explorations