Lunch with a Scientist is an ongoing monthly lecture series at Cedar Creek. Each month, scientists present a general-audience lecture about their work at or related to Cedar Creek and take questions from the audience.
The series has been running since January 2019 as an in-person program. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was shifted online in April 2020, from which point recordings are available. Programs take place on the second Tuesday of each month (11:30am central time), either in-person at Cedar Creek, via zoom, or both. Details about speakers and delivery mode are at https://cbs.umn.edu/cedarcreek/public-programs/lunch-scientist
July's Lunch with a Scientist focused on how plant communities interact with their fungal pathogen and insect herbivore communities, how these interactions are shaped by global change and what the consequences of those interactions are for ecosystem functioning. Dr. Seraina Cappelli, postdoc at the University of Minnesota, will talk about how the long term exclusion of plant consumers has shifted plant community composition over a 12 year period at Cedar Creek.