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Sea fans gently swaying in a healthy bed of coral

Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper

For the colorful, graceful sea fans swaying among the coral reefs in the waters around Puerto Rico, the metal copper is an emerging threat in an era of warming oceans.

Patty Jordan, one of our administrative employees, with her core value award for communication

EEB staff and faculty receive honors from CALS

On Oct. 29, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 16th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 10th year of the Core Value Staff Awards.

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DEC 16Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series... Ellie Goud, Cornell University Dissertation Seminar Title: Ecology and evolution of plant physiological strategies using leaf stable isotopes Monday, 12/16/19 A106 Corson/Mudd, 12:20PM

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Our Department in Action

EEB faculty and students pursue topics across a broad set of interlinked fields, including ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry, community ecology and population biology, organismal biology, chemical and molecular ecology, population genetics and genomics, speciation and macroevolution. Follow this link to view "Our Department in Action" gallery.

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Research Spotlight

Biodiversity, Interactions, and Ecology: Cornell Research features EEB's Anurag Agrawal as he explores the fascinating world of plants and insects—how they evolved together, attacking and defending themselves against each other, yet maintaining diverse ecosystems. View a transcript of this video.