Dr. Thomas Near will be giving a presentation entitled "Evolution on ice: climate change and biodiversity of antarctic fishes" on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in room 107 of the Shelby Center. The presentation is part of the Distinguished Speaker Series at UAH and is being sponsored by UAH's Department of Biological Sciences. Dr. Near, who is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, will be discussing his research on the use of phylogenetic hypotheses for studying patterns of speciation and adaptive radiation in groups of teleost fishes.