2009 FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

2009 FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE

Note that NRESI Colloquia can now be watched live via the internet by clicking on this link during their regularly scheduled times.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Location
September 4	Richard Kelly	University of Waterloo	Assessing global snow water equivalent estimates from space using satellite microwave-based observations: are we any closer to characterizing northern hemisphere seasonal snow accumulation?	7-152
September 11	Christopher Wallis	UNBC	How Pines Adapt to Protect Themselves against Diseases	7-152
September 18	Mike Apsey	Former BC Deputy Minister of Forests	Experiences with the global forest	7-152
September 23 Starting at 5pm	Don Gosnell View pdf of the presentation	Ministry of Forests and Range, Victoria	Bioenergy, Carbon Sequestration and BC's Forests	Canfor Theatre (6-213) -- Note different location and time!
September 25	Paal Krokene	Norwegian Forest Research Institute	The role of acquired resistance in conifer-bark beetle-fungus interactions	7-152
October 2	Andy Derocher	University of Alberta	The ecology and politics of polar bears and climate warming (to be followed by Annual NRES Graduate Student Poster Session	7-152 and Winter Garden (for poster session and reception)
October 9	Jamie Doyle	University of Ottawa	Improvements to mass balance estimating methods: Assessing soil ingestion in people following traditional lifestyles	7-152
October 16	No Colloquium -- Instalation of Dr. Iwama
October 23	Ellen Petticrew & John Rex	UNBC	Influence of bio-geomorphic processes on marine-derived nutrient cycling in Pacific salmon-bearing streams	7-152
October 30	Jerry Osborn	University of Calgary - Geology and Geophysics	The Global Warming Debate: The messy and bitter intersection of science and politics	7-212 (Note change of room!)
November 6	Robert Higgins	UNBC/TRU	The Ants of British Columbia	7-152
November 13	Scott M. Ramsay	Wilfrid Laurier University	Reproductive ecology in songbirds: does the early bird get the worm?	7-152
November 20	Kathy Lewis	UNBC	Red band needle blight: the canary in the forest health coal mine	7-152
November 24	Dave Tamblyn	Public Health Engineer, Northern Health	Groundwater at Risk of Containing Pathogens	6-205 (Note special time and location)
November 27	Darren Irwin	UBC Zoology	After the ice: the western Canadian suture zone as a natural laboratory for the study of speciation	7-152
December 4	Jocelyn Campbell	UBC/UNBC	Unfaithful fungi: lichens as a symbiosis?	7-152

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