2008 WINTER SEMESTER SCHEDULE

Natural Resources
& Environmental Studies Institute
Colloquium Series

             "our environment is our future"



Date  Speaker                       Affiliation Topic Location 

January 11

Darren Janzen GIS Lab/
Aleza Lake Research Forest
Light Detection and Ranging Data in Forested Environments

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-150 

January 18 Steve MacDonald Department of Fisheries and Oceans Examination of Factors Influencing Nechako River Discharge, Temperature and Aquatic Habitats: Assessing water release strategies from the Nechako Reservoir

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-150 

January 25 Sean Simmons Angler's Atlas Developing and implementing a ten-year market development plan for sport fishing in British Columbia

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-150

February 1 Don Faber-Langendoen NatureServe Assessing Ecological Integrity of Ecosystems using a Dynamic Reference Set

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-150

February 8

Ted Binnema UNBC Using Historical Documents to Reconstruct Environmental Change in Northern British Columbia

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-150

February 15 Tobias Bolch UNBC Glacier change in Asian mountains using space imagery Lecture Theatre
Room 7-150
February 22  R  E   A  D  I   N  G       B   R   E   A  K
February 29 David Hik University of Alberta Herbivores in warming subarctic alpine environments

Lecture Theatre       Room 7-150 

March 7 Stephen Dery UNBC Development of the Cariboo Alpine Mesonet and preliminary results.

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-150            

March 14                   

Don McPhail     

UBC                             

The Freshwater Fishes of BC:
Past & Present

Lecture Theatre
Room 7-212

March 28 

Brian Pickles

UNBC                        

Spatial ecology of Scots pine ectomycorrhizas

Lecture Theatre Room 7-150           

THURSDAY
April 3 

Jun Zhu                     

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Statistical Modeling in Forest Entomology: Space, Time, and Multiple Species

Lecture Theatre
Room 6-205

April 4                      

Chris Wallis

UNBC

Discovering How Pines Combat Diseases

Lecture Theatre
Room 7-150      

April 11                     

Tom Niemann           

BC Ministry of Forests & Range 

The State of British Columbia's Forests - 2006 

Lecture Theatre

Room 7-152