2008 FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

2008 FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE

Date  Speaker                       Affiliation Topic Location 

                  September 10

Larry McKay University of Tennessee Chattanooga Creek: How 30,000 tons of Coal Tar Brought Together Scientists, Social Workers and a Community Lecture Theatre 7-152

September 12  

Curtis Björk University of Idaho

Out on a LIM: documenting the epiphytic crust lichen flora of British Columbia

Lecture Theatre 7-212

September 19

Howard Freeland

 Fisheries and Oceans Canada/Institute of Ocean Sciences

Argo watches the Oceans Lecture Theatre 7-212

September 26

Laura Cornish

 The Climate Project - Canada

Climate Solutions: What we can do about an Inconvenient Truth

Lecture Theatre 7-212

October 3

ICE BREAKER

NRES Grad Students 

Lecture Theatre 7-212

October 10

Roland Willson

 Chief of the West Moberly First Nations

A Critical Balance:  Land Use Conflicts and West Moberly First Nations

Lecture Theatre 7-212

October 17 

Mike Church

 Professor Emeritus, UBC Geography

Holocene sedimentary history of Chilliwack Valley, northern Cascade Mountains -- a computational study

Lecture Theatre 7-212

October 24

Shawn Marshall

University of Calgary

Rising tide: historical and future sea level rise

Lecture Theatre 7-212

October 31 

Craig DeLong and Rachel Botting

BC Ministry of Forests and Range

The effect of ecological forest gradients on macrolichens and bryophytes on coarse woody debris in central BC

Lecture Theatre 7-212
November 7 Zoe Meletis

UNBC

Tourists & Turtles: Tourist Perceptions of Turtle Tours in Tortuguero, Costa Rica

Lecture Theatre 7-212
November 14 Peter Jackson and John Spagnol

UNBC

Air quality modelling of the Prince George airshed Lecture Theatre 7-212
November 21 Winifred Kessler

USDA Forest Service, Alaska

Managing wildlife and fish for subsistence uses in Alaska

Lecture Theatre 7-212
November 28 Bryan Bogdanski

UNBC

Evolving regulation of greenhouse gases: carbon credit

Lecture Theatre 7-212
December 1 Wade Davis 

National Geographic Explorer 

Light at the edge of the world

14:30 - 15:30 in Canfor (6-213)

December 11

Richard Winder

Canadian Forest Service, Victoria

Ecology and socioeconomics of morels and other mushrooms

10:00 - 11:00 in 7-152

            

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