2011 FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

2011 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 16th Don Bassermann Chair, Omineca Beetle Action Coalition Urban Farming as a step towards greater food security

7-158

September 23rd Staffan Lindgren UNBC Of ants and beetles: interactions of two ground-dwelling predators 7-158
September 30th Andrew Nikiforuk Journalist Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug are Killing North America's Great Forests 7-158
October 7th

Tracy Summerville

UNBC

POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT TERM

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
October 14th Loraine Lavallee UNBC Greed, selfishness, immorality, & ignorance – the four horsemen of environmental apocalypse?  7-158
October 21st Phil Burton UNBC Classifying and Mapping Forest Disturbance Regimes 7-158

October 28th

Morgan Hocking SFU Salmon-ecosystem interactions of the B.C. Central Coast

8-164

To be followed by NRES Grad IceBreaker in Teaching and Learning Atrium 

October 31st           

Heikki Nuorteva

Finnish Forest Research Institute

Managing forests under threat of abiotic & biotic agents: Impact on forest management regulations in Finland

7-158

November 4th Peggy Smith Lakehead University

Emerging partnerships between Municipalities & First Nations: Community-

Based Forest Mgmt in Northern Ontario 

8-164

(Note Special Location)

November 11th -- -- -- No Colloquium
November 18th Erin O'Brien     UNBC Do fine feathers make fine birds? Sexual selection and the evolution of plumage ornamentation in male birds 7-158
November 25th Celia Boone UNBC Constraints on Bark Beetle Populations 7-158

December 2nd

NO COLLOQUIUM UNBC staff recognition event

December 9th

--  NO COLLOQUIUM HAPPY HOLIDAYS

            

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