2006 WINTER SEMESTER

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic
February 3	Dr. Kerstin Stahl	Department of Geography, University of British Columbia	Climatology of Winter Cold Spells in Relation to Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks
February 10	Dr. David Schindler	Biological Sciences, University of Alberta	The Cumulative Effects of Climate Warming and other Human Stressors on Freshwater Quantity and Quality in the Western Prairies of Canada
February 24	Mr. Doug Heard	BC Ministry of Environment	Why are There so Many Grizzy Bears?
March 3	Mr. Allen Banner	BC Ministry of Forests	Who’s Winning – The Forests or the Bogs?? Pattern, Process, and Productivity in Hypermaritime Forests of Coastal B.C.
March 10	Dr. Lito Arocena	Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Insitute, UNBC	Soils in our Daily Life
March 24	Dr. Martin Sharp	University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences	40 Years of Glacier Change in Canada's Artic
March 31	Dr. Kimberly Wallin	Oregon State University, Department of Forest Sciences	Impact of Host Resistance and Density Dependent Host Selection Behavior of Bark Beetles on their Population Dynamics