2011 WINTER SEMESTER SCHEDULE

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

2011 WINTER 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 
January 21st Gerald Kutney Sixth Element Sustainable Management Bioenergy and Climate Change

7-150

January 28th Marianne Douglas University of Alberta Environmental Change in Canada’s High Arctic: Past to Present 7-150
(In
conjunction and cooperation with the UNBC Polar Day)
February 4th Dick Cannings Naramata, BC British Columbia: A Natural History

CANFOR Theatre

(Peace-Williston Annual Lecture)

February 11th Roland Wilson Chief West Moberly First Nations "I Want to Eat Caribou Before I Die": A Community’s Struggle to Protect the Last 11 Caribou from a Coal Mine 7-150
February 18th -- -- -- No Colloquium
February 25th Ken Otter UNBC Assessing the Conflict between Bird Migration and Wind
Development in the BC Rockies
7-150

March 3rd

(Note special time and location)

Helen Schwantje Wildlife Veterinarian, BC Ministry of Natural Resource Operations Zoonotic Wildlife Disease or Would You Eat This?

7-238

7:00 PM

Sponsored by UNBC TWS Student Chapter

March 4th Julie Johnston GreenHeart Education Greening the Heart of Education at the Postsecondary Level 7-150
March 11th Scott Green UNBC Forest Management in the Age of Change: A Perspective From Yukon 7-150
March 18th Sabine Pahl University of Plymouth, UK Psychology of Climate Change 7-150

March 21st
(Note special time and location)

Bob Hayes Retired Biologist and Author The Wolves of the Yukon

7-238

7:00 PM

Sponsored by UNBC TWS Student Chapter

March 25th Mike Rutherford UNBC Burnt Offerings from the Bioenergy Industry 7-150

April 1st

Susan Stevenson, Harold Armleder, André Arsenault, Darwyn Coxson, Craig DeLong, and Michael Jull UNBC British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest: Ecology, Conservation and Management 7-150

April 7th

Peter D Ward University of Washington The Knowable Future: what science can tell us about future life on Earth

6-213

(Canfor)

7 PM

(NRESI Annual Lecture)

April 8th Peter D Ward University of Washington A new view of mass extinctions

7-212

(note room change)