winter-2012

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

2012 WINTER SEMESTER SCHEDULE

 

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