2009 FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series


2009 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 4 Richard Kelly University of Waterloo Assessing global snow water equivalent estimates from space using satellite microwave-based observations: are we any closer to characterizing northern hemisphere seasonal snow accumulation? 7-152
September 11 Christopher Wallis UNBC How Pines Adapt to Protect Themselves against Diseases 7-152
September 18 Mike Apsey Former BC Deputy Minister of Forests Experiences with the global forest 7-152

September 23 Starting at 5pm

 Don Gosnell
View pdf of the presentation		 Ministry of Forests and Range, Victoria

Bioenergy, Carbon Sequestration and BC's Forests

Canfor Theatre

(6-213) -- Note different location and time!
September 25 Paal Krokene Norwegian Forest Research Institute The role of acquired resistance in conifer-bark beetle-fungus interactions 7-152
October 2 Andy Derocher University of Alberta

The ecology and politics of polar bears and climate warming

(to be followed by Annual NRES Graduate Student Poster Session

7-152

and Winter Garden (for poster session and reception)

October 9

 Jamie Doyle University of Ottawa Improvements to mass balance estimating methods: Assessing soil ingestion in people following traditional lifestyles 7-152
October 16 No Colloquium -- Instalation of Dr. Iwama

October 23

 Ellen Petticrew & John Rex UNBC Influence of bio-geomorphic processes on marine-derived nutrient cycling in Pacific salmon-bearing streams 7-152 
October 30 Jerry Osborn University of Calgary - Geology and Geophysics The Global Warming Debate: The messy and bitter intersection of science and politics

7-212

(Note change of room!)

November 6

 Robert Higgins UNBC/TRU The Ants of British Columbia 7-152 
November 13 Scott M. Ramsay Wilfrid Laurier University Reproductive ecology in songbirds: does the early bird get the worm? 7-152
November 20 Kathy Lewis UNBC Red band needle blight: the canary in the forest health coal mine 7-152

November 24

 Dave Tamblyn Public Health Engineer, Northern Health Groundwater at Risk of Containing Pathogens

6-205

(Note special time and location)
November 27 Darren Irwin UBC Zoology After the ice: the western Canadian suture zone as a natural laboratory for the study of speciation 7-152
December 4 Jocelyn Campbell UBC/UNBC Unfaithful fungi: lichens as a symbiosis? 7-152

            

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