2006 WINTER SEMESTER

"Our environment is our future"

Colloquium Series

2006 WINTER SEMESTER

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