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"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 |
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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 |
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March 21st |
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 |
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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 |
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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) |