2012 WINTER SEMESTER SCHEDULE


"Our environment is our future"
Colloquium Series
 2012 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  SpeakerAffiliationTopicLocation 
January 13thYubao LiWenzhou University, China and Visiting Research Fellow, UNBCImaging and Modeling approaches to characterize sediment environments in China 
7-152
FOLLOWED BY NRES WELCOME BACK EVENT at WOLF'S DEN
4:30 pm
January 20thBill McGillUNBCAre Ecosystems Fragile? 7-152
January 27thBrad C. HawkesCanadian Forest ServiceWhen it's hot, it's hot . . . or maybe it's not!: Thirty Years of Forest Fire Research -- a personal reflection 7-152
February 3rd
Margot W. Parkes
 UNBC EcoHealth, OneHealth, Global Heath: Why diversity, emergence and resilience are key to responding to wicked problems. 7-152
February 10th Kevin Hutchings    UNBCDon't Call Me a Tree Hugger: The Social Semantics of a Stereotype  7-152
February 16th (Thursday)Brian J. Pickles UBC - OkanaganTales from the underground: Mycorrhizas, migrating trees, and climate change
Weldwood Theatre
(7-238)
note room change
February 24th

READING WEEK 

 BREAK

NO COLLOQUIUM
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March 2nd                
 Ted Binnema

 UNBC   

 Do Salmon Eat Moose?  Reconstructing the BC Environment, 1806-1913
 7-212
(note room change)
March 9th Joe Shea UNBC / UBCGlacier snowline retrieval and glacier mass change from satellite imagery
7-152
March 16thRobert LackeyDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State UniversityKeeping Science Free of Policy Advocacy: A Practical Guide for Scientists
 7-212
(note room change)
Sponsored by the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program
March 23rd   Phil Owens UNBC  Hydrological & geomorphological response of watersheds to wildfire 7-152
March 30thDennis Hopwood -- The Eelgrass Games.  The reality of life and death along the sandy shores of Douglas Channel 7-152
April 6th
  NO TALK 
HAPPY END OF TERM