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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