The NRES Institute Colloquium provides a forum for discussion of wide-ranging perspectives on natural resource management issues. Local and visiting scientists present research results and discussions on ecological, social and economic issues related to the management of natural resources in the north.   The Colloquium is presented weekly during the fall and winter semesters.

 

For a list of previous Colloquia, click here.

 

Time: Friday at 3:30 pm unless otherwise noted

 

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Location
January 13th	Yubao Li	Wenzhou University, China and Visiting Research Fellow, UNBC	Imaging 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 20th	Bill McGill	UNBC	Are Ecosystems Fragile?	7-152
January 27th	Brad C. Hawkes	Canadian Forest Service	When 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	UNBC	Don't Call Me a Tree Hugger: The Social Semantics of a Stereotype	7-152
February 16th (Thursday)	Brian J. Pickles	UBC - Okanagan	Tales from the underground: Mycorrhizas, migrating trees, and climate change	Weldwood Theatre (7-238)   note room change
February 24th	READING WEEK	BREAK	NO COLLOQUIUM	--
March 2nd	Ted Binnema	UNBC	Do Salmon Eat Moose?  Reconstructing the BC Environment, 1806-1913	7-152
March 9th	Joe Shea	UNBC / UBC	Glacier snowline retrieval and glacier mass change from satellite imagery	7-152
March 16th	Robert Lackey	Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University	Keeping 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 30th	--	--	--	7-152
April 6th				7-152

            

For information on content and context, please contact:

 

Dr. Brent Murray Phone: (250) 960-5638 E-mail: murrayb@unbc.ca

Dr. Zoe Meletis Phone: (250) 960-5920 E-mail: meletis@unbc.ca