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"Our environment is our future"
 
Natural Resources & Environmental Studies Institute
Colloquium Series


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
Refreshments Served at 3:20 pm 
 
2010 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
AffiliationTopicLocation 
January 8
Tristan Pearce
University of Guelph
Living with Climate Change in the Arctic
7-152
January 15 George Iwama UNBC
Stress in Fish
7-212
(Note Room Change)
January 21
Kent Mullinix
Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Reintroducing Agri-Culture into Urban-Culture in BC
7-238 at 7PM
(Note Special Time and Location)
January 22 Brian Menounos
UNBCGlaciers as complex earth surface systems7-152
January 27
Melissa Todd
BC Ministry of Forests and Range
Monitoring silent frogs in noisy streams . . . or . . . how many times can I fill my boots in one day?7-238 at 3:30
(Note Special Time and Location)
January 29
Darwyn Coxson UNBC
Impacts of Climate Change on Inland Temperate Rainforests in western North America: Snow Forests No More?
7-152
February 5
Mark Shrimpton
UNBC
Should I stray or should I go home?
7-152
February 12
Roy Rea
UNBC
YouTube™ Insights into
Moose-Train Interactions

7-152
February 19
SEMESTER BREAK (No Colloquium)

February 26
George Desjarlais  & Melanie Karjala West Moberly First Nations and UNBC / Aleza Lake Research Forest The Seven Year Itch: Re-visiting and Adapting the Aboriginal Forest Planning Process (AFPP) for Fisheries and Wildlife Management
7-212
(Note Room Change)
(Peace Williston Annual Lecture)
March 5
Alan Wiensczyk
FORREXFORREX and Extension: Helping to chart the course from problem to solution
7-152 
March 12
Sybille Haeussler
Future Forest Ecosystem Scientific Council & Bulkley Valley Research Centre
Complexity Affects the Resilience of Northern BC Ecosystems, Landscapes and Social-Ecological Networks
7-152
March 19
Bram Noble
University of SaskatchewanComfort monitoring? Privatization and environmental assessment follow-up in Saskatchewan’s uranium mining industry
7-152 
March 25
Robert Gifford
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria
Changing Climate Change Behaviour: Individual-level Barriers and Solutions
Room 6-205 / 211
4:00 PM
Note Special Location and Time
Colloquium Co-hosted by Psychology, NRESI, and PICS 
March 26
Ward Strong
BC Ministry of Forests and Range
Cone and Seed Pests in BC Conifer Seed Orchards: a Research Update7-152
March 30
Valerius Geist
Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary Canadian Wildlife: Where to?
7-212
7:00 PM
Presented by the UNBC TWS Student Chapter in Recognition of Ian McTaggart Cowan's 100th Birthday!
April 2
EASTER WEEKEND (No Colloquium)

            
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