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 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
March 3rd (Note special time and location)	Helen Schwantje	Wildlife Vetrinarian, 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
March 21st (Note special time and location)	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
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
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)