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"Our environment is our future" |
Colloquium Series |
2010 FALL 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 | Affiliation | Topic | Location |
| September 24th | Anna Thompson | University of Otago (NZ) | Conservation Parks: lands of opportunity for families in the outdoors of Aotearoa, New Zealand | 7-150 |
| October 1st | Peter Kevan | University of Guelph | Alliances between beneficial insects, plants and fungi pollinate, protect, and promote crop production |
7-150 To be followed by the NRES Grad Icebreaker/Poster Session |
| October 6th | John Neville | President of BC Nature | Voices of the Night: the Owls of British Columbia | 7 PM in 7-238 (Weldwood) Co-hosted by the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø TWS Student Chapter and the Prince George Naturalist Club |
| October 15th | Craig Farnden | UBC | Seeing the forest beyond the trees: Do BC’s reforestation standards contribute to SFM? | 7-150 |
| October 22nd | James Gray-Donald | Assoc. VP Sustainability Leader, Sears Canada | Leadership for Change: Sears commits to becoming carbon neutral | 7-150 |
| October 29th | Steve Helle | ÂÜÀòÉäÇø | Bioenergy for a Green University | 7-150 |
| November 5th | TBA | No Colloquium | No Colloquium | |
| November12th | Mark Fercho | City of Prince George | Community sustainability in plain language | 7-150 |
| November19th | Paul Sanborn | ÂÜÀòÉäÇø | Soil Change and Soil Resilience: Lessons from Natural Experiments on Multiple Time Scales | 7-150 |
| November26th | Brent Murray | ÂÜÀòÉäÇø | Microsatellite analysis of the western Canadian mountain pine beetle epidemic | 7-150 |
| December 1st | Olav Hjeljord | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | High density Scandinavian moose populations - how to maintain high quality animals? |
7-212 (Note special room and time) |
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December 3rd |
Briony Penn |
Adjunct professor (University of Victoria), artist and writer |
Carbon, Carbon Offsets, Saving Sinks or Switching Fuels: A Series of Questions to Guide Future Research on a Forest Carbon Economy |
7-238 (Note Room Change) |
For information on content and context, please contact:
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Dr. Dezene Huber Phone: (250) 960-5119 E-mail: huber@unbc.ca |
Dr. Zoe Meletis Phone: (250) 960-5920 E-mail: meletis@unbc.ca |
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