Faculty Seminar Series

 

 Date Speaker
Topic
 Summer 2013 term:
May 9, 2013 Terry Tobias Importance of Traditional Land Use and Occupancy Mapping for First Nation Planning and Development
June 3, 2013 Dr. James E. Overland, NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Linking Arctic Amplification and Mid-Latitude Extreme Weather
June 27, 2013 Dr. Daniel Cossa
 Mercury in the Mediterranean Sea and Global Change
   
 Winter 2013 term:
January 18, 2013

*Please note change of Date*

Dr. Marty Leonard,
Dalhousie University

 Ambient noise and parent-offspring communication in birds.
canceled

Dr. Harold Brooks,
National Severe Weather Laboratory, NOAA

   Severe thunderstorms - canceled
January 29, 2013 Dr. John E. Toepfer   Long-Term Research on the Ecology and Management of Greater Prairie Chickens in Human-Altered Agro-Ecosystems of North America.
 February 21, 2013

Dr. Vaclav Smil

  Harvesting the Biosphere
March 4, 2013 Live stream   The Right To Food in Canada
 March 8, 2013

Dr. Ron Stewart

Precipitation and Climate:
A Brief Overview
 March 15, 2013

Dr. Henry Wilson

 Dissolved organic matter in streams and soil water as influenced by agriculture
 March 27, 2013 Murray Gingras Ediacaran Invertebrates Mining for Oxygen?
 Fall 2012 term:
September 17, 2012 Dr. Ilya Bindeman,
University of Oregon		 Large-scale remelting in caldera settings: Petrogenesis of large volume silicic magmas at Yellowstone supervolcano
October 12, 2012 Dr. Feiyue Wang,
University of Manitoba		 The Galápagos Islands: More Than a Natural Laboratory
October 19, 2012

Dr. Jane Waterman,
University of Manitoba

  Probing the benefits of play to polar bears and the potential problems posed by tourism
October 26, 2012 Myrle Ballard, Ryan Klatt and Shirley Thompson 
 2011/2012 Flood Impacts on Lake St. Martin First Nation
November 9, 2012

Dr. Tim Weiss,
Pembina Institute

 Intersecting Policy, Politics and Technology: The Future of Renewable Energy in Canada
November 15, 2012 Andrew Nikiforuk    The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude
November 23, 2012

Dr. Ken Frank, Bedford
Institute of Oceanography, DFO

Comparative dynamics of exploited marine ecosystems