Seminar: Agricultural Planning in the Chesapeake Bay Estuary
Seminar: Agricultural Planning in the Chesapeake Bay Estuary John Prizzi, MLWS ’17 alumnus Friday, January 31, 202010:00 – 11:00 AMMCML 2582357 Main Mall ABSTRACT: The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. More than 150 major rivers make their way to the Chesapeake Bay, carrying with them pollutants flushed in from the […]
Seminar: Conservation Issues for North American Pacific Salmon
Review the larger issues and challenges currently experienced by Pacific salmon. Examine abundance trends and their potential causes in certain salmon species and populations.
Seminar: Indigenous Peoples and Constitutional Law
Professor Edinger reviews the constitutional events in North America, relating to Indigenous Peoples from 1763 to 2019.
Seminar: Managing Working Farmlands in the Fraser-Nooksack System
In this presentation, the speakers will explore how the Whatcom Conservation District applies a systems approach to conservation on working farmlands, aiming to find a balance between interdependent and sometimes conflicting needs for land, water and ecosystem services in the region.
Seminar: Deglaciation of Western Canada in the 21st Century
Like most of Earth’s mountain glaciers, those in western North America are experiencing rapid mass loss. Projections using a high-resolution regional glaciation model indicate that by 2100 the volume of glacier ice in western Canada will shrink by 70 +/-10 % relative to 2005, leaving few glaciers remaining in the BC Interior and the Rocky Mountains.
Seminar: Agricultural Land Reserve & Valuation
Seminar: Agricultural Land Reserve & Valuation Julie Wilson, P.Ag and Brian Smith Friday, January 18, 20192:00 – 4:00 pmMCML 160, 2357 Main Mall, UBC ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Brian Smith:BC Assessment’s business is to provide a stable and predictable base for real property taxation in British Columbia including properties within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). BC […]
Seminar: Trace Element and Pb Isotopic Analyses of Honey: An Urban Biomonitor for a Changing World
Kate is a doctoral student working with Dr. Dominique Weis at the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at UBC. Kate’s work explores the distribution of environmental pollution using honey as a biomonitor.
Seminar: Agriculture and Climate Change
Seminar: Agriculture and Climate Change Sean Smukler, Ph.D. Friday, March 23, 20183:30-5:00 pmORCH 1001, 6363 Agronomy Rd, UBC ABOUT THE SPEAKER:Originally from Berkeley, California, Sean earned a Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of California, Davis (2008) – where he spent time working on the UC Davis student farm – and an MSc in Forest […]
Seminar: Perspectives on First Nations in Resource Development
Professor Menzies’ primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations’ issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC.