Les Ecologistes

'Les Ecol' presents lunch time seminar talks of general ecological and evolutionary interest, Thursdays 12:30-13:30 in B8271. (Unless noted*)

Please contact the host for this semester: triana_hohn@sfu.ca and/or miranda_dennis@sfu.ca for more information.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
30-Jan-2025	Arne Mooers	Department of Biological Sciences	COSEWIC species prioritization
06-Feb-2025	Dan Strickland	Former Chief Park Naturalist at Algonquin Park	Canada Jays East and West - Are they different species?
27-Feb-2025	Rachel Aitchison, Amanda Arnold, and Jay Matsushiba	Department of Biological Sciences	From MPAs to eco-morphology: tails from South Africa
13-Mar-2025	Peter Thompson	School of Environmental Science	Integrating multiple data types to uncover southern resident killer whale movement patterns
27-Mar-2025	Miranda Dennis	Department of Biological Sciences	Community science and nudibranchs: A natural partnership?
03-Apr-2025	Tony Williams	Department of Biological Sciences	Should we care about pre-adult mortality, and if so, why?
10-Apr-2025	The Côté Lab	Department of Biological Sciences	Graduate student presentation series
24-Apr-2025	Kate Fremlin	Department of Biological Sciences	Biomagnification 101: How to design and evaluate biomagnification field studies that investigate superhydrophobic or difficult to test susbstances
24-Apr-2025	Kate Fremlin	Department of Biological Sciences

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
12-Sept-2024			Welcome Meeting
26-Sept-2024	Vanessa Hum	Simon Fraser University - Green Lab	Workshop: Using creativity to tell a story to communicate science
10-Oct-2024	Steven Brownlee	Simon Fraser University - Côté Lab	Workshop: Intro to mapping, GIS in R
24-Oct-2024	Hanna Jackson	Simon Fraser University - M'Gonigle Lab	Workshop: A conceptual and practical introduction to occupancy modeling
07-Nov-2024			Presentation and Poster "Open-Mic"
21-Nov-2024	Isabelle Côté	Simon Fraser University - Côté Lab	Talk: So you think you don't belong? Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
05-Dec-2024	Triana Hohn, Lindsay Lalach, Tessa Craig, Andy Siemens	Simon Fraser University - Center for Wildlife Ecology	Current Research in the Center for Wildlife Ecology

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
18-Jan-2024	Jayme Lewthwaite	University of Southern California	Building a framework to harness "big data" and complex modellingto improve Species-At-Risk assessment in Canada
7-Feb-2024	Sarah Gutzmann	Environmental Science, SFU	Centering Indigenous governance principles, values, and objectives to build a just blue economy decision space15-
15-Feb-2024	Ron Ydenberg	Biological Sciences, SFU	Top Predators and Healthy Ecosystems: the good, the bad and the ugly
22-Feb-2024	Cancelled		Cancelled
29-Feb-2024	Caroline Dingle	Capilano University	Challenges for songbirds in Asia: migration, urbanization and wildlife trade
7-Mar-2024	Hope Klug	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	The Operation of Sexual Selection Revisited
14-Mar-2024	Cancelled		Cancelled
21-Mar-2024	Cancelled		Cancelled
28-Mar-2024	Bernie Roitberg	Biological Sciences, SFU	Seeing the forest for the trees
4-Apr-2024	Bill Harrower	BC Ministry of Water Land and Natural Resources	Restoring Species at Risk to Support Ecosystem Health
11-Apr-2024	Isabelle Côté	Biological Sciences, SFU	Rowing across the ocean for the oceans

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
14-Sept-2023	Hannah Watkins	Biological Sciences, SFU	Canada's Next Top (Species-at-Risk) Model
21-Sept-2023	Rachel Fairfeld-Cheko and Mikayla Young	SFU Ecological Restoration	The health of the Southern Resident Killer Whales and their traditional feeding territory
28-Sept-2023	Brynna Kagwa-Vistentin	SFU Geography	Indigenous-led Conservation: An Eco-Cultural Response to Pacific Salmon Decline in British Columbia
5-Oct-2023	Cancelled		Cancelled
12-Oct-2023	TBA		TBA
19-Oct-2023	Cancelled		Cancelled
26-Oct-2023	TBA		TBA
2-Nov-2023	Pourya Sardari	Biological Sciences, SFU	Wildlife Trafficking in Iran: A Growing Concern
9-Nov-2023	TBA		TBA
16-Nov-2023	Tom Booker	UBC Zoology	The structure of the environment and the evolution of local adaption
23-Nov-2023
30-Nov-2023	Ben Zdasiuk	Biological Sciences, SFU	Signal detection in stream science and conservation: tales of four fish.
7-Dec-2023	Ira Sutherland	Biological Sciences, SFU	Is conservation working? Insights from ecosystem services monitoring in British Columbia forests

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
26-Jan-2023	Dr. Eric Jones	Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics, SFU	Whence your gut microbiome?
02-Feb-2023	Julian Gan and Daniel Scurfield	Mooers lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Juvenile salmon estuarine ecology
09-Feb-2023	Dr. Ruth Joy	Environmental Science, SFU	Double-crested Cormorants in the Salish Sea: Paradise Lost?
16-Feb-2023	Phil Fernandez	Moore lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	The evolutionary side of biodiversity change: how is local phylogenetic diversity changing globally?
02-Mar-2023	Brett Hodinka	Williams lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Is it 'evolutionarily' adaptive to be thin or fat: plasticity in body mass
09-Mar-2023 Zoom only	Audrey Looby	Univerrsity of Florida	FishSounds: A Global Review and Website on Sound Production in Fishes
16-Mar-2023	Dr. Isabelle Côté and Claire Attridge	Biological Sciences, SFU	Rowing across the Atlantic and "Kelp forest canopies: Linking habitat structure to community composition"
23-Mar-2023	Dr. Pauline Deschodt	Postdoctoral Fellow, Cory Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Mixed pathogen infections: complex interactions between host plant, timing of infection and pathogen groups
30-Mar-2023	Dr. Shahin Dashtgard	Geology Professor, SFU	A geological perspective of the Fraser River, BC
6-Apr-2023	Dr. Kieran Celeste	Reynolds lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Sockeye salmon and a century of marine ecosystem change
13-Apr-2023	Miranda Dennis	Mooers and Hart Labs	Demographic history of the Pacific nudibranch genus Hermissenda

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
15-Sept-2022	Alejandro Rico-Guevara	Burke Museum, University of Washington	Behavioral Ecophysics of Avian Nectarivory
22-Sept-2022	Hanna Jackson	M’Gonigle Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Climate change winners and losers among North American bumble bees
29-Sept-2022	Arne Mooers	Biological Sciences, SFU	Biologists are not Philosophers! Some hidden values in ecology research
06-Oct-2022	Sarah Gravel	Dulvy Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Searching for the metabolic why and where of fish population growth rate across the ocean
13-Oct-2022	Maryam Nakhostin	Dulvy Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Protecting carpet sharks: are MPAs alone enough?
20-Oct-2022	No seminar
27-Oct-2022	Bernie Crespi	Biological Sciences, SFU	The fat that makes you thin: the evolution, ecology,and reproductive significance of brown adipose tissue
03-Nov-2022	Marta Ulaski	Moore Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Climate and conspecific density inform phenotypic forecasting of juvenile Pacific salmon body size
10-Nov-2022	Sam Wilson	Moore lab, Biological Sciences, SFU (presenting remotely)	Changing outmigration phenology and phenological mismatch in juvenile salmon
17-Nov-2022	No seminar
24-Nov-2022	Emmanuel Hung	Gries Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Grabbing a bite: Investigating the Foraging Ecology of the Stable Fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)
01-Dec-2022	Josh Allen	Williams Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Decoupling of growth, physiology and post-fledging performance in a manipulated songbird
08-Dec-2022	Hannah Roodenrijs and Cole Rankin	Green Lab, Biological Sciences, SFU	Black oystercatcher movement, migration, and morphology

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
13-Jan-2022	Ron Ydenberg	Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Biological Sciences, SFU	What's killing the world's shorebirds?
20-Jan-2022	Toby St. Clair and Jeremiah Kennedy	Pacific Megascops Research Alliance	Finding and Filling Gaps in Conservation Science for Threatened Coastal Western Screech-Owls
27-Jan-2022	Mike Kelly	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, SFU	Sleep in sharks
3-Feb-2022	Samantha Sherman	Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences, SFU	Drivers of diversity, abundance, and distribution of sharks and rays on coral reefs
10-Feb-2022	Hannah Hall	CWE, Biological Sciences, SFU	The health and habitat use of glaucous-winged gulls in the Salish Sea
17-Feb-2022	Tess Grainger	Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC	The importance of timing in ecology and evolution
24-Feb-2022	N/A		READING BREAK
3-Mar-2022	Bernie Roitberg	Department of Biological Sciences, SFU	No Anti-Vaxxers Here: A New Theory For Infectious Disease In Social Insects
10-Mar-2022	Joseph Weaver	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle University	Inferring Drift Prevalence Using Agent-Based Biofilm Models and Its Implications in Environmental Biotechnology
17-Mar-2022	Garth Covernton	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto	Microplastics and aquatic food webs: trophic dynamics and potential for harm
24-Mar-2022	Sam Starko	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	How heatwaves are impacting marine habitats
31-Mar-2022	Em Lim	E2O, Biological Sciences, SFU	Animal-mediated nutrient provisioning to marine primary producers: the effects of scale and context
7-Apr-2022	Kieran Cox	Liber Ero and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, SFU	Unravelling Ocean Noise: Insights into fish sounds, noise pollution, and managing soundscapes

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk Title
23-Sept-21	Bernie Crespi	Biological Sciences, SFU	Batural Selection: The Evolutionary Ecology of SARS-CoV-2. The following links provide some background reading to Dr. Crespi's talk here and here.
07-Oct-21	Krista De Groot	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Seasonal patterns of bird mortality and species vulnerable to collisions with buildings on the West Coast
28-Oct-21	Wade VanderWright	Biological Sciences, SFU	Gill slits provide a window into the respiratory physiology of sharks
04-Nov-21	Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor	School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU	Enabling conditions for a Blue Economy
11-Nov-21	N/A		Remembrance Day
18-Nov-21	Joey Bernhardt	Zoology, UBC	Towards a coherent and mechanistic science of global change: from cells to ecosystems and human well-being
25-Nov-21	Devin DeZwaan	Centre for Applied Conservation Research, UBC	Coping strategies of alpine birds in response to environmental stressors across the annual cycle
02-Dec-21	Asim Renyard	Biological Sciences, SFU	Bimodal pheromone and vibratory alarm communication in Western carpenter ants
09-Dec-21	Michael Price	Biological Sciences, SFU	Centennial-scale impacts of climate, fishing, and enhancement on Skeena River sockeye salmon

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
16-Jan-20	Ron Ydenberg	Attack of the Dutch killer muskrats
*23-Jan-20 Starts at 12:00pm	Kate Fremlin	Ecological Impacts and Risks of Rodenticides to Owls in North Vancouver
30-Jan-20	Scott Flemming	Unravelling the indirect and cascading effects of hyperabundant geese on Arctic-nesting shorebirds
06-Feb-20	Rémi Matthey-Doret	Background selection and FST: Consequences for detecting local adaptation / Plasticity and Developmental Robustness
13-Feb-20	Norah Brown	Ecological responses to ocean acidification
20-Feb-20	N/A	READING BREAK
27-Feb-20	Elijah Reyes	The coevolution of dispersal and resource traits in multi-resource landscapes
05-Mar-20	Andrew Simon	Biodiversity beyond boundaries: networking biodiversity projects in the Salish Sea
12-Mar-20	Debora Obrist	Islands fed by the sea: how marine-derived nutrients affect terrestrial bird ecology
19-Mar-20	Asim Renyard & Jaime Chalissery	There and back again: trail following behavior and foraging ecology of ants
26-Mar-20	Melissa Guzman	Using occupancy models on pollination networks
02-Apr-20	David Moulton	Examining the interplay of multiple stressors affecting migrating Fraser River sockeye salmon
09-Apr-20	Evan Hersh	A clone together: exploring the causes and consequences of range divergence between sexual and asexual Easter Daisies
16-Apr-20	Kieran Cox	Coastal Shellfish: Cultivation, Marine Subsidies, and Implications for Nearshore Biodiversity

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