SPRING 2025 SEMINAR SERIES

Tues Sept 24

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Postdoctoral Showcase

Peter Thompson   Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental Science, SFU
"Modelling the movement patterns of southern resident killer whales"

Sam Anderson    Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental Science, SFU
"Heatwave impacts are broad and deep: Interdisciplinary approaches to understand extreme events"

Max Hurson   Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC
"The flow dynamics of bedrock canyons "

Tues Oct 8

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Julia Carr
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental Science, SFU

"The source and fate of boulders in bedrock rivers"

Tues Oct 22

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Visiting Graduate Research Students Session

Marius Clabaux     Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, France
"Is bioluminescence a relevant monitoring indicator of mid-trophic prey in the diet of Southern elephant seals?"

Clement Grandidier      Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
"An introduction to hooded seal ecology"

Andrea Mendez-Bye     La Rochelle Université, France
"Assessing the effects of climate change on vertical habitat of hooded seals in the North Atlantic"

Tues Nov 5

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Courtney G. Collins
Climate Change Research Ecologist, Future Forest Ecosystems Centre, Ministry of Forests Province of BC
Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Science, SFU

"Disentangling the complex and interacting effects of global change on terrestrial biodiversity"

Tues Nov 19

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Dan Straker
Resilient Waters Project Manager, MakeWay Charitable Society

"Fixing Fraser Floodplains for First Nations, Farms, and Fish"

Tues Jan 16

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Coastal Marine Science and Management Mini Conference

Shahin Dashtgard   Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, SFU
"Geology of the Fraser River Delta"

Brett Van Porten   Assistant Professor, School of Resources and Environmental Management, SFU
"Decision-making in fisheries management"

Kieran Cox   Liber Ero and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, SFU
"Something Sounds Fishy: Bioacoustics, Habitat Protection, and Policy in the Northeast Pacific"

Tues Jan 30

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Jesse Hahm
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, SFU

"The expansion and contraction of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: new insights from high-resolution mapping"

Tues Feb 13

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Sean Smukler
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm

"Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Natural Climate Solutions for British Columbia Agriculture"

Tues Feb 27

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CANCELLED

Tues Mar 12

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Jessica Pilarczyk
Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, SFU

"Coastal sedimentary archives of prehistoric earthquakes and tsunamis"

Tues Mar 26

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Undergraduate Honours Thesis Showcase

Yanik Nill  "A comparison of wildfire burn severity assessments across the pyro-ecozones of British Columbia"

Chloe Ross  "Repeat multibeam surveys to quantify sediment transport and bed cover variability in bedrock canyons"

Grace Sabo "Exploring Wildlife Diversity Patterns in Relation to Water Proximity and Forest Structure"  

Helen Wong  "Analysing Microplastic Pollution on Sandy Beaches in the Lower Mainland"