Featured Presentations
2012
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During the past three decades the Arctic has been undergoing unprecedented change due to global warming. In addition to stress brought on by warming, the inhabitants of the Arctic are exposed to...
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The aging of the workforce in many industrialized economies, the rise in educational levels in emerging markets, and the relaxation in immigration and emigration barriers to the movement of people across...
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Biologists and economists have always borrowed from each other. Darwin famously credited Malthus for inspiration in The Origin of Species. Marshall argued persuasively that economists should strive to...
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Donnelly: Two of the strongest environmental laws in the country, the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, were significantly altered with the recent passing of the federal omnibus...
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This talk will present two related research directions focused on quantifying the causes and consequences of freshwater biodiversity. First, I will examine how diversity contributes to stability using...
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Macromolecular drug targets for treatment of bone diseases are usually expressed in other tissues and modulation can lead to systemic side effects limiting dose and efficacy. Selective bone targeting of...
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The talk will commence with setting a background for science-based marine policy-making. The first background component is a review of the standard principles (platitudes?) about the role of science in...