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Les Ecologistes
'Les Ecol' presents lunch time seminar talks of general ecological and evolutionary interest, Thursdays 12:30-13:30 in B9242. (Unless noted*)
Please contact the host for this semester: phoebe_gross@sfu.ca or djgreen@sfu.ca for more information.
Spring 2024
| 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 |
Fall 2023
| 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 |
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| 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 |
Spring 2023
| 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 |
Fall 2022
| 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 |
SPRING 2022
| 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 |
FALL 2021
| 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 |
Spring 2020
| 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 |