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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*)
*In spring 2022, Les Ecologistes talks will be given over ZOOM.
Please contact the host for this semester: djgreen@sfu.ca for more information.
| 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 | Reading Week - No seminar |
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| 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: https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2020/1/314/5923290 https://mast.queensu.ca/~tday/pdf/Otto2021.pdf |
| 7-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 |
| 4-Nov-21 | Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor | School of Resource and Environmental Management, SFU | Enabling conditions for a Blue Economy |
| 11-Nov-21 | Remembrance Day - No seminar this week | ||
| 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 |
| 2-Dec-21 | Asim Renyard | Biological Sciences, SFU | Bimodal pheromone and vibratory alarm communication in Western carpenter ants |
| 9-Dec-21 | Michael Price | Biological Sciences, SFU | Centennial-scale impacts of climate, fishing, and enhancement on Skeena River sockeye salmon |
Spring 2020
| 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 |