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SPRING 2023 SEMINAR SERIES
The SFU School of Environmental Science is pleased to announce the Fall 2023 Seminar Series featuring renowned researchers and scientists on some of the world's most pressing environmental concerns.
CONTACT
If you have any queries regarding the seminar series or require administrative support, please contact sesgrad@sfu.ca. You can also subscribe to the seminar calendar below.
SCHEDULE
When: Every second Thursday starting January 19th and ending March 30th, 2023.
Start & End Time: 3:30 PM and 4:30 PM [PST]
Location: ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
January 19th, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM [PST]
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
About the Speaker
Dr. Marlow Pellatt has worked at Parks Canada for almost 25 years and is a National Ecosystem Scientist in the Office of the Chief Ecosystem Scientist. He is also an Adjunct Professor in School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Marlow is a SFU Alumni (BSc & PhD in Biological Sciences) with strong interest in applying his research to issues facing land and seascape managers.
February 2, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM [PST]
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
About the Speaker
Dr. Tom Royle, Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
Tom is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. He received his Honours Bachelor of Science in Archaeology from Trent University and Master of Arts and PhD in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University. His resarch focuses on elucidating the relationships between Indigenous peoples and aquatic resources in northwestern and northeastern North America. Through the aDNA analysis of archaeological fish remains, his research seeks to identify the resource management and fishing strategies employed by Indigenous peoples and document the impacts of human activities and climate change on aquatic ecosystems.
February 16, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM [PST]
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
About the Speaker
Dr. Tara Troy, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria.
Dr. Tara Troy's research group focuses on how humans impact hydrologic processes, how to incorporate these impacts into hydrologic models, and how to use models to test hypotheses. Prior to joining the faculty at UVic, Dr. Troy was a P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, an Associate Research Scientist at the Columbia University Water Center, and received Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University.
March 2, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM [PST]
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
About the Speaker
Dr. Mike Flannigan is the Research Chair for Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University and the Scientific Director of the Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science. Dr. Flannigan has been studying fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change, lightning-ignited forest fires for over 40 years.
March 16, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM [PST]
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
About the Speaker
Dr. Harald Yurk, Bioacoustian and Biophysical Scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Harald Yurk joined the Ecosystem Science Division of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) as a physical scientist in 2017 after having worked for a number of years at environmental consulting firms. His current work focusses on impact of anthropogenic noise on the signals of marine mammals and on the degradation of acoustic habitat of all marine life due to anthropogenic noise. Harald has over 30 years of experience in studying marine mammal acoustic signals through his work for DFO, the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre (now OceanWise) as well as other environmental organizations in Canada and the US.
March 30, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM [PST]
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
About the Speaker
Chelsea Little first came into science as a community ecologist, but has since become fascinated in the spatial relationships among different parts of the landscape, particularly in stream and river networks. This has led to a wide variety of student-led research in the Little Ecology Group at SFU, from using game cameras to understand wildlife habitat use, to simulating nutrient dynamics using models, to using ecosystem functions as a way to measure the success of ecological restoration.
Chelsea also enjoys data synthesis, and is currently involved in several international working groups to seek general answers to key ecological questions.