Each year we run a seminar series from May through August, with topics running the gamut from natural history, environmental management, and natural history to wildlife art. In the past two years our seminars have been virtual, but this year we are returning to in-person. Typically held in the Conference Room in the R.J. Robertson Biodiversity Centre each Wednesday at 7:00 pm, seminars this year begin May 8. All are welcome!
Recorded Summer Seminars (during the pandemic years) can be viewed on our YouTube Channel
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title | |
| 8 May | QUBS researchers & summer interns | What we do at QUBS | |
| 15 May | Robert Hanner, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph | Applications and limitations of eDNA for aquatic biomonitoring | |
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BONUS TALK: 16 May (Thursday, 4:30-5:30pm) |
Cathryn Abbott, Research Scientist, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, Pacific Biological Station | The twisty-turny road towards translating eDNA science into action | |
| 22 May | Julia Riley (Mount Allison University) |
Reptile Sociality – Tipping the Scales |
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| 29 May | No seminar | n/a | |
| 5 June | Isaac Armstrong (Queen's University) | Dishin' dirt: sedimentary invertebrate remains as indicators of long-term change in two Great Lakes Areas of Concern | |
| 12 June |
Eryn McFarlane (York University) |
Replicate hybrid zones: the promise, the pitfalls and the path forward. |
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| 19 June |
Dominic Wood & Chloe Dean-More |
Understanding tundra plant community responses to future climate warming with long-term soil fertilisation - Dominic Wood Consequences of sexual reproduction in clonal invasive plants - Chloe Dean-Moore |
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| 26 June | Madeleine Robitaille |
Using environmental DNA to map a contact zone between deeply diverged frog mitochondrial lineages in Southern Ontario |
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| 3 July |
Ginger Elliot |
Zoos, Conservation, and Assisted Reproductive Technology for Snakes! |
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| 10 July | Lake Shift, Rapid Fire Talk | Graduate Research in Ontario:
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| 17 July | Alyssa Reynolds and Arjun Augustine (Queen's University) |
Alyssa: Climate change and breeding phenology of Eastern Ontario frogs and toads. Arjun: Differentiation of freshwater island snakes - implications for evolution and conservation. |
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| 24 July | David Cheung (Entomologist, Educator, Photographer and Designer with DKB Digital Designs) | Bugs, cell phones and classrooms: The creative journey behind Bugdex. | |
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| 7 August | Dr. Benoit Talbot and Dr. Roman McKay, (University of Ottawa) | Investigation of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Eastern Ontario | |
| 14 August |