Sunday, May 1st, 2016 - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 - 8:00 PM
Held in the Conference Room in the R.J. Robertson Biodiversity Centre each Wednesday at 7:00 pm. All are welcome! We are just beginning to assemble the roster so please check back.
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4 May | Chris Elvidge Carleton University |
Environmental factors shape the five personality axes |
| Special Seminar Mon, 9 May, 1pm |
Nann Fangue University of California, Davis |
Physiological and behavioral approaches to studying threatened and endangered fishes. |
| 11 May | Greg Bulté Carleton University |
The sex life of the northern map turtle: what goes on above and below the surface. |
| 18 May | Pedro Antunes Algoma University |
New beginnings – plant - soil microbe interactions and non-native species introductions. |
| 25 May | Laura Schoenle Virginia Tech |
Surviving or thriving with malaria? The role of stress hormones in mediating resistance and tolerance to infection in wild birds. |
| 1 June | Maggie Bartkowska Queen's University |
Identifying causes of natural selection and assessing how asexual reproduction influences selection on genome-wide diversity. |
| 8 June | Steve Lougheed Queen's University |
Genetic insights into conservation of Ontario snake species at risk. |
| 15 June | Ivana Schoepf Virginia Tech |
Habitat saturation and reproductive competition influence sociality in an African mammal. |
| 22 June | Lisa Belden Virginia Tech |
Community ecology of the amphibian skin microbiome. |
| 29 June | Dave Beresford Trent University |
Insect trapping adventures. |
| 6 July | Rachael Hornsby Queen's University |
Investigating the impacts of competitive fishing on Black Bass populations in Lake Ontario through mark recapture and acoustic telemetry. |
| 13 July | Robert Dick Canadian Scotobiology Group Inc. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |
The biological impact of artificial light. |
| 20 July | Catherine Dale, Amanda Tracey & Sarah Wallace Queen's University |
The truth about stories: Adventures from the field. |
| 27 July | Evaristo Hernández-Fernández University of Guadalajara, Autlán de Navarro |
The Art of Nature. |
| 3 August | Julie Claussen University of Illinois |
Tracking the golden fish in the mountains of Bhutan. |
| 10 August | Michael Clarke La Trobe University, Australia |
Managing fire for fauna in Australia is not rocket science – it's much more complex than that! |
| 17 August | Manisha Kulkarni University of Ottawa |
Mapping hotspots of vector-borne disease risk. |
| 24 August | Amanda Cicchino Queen's University |
Why are there so many kinds of frog calls? Exploring the evolutionary and ecological pressures that shape acoustic diversity in the spring peeper. |