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HOME > University Programs > Fall Program 2009 > Past Fall Seminars

Previous Fall Seminar Series

Fall 2010

Dr. Chris Neufeld (UA), "The Creative Scientist? The overlooked role of creativity in the scientific process."

Dr. Hana Kucera (UNB), "DNA barcoding for seaweed species identification and discovery."

Dr. Heather Alexander (BMSC), "Extraordinary sex ratios in Tigriopus californicus."

Dr. Brian Starzomski (UVIC), "Landscape, disturbance, and local biodiversity."

Dr. Louise Page (UVIC), "Spectacular cone snails: sleuthing developmental footprints on the evolutionary route to complexity."

Dr. Doug Syme (UC), "A convergence of design in tunas and sharks? There and (almost) back again."

Fall 2009

Dr. Bill Milsom (UBC), "From burrowing lizards to high flying birds: cardio-respiratory support of metabolic extremes."

Dr. Norm Stacey (U Alberta), "Hormonal Pheromones in Fishes".

Dr. Robert Shadwick (UBC), "Scale effects on lunge feeding in baleen whales."

Chris Neufeld (U Alberta), "The evolution of phenotypic plasticity and its role in adaptation to novel environments".

Dr. Bruce Deagle (UVic), "Studying diet of marine species using DNA barcodes: Is this our one-eyed king?"

Dr. Jon Shurin (UBC), "How many can ride the roller coaster? Species diversity and environmental change."

Fall 2008

Dr. Brad Anholt (BMSC/UVic) "Fisher Visits the Seashore"

Dr. Tara Macdonald (Fall Program Alumni, BMSC) "Solving mysteries of annelid evolution: Phylogenetic relationships among serpuliform polychaetes"

Dr. Chris Wood (McMaster) "In one end of the shark and out the other: events and consequences of feeding in the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias"

Dr. Maite Maldonado (UBC) "Understanding the role of copper in iron-limited oceanic regions"

Dr. Jon Shurin (UBC) "Comparing trophic structure in different ecosystems"

Dr. Louis Druehl (BMSC/SFU) "Morphological, reproductive and molecular diversity in kelp "

Kerry Marchinko (Fall Program Alumni, UBC) "The ecology and genetics of stickleback diversification"

Dr. Ben Miner (Western Washington University) "Putting density into trait-mediated indirect effects"

Dr. Mike Hart (SFU) "Taking the long view: natural history and reproductive ecology in the context of geology & climate change"

Fall 2007

Dr. Jane Watson (Malaspina University-College) "Temporal and spatial variation in kelp forest communities off the west coast of Vancouver Island"

Dr. Tom Okey (Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre) "Impacts of climate change on marine biota, communities, and ecosystem services"

Dr. Hannah Stewart (Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories, University of Washington) "Ecological consequences of seaweed morphology across barrier reefs and kelp beds"

Marty Krkosek (University of Alberta) "Effects of salmon aquaculture on sea lice transmission and wild salmon population dynamics"

Dr. Giséle Muller-Parker (Western Washington University & Shannon Point Marine Centre) "Multiple partners: lessons from temperate anemone symbioses"

Dr. Mark Denny (Stanford University & Hopkins Marine Station) "On the prediction of extreme events in ecology"

Dr. Tim Edgell (University of Alberta & Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre) "European green crabs and their native American prey: Lessons from Atlantic Canada"

Dr. Robert Shadwick (University of British Columbia) "Biomechanics of high performance fishes"

Fall 2006

Patrik Nosil (SFU) "Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation"

Dr. Richard Strathmann (Friday Harbor Laboratory) "Feeding heads. Ciliary suspension-feeding mechanisms of larvae"

Dr. Mike Hart (SFU) "Marine population genetics: not just dispersal and differentiation"

Dr. Chris Harley (UBC) "Climate change and the ecology of rocky shores"

Dr. Iain McGaw (University of Nevada LV) "Ecophysiology of decapod crustaceans"

Dr. Bob Shadwick (UBC) "Locomotion in high-performance fishes: convergence in the mechanical design of tunas and lamnid sharks"

Dr. Patrick O'Hara (UVic/CWS/DFO) "Birds oiled at sea"

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