PEARL Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory
Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada, K7L 3N6
Limnology Seminar Series
Everyone is Welcome
The Queen's Department of Biology's Limnology Seminar Series is held weekly during the academic year (as well as special sessions during the summer) to explore topics related to limnology, paleolimnology, and aquatic ecology. All seminars are held in room 3110 of the Biosciences Complex, Wednesdays at 12:30 PM. The current but evolving schedule is given below. Watch for updates.
Presenters will have the opportunity to meet with limnologists in the department (graduate students and professors) and can be provided with temporary workspace and internet access. The seminar coordinator will set up the room prior to each seminar. The department will provide audiovisual equipment and a laptop computer.
To be added to the e-mail
distribution list, or to enquire about presenting a seminar,
please contact the coordinator Katie Griffiths
(katherine.griffiths@queensu.ca). Thank you for
participating!!
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DATE
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NAME
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AFFILIATION
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TITLE
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Sept - 21 - 2011 |
Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) |
PEARL Orientation |
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Sept - 28 - 2011 |
Larkin Mosscrop | Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
Stormwater ponds and their significance in the changing urban environment |
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| Oct - 5 - 2011 |
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| Oct - 14 - 2011 (Friday) |
Roland
Hall |
University
of Waterloo |
Natural processes dominate the delivery
of water and contaminants to the Peace-Athabasca Delta |
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Oct - 19 - 2011
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Alexandra Rouillard | University of Western Austraila, PhD Student |
Tracking extreme hydroclimatic
variability of an extensive wetland ecosystem in semi-arid
inland Pilbara, northwestern Australia |
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Oct - 26 - 2011 |
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| Nov - 2 - 2011 |
Neal Michelutti | Queen's Biology,
Research Associate (PEARL) |
Paleolimnology in equatorial high
mountain lakes: project design and preliminary results |
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| Nov - 9 - 2011 |
Jenny Korosi |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
Anomalous levels of algal production
linked to lakewater calcium decline through food web
linkages |
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| Nov - 16 - 2011 |
Queen's Geography (EVEX) |
What
is the environmental signal in clastic varved sediments |
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| Nov - 23 - 2011 | ||||
Nov
- 30 - 2011
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Michelle Brazeau |
Ottawa
University |
The historical deposition and
microbial redox cycling of mercury in northern Ontario lake
sediments |
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Dec
- 7 - 2011
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Adam Jeziorski | Aquatic ecosystem responses to
rapid recovery from extreme acidification and metal
contamination in lakes near Wawa, Ontario |
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| Dec
- 15 - 2011 |
Norman Yan |
York University |
The risk to zooplankton biodiversity of the spread of Bythotrephes in Ontario |
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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Jan - 11 - 2012 |
Joshua Thienpont |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
Biological responses to
permafrost thaw slumping in lakes of the Mackenzie Delta
uplands |
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Jan - 18 - 2012 |
John Smol |
Queen's Biology (PEARL) | A brief history of paleolimnology:
where have we been? and where might we be going? |
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Jan - 25 - 2012 |
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| Feb - 1 - 2012 |
Robert Alvo |
Conservation Co-op, Ottawa |
Common loon breeding success in
relation to lake pH and size |
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| Feb - 8 - 2012 |
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Feb - 15 - 2012
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Angelo Sorce |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
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READING WEEK |
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Feb - 29 - 2012 |
Brian Kielstra | |||
Mar - 7 - 2012
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Mike Yuille |
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Mar - 14 - 2012 |
Emily Stewart | Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
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Mar - 21 - 2012 |
Larkin Mosscrop | Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
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| Mar -
28 - 2012 |
Kathryn Hargan |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
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Apr - 4 - 2012 |
Moumita Karmakar | Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
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Apr - 11 - 2012 |
Cassandra Cumming |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
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| Apr - 18 - 2012 |
Kristina Arseneau |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
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DATE
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NAME
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AFFILIATION
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TITLE
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Sept - 22 - 2010 |
Dr. John Smol |
Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) |
PEARL Orientation |
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| Sept- 29 - 2010
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Dr. Roberto Quinlan | York University | The ecology of benthic macroinvertebrates in central Nunavut lakes and ponds |
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| Oct - 06 - 2010 |
Adam Jeziorski and Josh Thienpont |
Queen's Biology,
(PEARL) |
A new open-source tool to aid in the calculation of 210Pb dates |
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| Oct - 20 - 2010 |
Dr.
David Depew |
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of
Environmental Studies, Queen's University |
Contemporary Cladophora distribution in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Resurgence and Management implications | |
| Nov - 10 - 2010 |
Katie Griffiths
|
The ice cube hypothesis:
assessing glacial modulation in two lakes from the SW
Yukon
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| Nov - 17 - 2010 |
Dr. Peter
Hodson |
Queen's Biology School of Environmental Studies |
Loadings of contaminants to the Athabasca River watershed by oil sands extraction (and why Ed Stelmach disagrees!) | |
| Nov - 24 - 2010 |
Dr. Carmen Perez-Martinez
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Department of Ecology, University of Granada, Spain |
Limnology in the Sierra Nevada lakes | |
| Dec - 08 - 2010 |
Alexandra Rouillard | Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Paleolimnological assessment of environmental changes from Pim Island, Nunavut, High Arctic Canada |
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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Jan - 05 - 2011 |
No Seminar | Society of Canadian Limnologists Annual Meeting Toronto, ON (Jan 6-8, 2011) |
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Jan - 12 - 2011 |
Mark Kelly | Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Can acid sulfur deposition influence mercury bioaccumulation in fish? | |
Jan - 26 - 2011 |
Brendan Wiltse |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
An assessment of recent changes in diatom assemblages from eight "reference" lakes in the Experimental Lakes Area, Northwestern Ontario. | |
| Feb - 2 - 2011 |
Dr. Katrina
Moser |
Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario |
Are human activities altering remote Uinta mountain lakes, Utah (USA)?: A paleolimnological perspective |
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Feb - 9 - 2011 |
Susan Ma |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
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READING WEEK |
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Mar - 16 - 2011 |
Jesse
Vermaire |
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Department of
Geography, Carleton
University |
Reconstructing macrophyte biomass dynamics in temperate lakes |
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Mar - 23 - 2011 |
Heather Haig |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Diatom
and
chrysophyte
inferred changes in effective moisture over the past two
millennia from Gall Lake, northwestern Ontario |
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Apr - 6 - 2011 |
Dr.
Piet Spaak |
Department of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Technology |
Daphnia hybridization
in peri-alpine lakes over space and time |
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Apr- 20 - 2011 |
Karlee Flear |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Investigating the role of recent climate change on assemblages of scaled chrysophytes in boreal lakes from the Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario |
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2009-2010 Seminar Schedule (Updated 15 April 2010)
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DATE
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NAME
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AFFILIATION
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TITLE
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Sept - 23 - 2009 |
Colleen Inglis |
Queen's Biology, MSc. Student (Arnott lab) |
The effects of copper on kairomone-mediated inducible responses by wild Daphnia pulicaria clones from lakes along a copper-contamination gradient |
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| Sept- 30 - 2009
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Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) | PEARL Orientation |
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| Oct - 07 - 2009 |
Dr.
Craig Woodward |
University
of Western Ontario |
43 million sheep, 4.3 million people and a handful of paleolimnologists: progress, challenges, and opportunities in New Zealand paleolimnology |
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| Oct - 14 - 2009 |
Dr. Roberto Quinlan |
York University | Climate change in shallow boreal lakes
- an inference model to track changes in thermal regime? |
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| Oct - 28 - 2009 | Timothy Ensom
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Summer Thermal Regime of Mackenzie Delta Surface Waters |
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| Nov - 11 - 2009 |
Dr. Brian Ginn
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Monitoring Environmental
Change in the Nearshore Zone of Lake Simcoe (Ontario,
Canada)
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| Nov - 18 - 2009 |
Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) | A Brief History of Paleolimnology:
Where have we been and Where might we be going |
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| Nov - 25 - 2009 |
Jessica Hawryshyn
|
Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
Tracking
ecological history in a multiple stressor system: a
paleolimnological study of Lake Simcoe, Ontario
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| Dec - 02 - 2009 |
Ted
Lewis |
Queen's Geography,
post-doc ( Environmental Extremes and Variability Laboratory (EVEX)) |
The influence of subtle near-bottom
currents on lake processes in a High Arctic lake |
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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| Jan - 13 - 2010 |
Matt DeMille | Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (Tufts lab) |
The displacement, activity and spatial
distribution of largemouth bass in Lake Opinicon: an
evaluation of Murphy Bay fish sanctuary |
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| Jan - 20 - 2010 |
Dr. Liang Zhang |
Queen's University,
post-doc
(Campbell lab) |
Food web
and mercury biomagnification in the Three Gorges region,
China
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| Jan - 27 - 2010 | Crystal Hyatt
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The effects
of shoreline development and climate warming on water
quality in the Lake of the Woods: a paleolimnological
investigation.
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| Feb - 03 - 2010 |
Hilary Dugan |
Queen's Geography,
MSc student
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"The formation of hypersalinity in a coastal high arctic lake" |
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| Feb - 10 - 2010 | Ceran
Sekeryapan
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Visiting Scholar Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
Rapid changes on the coastal lakes
located in North-western part of Turkey during the last 3.5
ka |
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READING WEEK |
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| Mar - 03 - 2010 |
Kathryn McCleary |
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Reconstructing the Historical Environmental Impact of Early Arctic Peoples on Freshwater Systems on Southern Baffin Island. |
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Mar - 10 - 2010 |
Derek Gray |
Queen's
Biology, PhD student (Arnott lab) |
The
role
of dispersal in the recovery of acid-damaged zooplankton
communities in Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario. |
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| Mar - 17 - 2010 |
Dr. Joshua Kuerk |
Queen's Biology, post-doc, (PEARL) |
Phantom
midges (Chaoborus sp.) from small, shallow lakes in the
Boreal Shield ecozone |
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| Mar - 24 - 2010 | Kristina Arseneault | Queen's Biology, MSc. Student (PEARL) |
Biological
recovery
from
acidification
in
the
Adirondacks (NY, USA) |
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Mar - 31 - 2010 |
Melanie Kingsbury |
Queen's Biology,
MSc. Student (PEARL) |
The spatial distribution of diatom
species along a depth gradient from 8 lakes in northwestern
Ontario: providing the empirical basis for depth-based
reconstructions |
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April 7 - 2010 |
Markus Dyck |
Queen's Biology, PhD student (Lougheed lab) |
Community Monitoring of
Environmental Change:
College-Based Limnological
Studies at Crazy Lake (Tasirluk), Nunavut
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2008-2009 Seminar Schedule (Updated March 27th 2009)
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DATE
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NAME
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AFFILIATION
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TITLE
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| Oct - 01 - 2008 | Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) |
PEARL Orientation |
| Oct - 15 - 2008 |
Dr. Jérôme
Marty |
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
St. Lawrence River Institute |
Increasing connectivity between terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems: What are the effects on carbon cycling in aquatic food webs? |
| Oct - 22 - 2008 |
Chris Lorenz | Queen's Biology, M.Sc. Student (PEARL) | Fire-Climate relationships at the Forest-Prairie ecotone in Alberta, Canada |
| Nov - 05 - 2008 |
Eutrophication of Eastern
Australian Estuaries. A Developing Science.
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| Nov - 12 - 2008 |
Shannon
MacPhee
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Queen's Biology,
M.Sc. Student (Arnott
Lab)
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Thermal regime,
spatially-dependent predation
and crustacean zooplankton communities in a small Boreal Shield lake |
| Dec - 03 - 2008 |
Dr. John Johnston * |
Dept. of Geography and Env. Studies Wilfrid Laurier University |
Five millennial-long paleo-hydrographs for the Upper Great Lakes constructed from ancient shorelines. |
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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| Jan - 8 - 2009 |
Dr. Alexander Wolfe | Dept. of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta |
Eocene paleoclimates of the Canadian
Arctic: Back to the Future? |
| Jan - 14 - 2009 |
Joshua Thienpont |
Queen's Biology, Ph.D. Student (PEARL) | Assessing the impact of thawing
permafrost on lakes near Inuvik, NWT, Canada using
sedimentary diatoms |
| Jan - 21 - 2009 |
Jennifer Korosi |
Queen's Biology,
Ph.D. Student (PEARL)
|
Developing the use of
cladoceran size structure as a paleolimnological indicator
of ecosystem change in Canadian Shield lakes
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| Feb - 04 - 2009 |
Anneli Jokela |
Queen's Biology,
Ph.D. Student (Arnott
Lab)
|
Factors affecting the
impact of invasive mussels on native freshwater mussels
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| Feb - 11 - 2009 |
Melissa
Moos
|
Queen's Biology, Ph.D. Student (PEARL) | Tracking Holocene environmental changes in NW Ontario: A multi-proxy paleoclimatic study |
| Feb - 18 - 2009 | READING WEEK |
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Mar - 04 - 2009 |
Leah James |
Queen's Biology,
M.Sc. Student (Arnott Lab) |
Effect of the invasive predator, Bythotrephes longimanus, on cisco (Coregonus artedi) in Ontario shield lakes |
Mar - 25 - 2009 |
Dr. Howard Riessen * |
Department of Biology, SUNY College at Buffalo |
Turning Inducible Defenses On and Off: Adaptive Responses of Zooplankton Prey to a Gape-limited Predator |
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Apr - 01 - 2009 |
Kathryn McCleary |
Queen's Biology,
M.Sc. Student (PEARL) |
Development of a Diatom-Based Calibration Set for a High Arctic Warm Oasis |
| Apr - 08 - 2009 | Cheryl Wilson |
Queen's Biology,
M.Sc. Student (PEARL) |
A lacustrine sediment record of
the last three interglacial periods from Clyde Foreland,
Baffin Island: Biological indicators from the past 200,000
years |
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*Presentations
sponsored by the Great Lakes Research
Consortium (many thanks!)
|
2007-2008 Seminar Schedule (Updated 14 April 2008)
| *Presentations by Drs. Knoll and Grima sponsored by the Great Lakes Research Consortium (many thanks!) |
2006-2007 Seminar Schedule
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DATE
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NAME
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AFFILIATION
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TITLE
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| Sep 27/06 | Dr. John Casselman | Queen's Biology |
Long-term dynamics of northern pike
recruitment: water level, temperature, impoundment, and
adaptation
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| Oct 11/06 | Dr. Neal Michelutti | Queen's Biology (PEARL) | New applications of reflectance spectroscopy in paleoecology: Inferring recent and long-term climatic change on Baffin Island, Nunavut |
| Oct 17/06 | Dr. Katrina Moser | University of Western Ontario | Quaternary
hydrologic and climatic change inferred from |
| Oct 25/06 | Isla Milne | Queen's Biology, M.Sc. Student (PEARL) | A high-resolution fossil diatom record of Holocene climate and environmental change in equatorial East Africa |
| Nov 1/06 | Dr. Clifford Kraft* | Cornell University | Alewife, thiamine deficiency and fish mortality: a scientific "who done it? mystery" |
| Nov 7/06 | Dr. Robie W. Macdonald | Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia | The importance of biochemical time series for understanding recent change in the Arctic Ocean (Royal Society of Canada Miroslaw Romanowski Lecture) |
| Nov 15/06 | Dr. Douglas Hallett | Queen's Geography and School of Environmental Studies | Fire in high places: Sierra Nevada, California and southern British Columbia |
| Nov 22/06 | Adam Jeziorski | Queen's Biology, Ph.D. Student (PEARL) | Calcium concentrations of freshwater zooplankton species: tests for impacts of declining aqueous calcium levels |
| Dec 4/06 | Dr. Sherilyn Fritz | University of Nebraska's Water Center, Lincoln | Limnological and climatic variability in the southern tropical Andes during the last 400,000 years |
| Dec 8/06 | Dr. Norman Yan | York University | Complications with recovery from acid rain in Ontario: progress, but no cigar |
| Dec 13/06 | Anna DeSellas | Queen's Biology, M.Sc. Student (PEARL) | Evidence for a shift in the pelagic cladoceran community since pre-industrial times in reference lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada |
| Dec 18/06 | Dr. Alexander P. Wolfe | University of Alberta | Baltic amber, infrared spectroscopy, and the Paleogene demise of northern European forests |
| Jan 10/07 | Kris Hadley | Queen's Biology, M.Sc. Student (PEARL) | Assessing Thule Inuit impacts on high Arctic lakes and ponds: a paleolimnological approach |
| Jan 16/07 (Tuesday, 1:30-2:30PM, Rm. 3110) | Dr. Eric Grimm | Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL | Drought and fire: Implications of recurrent drought cycles in the northern Great Plains |
| Jan 17/07 (1:30-2:30PM, Rm. 3110) | Dr. Roland Hall* | University of Waterloo | Evaluating a widespread paradigm about the "death" of the Peace-Athabasca delta using paleo-environmental records |
| Jan 24/07 | Justin Shead | Queen's Biology, M.Sc. Student (Arnott Lab) | Limited biological recovery of Killarney Park lakes from historical acid deposition despite chemical recovery |
| Jan 31/07 | Dr. Todd Howell | Ontario Ministry of Environment, Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch, Toronto | The paradox of water quality on the south eastern shores of Lake Huron |
| Feb 13/07 (Tuesday, 11:30-12:30, Rm. 3110) | Wendell (Bill) Keller | Ontario Ministry of Environment and Laurentian University (adjunct) | Recovery of acidified lakes: lessons from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Feb 28/07 | Sarah Crookshanks | Queen's Geography , M.Sc. Student | High energy sedimentation in Kluane Lake, Yukon |
| Mar 9/07 (Friday, 10:30-11:30AM, Rm. 3110) | Dr. Sarah Gewurtz | Ontario Ministry of Environment and Brock University | Approaches for modeling organic contaminants of concern, such as polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and polychlorinated naphthalenes in aquatic food webs |
| Mar 21/07 | Dr. Craig W. Hawryshyn | Queen's Biology, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Visual Neurobiology and Behavior | The visual world of fishes |
| March 28/07 | Dr. Leon Boegman | Queen's Civil Engineering | Lake hydrodynamics and impacts of stratification on water quality |
| Apr 4/07 | Dr. Kelly Munkittrick | Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem Health Assessment and Associate Director, Canada Rivers Institute (University of New Brunswick, St. John) | Examining the performance in fish populations in potato growing areas of New Brunswick |
| Apr 5/07* (Thursday, 3:30-4:30PM, Rm. 3110) | Dr. Peter J. Dillon | Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University | Long-term changes in boreal lake and stream chemistry: acidification, recovery and the role of climate in carbon cycling |
| Apr 11/07 | Caleb Hasler | Queen's Biology, M.Sc. Student (Tufts Lab) | The affect of winter on largemouth bass movement and distribution |
| Apr 25/07 | Dr. Jules Blais | University of Ottawa | Biologically mediated transport of contaminants to aquatic systems |
| *Presentations by Dr. Kraft and Dr. Hall sponsored by the Great Lakes Research Consortium (many thanks!) |
| *Jointly presented with the Departmental Seminar Series |
2005-2006 Seminar Schedule
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DATE |
Speaker Name |
Affiliation |
Tentative Title |
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September 21/05 |
Jon Sweetman sweetman@biology.queensu.ca
|
Queen’s University |
Evaluating the Effects of Recent Environmental Changes on Cladoceran Communities in Lakes in the Central Arctic Treeline Region - A Paleolimnological Approach |
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September 28/05 |
Dr. Ellie Prepas
|
LakeHead University |
Can't see the Forest for the Trees? Industrial Collaboration and Scientific Enterprise |
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October 5/05 |
Dr. John Casselman
|
Queen’s University |
Effects of Climate and Climate Change on Lake Trout Populations and Fisheries |
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October 12/05
|
Anita Holtham and Joe Bennett
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|
Laos |
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October 19/05
|
Journal Club |
|
No Seminar |
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* October 27/05
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Dr. David Schindler |
University of Alberta
|
Hosted by Environmental Studies, Ellis Auditorium 7:30-9:00PM |
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November 2/05 |
Laura Lawlor |
Queen’s University |
Reconstruction of Nova Scotia Brook Trout Lake Histories: A Chironomid-based Paleolimnological Assessment |
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November 9/05
|
Todd French
|
TBA |
TBA |
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November 16/05 |
Dr. Astrid Michels
|
Queen’s University |
TBA |
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November 23/05 |
Dr. Mihaela Enache
|
Queens’s University |
TBA |
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November 30/05 |
Dr. Ed Mills |
Cornell University |
Chasing Ecological Change in the Great Lakes: The Lake Ontario Story
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December 7/05
|
Dr. Virginia Card
|
Metropolitan State University |
Diatom life-cycles in the Paleolimnological record
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December 14/06 |
Cancelled
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December 21/05 |
No Seminar |
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December 28/05 |
No Seminar |
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January 4/06 |
No Seminar |
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January 11/06 |
No Seminar |
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January 18/06
|
Journal Club |
|
No Seminar |
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January 27/06 Jointly with Biology Seminar Series
|
Dr. Scott Higgins |
University of Waterloo |
Coastal Eutrophication of the lower Laurentian Great Lakes
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February 1/06
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February 8/06 |
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February 15/06 |
Angela Strecker
|
Queen’s University |
TBA |
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February 22/06
|
Reading Week
|
|
No Seminar |
|
March 1/06 |
Daniel Selbie
|
Queen’s University |
TBA |
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March 8/06
|
Dr. Shelley Arnott
|
Queen’s University |
TBA |
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March 15/06 |
Dr. Linda Campbell |
Queen’s University
|
TBA |
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March 22/06 |
Dr. Lars Rudstam |
Cornell University |
TBA
|
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24. March 29/06 |
Dr. Jani Honkanen
|
Queen’s University |
Pollution of Baltic Sea and Freshwater Lakes in Finland |
|
25. April 5/06
|
TBA |
Queen’s University
|
TBA |
