2010-11 Term 1

Friday, Sept. 17th, 2010 – 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Marbled Murrelet Foraging Behaviour and Habitat Selection in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia

Kyle A. Muirhead (B.Sc., Brandon University, 2007)
M.Sc. Candidate, Whale Research Lab, Department of Geography, University of Victoria

Abstract

Friday, September 24th, 2010 – 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Selenium distribution, speciation, and bioaccumulation in a northern Saskatchewan aquatic ecosystem

Karsten Liber
Executive Director, School of Environment and Sustainability
Executive Oversight, Toxicology Centre
University of Saskatchewan

Friday, October 1st- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Neutrons as a probe of hidden order in condensed matter systems

Professor C. R. Wiebe, University of Winnipeg / University of Manitoba

Abstract

Friday, October 8th- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Sometimes the most interesting things happen when your hypothesis is wrong; what has gone wrong (and right) in my research.

Ed Krol, Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of  Saskatchewan

Abstract

October 15th- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

The little molecule that could… in drug abuse, psychiatry, species specific social cues, thyroid hormone effects and diabetes

Mark Berry, Chemistry, Brandon University

Abstract

October 22nd- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Roland Kothes, Dominion Radio Astrophysical
Observatory, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council Canada

Cancelled October 29th- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

The ‘Bear’ Necessities: Differentiating animal from human skeletal remains in forensic contexts

Suyoko Tsukamoto,  Anthropology, Brandon University

November 5th- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Nicola Koper, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba
Conservation of Canadian prairies and prairie songbirds

Abstract

November 19th- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Sorting the signal from the noise: how multiple mechanisms
structure ecological communities

Eric Lamb, Plant Sciences, University of  Saskatchewan

Abstract

November 26th- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

A picture’s worth a thousand symbols

Todd Fugleberg, Physics, Brandon University

Abstract

December 3rd- 3:00 PM
Brodie Building, Room 3-42

Classification accuracy across multiple tests following item-method directed forgetting

Phillip Goernert, Psychology, Brandon University

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