View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.
Past Events
-
February 21, 2020
BLISS (cancelled)
Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. …
-
-
February 14, 2020
BLISS
Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. …
-
February 12, 2020
BRS: Lauren Shoemaker "The role of environmental variability and food web structure for species coexistence"
host: Rachel Germain, cookies Angie N and Mia W Abstract: Environmental variability and interspecific interactions are two cornerstones of the longstanding effort to understand how species coexist and the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. Recently it has become evident that these two…
-
February 7, 2020
BLISS
Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. …
-
February 5, 2020
BRS: Noelle Beckman "Seed dispersal ecology under global change"
host: Jennifer Williams, cookies Sarah S-T and Megan S Abstract: Dispersal influences individual fitness, population persistence, and biodiversity across scales, as well as a population’s ability to track shifting habitats, deal with large-scale environmental variability, and adapt to…
-
January 31, 2020
BLISS
Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. …
-
January 29, 2020
BRS: Chelsea Little "Everything Is Moving: Ecosystem Function in a Changing World"
host: Rachel Germain, cookies: Sean M and Gil H Topic: My research centers on how connections between ecosystems influences their dynamics and functioning. In this talk, I will present how spatial configuration of ecosystems in a landscape affects the flow of materials and organisms between…
-
January 24, 2020
BLISS
Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. …
-
January 22, 2020
BRS: Lisa D. White "Integrating field and fossil data with visualization tools to enhance instruction in biodiversity, Earth system processes, and global climate change"
host: Bridgitte Clarkson, cookies: Sierra S and Chelsea L Lisa D. White, Director of Education, Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley The extensive fossil holdings and significant online resources at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) are…