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Limnology Seminar Series
2019-2020 Seminar Schedule (Updated 3 Sep 2019 )
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Co-Director, Professor, PEARL, |
PEARL orientation |
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| Sept. 25 2019 | Dr. Shelley Arnott | Professor, Queen's Department of Biology | Salty waters: how winter road salt application is impacting freshwater zooplankton communities |
| Oct. 2 2019 | Dr. Adam Jeziorski | Research Associate, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Jezioro R Package updates |
| Oct. 9 2019 | Steven Moore | Adjunct Lecturer, Smith School of Business and Queen's School of Environmental Studies | Earth-sheltered housing and sustainability |
| Oct. 16 2019 | Dr. Laura Brown |
Associate Professor,
Cryosphere Research Lab University of Toronto Mississauga |
Lake ice processes and change across Canada: Temperate vs. High Arctic |
| Oct. 30 2019 | Cécilia Barouillet |
Ph.D. candidate,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Long-term response of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) nursery lakes to climate and watershed management activities in British Columbia (Canada) |
| Nov. 13 2019 |
Dr. Christopher Omelon
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Assistant Professor, Queen's University | Discovery of schwertmannite in Colour Lake, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut |
| Nov. 20 2019 | Dr. Robert Bailey | Professor, Ontario Tech University Department of Biology | Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems: Fifty Years of Progress & Frustration, Five Suggestions |
| Nov. 27 2019 | Nell Libera |
Ph.D. student,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Forensic paleolimnology: Developing and applying approaches to investigate putative fur farming pollution in lakes |
| Nov. 29 2019 | Dr. Daniel Selbie |
Research Biologist Fisheries and Oceans Canada Cultus Lake Salmon Research Laboratory |
Endangered sockeye salmon ((Oncorhynchus nerka) imperiled by eutrophication and climate change through degradation of nursery lake critical habitat |
| Dec. 11 2019 | Dr. Megan Larsen |
Postdoctoral Fellow Wilfred Laurier University |
Mitigation on the move: Integrative tools and approaches to control cyanobacterial blooms |
| Dec. 18 2019 | Monica Garvie Fisher |
M.Sc. student,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Fire dynamics of northeastern Ontario throughout the Holocene |
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| Jan. 15 2020 | Dr. Eduard Reinhardt | Professor, McMaster University | Porewater chlorine (uXRF) as a proxy for Yucatan lake and groundwater salinity; implications for the decline of the Classic Maya |
| Jan. 29 2020 | Terry Rees |
Executive Director Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations |
How communities and decision makers interact with aquatic science |
| Feb. 5 2020 | Joeline Lim |
M.Sc. student,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Using chironomid assemblages to assess the long-term changes linked to external nutrient inputs by seabirds in temperate lakes |
| Feb. 12 2020 | Kevin Turner | Associate Professor, Brock University | Remote sensing and contemporary hydroecology |
| Feb. 19 2020 | Dr. Clare Nelligan | Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks | Great Lakes monitoring and nutrient loading of streams into Lake Erie |
| Feb. 26 2020 | Dr. Derek Gray |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Wilfrid Laurier University |
Arctic limnology |
| Mar. 4 2020 | Paul Hamilton | Senior Research Assistant, Botany Canadian Museum of Nature |
TBA |
| Mar. 11 2020 | Alice Kim, Kathryn Murray, Megan Silverthorn, Shuhong Shi | Undergraduate week | Road salt, and human health impacts of cyanobacteria |
| Mar. 18 2020 | Max Boreux | PEARL | TBA |
| Mar. 25 2020 | Cale Gushulak | PhD candidate,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Climate and lake-water interactions in northeast Ontario over the Holocene |
| Apr. 1 2020 | Branaavan Sivarajah | PhD candidate,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
TBA |
| Apr. 8 2020 | Doug Campbell | Mount Allison University | It's not easy being small and green |
| Apr. 15 2020 | Hebah Mejbel | Ph.D. candidate University of Ottawa |
Analyzing long-term cyanobacterial dynamics in lakes using sedDNA |
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| Apr. 29 2020 | |||
| May 6 2020 | Dr. Andrea Kirkwood | Associate professor, Ontario Tech University | Impacts of climate on macroalgal blooms |
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2018-2019 Seminar Schedule
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Co-Director, PEARL, |
PEARL orientation |
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Oct - 10 - 2018
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Kristen Coleman |
PhD Student, York University Department of Geography
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Oct - 17 - 2018 |
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MSc Candidate, PEARL, Queen's University
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Oct - 31 - 2018 |
Mike Pope |
Department of Geography, Queen's University |
Multi-year (2007-2017) Mercury (Hg) concentration and fluxes from small High Arctic rivers impacted by landscape disturbances |
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Nov - 7 - 2018 |
Wolfgang Küfner
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PhD Candidate, Technical University of Munich |
Mountain lakes in Bavaria, Germany.
High diversity in lakes - High diversity in
climate change effects? |
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Nov - 14 -
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Dr. Brian Cumming |
Co-Director, PEARL, |
The importance of
scale in understanding sensitivity of boreal lakes to
climate: Assessment of long-term monitoring and
paleo-records from northwest Ontario
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| Dec - 5 - 2018 |
Dr. Jeff Ridal |
Executive Director, The River Institute, Cornwall, Ontario |
Combining science and citizen-engagement to support restoration of the St. Lawrence River |
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(2:00 - 3:00) Departmental Seminar |
Clare Nelligan |
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Assessing
long-term environmental trends that support lake trout |
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Species
distribution models for aquatic invasive species screening
assessments |
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PhD Candidates,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
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Dr. John Smol |
Co-director,
PEARL, |
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Apr - 10 - 2019
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Shirley French |
Nelson Lab, Department of Biology, Queen's University |
Daphnia pulicaria's endurance through seasonal changes in Round Lake: 2014-2015 |
Apr - 16 - 2019 Special Date |
Dr. Nicholas Jones |
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Peterborough, Ontario |
Resource subsidies from adfluvial fishes increase stream productivity |
2017-2018
Seminar Schedule (Updated March 28th, 2018)
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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 - 13 - 2017 |
Dr.
John
Smol |
Co-Director,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
PEARL orientation |
Oct - 4 - 2017
Departmental Seminar |
Jamie Summers |
Long-term limnological dynamics in multiple stressor systems in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Canada. |
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| Oct - 13 - 2017 Departmental Seminar Room 3110 2:00 - 3:00 PM |
Dr. Don Charles |
Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia |
Diatom paleo
research at the Academy of Natural Sciences: Recent
and ongoing projects.
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Oct - 18 - 2017 |
Dr. Alan Heyvaert |
Director, Center for Watersheds and Environmental Sustainability Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV |
Lessons from Tahoe: A short review of times recent and historic. |
Oct - 25 - 2017
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Max Boreux |
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Nov - 1 - 2017
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Robin Valleau |
Queen's Department
of Biology |
Using paleolimnology to assess the effects of road salt application on zooplankton and diatom assemblages in Jevins Lake in the Muskoka River Watershed, Ontario. |
Nov - 8 - 2017 |
Amelia Cox
& Brett Elmslie |
MSc Candidate, Arnott
Lab,
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Nonlinear effects of
aqueous calcium concentration on antipredator response
in Daphnia.
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Nov - 15 - 2017
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec |
Lake Pavin: sedimentology, paleolimnology
and environmental history of a deep meromictic maar
lake. |
Nov - 22 - 2017
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Janae Rampone
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Nov - 29 - 2017
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Dr. Carsten Meyer-Jacob |
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Dec - 6 - 2017
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Professor, Department
of Ecology and Genetics - Limnology, Uppsala University, Sweden |
The big and the
small picture of the inland water carbon cycle.
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Dec - 13 - 2017
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Co-Director, PEARL,
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Long-term perspectives on lake eutrophication: Paleolimnological evidence of cultural and climate-induced eutrophication. | |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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Jan - 10 - 2018 |
Dr. Kathryn Hargan |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA |
New biomarkers for tracking past bird populations. |
Jan - 13 - 2018
Departmental Seminar |
Emily Stewart |
PhD Candidate, PEARL,
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The role of chironomids as indicators of eutrophication in shallow lakes |
Jan - 17 - 2018 |
Dr. Paul Blanchfield |
Adjunct Faculty - Queen's Univeristy, Fisheries & Oceans Canada |
Assessing the potential for recovery of mercury-contaminated fisheries. |
Jan - 24 - 2018 |
Dr. Ryan Sorichetti |
Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change |
Chloride Trends in Ontario Lakes and Streams. |
Feb - 7 - 2018
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Dr. Jesse Vermaire |
Assistant Professor, Carleton University |
Microplastic pollution of the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers. |
Feb - 14 - 2018 |
Dr. Diane Orihel |
Assistant Professor, School of Environmental
Studies, Department of Biology, Queen's University
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Mud: a fuel for algal blooms? |
READING WEEK |
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Feb - 28 - 2018 |
Dr. Dominique Lapointe |
Research Scientist, St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences, Cornwall, ON |
Fish in a changing environment: assessing the impacts of human-induced stressors. |
Mar - 7 - 2018 |
Dr. Joshua Thienpont |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa Department of Biology |
Assessing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) distribution in lakes of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta. |
Mar - 14 - 2018 |
Matthew Duda |
Queen's Department
of Biology |
Using paleolimnology to understand colonial population trends and limnological effects of Leach’s Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa). |
Mar - 16 - 2018 |
Stephen Anderson
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MSc Candidate, |
Environmental
monitoring of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms using
small unmanned aerial systems.
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Mar - 28 - 2018 |
Dana
Cruikshank
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Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change |
Water quality management of Lake Trout lakes in Eastern Ontario. |
Apr - 4 - 2018
Departmental Seminar |
Andrew Labaj |
Cladoceran responses to environmental change in high elevation Andean lakes. |
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Apr - 18 - 2018 |
Kristen Coleman |
PhD Student, York University Department of Geography |
TBD |
2016-2017 Seminar Schedule
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AFFILIATION
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TITLE
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Sept - 14 - 2016 |
Dr.
John
Smol |
Co-Director,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
PEARL orientation |
Oct - 12 - 2016 Departmental Seminar Room 3110 1:00 - 2:00 PM |
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Bythotrephes longimanus
and calcium decline, stressors of Canadian Shield
lakes
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| Oct - 19 - 2016 |
Guy-Thierry Tenkouano |
MES Candidate,PEARL, Queen's Department of Environmental Studies |
Environmental impact of activities at the Deloro industrial site (Southern Ontario) on a downstream lake: a examination of geochemical and biological changes |
| Oct - 26 - 2016 |
Janae Rampone |
MSc Candidate,PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Using the Lakeshore Capacity Model to predict total phosphorus budgets of lakes in Algonquin Park, Ontario |
| Nov - 23 - 2016 |
Julien Fouché | Postdoctoral Researcher, FaBRECC, Queen's Department of Geography and planning |
Pan-Canadian Trends of Optical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter from Permafrost-soils to Arctic Rivers |
| Nov - 30 - 2016 |
Clare Nelligan |
PhD Candidate,PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Tracking temporal trends in total phosphorus and hypolimnetic dissolved oxygen in an Ontario Lake Trout lake |
| Dec - 7 -2016 |
Katherine Moir |
MES Candidate,PEARL, Queen's Department of Environmental Studies |
Recent river recovery or nearshore nutrient nightmare? A paleolimnological assessment of eutrophication trends in Lake St. Francis (St. Lawrence River) over the last 70 years. |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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| Jan - 18 - 2017 |
Dr. Brendan Wiltse |
Science and Stewardship
Director, Ausable River Association Professional photograph Brendan Wiltse Photography |
Ausable River Watershed: A Model for Research and Action |
| Jan - 25 - 2017 CANCELLED |
Lauren Gallant |
MSc Canditate, Environmental
Tracer and Contaminants Laboratory, University of
Ottawa Department of Biology |
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| Feb - 15 - 2017 |
Aidin Jabbari Sahebari | PhD Candidate, Queen's
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Civil
Engineering |
Numerical modeling of dissolved oxygen concentrations in Lake Trout lakes |
READING WEEK |
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| March - 1 - 2017 |
Cale Gushulak |
PhD Candidate,PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Spatial Statistics and Diatom Community Organization: An Argument against Dispersal |
| March - 8 - 2017 |
Lauren Gallant | MSc Canditate, Environmental Tracer and Contaminants Laboratory, University of Ottawa Department of Biology | Examining the contaminant and dietary trends in a 4,000-year-old bat guano deposit |
| March - 22 - 2017 |
Erin Suenaga (1)
and Melanie Overhill (2)
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MSc Candidates, Arnott
Lab, Queen's Department of Biology |
(1) The effects of multiple
stressors on zooplankton community structure in lakes of
the Canadian Shield (2) Intra-Specific Variation in Sensitivity to Low-Calcium in Daphnia pulicaria |
| April - 12 - 2017 |
Irene Gregory-Eaves |
Associate Professor, Gregory-Eaves
Lab, McGill Department of Biology |
TBD |
| April - 19 - 2017 |
Geoffrey Hall |
Associate Director of the Water Research
Center |
TBD |
| April - 26 - 2017 |
Liz Favot and Anya Kochel |
MSc Candidates, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
TBD |
| May - 3 - 2017 |
Max Boreux |
PhD Candidate,EVEX
Lab, Queen's Department of Geography |
TBD |
| May - 10 - 2017 (12-1 PM)
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Dr. Jennifer Lento and Dr. Isabelle Lavoie |
Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Department of Biology Research Associate, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique |
TBD |
2015-2016 Seminar Schedule
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AFFILIATION
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Sept - 23 - 2015 |
Dr.
John
Smol |
Co-Director,
PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
PEARL orientation |
| MONDAY Oct - 19 - 2015 (9:30-10:30 AM) |
Dr.
Richard Bindler Carsten Meyer-Jacob |
Department of
Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University,
Sweden |
Human-Landscape interactions: a millennial perspective from Swedish lake-sediment records |
| Oct - 21 - 2015 |
Dr. Neal Michelutti | Research Associate, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Physical lake properties and regime shifts in equatorial mountain lakes |
| Nov - 4 - 2015 |
Koli
Basu |
PhD Candidate, Dr.
Davies' Lab, Queen's Department of Biochemistry |
Novel antifreeze protein in Lake Ontario midges |
| Nov - 11 - 2015 |
Dr.
Benjamin Amann |
Postdoctoral Researcher, EVEX
Lab, Queen's Department of Geography |
Varved lake sediments for
millennial-long hydroclimate reconstructions: a hint from
the European Alps |
| MONDAY Nov - 16 - 2015 (12:30-1:30 PM) |
Dr.
Rick Battarbee *To be awarded honorary DSc from Queen's on Nov. 17* |
Emeritus Professor of Environmental
Change, Department
of Geography, University
College London, UK |
Paleolimnology in the UK: The Early
Days |
| MONDAY Nov - 23 - 2015 (12:30-1:30 PM) |
Dr. Larissa Schneider | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University |
Paleoecology "down under": environmental changes through time in Tasmania and Papua New Guinea |
| Nov - 25 - 2015 |
Dr.
Bruce Anderson |
Professor, Queen's Department of Civil Engineering |
Linking urban development, wetland conservation and source water protection: the case for green infrastructure |
| Dec - 2 - 2015 |
Dr.
Brian Cumming |
Co-Director, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Assessment of Climatic Change in Northwestern Ontario
from Lakes:
Monitoring and Paleolimnological Perspectives
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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| Jan - 13 - 2016 |
4th-Year Students |
PEARL |
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| Jan - 20 - 2016 |
Dr.
Peter Hodson |
Emeritus Professor, Queen's Department of Biology and School of Environmental Studies |
High-Priority Research
Needs for Oil Spills in Canada: Report of the Royal Society
Expert Panel on the Behaviour and Environmental Impacts of
Crude Oil Released into Aqueous Environments |
| THURSDAY Feb - 4 - 2-16 (2:00-3:00 PM) |
Rachael Melnik-Proud |
MSc Candidate, PEARL,
Queen's Department of Biology |
Diatoms from Cape Herschel |
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READING WEEK |
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| Feb - 24 - 2016 |
Dr. Alexandre Normandeau | Postdoctoral
Researcher, Queen's Department of Geography |
Sedimentary processes in High Arctic
lakes (Cape Bounty, Melville Island): What do sediments
really record? |
| March - 23 - 2016 |
Jessica Almeida |
4th-Year Undergraduate, PEARL,
Queen's Department of Biology |
BIOL507 Mentorship Program
Presentation |
| March - 30 - 2016 |
Dr.
Jenny Korosi |
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for the Analysis of Natural and Synthetic Toxins (LANSET), University of Ottawa | Paleo-ecotoxicology: What
can lake sediments tell us about the ecological impacts of
aquatic pollutants? |
| April - 6 - 2016 |
Branaavan
Sivarajah |
MSc Candidate, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Multiple stressors and
moving targets: assessing diatom shifts in embayments and
lakes in and around Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) using
paleolimnology |
| April - 13 - 2016 |
Graham Mushet | MSc Candidate, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
Assessing the relative
influence of nitrogen deposition and regional warming on
scaled chrysophytes in lakes downwind of the Athabasca Oil
Sands Region |
| THURSDAY May - 19 - 2016 (12:30-1:30) |
Cécilia Barouillet |
PhD Student, PEARL, Queen's Department of Biology |
TBA |
| May - 25 - 2016 |
Dr.
Jean-Philippe Jenny |
Post-doc, Eau Terre Environment Research Centre, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec | TBA |
2015 Summer Schedule
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AFFILIATION
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| MONDAY June - 22 - 2015 (2:00-3:00) Rm. 3110 |
Dr. Katrina Moser |
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Department of Geography | An informal discussion about C
and N isotopes in limnological research |
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| FRIDAY July - 10 - 2015 (12:30-1:30) |
Kristen Coleman |
Queen's Biology,
MSc Candidate (PEARL) |
Using paleolimnology
to reconstruct past environments of lakes affected by
direct anthropogenic activities |
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| THURSDAY July - 23 - 2015 (12:30-1:30) Rm. 3110 |
Dr. Katherine Griffiths |
Queen's Biology,
Post-doc (PEARL) |
High-latitude responses of
diatom and chironomid assemblages to regional climate
changes and other environmental stressors |
2014-2015 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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Sept - 24 - 2014 |
Dr.
John
Smol |
Co-Director, PEARL (Queen's Biology) |
PEARL orientation |
| Oct - 29 - 2014 |
Moumita Karmakar |
Queen's Biology,
PhD Candidate (PEARL) |
Importance of climate on boreal lakes from northwest Ontario over millennia: a paleolimnological perspective |
| Nov - 12 - 2014 |
Dr. Jennifer Korosi |
University of
Ottawa, Post-doc (Dept of Biology) |
Application of plant biomarkers in lake sediment cores to track the impacts of climate warming on aquatic ecosystems in the sporadic permafrost zone |
| MONDAY Nov - 17 - 2014 (1:30-2:30) Rm. 3110 |
Dr. Katrina Moser |
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Department of Geography |
The effects of climate change and
atmospheric pollution on mountain lake ecosystems: lessons
from the Uinta Mountains, Utah (USA) |
Nov - 26 - 2014 |
Dr. Shelley Arnott |
Queen's Biology,
Associate Professor (Arnott Lab) |
Zooplankton response to environmental change in a multiple-stressor world |
| FRIDAY Dec - 5 - 2014
(12:30-1:30) Rm. 3110 |
Kathryn Hargan |
Queen's Biology,
PhD Candidate (PEARL) |
Environmental and climatic change in peatlands and lakes
located across the Boreal Shield and Hudson Bay Lowlands of
Canada |
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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| Jan - 14 - 2015 |
Alex Ross |
Queen's Biology,
MSc Candidate (Arnott Lab) |
Sudbury influence revisited: The impact of declining calcium on recovery of zooplankton communities from acid-damaged lakes |
| Feb - 11 - 2015 |
Dr. Heather Jamieson |
Queen's
Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering,
Professor |
Giant Gold Mine, NWT: A
complex and expensive legacy of arsenic contamination |
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READING WEEK |
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| Feb - 25 - 2015 |
Dr. Joshua Thienpont |
Brock University,
Post-doc (Dept of Geography) |
Using lake sediments to assess the impacts of industrial activities on aquatic ecosystems in the central Northwest Territories |
| FRIDAY Feb - 27 - 2015 (1:30-2:30) Rm. 3110 |
Dr. Max Bothwell |
Research Scientist, Environment
Canada |
The Didymo Story: The role
of low dissolved phosphorus in the formation of Didymosphenia
geminata blooms |
Mar - 11 - 2015 |
Branaavan Sivarajah |
Queen's Biology,
MSc Candidate (PEARL) |
Are diatoms recovering in previously acidified lakes in a warming world? Killarney Provincial Park revisited after 25 years |
| Mar - 25 - 2015 |
Graham Mushet |
Queen's Biology,
MSc Candidate (PEARL) |
Investigating the impacts of nitrogen deposition and climate warming on primary production in lakes downwind of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region |
| Apr - 8 - 2015 |
Max Boreux |
Queen's Geography, PhD Candidate | Investigation of the
vulnerability of boreal groundwater-fed lakes to
environmental stressors based on a lake typology |
| FRIDAY Apr - 17 - 2015 (1:30-2:30) Rm. 3110 |
Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Queen's Biology) |
The diminishing role of
science to policy discussions: Some personal perspectives on
what we can do about it |
| Apr - 22 - 2015 |
Cécilia Barouillet | Queen's Biology,
MSc Candidate (PEARL) |
Investigating the long-term
influence of the Bridge River Diversion on sockeye salmon
nursery ecosystem productivity in Seton Lake, British
Columbia: A comparative paleolimnological study |
| Apr - 29 - 2015 |
Emily Stewart |
Queen's Biology,
PhD Candidate (PEARL) |
Chironomids as indicators
of nutrients, oxygen, and climate |
2013-2014 Seminar Schedule
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| Sept - 18 - 2013 |
Ariel Gittens |
Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (Nelson Lab) |
To migrate, or not to migrate: Two co-existing strategies for how Daphnia use environmental gradients. | |
| Sept - 25 - 2013 |
Dr.
John
Smol |
Co-Director, PEARL (Queen's Biology) |
PEARL Orientation | |
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FRIDAY
Oct - 4 - 2013
(1:30-2:30) |
Dr. Andrew Paterson |
Ontario
Ministry of the Environment Dorset Environmental Science Centre |
The
evolving science of Lakeshore Capacity Assessment |
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Oct - 9 - 2013 |
Cassandra Cummings |
Queen's
Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Climate-related changes in diatom changes
in Adirondak reference lakes since pre-industrial times |
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| Oct - 16 - 2013
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Kathryn Hargan |
Thick-billed Murres as biovectors on Digges Island: Using paleolimnology to enhance our understanding of Arctic biovectors | ||
| Oct - 30 - 2013 |
Dr. Joshua Kurek
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Queen's Biology,
Post-doc (PEARL) |
The
mystery of "rock snot" in Eastern Canadian salmon rivers |
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Nov - 13 - 2013
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Dr. Joshua Thienpont |
Brock University, Post-doc (Dept of Geography) |
Investigating the cause(s) and
implications of rapidly expanding lakes in the Great Slave
Lowlands |
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Nov - 20 - 2013 |
Dr. Mark McCarthy |
University of Texas, Post-doc
(Austin Marine Science Institute) |
The Hip’s Lake Fever meets Joni Mitchell's River and the Great Big Sea: distal consequences of the failure to control nitrogen in watersheds | |
Nov - 27 - 2013 |
Sarah Thompson
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MASc Candidate (Dept of Civil Engineering) |
Arctic wastewater treatment: a look at algae, sunlight and disinfection |
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Dec - 18 - 2013 |
Dr. Andrew Laursen |
Rethinking what we "know"
about biogeochemistry in aquative systems: anomalies as
norms and the significance of the trivial |
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CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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| Jan - 8 - 2014 |
Dr. Silvia Newell |
Boston University, NSF Post-doc (Dept of Earth and Environment) |
Nitrification in two contrasting
environments: the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea and the
eutrophic Gulf of Mexico |
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Jan - 22 - 2014
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Dr. Michael Twiss |
Clarkson University, Professor (Dept of Biology) |
Trace metal roles in
nitrification of the Great Lakes: Evidence from the Lower
Great Lakes |
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Jan - 29 - 2014 |
Dr. Neal Michelutti
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Queen's Biology, Research Associate (PEARL) |
Unprecedented ecological
change in equatorial high mountain lakes |
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Feb - 12 - 2014 |
Dr. Jennifer Korosi |
University of Ottawa, Post-doc (Dept of Biology) |
Assessing the environmental impacts of in-situ bitumen extraction in the Cold Lake oilsands | |
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READING WEEK |
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| Mar - 5 - 2014 |
Daniel Lamhonwah |
Queen's Geography, PhD Candidate (FaBRECC) |
Arctic water: How sources and
pathways are expected to change with a warming climate |
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Mar - 12 - 2014 |
Andrew Labaj |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Assessing
biological recovery of Cladocera from Sudbury-area lakes
using paleolimnology |
|
Mar - 26 - 2014 |
Dr. Steven Short |
Associate Professor, Dept of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga |
The ecology of freshwater
phytoplankton viruses: Complex dynamics and new players |
|
Apr - 2 - 2014
|
Max Boreux
|
Environmental controls of lake water chemistry in an esker outwash complex in the Timmins region and their implications for paleolimnological studies |
||
Apr - 9 - 2014 |
Moumita Karmakar |
Understanding lake-level
fluctuation over the Holocene period in northwest Ontario |
||
| FRIDAY Apr - 11 - 2014 (12:30-1:30) |
Dr. Alex Wolfe |
Adjunct Professor Dept Biological Sciences, University of Albeta |
Ubiquity versus
endemism in microscopic eukaryotes: Crytpic diversity in the
scaled chrysophytes Synura petersenii |
|
Apr - 30 - 2014 |
Dr. Sapna Sharma |
Assisstant Professor Dept of Biology York University |
The impacts of multiple
stressors on aquatic ecosystems: A landscape perspective |
|
2013 Summer Schedule
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
|
Jul - 5 - 2013 |
Dr. Catherine Dalton |
University
of Limerick |
Irish Lake Research |
|
| Jul - 16 - 2013
|
Dr. Joe Bennett |
University
of Queensland |
Navigating the new
realities in peer-reviewed publication |
|
Jul - 18 - 2013 |
Dr. Joe Bennett
|
University of Queensland |
How to avoid common problems in paleoenvironmental assessment models |
2012-2013 Seminar Schedule
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
|
Sept - 19 - 2012 (11:30am) |
Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) |
PEARL Orientation |
|
| Oct - 3 - 2012 |
Dr. Neal Michelutti |
Queen's Biology,
Research Associate (PEARL) |
Unprecedented Ecological
Change in Equatorial High Mountain Lakes |
|
| Oct - 10 - 2012 |
Dr. Roberto Quinlan | York University | America's most polluted lake: a
200-year response to being beaten with a sledgehammer |
|
Oct - 17 - 2012
|
Dr. Joshua Kurek | Queen's Biology, Post-doc (PEARL) |
Recent environmental change in
the Athabasca oil sands region |
|
Oct - 24 - 2012 |
Dr. Sarah Finkelstein |
University
of Toronto |
Recent progress on pH reconstructions from
Arctic lakes using diatom assemblages |
|
| |
Dr. John Smol |
An EEB
talk: Birds, multiple stressors and sediments: A paleolimnologist’s perspective on ornithology |
||
| Nov - 7 - 2012 |
Larkin Mosscrop | Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
Long-term stability of cladoceran
communities within small, shallow lakes from
Muskoka-Haliburton Region |
|
| Nov - 14 - 2012 |
Emily Stewart
|
Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
Tracking
50 years of eutrophication in the Canadian High Arctic: the
sewage ponds of Resolute Bay, Nunavut |
|
Nov
- 28 - 2012
|
Dr. Mark McCarthy |
University of Texas, Post-doc (Austin Marine Science Institute) |
Lake Fever: eutrophication and
the Tragically (Un)Hip role of nitrogen |
|
| |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
|||
Jan - 23 - 2013 |
Water Research Centre Student Symposium: 8:30am – 5:30pm (registration at 8:00am), Robert Sutherland Hall Keynote Speaker: Scott Lamoureux, Geography Department, Queen's University "Hydrological and sediment transport impacts of permafrost and climate change in the Canadian High Arctic: established and hints of new subsurface flow paths" |
|||
| Jan - 30 - 2013 |
Katie Griffiths | Queen's Biology, PhD Candidate (PEARL) |
Examining the response of High Arctic
freshwater diatoms to recent climate change along gradients
of elevation and buffering capacity |
|
Feb - 13 - 2013
|
Raphaël Lavoie |
Queen's Biology, PhD Candidate (Campbell Lab) |
Migratory fish-eating birds
and food web biomagnification: a spatial analysis of mercury |
|
|
|
READING WEEK |
|||
Mar - 6 - 2013
|
Dr. Adam Jeziorski |
The Rise of Holopedium and the
Jellification of North Temperate Lakes |
||
| Mar - 22 - 2013 (Joint with Biology Department) |
Dr. Howard Riessen |
Biology Department, SUNY at Buffalo |
Kairomones, Calcium, and Daphnia Defenses in Lakes |
|
Apr - 3 - 2013 |
Brian Kielstra | Queen's Biology, MSc Student (Arnott Lab) |
Landscape-level
effects on a freshwater amphipod at the land-water interface |
|
Joshua Thienpont |
Queen's Biology, PhD Candidate
|
Examining the impact of regional climate warming and intense localized disturbance on lakes of the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT, Canada |
||
Apr - 10 - 2013 |
Roxanne Razavi |
Queen's Biology, PhD Candidate (Campbell Lab) |
Eutrophication and mercury
dynamics: insights from reservoirs in subtropical China |
|
Apr - 24 - 2013
|
Dr. Wenwei Ren
|
Tongji University, Shanghai
Shanghai Office of WWF China |
Protection of headwater of Huangpu River in Shanghai, a case study in Dalianhu Lake by WWF China |
|
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
|
Sept - 21 - 2011 |
Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) |
PEARL Orientation |
|
Sept - 28 - 2011 |
Larkin Mosscrop | Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
Stormwater ponds and their significance in the changing urban environment |
|
| Oct - 14 - 2011 (Friday) |
Roland
Hall |
University
of Waterloo |
Natural processes dominate the delivery
of water and contaminants to the Peace-Athabasca Delta |
|
Oct - 19 - 2011
|
Alexandra Rouillard | University of Western Austraila, PhD Student |
Tracking extreme hydroclimatic
variability of an extensive wetland ecosystem in semi-arid
inland Pilbara, northwestern Australia |
|
| Nov - 2 - 2011 |
Neal Michelutti | Queen's Biology,
Research Associate (PEARL) |
Paleolimnology in equatorial high
mountain lakes: project design and preliminary results |
|
| 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 |
|
| Nov - 16 - 2011 |
Queen's Geography (EVEX) |
What
is the environmental signal in clastic varved sediments? |
||
Nov
- 30 - 2011
|
Michelle Brazeau |
Ottawa
University |
The historical deposition and
microbial redox cycling of mercury in northern Ontario lake
sediments |
|
Dec
- 7 - 2011
|
Adam Jeziorski | Aquatic ecosystem responses to
rapid recovery from extreme acidification and metal
contamination in lakes near Wawa, Ontario |
||
| Dec
- 15 - 2011 |
Norman Yan |
York University |
The risk to zooplankton biodiversity of the spread of Bythotrephes in Ontario |
|
| |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
|||
Jan - 11 - 2012 |
Joshua Thienpont |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
Biological responses to
permafrost thaw slumping in lakes of the Mackenzie Delta
uplands |
|
Jan - 18 - 2012 |
John Smol |
Queen's Biology (PEARL) | A brief history of paleolimnology:
where have we been? and where might we be going? |
|
| Feb - 1 - 2012 |
Robert Alvo |
Conservation Co-op, Ottawa |
Common loon breeding success in
relation to lake pH and size |
|
Feb - 15 - 2012
|
Angelo Sorce |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Climate change and a
biomanipulation in two Ontario Shield lakes: a multi-proxy
paleolimnological analysis |
|
|
|
READING WEEK |
|||
Feb - 29 - 2012 |
Brian Kielstra | How landscape characteristics
may influence the colonization and distribution of a
freshwater amphipod in disturbed environments |
||
Mar - 7 - 2012
|
Mike Yuille |
Ecological effects of Hemimysis anomala on
the nearshore fish communities of Lake Ontario |
||
Mar - 14 - 2012 |
Emily Stewart | Queen's Biology,
MSc Student (PEARL) |
Contrasting the effects of climate, nutrients, and oxygen on chironomid assemblages in eutrophic Arctic ponds |
|
| Mar -
28 - 2012 |
Kathryn Hargan |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
Developing tools for the study
of northern peatland ontogeny: deciphering the ecological
optima of diatoms |
|
Apr - 4 - 2012 |
Moumita Karmakar | Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
Understanding
lake-level changes within Gall Lake in northwestern Ontario
over past 2000 years |
|
Apr - 11 - 2012 |
Kristina Arseneau |
Queen's Biology, PhD Student (PEARL) |
Understanding the impact of
multiple anthropogenic stressors on Adirondack (NY, USA)
lakes - a paleolimnological approach |
|
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
|
Sept - 22 - 2010 |
Dr. John Smol |
Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) |
PEARL Orientation |
|
| Sept- 29 - 2010
|
Dr. Roberto Quinlan | York University | The ecology of benthic macroinvertebrates in central Nunavut lakes and ponds |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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
|
||
| 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
|
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 |
|
| |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
|||
Jan - 05 - 2011 |
No Seminar | Society of Canadian Limnologists Annual Meeting Toronto, ON (Jan 6-8, 2011) |
||
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 |
|
Feb - 9 - 2011 |
Susan Ma |
Queen's Biology, MSc Student (PEARL) |
|
|
|
|
READING WEEK |
|||
Mar - 16 - 2011 |
Jesse
Vermaire |
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Department of
Geography, Carleton
University |
Reconstructing macrophyte biomass dynamics in temperate lakes |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
2009-2010 Seminar Schedule
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
|
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 |
|
| Sept- 30 - 2009
|
Dr. John Smol | Co-Director, PEARL (Biology) | PEARL Orientation |
|
| 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 |
|
| Oct - 14 - 2009 |
Dr. Roberto Quinlan |
York University | Climate change in shallow boreal lakes
- an inference model to track changes in thermal regime? |
|
| Oct - 28 - 2009 | Timothy Ensom
|
Summer Thermal Regime of Mackenzie Delta Surface Waters |
||
| Nov - 11 - 2009 |
Dr. Brian Ginn
|
Monitoring Environmental
Change in the Nearshore Zone of Lake Simcoe (Ontario,
Canada)
|
||
| 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 |
|
| 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
|
|
| 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 |
|
| |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
|||
| 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 |
|
| Jan - 20 - 2010 |
Dr. Liang Zhang |
Queen's University,
post-doc
(Campbell lab) |
Food web
and mercury biomagnification in the Three Gorges region,
China
|
|
| Jan - 27 - 2010 | Crystal Hyatt
|
The effects
of shoreline development and climate warming on water
quality in the Lake of the Woods: a paleolimnological
investigation.
|
||
| Feb - 03 - 2010 |
Hilary Dugan |
Queen's Geography,
MSc student
|
"The formation of hypersalinity in a coastal high arctic lake" |
|
| Feb - 10 - 2010 | Ceran
Sekeryapan
|
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 |
|
|
|
READING WEEK |
|||
| Mar - 03 - 2010 |
Kathryn McCleary |
|
Reconstructing the Historical Environmental Impact of Early Arctic Peoples on Freshwater Systems on Southern Baffin Island. |
|
|
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. |
|
| 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 |
|
| Mar - 24 - 2010 | Kristina Arseneault | Queen's Biology, MSc. Student (PEARL) |
Biological
recovery
from
acidification
in
the
Adirondacks (NY, USA) |
|
|
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 |
|
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
|
|
2008-2009 Seminar Schedule
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
| 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.
|
||
| Nov - 12 - 2008 |
Shannon
MacPhee
|
Queen's Biology,
M.Sc. Student (Arnott
Lab)
|
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. |
| |
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
||
| 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
|
| Feb - 04 - 2009 |
Anneli Jokela |
Queen's Biology,
Ph.D. Student (Arnott
Lab)
|
Factors affecting the
impact of invasive mussels on native freshwater mussels
|
| 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 |
||
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
*Presentations
sponsored by the Great Lakes Research
Consortium (many thanks!)
|
2007-2008 Seminar Schedule
| *Presentations by Drs. Knoll and Grima sponsored by the Great Lakes Research Consortium (many thanks!) |
2006-2007 Seminar Schedule
|
DATE
|
NAME
|
AFFILIATION
|
TITLE
|
| Sep 27/06 | Dr. John Casselman | Queen's Biology |
Long-term dynamics of northern pike
recruitment: water level, temperature, impoundment, and
adaptation
|
| 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
|
DATE |
Speaker Name |
Affiliation |
Tentative Title |
|
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 |
|
September 28/05 |
Dr. Ellie Prepas
|
LakeHead University |
Can't see the Forest for the Trees? Industrial Collaboration and Scientific Enterprise |
|
October 5/05 |
Dr. John Casselman
|
Queen’s University |
Effects of Climate and Climate Change on Lake Trout Populations and Fisheries |
|
October 12/05
|
Anita Holtham and Joe Bennett
|
|
Laos |
|
October 19/05
|
Journal Club |
|
No Seminar |
|
* October 27/05
|
Dr. David Schindler |
University of Alberta
|
Hosted by Environmental Studies, Ellis Auditorium 7:30-9:00PM |
|
November 2/05 |
Laura Lawlor |
Queen’s University |
Reconstruction of Nova Scotia Brook Trout Lake Histories: A Chironomid-based Paleolimnological Assessment |
|
November 9/05
|
Todd French
|
TBA |
TBA |
|
November 16/05 |
Dr. Astrid Michels
|
Queen’s University |
TBA |
|
November 23/05 |
Dr. Mihaela Enache
|
Queens’s University |
TBA |
|
November 30/05 |
Dr. Ed Mills |
Cornell University |
Chasing Ecological Change in the Great Lakes: The Lake Ontario Story
|
|
December 7/05
|
Dr. Virginia Card
|
Metropolitan State University |
Diatom life-cycles in the Paleolimnological record
|
|
December 14/06 |
Cancelled
|
|
|
|
December 21/05 |
No Seminar |
||
|
December 28/05 |
No Seminar |
||
|
January 4/06 |
No Seminar |
||
|
January 11/06 |
No Seminar |
||
|
January 18/06
|
Journal Club |
|
No Seminar |
|
January 27/06 Jointly with Biology Seminar Series
|
Dr. Scott Higgins |
University of Waterloo |
Coastal Eutrophication of the lower Laurentian Great Lakes
|
|
February 1/06
|
|
|
|
|
February 8/06 |
|
|
|
|
February 15/06 |
Angela Strecker
|
Queen’s University |
TBA |
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February 22/06
|
Reading Week
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No Seminar |
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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 |
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25. April 5/06
|
TBA |
Queen’s University
|
TBA |
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