Past Events

Guest speaker: Dr. Chelsea M. Rochman from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. Title: "The Impacts of Plastic Debris in Aquatic Ecosystems" Abstract:

Guest Speaker: Dr. Ranjith Udawatta, Centre for Agroforestry in the School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO) "Water and Soil Quality Benefits of Agroforestry"

Speaker: Dr. Peter Sikkema - "History of herbicide-resistant weeds in Ontario" University of Guelph, Ridgetown

Research seminar presentations by some of our graduate students. This is part of ENVS*6900, but everyone is welcome to attend! Asma Sabir - "Ambient alkaline hydrolysis as an emergency biosecure livestock and poultry mortality management tool" Zexia Li - "Investigating the changes in shallow groundwater movement and quality under the impacts of land conversion from forest to agriculture in the Great Clay Belt, Northern Ontario"

We are excited to welcome Prof. Maren Oelbermann from the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo. The title of her talk is: “Greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in cereal-legume intercrops  in Argentina”

Continuing our series of SES Research Laboratory Open Houses, Dr. Asim Biswas is inviting you and your colleagues to participate on a tour of his research facilities and learn more about his research programs. His tour will be held this coming Friday, March 1st 2019, starting at 9:00 am (expected to finish by 11:00 am). Light refreshments will be provided, by SES, in the Alexander Hall Coffee Room (third floor), from where the tour will depart.  

Dr. Jennifer Silver, Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph. "Shifting tides: some motivations and prospects for addressing human dimensions in fisheries evaluations and management"   Abstract

Join us for the director's coffee! Everyone is welcome. 

The speaker for this seminar is our very own Prof. Asim Biswas (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph): "Machine learning and computer vision applications in proximal soil sensing"  

To initiate our series of SES Research Laboratory Open Houses, Drs. Mike Dixon and Youbin Zheng are inviting you and your colleagues to participate on a tour of their research facilities and learn more about their research programs. Their tour will be held this coming Friday, February 1st, 2019, starting at 10:00 am (expected to finish around 11:30 am). Light refreshments will be provided, by SES, in the Greenhouse Cafe, from where the tour will depart.