Past Events

Altaf is with McMaster Centre for Climate Change, School of Geography and Earth Sciences "Climate change, extreme weather and management impacts on forest plantations"

"The African Orphan Crops Consortium: An Uncommon Collaboration"

Presentation Time: 10:10 AM Presenter: Michael Ben-Israel Presentation Title: Investigating microbial processes related to phytoremediation of toluene contamination in a shallow fractured bedrock system *********************************************** Presentation Time: 10:45 AM Presenter: Rachel Dietrich Presentation Title: Quantifying growth-climate relationships in old-growth sugar maple forests in Ontario *********************************************** Presentation Time: 11:20 AM Presenter: Amy Pawlick

 "Research initiatives at the Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability" The mission of the Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES), located at the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus, is to conduct applied and adaptive research, training and education, technology transfer, and rural community development.  At the core of CARES is a commercially operating anaerobic digester that turns agricultural and organic wastes into electricity for the Ontario hydro grid. Dr.

Please note that Dr. Lévesque's seminar, which was scheduled for this Wed. March 9, has been postponed to a later date (tba). Dr. Roger Lévesque, Director, Integrative and Systems Biology Institute (IBIS) and Full Professor, Université Laval  "Syst-OMICS of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Tomorrow's Genome the Next Day"  (Host: Dr. Joe Lam)    

Presentation Time: 10:10 AM Presenter: Behrang Behdarvandi Presentation Title: Interaction of replant-associated Cylindrocarpon destructans with American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) *********************************************** Presentation Time: 10:45 AM Presenter: Hailey Ashbee Presentation Title: A revision of the Australian species of Howickia (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) *********************************************** Presentation Time: 11:20 AM Presenter: Harry Rusnock

Andrea is from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology "Changing our view: "Urban surface waters as dynamic and functional ecosystems in urbanizing landscapes."  Biography

Presentation Time: 10:10AM Presenter: Abdurraouf Abaya Presentation Title: Control of Fusarium Head Blight of wheat (Triticum aestivum) caused by Fusarium graminearum using biological agents and disease resistance activators *********************************************** Presentation Time: 10:45AM Presenter: Kimberly Zupfer Presentation Title: Evaluating the feasibility of using Alyssum murale for phytoremediation of nickel-contaminated soils ***********************************************

James is SES's newest faculty member.  "NMR as a tool to study molecular behaviour in contaminated environments."

Jennifer is the CRC in Forests and Global Change, Wilfrid Laurirer University. "Land cover change in high latitude ecosystems."