Past Events

Dr Shane Nowack, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph. “Locally Optimal Land Use Strategies for Mosaic Landscapes.”

The PhD Defense for Nicola Day will be Friday, January 9th, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in ALEX 265. Her thesis title is "Temporal dynamics and function of root-associated fungi throughout invasion:  a case study with Vincetoxicum rossicum." Here advisors are Dr. K. Dunfield and P. Antunes.

Everyone is invited to join in for our annual Holiday Party! The party will be held on Friday, December 12th from 5pm-late at eBar, which is located above the Bookshelf (41 Quebec Street, Downtown Guelph). Tickets are: $5 for grad students $10 for staff and guests $20 for faculty up until Nov. 28th

The MSc Defense of Lyndsay Schram will take place Monday December 8, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. in ALEX 265.  Her thesis title is "The effect of silvicultural treatment intensities and environmental variables on lichen of residual tress in Ontario, Canada".  Her advisors are Drs. M. Anand and S. Newmaster.

You are invited to coffee, hotcider and treats this Friday, December 5th to celebrate World Soil Day. On the 5th December 2014, for the first time in history, the UN World Soil Day will be celebrated.

The M.Sc. Thesis Examination for     XIN WEN   will be held   Friday, December 5, 2014   At 10:00 a.m.   1118 Bovey (Thiessen Room)   Thesis Title: Characterization of hexose fermentation capability of the pentose-fermenting yeast Candida guilliermondii FTI 20037        

Professor Tess Russo, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University.   "Groundwater levels, extraction, and climate connections in Punjab, India and the United States."  

Thesis Proposal Defenses (Student, title, and advisor) 9:00 Capes, Donovan Using heat as a tracer in angled boreholes sealed with underground liners to characterize the fracture network of an exposed bedrock river (B. Parker) 9:30 MacKay, David Clothianidin residues in corn fields and their impact on honey bee survival, foraging behaviour, honey production and colony development (E. Guzman) 10:00 Morfin-R., Nuria Interaction and effect of the insecticide clothianidin and the parasitic mite Varroa destructor on honey bee health (E. Guzman)

Thesis Proposal Defenses (Student, title, and advisor) 12:30 Tran, Newton Irrigation management strategies for nursery trees (Thuja occidentalis and Acer rubrum) based on plant water status measured with automated stem psychrometer (M. Dixon) 1:00 Vickers, Stephanie Improving a nutrient stressed watershed: Modeling phosphorous dynamics in agricultural soils of Lake Simcoe (L. Evans) 1:30 Vasiljevic, Kristina Effects of crop-rotation system and dairy cow manure on nitrogen leaching from mixed dairy and feed-crop operations (R. Gordon)

Thesis Proposal Defenses (Student, title, and supervisor) Monday, 1 December: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM 9:00 Yau, Tiffany A revision of the New World fly genus Bromeloecia (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) (S. Marshall) 9:30 Singh, Jessica The effects of crop rotation systems on nitrous oxide emissions in dairy operations in eastern Ontario (C. Wagner Riddle) 10:00 Barbour, Will Effects of multiple stress factors on fish growth rates in the Laurentian Great Lakes (N. Rooney)