Faculty of Science and Technology

Spring Lecture Series 2012

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All lectures are on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, and are held in the Lecture Theatre (Room 109) of the Education Building (Building 356). Refreshments are served afterwards.

*please note pay parking is now 24 hours a day.

The nearest parking lot to Building 356 is Parking Lot N, which is accessed via Fourth Street. Proceed to the top of Fourth Street and take the first right once you are past the student residences.

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• January 4, 2012 - No Lecture

    • January 11, 2012 - Brett Favaro "A trap with a twist: Evaluating the effectiveness of prawn traps designed to reduce rockfish bycatch."

    •  January 18, 2012 - Lee Hunt, P.Geoph. "Exploration Geophysics: Quantitative Interpretation, New Challenges and Economic Value."

    • January 25, 2012 - Dr. David Hughes "The Energy Sustainability Dilemma: Powering the Future in a Finite World."

    • February 1, 2012 - Derek Matthews "The Miracle of MIgration: Insights from Bird Banding Projects by the Vancouver Avian Research Centre"

   • February 8, 2012 - Dr. Damien Joly "The international trade in wildlife and the emergence of pandemic diseases"

    • February 15, 2012 - Dr. David Gaumont Guay "Leukemia - the science and soul of the disease"

• February 22, 2012- No Lecture - Reading Break

• February 29, 2012 - Dr. Erin McClelland "Examining the Effect of Ocean Acidification on Larval Shellfish Using Microarrays."

• March 7, 2012 - Dr. Frank LoPinto "Animated QR codes"

• March 14, 2012 - Speaker: "Dr. Sheri Molnar "Seismic hazard mapping"

• March 21, 2010 - Speaker: TBA "Title: TBA"

• March 28, 2012- Dr. Sarah Olson "Ebola: Wildlife Conservation and a Deadly Disease"

• April 4, 2012 - Dr. Jan Lovy " Infectious diseases of Pacific herring: relationships of the BC herring industry, the environment and the health of fish"

The VIU Radio show "NOT ROCKET SCIENCE" will be interviewing the Science & Technology Lecture Series speakers each week. You can listen in Saturdays and Wednesdays 1-1:30 pm at 101.7 FM CHLY or go to their web site for podcasts http://chly.dailysplice.com/notrocketscience/