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Visitng Speaker Series

Posted by Stephanie Rogers on January 26, 2015 in News

Please join us for the first in our series of visiting speakers for the 2015 winter term.

The Visiting Speakers Program at the Faculty of AgricultureĀ aims to build andĀ support a robust and dynamic research culture across theĀ campus.Ā Ā The program will offer scholarlyĀ research seminars and will provide our faculty, staff, students andĀ researchĀ associates an opportunity to engage with world class scientists. ThisĀ initiative aligns with one of the major intents of theĀ Faculty StrategicĀ Research Plan: to ā€œBuild a Community of Scholarshipā€.Ā 

Friday,January 30, 2015
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Dr. Les Cwynar
University of New Brunswick

Topic:Ā  Lateglacial climate and vegetation change in Atlantic Canada
Location: 2:00 PM, Cox 257

Dr. Les Cwynar is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Brunswick. LesĀ did his PhD at U of T and has been at UNB since 1988. He is a Quaternary plant ecologist interested in climate/vegetationĀ dynamics and fire histories. He has worked on tree line change in Siberia and the Yukon, response of vegetation to late glacial climate change inĀ Atlantic Canada and climate change in Tasmania.