Course:SOIL500/2017 T2/Seminars
Soil 500 Seminar Series
2017/18 Term 2 (Jan-Apr 2018)
3:00-4:00 pm Room 154 MacMillan
| Month | Day | Speaker | Topic | Chair | Reviewer | Film |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | Graduate students only | Science communication | |||
| 12 | Akshit Puri, Ph.D. candidate Soil Science; supervisor Chris Chanway | Nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacterial communities of lodgepole pine and hybrid white spruce in the sub-boreal zone of B.C. | Hughie | Dixi Marieta | Yes | |
| 19 | Jennifer Grenz, Ph.D. candidate Integrated Studies, LFS | Invasive Species and Indigenous Knowledge: Measuring Impacts on Food Security and Food Sovereignty in a Changing Climate | Maja | n/a | Yes | |
| 26 | Guler Aslan Sungur, Visiting Scientist, Biometeorology | CO2 exchange on disturbed peatlands in Turkey | Jilmarie | n/a | Yes | |
| February | 2 | Miranda Hart, Soil Microbial Ecology Group, UBC-O | Microbial Inoculants - where do they go and how do they get there? | Julie Carillo | n/a | Yes |
| 9 | Brynhildur (Billa) Bjarnadottir, Visiting Scientist, Biometeorology | CO2 stocks and fluxes in forests in Iceland | Patrick | n/a | Yes | |
| 16 | Marieta Marin Bruzos, Ph.D. student, Belowground Ecosystem group; Supervisor Sue Grayston | Actinomycetes associate to cherry (Prunus avium L.) rhizosphere and their potential as microbial inoculants | Grace | Teresa | n.a. | |
| 23 | Reading Break 2018 | |||||
| March | 2 | Dixi Modi, Ph.D. student, Belowground ecosystem group, supervisor Suzanne Simard | Armillaria root rot and effects of stumping on soil fungal communities | Kiran | Akshit | n.a. |
| 9 | Taku Someya, M.Sc. student, Soil Science, supervisors Les Lavkulich and Rebecca Harbut (KPU) | Characterizing Cranberry Field Decline and Investigating the Relationship between Carbohydrate Dynamics in the Plant Tissue and the Decline Symptoms | Corine | Pariya | n.a. | |
| 16 | Kiran Preet Padda, Ph.D. Student, Soil Science, supervisor Chris Chanway | Role of endophytic diazotrophic bacteria in promoting the growth of lodgepole pine trees at extremely nitrogen deficient gravel mining pits in Central Interior BC | Dixi | Marieta | n.a. | |
| 23 | Carson Li, M.Sc. student, Soil Science, supervisor Sean Smukler | Farm scale nitrogen budgets under dairy | Taku | Sidd | ||
| 30 | Good Friday - University Closed | |||||
| April | 6 | End of the Term Wrap-up | ||||