Mark your calendars! Botany BC 2015 will be held in Elkford in the beautiful Elk Valley in the East Kootenays. Botany BC is an annual meeting of botanists and plant enthusiasts of British Columbia and is open to anyone interested in plants. Although Botany BC meetings are focused to British Columbia, we welcome all the plant enthusiasts from the neighbouring provinces/states, and from elsewhere in […]
Parks Canada needs your help to identify as many species as possible over 24 hours! Discover diverse habitats on beautiful Saturna Island. Half the island rests in the national park reserve: beaches, marshes, mudflats, ponds, forests, fields and Garry oak bluffs. There’s even a salmon stream. Help support Parks Canada’s conservation efforts. Registered participants can camp for free at Parks […]
The University of Northern British Columbia Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute will be hosting a Special Lecture entitled Perspectives on Disturbance Ecology Research. They will welcoming two guest presenters: Lawrence Walker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Anke Jentsch (Bayreuth University, Germany).
The University of Northern British Columbia Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute be hosting a Special Lecture. All are welcome to attend! A recording will be uploaded to NRESi’s video archive following the presentation. Two special guests will showcase some of their research: Experimental Disturbance Ecology: Extreme Weather Events and Ecosystem Functions – Dr. Anke Jentsch, […]
This Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) field training session requires that online training modules be completed in advance (by March 15, 2015) in order to gain access to the CABIN database (Project Manager or Field Technician). For online module descriptions, fees, and more information contact rachel@wildsight.ca.
The Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology presents: An Introduction to Bayesian Methods for Ecologists Instructor: Dr. Carl Schwartz, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University. Course description Bayesian methods supplement the standard analysis methods such as regression, ANOVA, and generalized linear models. They are helpful in two general situations. First, when information […]
SER Western Canada of the Society for Ecological Restoration