{"id":51,"date":"2015-02-17T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:55:27","slug":"seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Past speakers<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cPutting food on the table: Environmental consequences of the global food system\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Navin Ramankutty<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillennium Ecosystem Assessment\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Elena Bennett<\/strong>, Associate Professor, McGill School of Environment &#038; Department of Natural Resource Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreathing polluted air causes cardiovascular disease\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Mark Goldberg<\/strong>, Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtinction debt, habitat loss and the importance of deadwood in boreal forests\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Timothy Work<\/strong>, Professor, Department of Biology, UQAM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman-Wildlife Interactions in the B\u00e9nou\u00e9 Wildlife Conservation Area, northern Cameroon\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Robert Weladji<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Concordia University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom pollinators to disease vectors &#8211; how have insects faired in this changing world?\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Simon P. Daoust<\/strong>, PhD, Institut de Recherche en Biologie V\u00e9g\u00e9tale, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuebec Forests\u201d <strong>Nicolas Mainville<\/strong>, MSc. Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding Food Security &#8211; A Road Trip to Deconstruct Dinner\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Geneva Guerin<\/strong> (sustainability consultant and documentary filmmaker) and <strong>Jean Marc Abela<\/strong> (documentary filmmaker).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDNA barcoding parasites in fish and frogs in the St. Lawrence River\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Sean Locke<\/strong>, PhD; St. Lawrence Centre, Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost important public environmental health issues facing Montrealers\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Norman King<\/strong>, Director, Montreal Public Health Department.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cLocal Politics and the Greening of the Inner City: Policies, Accomplishments and Reflections\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Helen Fotopoulo<\/strong>s, Past Mayor of Plateau Mont-Royal Borough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTar Sands: Issues for the climate and for the community\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Gitz Crazyboy<\/strong>; First Nation\u2019s speaker from Dene community near Fort McMurray (ground zero of the Tar Sands extraction).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudent presentations\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Dawson College students<\/strong> discuss their experiences of the various field trips they participated in (examples: Costa Rica, Waskaganish, Mexico)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past speakers \u201cPutting food on the table: Environmental consequences of the global food system\u201d Navin Ramankutty, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University. \u201cMillennium Ecosystem Assessment\u201d Elena Bennett, Associate Professor, McGill School of Environment &#038; Department of Natural Resource Sciences. \u201cBreathing polluted air causes cardiovascular disease\u201d Mark Goldberg, Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University. \u201cExtinction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/environmental-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}