Bacon & Big Thinking - Arctic warming: The land and communities on the cusp of rapid change Susan Kutz, University of Calgary Jackie Dawson, University of Ottawa Tuesday March 20, […]
Dr. Mark A. Ware, McGill University Thursday April 26, 2018 Canada is poised to legalize and regulate the non-medical use of cannabis, the first G7 country to do so. This […]
Dr. Lawrence Goodridge, McGill University Thursday May 24, 2018 Despite great progress in protecting the food supply, food poisoning still accounts for more than four million infections, almost 12,000 hospitalizations […]
We are exposed to thousands of chemicals, some of which are or could be of concern for our health. In this talk, we follow the journey of flame retardants that […]
Peter S. Ross, Ocean Wise Thursday October 25, 2018
What Will it Take for Canada to Finally Solve Indigenous Water Health Challenges? Madjid Mohseni, University of British Columbia November 29, 2018 Comment le Canada peut-il régler définitivement les problèmes […]
John F.H. Thompson, PetraScience Consultants Thursday February 21, 2019
Toxic algae – a growing threat to Canadians Les algues toxiques – une menace croissante pour les Canadiens Frances Pick, University of Ottawa, Université d'Ottawa
Panel: Jill Green, Allan F. Miranda, David Ross and Moderator: Satyamoorthy Kabilan Thursday May 2, 2019
To view highlights from this event, please click here. Dr. John P. Smol, Queen’s University By many measures, the greatest challenge facing humanity today is anthropogenic climate change. Recent opinion […]
The current efforts to develop safe and protective vaccines against COVID-19 are unprecedented both in terms of speed and amount of data collected and shared. In response to COVID-19, the world could see the first vaccine to ever be licensed in a time period that may be only one year or so from the time of detection of the target pathogen. This presentation will highlight opportunities and challenges in therapeutic and vaccine research in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Creating a sustainable and just future will require a major shift in how humans live in, and interact with, the Earth system. But how this shift will take place and the pathways it will follow, remain vague. In this seminar, Dr. Elena Bennett will discuss efforts to develop a suite of alternative, plausible visions of futures that are socially and ecologically desirable by identifying elements of a Good Anthropocene that already exist and will show how the science of ecosystem services can be used to assess them. Registration Now Open!
