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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 Agriculture aims to build and support a robust and dynamic research culture across the campus.  The program will offer scholarly research seminars and will provide our faculty, staff, students and research associates an opportunity to engage with world class scientists. This initiative aligns with one of the major intents of the Faculty Strategic Research Plan: to “Build a Community of Scholarship”. 

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

Topic:  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. Les did his PhD at U of T and has been at UNB since 1988. He is a Quaternary plant ecologist interested in climate/vegetation dynamics and fire histories. He has worked on tree line change in Siberia and the Yukon, response of vegetation to late glacial climate change in Atlantic Canada and climate change in Tasmania.