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Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2008
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held from 1pm on Mondays in MSc Teaching Room 1 in the School of Geography and the Environment unless indicated otherwise below. For further information please contact Prof. Rob Whittaker.
Week 2: Monday 20 October 2008
Mitigation and adaptation: Assessing the threats and opportunities for biodiversity.
Dr Pam Berry, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford.
Week 3: Monday 27 October 2008 - BCM Alumni Seminar Series
Marine resource use and conservation in Madagascar.
Rachel Lenane, Environment Agency.
Week 4: Monday 3 November 2008
Beringia: Palaeoecological insights into an ice-age refugium.
Dr Hilary Birks, University of Bergen.
Week 5: Monday 10 November 2008 - BCM Alumni Seminar Series
On the trail of a snail: Researching the biogeography and parasitology of Biomphalaria snails in Lake Victoria.
Claire Standley, Natural History Museum, London.
Week 6: Monday 17 November 2008
To MPAs and beyond: Progressing marine conservation around England.
Dr Paul Gilliland, Natural England.
Week 7: Monday 24 November 2008 - BCM Alumni Seminar Series
Integrating highly migratory species into high-seas Marine Protected Area Planning: A global gap analysis.
Francine Kershaw, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Week 8: Monday 1 December 2008
Spatio-temporal analysis of soil CO2 efflux in an elevation transect of the Peruvian Andes.
Cecile Girardin, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford.