Announcing a free public lecture Feb 4:
Climate Cover-Up:
The Crusade to Deny Global Warming?
James Hoggan and Richard
Littlemore have recently produced a book entitled "Climate Cover-Up",
in which they examine the powerful public relations forces brought
to bear against mainstream climate science, in order to blunt the
message that we need to take steps to avoid future harm.
More background, in an
article published in the Lethbridge Herald.
Speaker: Richard Littlemore
Date: Thursday, February
4, 2010
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Room PE 250 University of Lethbridge 1st Choice Saving Centre
Cost: Free to everyone, refreshment supplied.
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Research program description
Concentrations and research: Ecological agriculture; Biopesticides
as alternatives in crop and grassland management; Environmental safety
for wildlife, soil, water and food; Ecology and biometeorology modelling
and experimentation; Sustainability under changing climate and development;
Sustainable agriculture programs and tools for North America, Africa,
Asia; Plant and animal ecology, movement and dynamics; Insect ecology;
Threatened and endangered species; Alternative energy and waste management;
Population modeling; Forecasting the impacts of weather and climate
on the distribution and abundance of life; Experimental Design; Data
analysis.
Location:
Alberta Water and Environmental Science Building (completed Nov,
2008)
The
University of Lethbridge is in the Oldman River
valley.
Current graduate student research:
Rob Sonnenberg, The development of an aquatic community in a reclaimed
alpine mine pit lake.
Funded by Alberta Conservation
Association.
Paul Irvine, Development
of improved mathematical models of weather-related spring events,
including insect emergence and development. Funded by AAFC Pesticide
Risk Reduction Program, Pest Management Centre, Ottawa, and Pulse
Canada.
Chien Yang, Factors affecting
rate and quantity of natural gas generated from urban waste, in collaboration
with the City of Lethbridge Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Wonnita Andrus,
Ecology and Conservation of Prairie Rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis
viridis) in Relation to Movement in a Fragmented Urban Environment.
Recent MSc students:
Susan
Entz
Meg
McCluskie
Luke
Powell (University of Guelph)
New Graduate Student
Positions Open in 2010:
1. Insect pathology and
biological control, for reductions in pesticide use
(related to a range of possible issues regarding development of biopesticides)
2. Grassland ecology and sustainability
(may include weather and climate;
sustainable agriculture; water and soil quality and conservation)
Link: School of Graduate Studies
Technical support:
Patrick Chan (2009, pesticide risk reduction research). In
memoriam. Patrick
(Chi Ho) Chan
Current research topics
in this lab:
- alternatives to pesticides, to protect soil and water, and provide
alternatives for agriculture
- ecologically sustainable agriculture
- development of healthy ecosystems in coalmine pit lakes
- aquatic insects and factors that affect them- wastewater and environmentally
sustainable applications
- sustainable grasslands (dry mixed grass, fescue, and montane environments)
- climate and future conditions in Alberta ecosystems
- threatened and invasive species
- statistical methods
News on
developments in the biopesticide program:
journal article on-line: discovery of a naturally
occurring microbe (a strain of Metarhizium anisopliae var.
anisopliae) in Canadian soil that is capable of non-chemical
control of insect pests, even under warm conditions. Summary
of recent progress.
Funding:
Alberta Conservation Association
AAFC Pesticide Risk Reduction Program, Pest Management Centre
Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Canada Research Chairs
Department of National Defence, Canada (environmentally sustainable
grassland insect control)
NSERC
Pulse Canada
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
TEACHING
Fall, 2009 (Sept - Dec)
GEOG 2700. Geographical Data Analysis, Outline:
On
a need to know basis
GEOG1010, MWF, 10:00-10:50.
Biogeography notes,
Nov 27, 2009
Spring 2009 (Jan-Apr)
STAT3850, Design and Analysis of Experiments (undergraduate), Outline:
STAT5850, Design and Analysis of Experiments (graduate students),
Outline:
STAT 3850 Lab and Tutorial
ENVS4000, Sustainable Development and the Environment, Outline:
Spring, 2008
STAT3850, Design and Analysis of Experiments (undergraduate), Outline:
STAT5850, Design and Analysis of Experiments (graduate students),
Outline:
STAT 3850 Lab and Tutorial
ENVS4000, Environmental Impacts, Outline:
Fall, 2008
I will not be teaching Biogeography this fall (taking a break after
a decade of teaching this class)
Spring, 2007
ENVS4000, Impacts of Climate Change, Outline:
Fall, 2007
GEOG 3850, Biogeography (and Methods in Biogeography Lab/Tutorial),
Outline:
Spring 2006
ENVS4000, Ecosystem Monitoring, Outline:
Fall, 2006
ENVS500, Environmental Science for the First Nations Transition Program
GEOG3850, Biogeography (and Methods in Biogeography Lab/Tutorial)
Spring 2005
ENVS4000, Agroecosystems, Outline:
Fall, 2005
ENVS500, Environmental Science for the Native Transition Program
GEOG3850, Biogeography (and Methods in Biogeography Lab/Tutorial)
"Sun
and climate have been going in opposite directions during the
last 35 years of global warming."
MSc,
PhD, UBC
