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Distinguished Lecturer Series 2025-2026

Date Place & Time Speaker Title
September 23, 2025 Sidney Smith 1074, 4pm Dick Peltier The Dansgaard-Oeschger Climate Oscillation
October 7, 2025 Sidney Smith 1074, 4pm Meredith Holgerson Why are ponds biogeochemical hotspots? Examining how waterbody size shapes carbon burial and greenhouse gas emissions
October 21, 2025 Sidney Smith 1074, 4pm Brian McDonald Evolving urban air quality
November 4, 2025 Sidney Smith 1074, 4pm Andrew Whitehead Evolution in the Anthropocene: Mechanisms of rapid repeated adaptation to extreme pollution in urban killifish
November 18, 2025 Sidney Smith 1074, 4pm Debora Griffin Wildfire Smoke in Canada: A Satellite and Air Quality Story
December 2, 2025 Sidney Smith 1074, 4pm Melissa Lafreniere You can’t expect to see, if you are not looking: Key discoveries resulting from twenty years of observations at the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory, Melville Island, Nunavut
January 13, 2026 TBA Lenore Newman The Coming Agricultural Singularity: Technology, Policy and the Future of Food
January 27, 2026 TBA Scott Chang Nature-based solutions for mitigating climate change: from croplands to forests
February 10, 2026 TBA Claudia Guimaraes-Steinicke From biodiversity to microclimate buffering: the mediating role of plant traits and canopy structure measured by proximal sensing
February 24, 2026 TBA Benton Taylor The root of terrestrial carbon capture: How forest responses to climate change will be driven by root-microbial partnerships
March 10, 2026 TBA Mike Flannigan Canada’s landscape fires spreading into uncharted territory
March 24, 2026 TBA Christian Frankenberg Constraining global photosynthesis from space using solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence