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@UNBC's Natural Resources & Environmental Studies Institute (NRESi) links researchers and stakeholders to facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary research and projects.
SPECIAL FWCP/NRESi Colloquium-Friday 13th February --Jonaki Bhattacharyya

Protecting Indigenous Relationships with the Land through IPCAs

Friday, February 13th, 2026– 3:30pm-4:30pm
Room 8-166 and Online

Registration to attend via Zoom is required. Please use QR code or weblink to register.
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 6th Feb - Alex Bevington

From the Arctic to Northern British Columbia: Recent observations from the perspective of a hydrologist, geospatial scientist, and overall optimist

Friday, Feb 6, 2026
3:30-4:30pm
Room 8-166 and Online

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
SPECIAL NRESi Colloquium-Wednesday 4th February -- Dr. Ian Mauro -
Catalyzing Climate Solutions across British Columbia

Date: Wednesday, Feb4th, 2026– 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 10-4588 and Online

More info at :https://www.unbc.ca/nres-institute/colloquium-webcasts
February 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
NRESi Friday Colloquium --Oliver Iorhemen
“From Wastewater Treatment to Resource Recovery: Advancing Next-Generation Facilities”

Date: Friday, January 30th, 2026– 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
January 26, 2026 at 7:42 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 23rd January --Kalindi Morgan

Integrating Genomics and Nitrogen-15 NMR for Natural Product Discovery from Northern Canadian Bark Beetle-associated Bacteria

Friday, January 23rd, 2026– 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
January 19, 2026 at 8:22 PM
NRESi Colloqium Series: Stewardship by Design: How Area-Based Tenures Empower Communities and First Nations.

Date: Friday, January 16th, 2026– 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

Please find the link to our colloquium webcasts: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
January 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
NRESi Public Talk by Brandon Geldart, Project Coordinator SERNbc

The presentation will take place from 12:00-1:00 pm tomorrow (Dec 3) with options to attend either online or in-person at UNBC (Prince George Campus, Senate Chambers, Charles McCaffray Hall, Room 1079).
See poster for details.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Science’s Most Creative Act: Species Naming and Some of its Consequences

Date: Friday, December 5th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm

Location: Room 8-166 and Online
Annual Mixer and NRES 700 poster presentation to follow immediately after Colloquium at T&L Atrium

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The NRESi/PICS funded “Northern BC Stream Temperature Symposium” took place at UNBC's main campus on November 20-21. The event was lead by Dr. Siraj ul Islam and Alex Bevington - UNBC Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences faculty members.

More info at:
hcilab.ca/sts/
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
NRESi Friday Colloquium Series

First Nations Cultural Wellbeing and Recovery on the Land: Pilot methodologies to monitor cultural wellbeing and recovery in land management and planning

Date: Friday, November 28th, 2025 –
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 21st November -- Cher Hill

“Trees don’t care about your pronouns:” Forest Pedagogies, Gender, and Belonging 

Date: Friday, November 21st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Major Construction in Fisheries Habitat: Water Management, Fish Salvage and Fisheries Mitigation (LNG Canada Project Case Study)

Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info at colloquium webcasts: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 31st October-- Tista Ghosh

Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Resilience or Reassembly: Fire–Vegetation Feedback 
in Nahanni and Nááts’ihch’oh National Park Reserve 
 
Date: Friday, October 24th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
 
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 17th October-- Phil Burton

Towards Resilient Forest Management

Date: Friday, October 17th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

Please find a text version of the abstract below.

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 10th October

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Hydroclimatic Research - A Promising Step Forward        
  
Date: Friday, October 10th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
 
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 3rd October - Neil Nunn
State failure, or formation? Regulating mass social and ecological disruption in BC, from the 1858 Gold Rush to the 2014 Mount Polley Mine Disaster (and beyond)

Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm, Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
September 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 19th September-- Jasmine Janes

Conservation of the endangered bog bird’s-foot trefoil (Hosackia pinnata; Fabaceae) in Canada

Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online.

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
NRESi Friday Colloquium

Investigating arctic unknowns through Inuit
and scientific knowledge - Dr.Tristan Pearce

Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

More info available at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NRESi Friday Colloquium

Canadian Institute of Forestry Master’s Night
  
Date: Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: Room 7-238 and Online

More info at www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
April 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
NRESi Friday Colloquium: Tracing soil erosion processes in forest environments using plutonium isotopes

Date: Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: Room 7-238 and Online.

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
April 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
NRESi Friday Colloquium: Analysis of environmental DNA to assess the distribution of Salmonids in Northern BC
  
Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 – 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Location: Room 7-238 and Online
       
 Please find the link to our colloquium webcasts: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
March 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Thursday Night Joint FWCP/NRESi Dinner and Colloquium.

“Historical marine ecology and conservation: Understanding baselines and restoring relationships - Dr. Loren McClenachan”

Room 8-166, 7:30 PM, Thursday March 27.  More info at

www.unbc.ca/nres-institu....
March 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
NRESi Friday Colloquium: Getting to know an overlooked flora:
Botanical exploration in the Upper Fraser Drainage

Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 – 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Location: Room 7-238 and Online

More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
March 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM