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North to Alaska, a Sustainable Fishery, Migrating Salmon, and Grizzly Bears

I have just spent a week on Lake Aleknagik, part of the Wood River system that empties into Bristol Bay Alaska. Myself and two students (Shannan May-McNally and Allison Dennert) are collecting char for our own work, but are also helping with some sockeye salmon stream surveys out of the U of Washington camp on Lake Aleknagik.

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Freeze tolerance is way cool because…

Join Katie Marshall, Post-Doctoral Fellow in UBC’s Department of Zoology,for chilly tales of how Canada’s animals have adapted to deal with the extreme cold, some by freezing solid! Included with museum admission or membership.

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Frequent Fliers: Tracking Songbird Migration through the Americas

Monday, August 13, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Bridget Stutchbury, North American Ornithological Conference – Vancouver 2012 (NAOC-V), the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Nature Vancouver are pleased to offer a free public lecture “Frequent Fliers: Tracking Songbird Migration through the Americas” by internationally renowned scientist, Dr. Bridget Stutchbury from York University.

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50 Years in Serengeti: The Science Behind the Story

April 25, 2013, 7:00 p.m.Dr. Anthony R.E. Sinclair, UBCJoin researcher Dr. Anthony R.E. Sinclair and learn more about the story behind the science; the exciting events that took place while scientists documented these dramatic changes, and why we must now consider the future of conservation.

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Amoeba in the Room

Thursday, October 3, 2013, 7:00 p.m.Nicholas Money, Miami UniversityThe flowering of microbial science is revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined just a few years ago and is inspiring a new view of what it means to be human.

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History of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum

How The Beaty Came to Be The Beaty Biodiversity Museum opened its doors in 2010 and UBC’s vast natural history collections were put on public display for the first time. The museum and its collections are the centrepiece of UBC’s Biodiversity Research

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