Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting: Reflections on Seven Years as an Ornithologist in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula presented by Richard Feldman
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaRichard Feldman is currently a Wildlife Landscape Ecologist with the Ontario Ministry Natural Resources and Forestry. After graduating from Queen’s in Biology, he completed a Master’s in Forest Science at the University of British Columbia, a PhD at McGill, and post-docs at Trent and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His main research interest is understanding how the response…
Monthly Meeting: Monitoring Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Boreal Forest Ecosystem Dynamics
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaFrancis Quinby is a fourth-year PhD student in Dr. Dennis Murray’s lab at Trent University where he is pursuing a long-held desire to use quantitative skills to study environmental issues…
Monthly Meeting: Holiday Season Members’ Slide Show Night
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaA long-time annual tradition in the PFN is the members slide show night. We will be treated to several short presentations from our members of photos they have taken. Try…
Monthly Meeting: Presentation by David Beresford
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaDavid Beresford is a professor at Trent University where he teaches entomology. The topic of his presentation is yet to be announced but it surely will be about insects and…
Monthly Meeting: The Evolution and Ecology of Plant Reproduction
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaMarcel Dorken will present an overview of some of the research conducted in his lab at Trent. The main themes will include evolutionary transitions in reproductive systems, sexual selection, and…
Monthly Meeting: Trent Grant Recipient Student Presentations
This month the PFN will continue its annual tradition of hosting Trent University students who were recipients of the PFN’s Legacy Grant. They will be providing presentations on their research…
Monthly Meeting: Brook Trout in the Lake Simcoe Watershed
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe phenomenon of how natural resource subsidies support stream productivity is well-known in the Pacific Northwest where salmon return from the ocean to spawn. In doing so they import nutrients…
Monthly Meeting: Fossils and the Incredible Stories They Tell Us
Among other things, this presentation by Ken Lyon is about ancient life forms and nature stretching back four billion years. He will discuss the Paleozoic mass extinctions and the implications…
Monthly Meeting: Strategic Plan Launch & Presentation on Migratory Fish and Brook Trout
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaYou are invited to come a little earlier for the September monthly meeting to enjoy snacks, social time and receive a copy of the 2024-2029 PFN Strategic Plan. Doors will…
Monthly Meeting: Provincial-Scale Monitoring of Black Bears
Ontario manages one of the largest and most widely distributed populations of American black bears globally. This population inhabits an incredible range of landscapes, from the heavily developed surroundings of Toronto to the large roadless areas of the Hudson Bay Lowlands. In this talk, Joe Northrup will discuss the history of population monitoring and management…