Monthly Meeting
2023 Report Cards on Watershed Health and Climate Change
This presentation will highlight the 2023 Otonabee Region Watershed Report Card, and Climate ChangeReport Card, along with examples of the efforts of Otonabee Conservation and partners to enhance thehealth of…
PFN Monthly Meeting: “Living on the Edge: Wildlife & Change in the Hudson Bay Lowlands “ presented by Dr. Glen Brown
Wildlife adapted to a cold northern climate are vulnerable toclimate warming, yet little is known about the vulnerability of thesubarctic ecosystem in northern Ontario. The Hudson BayLowlands ecozone provides breeding…
Monthly Meeting: Reflections on Seven Years as an Ornithologist in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula presented by Richard Feldman
Richard 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…
Monthly Meeting: Monitoring Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Boreal Forest Ecosystem Dynamics
Francis 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
A 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
David 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
Marcel 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
The 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…