Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting: Unique and Diverse Flora of Western Australia
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaWestern Australia is designated as having one of the most diverse flora communities in the world. This makes it a very fascinating place to visit. But also of interest is why Western Australia’s plants are so different from those we are used to here. Perhaps these very different plants will help us see our native ones in a different light and…
CANCELLED – Monthly Meeting: Rodney Fuentes on The Monarch Ultra
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe Monarch Ultra is a relay run that followed one of the world’s longest insect migrations: the migration of the monarch butterflies. On September 21, 2019, the run started in Peterborough, Ontario, and arrived 47 days later in Macheros, Mexico. Rodney will be sharing the story behind the run, his experiences during the trip and…
PFN Monthly Meeting: Protecting and Recovering Butterfly Species at Risk in Ontario – Members Only
Jessica Linton is a Senior Biologist at Natural Resource Solutions Inc. in Waterloo, ON. Although her consulting project work is varied and involves a number of taxonomic groups, one of…
PFN Monthly Meeting – Presentations by Three 4th Year Trent Student Recipients of PFN Grants:
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Road,, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaSpatial scale of Habitat Selection of White-tailed Deer presented by Jenna Knight. Jenna has been looking at the spatial scale of habitat selection of white-tailed deer in the Peterborough Crown…
PFN Monthly Meeting
Presentation #1: Maela Kaminski on “Variations in the Brood Sex Ratios of Tree Swallows in Response to Environmental Quality.” Maela is in her fourth year of Biomedical Science at TrentUniversity and…
Birds, Butterflies and Botany – Carden Plain
Join us for an all-day visit to the wonderful Carden Plain. This is an unusual alvar habitat that is home to an abundance of rare grassland bird species, butterflies and…
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
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaWildlife 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
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…
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…