Departmental Seminar Series

Departmental seminars generally take place on the last Friday of the month from 12:30.

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
20 April 2012	Aurora Torres Moreno	Department of Evolutionary Ecology National Museum of Natural Sciences Madrid, Spain	Assessing the Effects of a Highway on a Threatened Species Using BACI Designs
17 February 2012	Dominique Henri	Department of Geography, Oxford University	Inuit participation and science in polar governance in the Nunavut Territory
1 February 2012 (Bonus Lecture)	David Willey and Boris Romaguer	Office of the Auditor General of Canada	The Petitioning Process: A Citizen's Tool for Environmental Transparency
27 January 2012	Patricia Thornton	Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University	Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840-1900
25 November 2011	Peter Rudiak-Gould	Department of Athropology, McGill University	Telling a Country it is Doomed: The Reception of Climate Change in Small Island States
28 October	Kathryn Furlong	Department of Geography, Université de Montréal	The Consumer in Question: Challenging Economic Truths and Extending Infrastructure in Medellín
14 October 2011 (Bonus Lecture)	Christian Abrahamsson	Department of Geography, University of Uppsala	Struggle for Space, Lebensraum and Himmler's Generalplan Ost
30 September 2011	Tom Langen	Departments of Biology and Psychology, Clarkson University	Making Road Networks Less Unfriendly to Turtles: From Planning to Mitigation
TBA	Julie Podmore	Department of Geosciences, John Abbott College	TBA

Book Launch: Peopling the North American City

December 15th was the book launch for Prof. Pat Thornton's (co-authored with Prof. Sherry Olson) new book "Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840-1900". It took place on the 11th floor of the EV building with the appropriate backdrop of downtown Montreal. The event was well attended by faculty and other interested participants. See some photos below.

Prof. Pat Thornton speaking at the book launch.


(Left to Right) Profs. Norma Rantisi , Pat Thornton and Kevin Gould.

Prizes Awarded at 2011 NESTVAL Conference

On Friday and Saturday (14 and 15 October) the GPE hosted the 2011 NESTVAL conference. Here is the list of awards and their winners.

Award	Name	Affiliation	Title
Outstanding graduate paper	Jerome Yang	Clark University	Low birth weight and exposure to lead and oxygen in Massachusetts.
David Frost Award for outstanding undergraduate paper	Laura Roch	Concordia University	Fragmentation of the prairie landscape
Outstanding Poster	Matthew Crawford	St. Matthew's College	Conservation Easements
Geography Bowl Competition	Travis Ahearn, Emma Anders, Maya Anders, Yuseph Katiya, Eric Lovi, David Maloney	Concordia University
Graduate Honourable Mention	Scott Russell	University of Connecticut	New Haven's food system
Graduate Honourable Mention	Chantal Forgues and Bastien Fournier-Peyres Blanques	Concordia University	Turcot interchange reconstruction