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Please join us for the first in our series of visiting speakers for the 2015 winter term.

The Visiting Speakers Program at the Faculty of Agriculture聽aims to build and聽support a robust and dynamic research culture across the聽campus.聽聽The program will offer scholarly聽research seminars and will provide our faculty, staff, students and聽research聽associates an opportunity to engage with world class scientists. This聽initiative aligns with one of the major intents of the聽Faculty Strategic聽Research Plan: to 鈥淏uild a Community of Scholarship鈥�.聽

Friday,January 30, 2015
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Dr. Les Cwynar
University of New Brunswick

Topic:聽 Lateglacial climate and vegetation change in Atlantic Canada
Location: 2:00 PM, Cox 257

Dr. Les Cwynar is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Brunswick. Les聽did his PhD at U of T and has been at UNB since 1988. He is a Quaternary plant ecologist interested in climate/vegetation聽dynamics and fire histories. He has worked on tree line change in Siberia and the Yukon, response of vegetation to late glacial climate change in聽Atlantic Canada and climate change in Tasmania.