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DAY 1 – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 |
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7:45 – 8:20 AM | Breakfast & Registration | ||
8:20 – 8:30 AM | Welcoming Remarks | First Nations RepresentativeLael Parrott, UBC Okanagan and Anna Sears, Okanagan Basin Water Board | |
8:30 – 10:50 AM – SESSION 1 | Connections between Science, Policy and the Public | Session Chair: Lael Parrott, UBC Okanagan | |
The Role of Research Institutes: Opportunities and Risks | Peter Millard, Landcare Research, New Zealand | ||
An Ecosystems Approach to Species and Ecosystems at Risk Management in the Okanagan | Josie Symmonds, MFNLRO | ||
Modelling Biodiversity, Leadership, and Action for Mission Creek | Todd Cashin, City of Kelowna | ||
How to Flow Upstream: Eco Art Connecting Students to Learning | Shimshon Obadia, UBC Okanagan | ||
Northern Gateway Pipeline and Art Activism | Nancy Holmes, UBC Okanagan | ||
10:50 – 11:10 AM | Coffee Break | ||
11:10 AM – 12:30 PM – SESSION 2 | Beyond Statistical and Agent-Based Modelling: What can we Learn from a Continuous Model? | Session Chair: Rebecca Tyson, UBC Okanagan | |
Response of Poikilotherms to Thermal Aspects of Climate Change | Rebecca Tyson, UBC Okanagan | ||
Democratizing assessments of changing marine environments: applications of imaging micro-computers to quantify plankton movements in the laboratory and field | Daniel Grünbaum, University of Washington | ||
12:30 – 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
1:30 – 3:30 PM – SESSION 3 | Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change in the Greater Columbia Basin | Session Chair: John Janmaat, UBC Okanagan | |
Evolving Land and Water Use in an Arid British Columbia Watershed |
Markandu Anputhas, UBC Okanagan | ||
Where Does All the Water Go? The Ethnography of Groundwater Mounds in the Columbia River Basin | John Wagner, UBC Okanagan | ||
Water Governance in the Creston Valley of BC: Is Food Security Threatened? | Joanne Taylor, UBC Okanagan | ||
Has there been a Climate-Driven Hydrologic Regime shift in the Canadian Columbia Basin? | Janice Brahney, UBC Okanagan | ||
The State of Local Adaptation Planning in Canada | Kevin Hanna, UBC Okanagan | ||
Using Geo-Web to Map Experiences of Climate Change Adaptation | John Corbett, UBC Okanagan | ||
3: 30 – 3:45 PM | Coffee Break | ||
3:45 – 5:00 PM – SESSION 4 | Communicating Complexity with Models and Games | John Janmaat, UBC Okanagan, Anna Warwick Sears, OBWB, Todd Cashin, City of Kelowna, Drew Lejbak, Summit Environmental | |
6:00- 7:00 PM | Reception followed by keynote presentation: | Bob Sandford, EPCOR Chair of the Canadian Partnership Initiative in support of United Nations “Water for Life” Decade | |
7:00 – 8:30 PM | Canada’s energized water cycle: climate change and its consequences | ||
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 |
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7:45 – 8:20 AM | Breakfast & Registration | ||
8:20 – 8:30 AM | Welcoming Remarks | Lael Parrott, UBC Okanagan and Anna Sears, Okanagan Basin Water Board | |
8:30 – 10:00 AM – SESSION 5 | Forest Disturbance, Climate and Water Resources in the Okanagan | Session Chair: Adam Wei, UBC Okanagan | |
How Forest and Climate changes affect Water Resources in the BC Interior | Adam Wei, UBC Okanagan | ||
Forest Disturbance Effects on Water Supplies from Upland Forested Watersheds in South-Central BC | Rita Winkler, MFNLRO | ||
A Global Review on the Effects of Forest ad Climate Changes on Hydrology with Implications for the Okanagan | John Li, UBC Okanagan | ||
“Waning Wetlands: Evaluating the Decline of Closed-basin Ponds in British Columbia’s Semi-arid Grasslands” | Aaron Coelho, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops | ||
Effects of clearcut logging on benthic and drifting invertebrate communities in headwater streams in the interior of BC |
Brian A. Heise, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops | ||
Wildfire Impacts on Hydrology in the Okanagan | Dave Scott, UBC Okanagan | ||
10:00 – 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | ||
10:30 AM – 12:20 PM – SESSION 6 | Water and Biodiversity Conservation | Session Chair: Michael Russello, UBC Okanagan | |
How DNA Can Inform Biodiversity Conservation: Case Studies from the Okanagan | Michael Russello, Evelyn Jensen and Matthew Lemay; UBC Okanagan | ||
Modelling Habitat for the Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel in the Okanagan Lake BC | Roxanne Snook, UBC Okanagan | ||
Keeping Nature in Our Future A Biodiverisity Conservation Strategy for the Okanagan Region | Carol Luttmer, OCCP – Bryn White, SOSCP | ||
Designing Change – Art in Science Communication | Aleksandra Dulic, UBC Okanagan | ||
Russian Olive Invasion of Riparian Habitat in Southern BC | Jason Pither, UBC Okanagan | ||
12:20 – 1:20 PM | Lunch | ||
1:20 – 3:20 PM – SESSION 7 | Biodiversity and Water Resources in Agriculture Ecosystems | Session Chair: Denise Nielsen, Agrifood Canada | |
Developing more resilient agro-ecosystems through improved understanding of water supply and demand in the context of a changing climate and competing requirements for water | Denise Neilsen, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland | ||
New digital (gridded) soil attribute mapping to support hydrologic and ecosystem modeling in the Okanagan Basin | Scott Smith, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland | ||
Can sap flow monitoring improve nutrient and water management for sweet cherry? | Gerry Neilsen, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland | ||
Can irrigation water be a source of carbon dioxide emissions? | Kirsten Hannam, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland | ||
Influences of micro-irrigation on belowground interactions at the root of vineyard and orchard productivity: Population dynamics of plant-parasitic nematodes | Tom Forge, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland | ||
The Influence of Irrigations techniques on Plant and Soil Communities in the Okangan | Taylor Holland, UBC Okanagan | ||
3:20 – 3:40 PM | Coffee Break | ||
3:40 – 5:00 PM – SESSION 8 | Sqilxw Apna (The People Now): Advancing a Model for Different Relationships and Empowered Decision-Making Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples in the Northern Okanagan Territory | Session Chair: Margo Tamez, UBC Okanagan; with panelists Mariel Belanger, Rachel Parker Marchand and Erik Hrabovsky | |
6:00 – 7:00 PM | Reception followed by keynote presentation: | Daniel Pauly, UBC Vancouver | |
7:00 – 8:30 PM | The Impact of Fisheries and Global Warming on Marine Ecosystems, with Some Emphasis on British Columbia |