John Acorn delivers a seminar as part of the Department of Renewable Resources seminar series. Seminars are recorded and posted online on the department's Vimeo channel.
The Department of Renewable Resources’ seminar series has a new online home.
Recordings of the popular lunchtime seminars can now be viewed anytime as the department posts them on its new video channel on the Vimeo website.
Vic Lieffers, Chair of the department, sees the channel as a key addition to the department’s growing efforts to interact with stakeholders and showcase the cutting edge science and applications being developed by the department’s 29 professors and 150 graduate students and researcher personnel.
The channel currently houses five seminars covering topics ranging from why soils shouldn’t be called dirt, to the evolution of chemical defenses in coniferous trees.
The channel also showcases videos of the EMEND Forest Research Experiment, co-lead by Dr. John Spence, the EcoSys Climate Modeling program developed by Dr. Robert Grant, and the recent Bentley Lecture in Sustainable Agriculture, delivered by Dr. Bill Shotyk. The channel will also host the Forest Industry Lecture Series (now running for 34 years) and additional recordings of the department’s public seminar series.
The Renewable Resources seminar series provides a forum for local and international scientists and practitioners to speak on current research findings related to forests, soils, water, wildlife, and fire. The seminars are typically about an hour in length and the department hopes to make about 20 seminars available each year. The channel can be accessed at www.vimeo.com/channels/RenR.
The video channel is part of a wider initiative in the Department of Renewable Resources to engage with stakeholders and communicate research implications to a broader audience. To learn more about the Department of Renewable Resources, the people and the diversity of research initiatives, visit
www.rr.ualberta.ca.