CFS-LFC lectures
Since 1987, the Laurentian Forestry Centre (LFC) has hosted many high-calibre speakers who have shared their knowledge and discoveries.
Lectures begin at 10:30 am (Eastern Time) and last approximately 60 minutes, followed by a question period.
Lectures are presented in French, unless otherwise specified.
The objective of the CFS-LFC lectures series is to provide knowledge to our partners and the forestry community.
Upcoming lecture schedule
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conferences will be offered exclusively remotely via webinar.
| Dates | Speakers | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| November 18, 2021 | Daniel Mazerolle, Director
Strategic Operations Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Natural Resources Canada Éric Soucy, Director, Industrial Process Optimization CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada |
Toward a digital ecosystem: opportunities, research and innovation for the Canadian forest sector |
| December 2, 2021 | Jill L. Wegrzyn, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut | Integrated technologies to support forest tree biodiversity and conservation genomics (in English.) |
| January 13, 2022 | Alain Paquette, Full Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal | Urban forest and climate change |
| January 27, 2022 | Hubert Morin, Professor-Researcher, Department of Basic Sciences, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi | Eight thousand years of spruce budworm epidemic history |
| February 24, 2022 | Sylvain Jutras, Full Professor, Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval | The Government of Quebec and Water Conservation on our Public Lands: A statement of failure |
| March 10, 2022 | Jonathan Boucher, Research Scientist, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada | Research on forest fire management |
| March 17, 2022 | Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent, Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Climate Change Canada | From adaptation to transformation: toward more transformative actions for our natural resource management in the context of climate change |
| March 24, 2022 | Nelson Thiffault, Research Scientist, Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Natural Resources Canada | Regeneration issues for adaptive silviculture |
| April 7, 2022 | Nicolas Mansuy, Research Scientist,
Northern Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada Sharlene Alook, Student, University of Alberta Matt Munson, GIS Technician, Lands Department, Dene Tha' First Nation |
Challenges and opportunities in land use and management by and for Indigenous communities. Applied examples for bioenergy and conservation in western Canada |
| April 14, 2022 Cancelled |
Dominique Henri, Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada | Bringing together western science and Indigenous knowledge to understand and protect Arctic ecosystems |
For more information about our current webinars, recordings of previous webinars, adding your name to our invitation list or receiving a summary of each lecture, please email the Planning, Partnerships and Operations Division of the Laurentian Forestry Centre.
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