BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251023T013217EDT-602387uvH1@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251023T053217Z DESCRIPTION:Natural Resource Sciences Seminar Series - Wildlife Biology—fea turing a series of external speakers on topics relevant to Wildlife Biolog y and Environmental Biology.\n\nGuest Speaker: George Divoky (Director\, F riends of Cooper Island)\n\nThe breeding biology of an Arctic seabird\, th e Black Guillemot\, has been studied annually since 1975 in  northern Alas ka where rates of atmospheric and oceanic warming have been among the most pronounced in the world.   The species is adapted to feeding in and next to Arctic sea ice and while it first benefitted from warming\, as earlier snowmelt facilitated range expansion and colony growth\, reductions in sea ice have decreased colony size and breeding success.  The species' respon se to cryospheric decreases in the last half century provides biological e vidence of the rapid pace of environmental change in the Arctic and demons trates the importance of long-term studies during a period of climate chan ge. \n\nThis seminar series is open to anyone within the 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ community\ , but primarily targets NRS grad students and faculty.\n\n \n DTSTART:20171109T163000Z DTEND:20171109T173000Z LOCATION:R3-045\, Raymond Building\, CA\, QC\, St Anne de Bellevue\, H9X 3V 9\, 21111 Lakeshore Road SUMMARY:Four decades of change: a seabird responds to a melting Arctic URL:/macdonald/channels/event/four-decades-change-seab ird-responds-melting-arctic-269963 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR