Please note that our Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 15th at 7pm in the Port Moody Recreation Centre, with a guest speaker following the meeting.
Our guest speaker this year is Assistant Professor John Moore, who has a passion for wild salmon. He will be discussing the dynamics of coastal ecosystems, how systems function, and how human activities impact that function. He works primarily in stream and lake systems with a focus on food webs, evolutionary, ecosystem, food-web, and community ecology viewpoints.
His current research seeks to understand how species interactions and disturbances drive ecosystem processes, community dynamics, and evolution in freshwaters, asking questions such as what are the consequences of species additions or extinctions? How are human activities altering disturbance regimes? What are the causes and ecological consequences of population dynamics of Pacific salmon, an ecologically and culturally important group of species?
Dr. Moore aims to do research that has conservation and management implications and believes that a deep understanding of the ecological consequences of human activities is needed to properly weigh management trade-offs. For more information, please look online at http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/jwmoore/Research.html
Dr. Jonathan W. Moore, Assistant Professor, is Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management, Department of Biological Sciences/Resource and Environmental Management, at Simon Fraser University
