NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE

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2011—2012 Meeting Schedule

Fall

Note: meetings are normally held on the first Monday of the month.

Monday, 3 October 2011

Time: 7:30pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Speaker: Dr. John Calder
Title:"Coal Age Galapagos"

Monday, 7 November 2011

Time: 7:30pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Speaker: Dr. Heike Lotze
Title:"Food, Furs & Feathers: History of Human-induced Changes in Coastal Ecosystems"

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
A special lecture in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first ship to complete a round trip passage on the Shubenacadie Canal.

Time: 7:30pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Speaker: Cameron Ells, P. Eng.
Title:"There and Back Again: Along the Shubenacadie Canal in 1861 - Between HRM and the Bay of Fundy"

Monday, 5 December 2011

Time: 7:30pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Speaker: Martin Willison
Title:"A review of the development of protected areas in Nova Scotia: from picnic parks to systematic protection of biodiversity"

2011—2012 Meeting Schedule

Winter

Monday, 9 January 2012

Time: 7:30pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Speaker: Dr. Charles Embree
Atlantic Food and Horticulture Research Centre, Kentville
Title:"100 Years of Research in the Orchard"

Monday, 6 February 2012

Time: 7:30pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Speaker: Dr. Grant Wach
Dalhousie University
Title:"Burning Rocks- the history of the petroleum industry in Canada and the Maritimes"