Join us for a special evening of presentation to celebrate new local conservation research!

We’ve invited graduate students to share the highlights of their current conservation and ecological research projects within the South Okanagan. This PechaKucha-style evening of short presentations will celebrate the restoration and resilience of nature and human relations with that.

Please arrive anytime after 5:00 pm for a 5:30 pm start. Simple refreshments will be served.

Thank you to Penticton Museum and Archives for sponsoring this event.

Schedule of Speakers:

Miah Godek
PhD Candidate, UBC (Vancouver) Forestry
Research title: Antelopebrush & fire in the Okanagan Valley: pathways for recovery & restoration
Duncan MacNaughton
PhD Student, UBC (Vancouver) Zoology
Research title: The effects of habitat loss due to agricultural expansion on pollinator communities in BC’s at-risk shrubsteppe ecosystem
Henry James
Master of Science Student, UBC (Okanagan) Biology
Research title: How the rare and ecologically-sensitive riparian corridors across the Okanagan may function as refuges for birds during heat waves
Kara Atkinson
Master of Environmental Science student, Thompson Rivers University.
Research title: Grassland Small Mammal Population Dynamics and the Effects of Climate – a 28 year study
Calen Wong
Master of Environmental Science student, Thompson Rivers University
Research title: Snake population monitoring and road mortality in the White Lake Basin
Steffani Singh
Masters of Science student, UBC (Okanagan) Biology
Research title: Raptor habitat use in burned forests