Tue, February 18, 2014 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The Leslie L. Schaffer Lecture in Forest Sciences:
Fire and ice: responses by stream-riparian ecosystems to shifting disturbance regimes and some consequences for forest management
Colden Baxter, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Ecological Research and Education, Idaho State University Pocatello
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Forest Sciences Centre, Fletcher Challenge Theatre #1005
The Schaffer Lecture was established in 1981 for the purpose of disseminating scientific information and achievement among forestry students, professional foresters, scientists and the public. The late Dr Schaffer, in whose honour the lectureship is named, played an important role in the development of industrial forestry in Hungary, his native country, and after 1940 in Canada. Initially, he worked for Pacific Veneer Ltd of New Westminster and in 1944 he was instrumental in founding Western Plywood Ltd, where he was executive vice president. Dr Schaffer felt strongly about the importance of scientific research in forestry, which he considered the basis of sound forestry practice, and this lecture series is a fitting memorial to him.