{"id":466,"date":"2013-04-20T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/?p=466"},"modified":"2013-04-29T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:59:35","slug":"grad-student-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad Student Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Provencher, a PhD student, co-supervised by myself and Grant Gilchrist (NWRC), went to a workshop that was sponsored by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) which is a working group of the Arctic Council. The workshop was in Saint Petersburg Russia from April 22-24. The meeting was themed “Action Adaptations for a Changing Arctic (AACA-C)”. The meeting’s purpose was to bring together climate model scientists, natural scientists, especially those with a marine focus, and others stakeholders (Governments, oil and gas producers etc.) to discuss the feasibility of strategies to maintain valued areas under projected climate change scenarios. The workshop focussed on\u00a0three pilot regions\u00a0(Barents Sea, Davis Strait-Baffin Bay, and the Beaufort-Chukchi-Bering Sea). All climate models predict moderate changes over the next 30 years regardless of scenarios and actions taken today, but show that strategies taken today on limiting carbon emissions over the next 80 years might greatly change how the planet will look.\u00a0The report from the meeting goes back to the Arctic Council at its May ministerial meeting for final approval for the project to go ahead.<\/p>\n

This past Thursday April 18th, Julia Mlynarek delivered a talk entitled\u00a0“Why do different hosts respond differently to parasites?
\nDamselflies and their parasites may hold the key” at the\u00a0Ottawa Entomology Club<\/a>. The Abstract of the talk follows below:
\nHost-parasite associations are rarely restricted to one host species\u00a0and one parasite species. A host species will tend to be put under
\npressure by several parasite species and\/or parasite groups. Likewise, a\u00a0generalist parasite species will have to cope with overcoming defences
\nfrom multiple potential host species in a community. The aim of my PhD\u00a0thesis is to determine which host species characteristics explain the
\ndifferences in prevalence, intensity and resistance of internal and\u00a0external parasites.\u00a0 Damselflies are excellent hosts for these types of
\nstudies because they are infected by many types of parasites including\u00a0gregarines (internally) and water mites (externally), they are able to\u00a0resist water mites and this can be easily assessed, they are easily\u00a0collected, and closely related species can be collected at the same\u00a0sites. My collecting has taken me to Eastern Ontario, Southwestern\u00a0Quebec to look at local parasitism levels in marshes, bogs and Southern\u00a0Alberta to look at host-parasitise associations in lakes. I have been\u00a0looking at different aspects of gregarine and water mite parasitism\u00a0especially in the context of host characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Provencher, a PhD student, co-supervised by myself and Grant Gilchrist (NWRC), went to a workshop that was sponsored by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) which is a working group of the Arctic Council. The workshop was in Saint Petersburg Russia from April 22-24. The meeting was themed “Action Adaptations for a Changing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGrad Student Activities - Mark Forbes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jennifer Provencher, a PhD student, co-supervised by myself and Grant Gilchrist (NWRC), went to a workshop that was sponsored by the Arctic Monitoring and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"markforbes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/\",\"name\":\"Grad Student Activities - Mark Forbes\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-20T13:19:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-29T20:59:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#\/schema\/person\/0c34e2a6ed060f1a635a038d5b13761b\"},\"description\":\"Jennifer Provencher, a PhD student, co-supervised by myself and Grant Gilchrist (NWRC), went to a workshop that was sponsored by the Arctic Monitoring and\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/category\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Grad Student Activities\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/\",\"name\":\"Mark Forbes\",\"description\":\"Carleton University\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#\/schema\/person\/0c34e2a6ed060f1a635a038d5b13761b\",\"name\":\"markforbes\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3973a8f16b37b6f8b80f4c7b416b5e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3973a8f16b37b6f8b80f4c7b416b5e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"markforbes\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Grad Student Activities - Mark Forbes","description":"Jennifer Provencher, a PhD student, co-supervised by myself and Grant Gilchrist (NWRC), went to a workshop that was sponsored by the Arctic Monitoring and","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"markforbes","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/","name":"Grad Student Activities - Mark Forbes","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-04-20T13:19:09+00:00","dateModified":"2013-04-29T20:59:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#\/schema\/person\/0c34e2a6ed060f1a635a038d5b13761b"},"description":"Jennifer Provencher, a PhD student, co-supervised by myself and Grant Gilchrist (NWRC), went to a workshop that was sponsored by the Arctic Monitoring and","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/2013\/grad-student-activities\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/category\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Grad Student Activities"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#website","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/","name":"Mark Forbes","description":"Carleton University","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#\/schema\/person\/0c34e2a6ed060f1a635a038d5b13761b","name":"markforbes","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3973a8f16b37b6f8b80f4c7b416b5e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3973a8f16b37b6f8b80f4c7b416b5e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"markforbes"}}]}},"acf":{"Post Thumbnail Icon":null,"Post Thumbnail":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mforbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}