Program
**DRAFT – Subject to Change**
Day 1: Thursday, May 24
| Session | Time | Speaker | Location |
| Registration | 9:00 am | Exhibits | Multi-purpose Room |
| Opening | 10:00 am
10:15 am 10:30 am 11:00 am |
Welcome
Bob Haverluck (Art) 2016 MSE Award Winner Moderator: Dale Curd, CBC Television |
Theatre |
| Session 1 | 11:30 am | Using the past to better predict the future: The challenges of using appropriate time scales in a rapidly changing world
John Smol, Queen’s University |
Theatre |
| Lunch | 12:30 pm
1:15 pm |
Exhibits
Short Videos |
Multi-purpose Room
Theatre |
| Session 2 | 2:00 pm | Title: TBA
Stephen Scharper, University of Toronto |
Theatre |
| Break | 3:00 pm
3:15 pm |
Exhibits
Short Videos |
Multi-purpose Room
Theatre |
| Session 3 | 3:30 pm | Title: TBA
Dan Longboat, Trent University |
Theatre |
| Reception & Art Display |
4:30 pm
5:30 pm |
Cash Bar, Exhibits
Short Videos |
Multi-purpose Room |
| Dinner | 6:00 pm | Announcement of Research Award Recipient | Dining Room |
| Interactive Activity | 7:30 pm |
Moreen Miller, Fowler Construction |
Theatre |
| Session 4 | 8:00 pm | Music and the Environment
James Gordon, Musician, |
Theatre |
Day 2: Friday, May 25
| Session | Time | Speaker | Location |
| Opening | 9:00 am | 1st review of the communiqué | Theatre |
| Session 5 | 9:30 am | Using Canopy Science to Foster Global Forest Conservation
Meg Lowman, California Academy of Sciences |
Theatre |
| Break | 10:30 am
10:45 am |
Exhibits
Short Videos |
Multi-purpose Room
Theatre |
| Session 6 | 11:10 am | Shaping a future partnership of people with the rest of nature
Terry Chapin, University of Alaska |
Theatre |
| Lunch | 12:20 pm
12:45 pm |
Exhibits
Short Videos |
Multi-purpose Room
Theatre |
| Speakers Panel | 1:00 pm | Moderator: Paul Kennedy, CBC Radio | Theatre |
| Closing | 3:00 pm | Theatre |
