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FRI-days Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series

September 01, 2009

We hosted our inaugural FRI-days Brown Bag lunch lecture series with a presentation about using GIS to study Grizzly Bears and to introduce students to spatial technologies and critical thinking through GIS Day.

The next brown bag lunch is on Friday, September 18. The speaker is Gordon Stenhouse, Program Lead of the Grizzly Bear Program. The topic will be "Impacts of Handling Bears - new lessons for Scientists".

Over the course of the past 10 years of grizzly bear research at the Foothills Research Institute, scientists have been striving to reduce the impacts of capture on research animals and to understand what effects we may be having on the animals we study. Gord will present an overview of a major scientific publication on the long term effects of capture and handling on bears and discuss the results of this work and how our research program has moved forward with this new knowledge in our ongoing research program.

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