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Monitoring Yukon Stream Temperatures

• Marina Milligan ~ 2025-Mar-16 ~ A water temperature monitoring network initiated in 2011 indicates migration and spawning habitat for salmon is becoming dire in the Yukon. This presentation was supported by the Yukon First Nation Salmon Stewardship Alliance of the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN)

Shifting Streams: How Climate Change is Redefining Arctic River Networks

• Shawn Chartrand ~ 2024-Feb-4 ~ A 60 year look at global warming's effect on Canada's High Arctic river networks, influenced by freeze-thaw cycles and flooding patterns.

Mining to Mitigate Climate Change: Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage in Mine Waste

• Greg Dipple ~ 2019-Mar-28 ~ Join Kathy Martin for an exploration of northern alpine avian adaptations, and the implications of climate change for avian diversity.

Not your grandparents' weather! 

• David Pearson​ ~ 2019-Feb-24​ ~ It used to be that our weather was “normal” and dependable. Now more and more Canadians are asking: What’s happening to our weather? If our weather is becoming weirder and wilder are people responsible or is it nature doing this to us? Or both?
  3rd Annual Ian Church Memorial Lecture

How Dogs and Other Species Learn From Others

• Daphna Buschbaum​ ~ 2019-Feb-17 ~ Dogs, humans, and other primates often solve daily physical reasoning challenges by learning from others. Daphne explores how dogs and other species understand both the physical and the social world.

Ice Age Horses of Western North America: the history and prehistory of an American icon

• Eric Scott​ ~ 2019-Jan-27 ~ Horses have been key players in ancient ecosystems for over fifty million years. Eric has studied these amazing animals from the frozen expanses of the Yukon to the blistering deserts of the Americas and East Africa, let's review our current understanding of how horses evolved into the partners we know and love today.

Rivers and Streams in Winter: the love-hate relationship of water and ice

• Benoit Turcotte ~ 2018-Dec-9 ~ Winter is probably the most fascinating period of the year from a hydrology perspective. The first cold nights initiate a tango between the water and the ice and with snowmelt, the dance starts again, leading to the most dramatic expression of northern rivers: breakup.

Energy Storage: the missing link for more wind and solar power in Yukon

• Ravi Seethapathy​ ~ 2018-Apr-19 ~ - - - - - .

Into the Planet: the mysterious world of underwater caves

• Jill Heinerth ~ 2018-Mar-19​ ~ Jill was the first person to explore the depths of Antarctic iceberg-cave ecosystems, was on the team that created the first 3D map of a cave system, and sponsored by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, documented ecosystems under the shrinking arctic ice as part of her Arctic on the Edge project. 

Micro-Moths: getting to know them through DNA barcoding

• Vazrick Nazari ~ 2018-Mar-4 ~ If you take the time to look, this group of moths can easily surpass butterflies in their beauty, striking appearance, and diversity of colour, shapes and forms. DNA barcoding has been used to help identify both known and new species – including those found on Yukon sand dunes.

Firestorm: how wildfire will shape our future

• Ed Struzick ~ 2018-Mar-3 ~ The Fort McMurray cost was $8.86 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. Find out what Yukoners can do to prepare for the inevitable.

Birds in High Places: the ecology and conservation value of northern mountains for avian biodiversity

• Kathy Martin​ ~ 2017-February 12​ ~ Join Kathy Martin for an exploration of northern alpine avian adaptations, and the implications of climate change for avian diversity.

Chimps in Space: A Century of Apes in Research

• Andrew Westoll's January 22, 2017​ ~ Join Andrew Westoll as he traces the medical research community's complicated relationship to the chimpanzee, from early psychological experiments, to the chimp's central role in the US Space Race, to their role in HIV/AIDS research.

Wizard oil? Science in the age of social media

• Ernie Prokopchuk's December 11, 2016 lecture. Explore the science behind some of the most popular stories trending on social networks these days.

Hot and Smoky: Is this our future?

• Mike Flannigan's October 16, 2016 lecture. What shape will 21st century forest fires take?

The North remembers: Genetic tales of camels and bison past

• Pete Heintzman's June 17, 2016 lecture.

Global and Arctic Fisheries as if People Mattered

• Daniel Pauly's March 20, 2016 lecture.

Recovery from the Exxon Valdez

• Scott Pegau's March 2, 2016 lecture. Twenty-six years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska, how well has the environment recovered?

The Rise of the Industrial Drone 

• Ian Glenn's February 28, 2016 lecture on the uses of drones in a diverse array of sectors such as mining and ecosystem monitoring.

Carnivores, roads and plants: how unexpected relationships change ecosystems

• Alberto Suárez-Esteban's December 7, 2014 lecture.

Ten Lessons from a Tiger - Ted Talk 

• This John Vaillant Ted Talk was distilled from his April 21, 2014 YSI lecture on how the fate of humans and tigers are linked, and what we might learn from these fellow apex predators about how to survive and thrive on this planet.

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DNA Detectives

• Jennifer Gardy's April 13, 2014 lecture on using DNA to track and prevent disease. 
  This talk was in collaboration with Genome BC and the recording is on Genome BC YouTube channel.