Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In this talk, Hakai Beach Institute co-founder Eric Peterson discusses the work of the institute, which is located on the only deeded land of an uninhabited island, Calvert. Calvert Island is 161 square kilometers and is in turn in the middle of an uninhabited 1,200-square-kilometer marine-conservation area. In collaboration with B.C. Parks, this huge and incredibly diverse natural laboratory is at the centre of the Hakai Beach Institute’s work, which specializes in long term ecological research with a mission to understand the coastal ecology of BC, uncover its past, monitor its present and protect its future. Dr. Peterson discusses the Hakai’s latest research in marine and terrestrial ecology.
About the Speaker
Eric Peterson founded Mitra, which developed hospital software and systems, in 1990. He sold his interest in Mitra in 2001 and created the Tula Foundation, which runs: TulaSalud, a partnership with the Guatemalan Ministry of Health that addresses primary health care in rural communities; and the Hakai Beach Institute, a research, teaching and community leadership centre on Calvert Island, an otherwise unpopulated BC Central Coast island. Peterson attended the University of Victoria, UBC and the University of Sussex.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
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Harvell, C., Mitchell, C., Ward, J., Altizer, S., Dobson, A., Ostfeld, R., & Samuel, M. (2002). Ecology – climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota. Science, 296(5576), 2158-2162. [Link]
Hagan, A., Spencer, T., Ashworth, J., Bijoux, J., Quatre, R., Callow, M., . . . Matyot, P. (2010). Terrestrial and marine ecology of marie-louise, amirantes, seychelles. Atoll Research Bulletin, 578. [Link]
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