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September Café Scientifique: Pacific salmon and climate change
Posted by: Cafe Scientifique Vancouver | September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers,
Our next café will happen on Tuesday September 27 at the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir Street) at 7:30pm. Our speaker that evening will be Erika Eliason, an expert on Pacific salmon migration who has been featured on the UBC Public Affairs webpage. Her talk that evening will be:
Pacific Salmon and Climate Change
Every year, millions of Pacific salmon return from the ocean to the Fraser River to perform their upriver, adult spawning migration. Pacific salmon typically return to spawn in the same stream where they were born. This has resulted in many geographically and genetically distinct populations. In recent years, warm river temperatures have been associated with high mortality during the upriver spawning migration, raising clear conservation concerns. My research is focused on understanding why salmon die when the water gets too warm and how different populations vary in their susceptibility to warm temperatures.
We hope to see you there!
-Your Café Sci Vancouver Organizers (https://blogs.ubc.ca/cafesci/)