{"id":333,"date":"2015-01-29T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T22:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=333"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T22:14:20","slug":"february-cafe-scientifique-with-kyle-demes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2015\/01\/29\/february-cafe-scientifique-with-kyle-demes\/","title":{"rendered":"February Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Kyle Demes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday February\u00a024th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club<\/strong>. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0<strong>Dr. Kyle Demes<\/strong>,\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">a Hakai Postdoctoral Fellow in the\u00a0Coastal Marine Ecology and Conservation lab\u00a0at SFU.<\/span>\u00a0 The title of his talk is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inland Oil Sands and Coastal Ecology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rising overseas oil demand has contributed to a series of proposed pipeline expansion and construction projects to move bitumen from areas of extraction in the interior of Canada to the coast, where it can be loaded onto tankers for shipment. These proposals represent a focal point of controversy in discussions around energy development, climate change and policy across North America and are one of the largest environmental concerns facing British Columbians. I will discuss the ways in which bitumen extraction, transport and shipment influence coastal marine ecosystems, identifying both potential and certain environmental impacts linked with the acceleration of oil sands operations to our coast. I will also review how well we understand each of these environmental impacts, emphasizing key uncertainties in our knowledge and how these gaps affect our ability to make informed decisions on these controversial proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday February\u00a024th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0Dr. Kyle Demes,\u00a0a Hakai Postdoctoral Fellow in the\u00a0Coastal Marine Ecology and Conservation lab\u00a0at SFU.\u00a0 The title of his talk is: Inland Oil Sands and Coastal Ecology Rising overseas oil demand has contributed to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}