Call for Abstracts: Lakehead Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Conference
We are pleased to open registration for participation in the “Lakehead Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Conference”!
This virtual summit is open to any Lakehead graduate students pursuing research in the natural and life sciences and will take place during the afternoon of March 19, 2021 via zoom (exact time TBD). Registration is free for everyone, and will remain open until February 26, but zoom login information (link, password, etc.) will be emailed shortly before the research summit.
The summit will consist of a series of 5 minute pre-recorded research talks by your fellow Lakehead graduate students, as well as two keynote speakers.
To submit a talk, please use the following registration and abstract submission link found here - all abstracts will be accepted.
Research talks will be organized into small time blocks that will be followed by Live Q&A sessions with speakers within those sessions. To ensure the program is ready for March 19, all pre-recorded talks must be submitted by March 12.
The goal of your research talk is to succinctly describe your work (only five minutes!); why it matters, why it is novel, and why it excites you! Ideally, pre-recorded research talks will be accompanied by a slideshow presentation that visually describes your research. Additionally, there will be prizes for ‘Best Talk’ and ‘Runner-Up’ for both Natural Science and Life Science research disciplines.
We’re also pleased to announce our two keynote speakers.
Dr. Kyra St. Pierre, an arctic ecologist and biogeochemist currently working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, will be talking about her research program [personal website; google scholar], and Dr. Steven Heard, a professor and science communication whiz at University of New Brunswick will speak about how to write a good thesis, faster [personal website; google scholar].
Our goal is to bring together the diverse and energetic graduate students here at Lakehead and provide a platform to share novel research that is being conducted. By bringing together speakers who work alongside but not necessarily with each other, this virtual summit is intended to share the different types of research, techniques, and tools that are being developed right here at Lakehead.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the summit’s co-conveners, Terron James, tsjames@lakeheadu.ca, Haley MacLeod, hmacleo1@lakeheadu.ca, and Alex Ross, aross10@lakeheadu.ca.