TORONTO, March 23, 2007 --  The Association of Graduate Students in the Biological Sciences at York University will host the 34th Annual AGSBS Symposium on Global Climate Change. This one-day event, on Saturday, March 24, from 8:30am to 5:30pm will be introduced by York alumna and former UN ambassador for the environment, Karen Kraft Sloan.

The symposium organizers aim to give the audience updated information about research and related science discoveries in this rapidly developing field, as well as educate students about current advances to environmental change and create awareness for the importance of this issue and the interdisciplinary approach needed to understand it.

Topic: Global Climate Change

When: Saturday, March 24, 2007, 8:30AM – 5:30PM

Where: Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, Schulich School of Business

York University Keele Campus, 4700 Keele Street, North York,

Subjects to be covered include:

The impacts of climate change on human health by Jacinthe Seguin, Health Canada;

How invertebrates may be used as indicators of environmental change by Prof. Ian Walker, University of British Columbia Okanagan

How globalization is changing the world through increased biological invasions by

Prof. Anthony Ricciardi, McGill University

The resulting changes and impacts on indigenous culture in the north by

Jessica Simpson, Arctic Indigenous Alliance

How our forests will be able to respond to an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide by Prof. Ram Oren, Duke University

What a time of significant global change will mean to the biodiversity of species in Canada by Prof. Jeremy Kerr, University of Ottawa

For more information, contact:
Jennifer Petruniak
Tel: 416-569-9906
Email: jpetruni@yorku.ca
www.biol.yorku.ca/grad