North Slave Science Showcase

November, 3 2014

The Aurora Research Institute invites you to join us on November 3 (9:30AM - 4:30PM) at the Northen United Place auditorium (5004 – 54th Street, Yellowknife) to celebrate the amazing research that is taking place in the North Slave region. Come browse over 40 scientific posters covering a range of subjects and learn from our regional speaker series starting at 11AM.  Click for the event poster.

The speaker schedule is as follows:

11:00 Intimate Partner Violence Project
Pertice Moffitt

11:20 Connecting communities, connecting campuses: An exploration through infrastructure, technology and people
Tammy Soanes-White

11:40 Turning the lens onto ourselves: Settler colonialism in the everyday
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox

12:00 4 billion years of Earth History preserved in the North Slave region
Luke Ootes

12:20 First Mile Broadband in Canada’s far North: The K’atl’odeeche First Nation Community Network
Rob McMahon and Lyle Fabian

12:40 On Traditional Knowledge research, industrial development and caribou hunting
Joseph Judas and Petter Jacobsen

Everybody is welcome!