Bob Jefferies Symposium August 2011
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In August 2011 the Churchill Northern Studies Centre opened a new LEED certified building and the Bob Jefferies Symposium was the first event in this stunning building.
The symposium brought together Bob's family and friends (seen above at the "polar bear jail"), as well as former students, colleagues, and members of the Churchill community.
This collection contains photographs, presentations, audio and video from the symposium. But, attendees did not only sit in the new Churchill Northern Studies Centre. They headed out on a series of trips to Fort Prince of Wales, the Town of Churchill, the river, for beluga watching, and the tundra. This was a chance for family, friends and colleagues to experience the ecosystem that drew Bob Jefferies here for over 30 years.
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Item Open Access Inside iconic Gypsy’s Bakery and Café in Churchill, Manitoba(2011-08-28) Ewins, MadeleineThe new Churchill Northern Studies Centre building was officially opened in August 2011. Its inaugural conference celebrated the thirty-year research legacy of Professor Bob Jefferies. Explore his, his students’ and colleagues’ research at Wapusk National Park and the Churchill area in the Robert Lenthall Jefferies Researcher Spotlight collection in Yorkspace. Since many delegates were returning to Churchill for the first time since they had done their field research here, they took the time to be tourists. Here we see the scene inside the popular local bakery, Gypsy’s Café. Sadly, it burned down in May, 2018 and an important local gathering spot was lost. York University Professors Dawn Bazely (Biology) and Steve Alsop (Education) brought the Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive back to Churchill in October 2019, including to the Duke of Marlborough School. Grade 5-9 students helped to describe this image and to create its Metadata. Their keywords were: RIP, fire, burning, very good food, arctic char and crispy donuts.Item Open Access The Arctic Seaport of Churchill, Manitoba on Hudson Bay(2011-08-28) Ewins, MadeleineThe new Churchill Northern Studies Centre building was officially opened in August 2011. Its inaugural conference celebrated the thirty-year research legacy of Professor Bob Jefferies. Explore his, his students’ and colleagues’ research at Wapusk National Park and the Churchill area in the Robert Lenthall Jefferies Researcher Spotlight collection in Yorkspace. Since many delegates were returning to Churc hill for the first time since they had done their field research here, they took the time to be tourists. Here we see the polar bear statue with the Manitoba Seaport sign, and the railway line with the grain elevator in the back ground. York University Professors Dawn Bazely (Biology) and Steve Alsop (Education) brought the Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive back to Churchill in October 2019, including to the Duke of Marlborough School. Grade 5-9 students helped to describe this image and to create its Metadata. Their keywords were: port, train, polar bear, the flats and grain.Item Open Access Orca Fins in Hudson Bay off the coast of Churchill, Manitoba(2011-08-28) Bazely, DawnThe new Churchill Northern Studies Centre building was officially opened in August 2011. Its inaugural conference celebrated the thirty-year research legacy of Professor Bob Jefferies. Explore his, his students’ and colleagues’ research at Wapusk National Park and the Churchill area in the Robert Lenthall Jefferies Researcher Spotlight collection in Yorkspace. Since many delegates were returning to Churchill for the first time since they had done their field research here, we also organized conference field trips. During a zodiac trip to see beluga whales, Dawn Bazely spotted a pod of orcas or killer whales. Their fins could be clearly seen, swimming in the cold water of Hudson Bay, towards belugas feeding in the mouth of the Churchill River. York University Professors Dawn Bazely (Biology) and Steve Alsop (Education) brought the Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive back to Churchill in October 2019, including to the Duke of Marlborough School. Grade 5-9 students helped to describe this image and to create its Metadata. One student, memorably, used the phrase “Death to Belugas” to describe this photo! Other keywords that they created were: fins, deep water, cold water, orcas, swimming, and Hudson Bay.Item Open Access What to do with your old Kodachrome slides: Archiving ecological research images in an Open Access Institutional Repository(2015-05-19) Ghuman, Rajbir; Abraham, Kenneth F; Bekit, Natan Z; Kim, David; Oliveira, Andre; Bazely, DawnThis poster was presented at the Ontario Biodiversity Summit held in Niagara Falls, Canada, May 19-22, 2015: http://ontariobiodiversitysummit.ca/ 1. The Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive is an Open Access research project led by York University’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS: 2004-2015) and Libraries. It is based in our Institutional Repository. 2. Its overall goal is to document, coalesce and mobilize diverse types of research outputs from long-term ecological field work at Wapusk National Park and, more broadly, Churchill, Manitoba, with excellent metadata and stable urls. 3. Anyone can access items in the archive via prioritized Google searches. 4. Here, we describe how one researcher’s PhD field work slides were (i) digitized, (ii) had their metadata created, and (iii) are being uploaded to YorkSpace.Item Open Access The Churchill Community of Knowledge: An Open Access Digital Archive(2014-04-06) Untershats, Netta; Kosavic, Andrea; Cooke, Fred; Jefferies, Susan; Sivakumaran, Jeevika; Bekit, Natan Z; Bazely, DawnThis poster was presented at the 7th International Biocuration Conference (ISB2014), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 6-9, 2014. The Churchill Community of Knowledge Digital Archive is a YorkSpace Institutional Repository research project led by IRIS (Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability) and York University Libraries. Its overall goal is to document, coalesce and mobilize long-term ecological research from Wapusk National Park and, more broadly, Churchill, Manitoba. To date, the project has engaged 10 undergraduate & graduate Biology students in developing metadata for copyright‑cleared digital media & uploading items. Diverse communities, including the public, can access the Open Access archive via Google searches.Item Open Access Genetic variation within and between populations of the asexual plant Puccinellia x phryganodes(07/04/2013) Jefferies, Robert L.; Gottlieb, Leslie D.Puccinellia x phryganodes (Trin.) Scriber and Merr is widely distributed in Arctic salt marshes. In North America the species, which is capable of extensive clonal growth, appears to be a sterile triploid (2n = 21) ; seed set has never been observed. Consequently it was predicted that the level of genetic variation would be low, both within and between populations. Examination of electrophoretic mobilities of isozymes of 12 enzyme systems in plants from three widely separated populations in Arctic Canada indicated a high level of variability both within and between the populations. The unexpected discovery of significant amounts of genetic variability suggests that sexual processes occur in this species.Item Open Access My Life with Grass(26/08/2011) Bazely, DawnItem Open Access LorenzoCohen's keynote talk at Bob Jefferies' Symposium(25/08/2011) Cohen, LorenzoItem Open Access Fred Cooke's keynote talk at Bob Jefferies' Symposium(25/08/2011) Cooke, Fred; Bazely, DawnItem Open Access University of CaliforniaBerkeley(27/08/2011) Power, MaryItem Open Access Living the Anticancer Life(25/08/2011) Cohen, LorenzoItem Open Access La Perouse Bay and Churchill.(25/08/2011) Cooke, FredItem Open Access La Pérouse Bay a scientific history(26/08/2011) Cooke, FredItem Open Access Webpage Programme for Bob Jefferies' Symposium(25/08/2011) Bazely, DawnItem Open Access Bob Jefferies' Symposium programme(25/08/2011) Bazely, Dawn