please join us for nrmt seminar series speaker dr. mat leitch's talk "wood is good!"

dr. mathew leitch (bscf, mscf u new brunswick; phd u melbourne) is a wood science and forest products professor in the faculty of natural resources management at lakehead. his research interests are in wood quality, inherent properties of trees, and creating whole-tree and landscape-scale wood property maps. other research areas include biomass for energy and heating systems, product and market developnent for under-utilized tree species, and working with indigenous communities on wood product and energy opportunities, dr. leitch collaborates widely with researchers in complementary fields (chemical engineering, civil engineering, business management) on wood and wood-derived chemical products and bioenergy systems. dr. leitch's team focuses on tree species and silvicultural systems in ontario and across canada and internationally in south and west africa.

this presentation will introduce the fields of wood science, describe the research-based tools developed in dr. leitch's team on wood property mapping, and end with an overview of a partnered research campaign with university, industry, and governmental partners in ghana. 

all are welcome and please share widely

friday november 8th 9:30-10:30am

braun building room bb1054 or https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97532903824

coffee will be served at 9 a.m.

date: tuesday, november 26, 2024
time: 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
location: a secret secure venue that will be revealed on november 1st

whether you're new to hackathons or an experienced innovator, this event will provide insights and guidance to help you succeed. through optional workshops leading up to the culminating community building hackathon on november 26th you’ll be equipped with the skills, resources, and guidance to create innovative solutions for designing a sustainable net zero city block. each workshop not only offers 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 important skills, but also current georgian 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 will receive a co-curricular record for each workshop attended.

✨✨✨ plus, there's over $3,000 in prizes to be won! ✨✨✨

it’s the perfect opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and contribute to shaping the future of semi-rural communities by 2050.

here is the link with all the registration information: https://linktr.ee/essential.futures.challenge

阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 community happy hour & social featuring music by carlo cappello. 

nov. 20, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., the outpost

faculty, administration and staff are invited. 

come as you are. 

wine, cocktail and beer specials, and appetizer menu.

having a ruff day?

take a paws and visit the chancellor paterson library to hang out with our fluffy visitors!

every wednesday until december 11, the library will be hosting st. john ambulance therapy dogs from 6 to 7 p.m.

see you soon!

zotero is a free and convenient tool that can be used to help you manage information for your research, insert citations into your writing and easily create bibliographies. this session will provide an overview of how zotero can support your work throughout the research process, with hands-on opportunities to practice using the tool.

after attending this workshop, you will have learned how to use zotero to:

• save time with the research process
• create better citations and bibliographies
• organise all the books / articles you find during the research process
• use advanced features in zotero

note: this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

the faculty of education, education library, and lusu's pride & gender equity centre invite you to join them for an hour of storytime fun and laughter with thunder bay drag queens lady fantasia lapremiere and mz. molly poppinz!

event date: monday october 28, 2024 12:30pm to 1:30pm
event location: the study coffeehouse
event contact e-mail: gscalese@lakeheadu.ca

the faculties of natural resources management and health and behavioural sciences are pleased to welcome seminar speaker tinashe kanengoni from seed to table, toronto, who will present "cultivating urban change: the toronto food policy council's experience with community food security". 

the speaker will be in-person on the lakehead thunder bay campus, braun building 1054, and the talk will also be zoom-cast. 

coffee will be served at 9 a.m. and the seminar will run between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.

all are welcome! please contact brian mclaren, bmclaren@lakeheadu.ca, if you wish to meet with tinashe later in the day on november 1. 

this week's speaker is co-sponsored by the faculties of natural resources management and health and behavioural sciences. 

zoom link: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97532903824

systematic reviews, unlike other types of literature reviews, follow a structured and predefined process. in this session, we will walk you through the steps of a systematic review, focusing on preparing for your systematic review, identifying key sources of research and developing detailed search strategies. learn how librarians can support you in conducting a systematic review.

by the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• distinguish a systematic review from other types of literature reviews
• identify the steps to conducting a systematic review
• recognize tools and resources to aid in your review

note: this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

bring your questions, frustrations, examples to this session on advanced search skills. we will share our tips for effective database searching. whether you are wondering how you could have done it better, you are in the middle of an extensive literature search or you are planning to research an in-depth topic, this session can help.

the focus will be on searching education databases including eric, education source, cbca.

participants will learn about:

• search syntax
• subject headings
• field searching
• saving results and search strategies
• translating strategies across databases

note: this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

looking to deepen your understanding of your research topic? join our vosviewer workshop to enhance your skills. vosviewer is a free tool designed for analyzing and visualizing research literature. during the workshop, you'll learn how to export data from scholarly databases like web of science into vosviewer, identify key research themes, influential researchers, and significant publications in your field, and create visualizations based on publication details such as titles, keywords, and abstracts.

by the end of this workshop, you will learn about:

• bibliometric analysis.
• use vosviewer.
• citation relations, including bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and co-authorship.
• citation network.
• visualization of citation networks.
• co-occurrence networks.

note: this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.