Little is known about the ice age human occupation of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Here we present the results of a targeted investigation of a late Pleistocene shoreline on Calvert Island, British Columbia. Drawing upon existing geomorphic information that sea level in the area was 2-3 m lower than present between 14,000 and 11,000 years ago, we began a systematic search for archaeological rem...

Martin L. Puterman, Yue Zhang, Sema K. Aydede, Becky Palmer, Stuart MacLeod, Hessam Bavafa and Jennifer MacKenzie Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada College of Business and Innovation, The University of Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Provincial Health Services Authority, British Columbia, Canada The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,...

Pseudomonas 2007 Joanna B. Goldberg,* Robert E. W. Hancock, Rebecca E. Parales, Joyce Loper, and Pierre Cornelis Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California; Agricultural Research Se...

BACKGROUND One of the greatest obstacles to moving ecosystem-based management (EBM) from concept to practice is the lack of a systematic approach to defining ecosystem-level decision criteria, or reference points that trigger management action. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To assist resource managers and policymakers in developing EBM decision criteria, we introduce a quantitative, transfer...

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE William R. Cullen, University of British Columbia Michael D. Fryzuk, University of British Columbia Ross Hill, Simon Fraser University Brian R. James, University of British Columbia A.D. Kirk, University of Victoria Peter Legzdins, University of British Columbia Alex McAuley, University of Victoria Chris Orvig, University of British Columbia Derek Sutton, Simon Fraser Univer...

Address: 1Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Canada, 2Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, Canada, 3Centre for Research in Women's Health, 790 Bay St., 7th Floor, Toronto, Canada, 4Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Canada, 5Unive...