Did you know that in addition to our world-class exhibitions, programs and publications, the museum and archives also conducts original research? This two day Spring Institute will highlight the fascinating findings happening everyday at the Royal BC Museum and Archives.
We invite you to drop in and hear about the engaging work taking place across our organization. The Spring Institute will include discussions and interactive sessions—drop in for one session, stay all day, or come to both days.
| Erica Wheeler | Session Introduction |
| Gavin Hanke | Diet and reproductive capacity of Common Wall Lizards and their impacts on urban environments of south Vancouver Island |
| Rob Cannings | Finding new bugs: publishing with the public |
| Heidi Gartner | Our Invading Invertebrate Relatives |
| Henry Choong | Shipwrecked in Eden – Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from marine fouling assemblages in the Galapagos Islands |
| Erica Wheeler - Moderator | Session Panel Discussion & Audience Questions |
| Kim Gough | Session Introduction |
| Kasey Lee | What to do About Plastics? |
| Grant Keddie | Tool Stone Geography and the Museum Archaeology Collection |
| Lauren Buttle | Yokohama-e: 19th Century Japanese Photographic Paintings |
| Genevieve Hill | Reorienting Research: new approaches to policy and ancestral remains repatriation |
| Kim Gough - Moderator | Session Panel Discussion & Audience Questions |
| Liz Crocker | Session Introduction |
| Ken Marr | A local, a Disguised alien, Hot Springs Bacteria and a Ruler: “Common Reed” in British Columbia |
| Joel Gibson | Tiny Flies in the Great Bear Rainforest |
| Claudia Copley | Spider Diversity of British Columbia |
| Victoria Arbour | Dinosaur Discovery: How Ankylosaurs and Glyptodonts Got Their Tail Clubs |
| Liz Crocker – Moderator | Session Panel Discussion & Audience Questions |
| Leah Best | Session Introduction |
| Tzu-I Chung & Chris O’Connor | It’s Complicated: Representation, Community Engagement and Museum Practices |
| Jordan Stanger Ross | Landscapes of Injustice: Japanese Canadian Dispossession |
| Genevieve Weber | Changing the Narrative: Indigenous Data, Information and Records |
| Lorne Hammond | Pop Culture and Orcinus orca |
| Leah Best – Moderator | Session Panel Discussion & Audience Questions |
