On April 12 & 13, 2019, the Royal BC Museum hosted its annual Spring Institute, a two day event held in the Newcombe Theatre. This event showcased the achievements of research staff engaged in strategic research projects related to BC’s Natural and Human History. Research Day concluded with a reception to celebrate the year’s accomplishments and to provide an opportunity for audience members and research staff to meet and mingle.
Image Credit: Panel discussion: Here Let Me Live: Insights into Species Migration in British Columbia and Beyond
Spring Institute 2019
About Research Day
Session 1
Here Let Me Live: Insights into Species Migration in British Columbia and Beyond
| Watch Introductory Remarks - Research in the Museum Context, Professor Jack Lohman, CEO | ||
| Presenter | Title | Video |
| Dr. Erica Wheeler | Session Introduction | Watch |
| Dr. Gavin Hanke | Diet and reproductive capacity of Common Wall Lizards and their impacts on urban environments of south Vancouver Island | Watch |
| Dr. Rob Cannings | Finding new bugs: publishing with the public | Watch |
| Heidi Gartner | Our Invading Invertebrate Relatives | Watch |
| Dr. Henry Choong | Shipwrecked in Eden – Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from marine fouling assemblages in the Galapagos Islands | Watch |
Session 2
Collections Focus: Studies and Applications using the Historical-Institutional Lens
| Presenter | Title | Video |
| Kim Gough | Session Introduction | Watch |
| Kasey Lee | What to do About Plastics? | Watch |
| Grant Keddie | Tool Stone Geography and the Museum Archaeology Collection | Watch |
| Lauren Buttle | Yokohama-e: 19th Century Japanese Photographic Paintings | Watch |
| Dr. Genevieve Hill | Reorienting Research: new approaches to policy and ancestral remains repatriation | Watch |
Session 3
Here Let Me Live: Insights into Biodiversity and Evolution
| Watch Introductory Remarks - Research in the Museum Context, Joanne Orr, Deputy CEO and VP Collections, Research and International Programs | ||
| Presenter | Title | Video |
| Liz Crocker | Session Introduction | Watch |
| Dr. Ken Marr | A local, a Disguised alien, Hot Springs Bacteria and a Ruler: “Common Reed” in British Columbia | Watch |
| Dr. Joel Gibson | Tiny Flies in the Great Bear Rainforest | Watch |
| Claudia Copley | Spider Diversity of British Columbia | Watch |
| Dr. Victoria Arbour | Dinosaur Discovery: How Ankylosaursa nd Glyptodonts Got Their Tail Clubs | Watch |
Session 4
Community-Driven Research in the Age of Participatory Culture
| Presenter | Title | Video |
| Leah Best | Session Introduction | Watch |
| Dr. Tzu-I Chung & Chris O’Connor | It’s Complicated: Representation, Community Engagement and Museum Practices | Watch |
| Dr. Jordan Stanger Ross | Landscapes of Injustice: Japanese Canadian Dispossession | Watch |
| Genevieve Weber | Changing the Narrative: Indigenous Data, Information and Records | Watch |
| Dr. Lorne Hammond | Pop Culture and Orcinus orca | Watch |