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UVic Cadboro Commons Building, Victoria, BC
http://www.uvic.ca/buildings/com.html

Dr Mairi M.R. Best
Associate Director (Science) for NEPTUNE Canada.
Mairi is a marine scientist interested in biological, physical, and chemical factors that control
the preservation of calcium carbonate skeletons: our primary source of paleo-biological
information and the primary way carbon is transferred from the atmosphere-ocean to the
crust in the carbon cycle. Production and preservation of calcium carbonate are affected by
ocean “acidification”. After her B.Sc. honours in Geology from Laurentian University,
including scuba-based research on reefs of St Lucia, Mairi worked on fossil and modern
reefs in Papua New Guinea through the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

From there she did a PhD at the University of Chicago with fellowships at the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute. As assistant professor at McGill University, she expanded her research
program into temperate and polar latitudes, including experiments deployed on the VENUS
cabled observatory. She continues this research as an Adjunct Professor in the University
of Victoria’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Mairi fosters and facilitates the efforts of a growing community of NEPTUNE Canada
scientists – those designing the pioneer suite of instruments and experiments deployed in
2009, and developing approaches to data analysis and integration. She also manages the
integration between the vision of the scientific community and the engineering and
information technology infrastructure.

Data from across the disciplines of Ocean and Earth science are streaming live from the
Northeast Pacific, and these data are freely and openly available to the world through the
Internet. They are provided by the NEPTUNE Canada regional cabled ocean observatory
which spans the northern Juan de Fuca Plate.
NEPTUNE Canada will transform our understanding of biological, chemical, physical, and
geological processes across an entire tectonic plate from the shelf to the deep sea (17-
2700m). Real-time continuous monitoring, archiving, and long time series allow scientists to
capture the temporal nature, characteristics, and linkages of these natural processes in
ways never before possible.

$37.50 = PEng/EIT/GIT
$15= Students (Pay at the door)
$5 = Lecture only – no dinner
Note: Sign up on the APEGBC web site. Limited seating – sign up early. Cash Bar

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The province of BC has only a little more than half the number of engineering students per capita as the Canadian average. Historically the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Victoria has focused on information technology and related "high tech" areas. Since the inception of the Faculty of Engineering 26 years ago, our graduates have
helped to make the technology industry the biggest industry on Vancouver Island. Over the past 10 years there has been a steady nationwide increase in demand for student places in Civil Engineering programs. In response to this demand and to address the shortfall in engineering places in BC, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Victoria
proposes to expand it's engineering program to include a Civil and Environmental Engineering program. We are actively engaged in seeking input from stakeholders, to help define the new program. Sustainability is expected to be a central theme.

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Menu - The menu is the Rathskeller Plate, served Family Style. The plate includes Wiener
Schnitzel, Cordon Bleu, Jaegar Schnitzel (pork schnitzel topped with mushrooms, onions
and bacon) and Bratwurst (our homemade German sausage). Also there will be potato
pancakes, fried potatoes, and spaetzle (egg noodle), along with red cabbage and
sauerkraut. Family Style means everyone will get an empty plate and all the food is brought
out in bowls and platters to be passed around. Just like at home. Rye bread is served at the
start, and coffee and tea is included. Beer is on tap at your own cost.


Note: If you have recently received your P.Eng., P.Geo, EIT or GIT and wish to receive your
APEGBC certificate and complimentary dinner at this or upcoming events, please
contact Magnus McElroy, Branch Chair at magnus@shaw.ca

$30 = Register before February 19th
$35 = Register after February 19th or at the door
$15 = Students

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Description: After a short networking opportunity, the speakers will discuss the benefits of becoming a P.Eng/P.Geo, application forms, the law and ethics seminar, the ethics test, examples of applicable experience, how to record/document experience, and more.

Cost: $5 (Pizza and Pop will be provided)

Executive Members

Chair

Magnus McElroy

magnus@shaw.ca

Vice Chair

Richard Summers

Richard.Summers@forces.gc.ca

Past Chair

Eric Pettit

Eric.Pettit@aecom.com

Secretary

Kathy Lokhorst

Lokhorst@camosun.bc.ca

Treasurer

Peter Fell

FellP@camosun.bc.ca

Communications

Simon Skey

sskey@shaw.ca

Events Coordinator

Duane Marriner

duane@wakefieldacoustics.com

Volunteer Members (ex-officio)

Speaker Coordinators

Marcel Gingras/

marcel.gingras2@forces.gc.ca

Andy Jani (assisting)

Andy.Jani@gov.bc.ca

Recognition

Gary Bartlett

garybartlett@ralmax.com

Member-at-Large (Secretary backup)

Gordon Porritt

gporritt@telus.net

Member-at-Large (Communications backup)

Bruce Sellers

Member-at-Large  (Events Assistant)

Elizabeth Mah

Member-at-Large

Marty Cole

martycol@telus.net

Liaison List (ex-officio)

UVIC Liaison

Poman So

Poman.So@ECE.UVic.ca

Camosun Liaison

Peter Fell

FellP@camosun.bc.ca

Spaghetti Bridge

Peter Fell

FellP@camosun.bc.ca

Talbot Fund

Tom McLean

tmclean@wellwest.ca

Math Counts

Duane Marriner

duane@wakefieldacoustics.com

Science Fair

Joshua Hayes

joshua_hayes@telus.net