Webinars | SERNbc - Society for Ecosystem Restoration in Northern BC

Join us during your lunch break (12:30-1:30 p.m. PT) over the "desk season" and deepen your understanding of leading practices in ecological restoration.

We asked, you answered: Speakers in this series have been invited based on your requests during our June 2024 workshop and July-August 2025 practitioner surveys.

Some webinars are recorded - you can view past webinars on our Youtube playlist here.

Announcing the 2025-2026 Community of Practice (CoP) Lunch and Learn Webinar Series: Learning with and from one another.

September 23, 2025	SERNbc Projects	Brandon Geldart, Program Coordinator, SERNbc	Watch recording
October 21, 2025	Indigenous Rights and the Environment	Gary Pritchard, Founder, 4 Directions Conservation Consulting	-
December 2, 2025	Introducing the Skeena Restoration Project Registry and Data Hubs	Manuela Zindler, Project Coordinator, Skeena Knowledge Trust	Watch recording
December 16, 2025	Ecologically-suitable Species Guideline	Katelyn White, Biologist, BC Energy Regulator	Watch recording
January 13, 2026	Climate Change Adaptations and Beaver Dam Analogs	Wayne Salewski, President, Nechako Environment and Water Stewardship Society	Watch recording
January 27, 2026	Co-existing with Beavers	Amanda Ronnquist, Senior Science Communicator, Fuse Consulting Ltd.	Watch recording
February 10, 2025	Water Monitoring for ER Projects	Ian Ruttenberg, Water Resource Project Officer, Blueberry River First Nations	Watch recording
March 9, 2026	Lessons from Northern BC: Planning and Executing Reclamation on Disturbed Sites Utilizing Native Seed	Aaron Mackay, General Manager, Fixed Earth	Watch recording
March 10, 2026	Stocking Standards for Ecosystem Restoration	Diana Gerdenits, SERNbc	Watch recording
March 31, 2026	Managing Invasive Reed Canarygrass	Catherine Tarasoff, Agrowest Consulting Scientists	Watch recording
April 7, 2026	Getting into (ER) Consulting	Robin Routledge, President, Recon Environmental, Ltd.	Watch recording
April 21, 2026	Introducing the Forest Ecosystem Simulator (ForES)	Kelsey Gritter and Eric Neilson, Canadian Forest Service	Watch recording
May 12, 2026	Forest for the Trees: Thinning to Benefit Land, Community, and Ungulates	Doug Casimel, Toonasa Ne Keyah Stewardship Department Manager, Stellat'en First Nation	Watch recording
May 19, 2026	Introducing the Ecosystem Services Gradient and its Applications	Leah Sharpe, Decision Scientist, Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division, US EPA Office of Research and Development	Register for May 19th

*Webinars in the 2026 portion of the series have individual join links in Teams; even if you registered for the 2025 events, you will need to sign up individually for 2026 events.